Creating new CMSMS themes

[PauliusJ]

Hello, im new to developing sites, and always used free themes, but it really became interesting, so i have a simple question:

What programming languages do i have to learn to be able to create a new theme? Template is mainly HTML, stylesheet is css, but there is something more, it's not enough to know html and css alone, are here some specific things i need to know? please someone point me to the right direction.

That's probably a stupid post, but i'm hardware technician, and very new to web development.

[Jos]

Apart from html and css, the only extra you might need is some basic Smarty knowledge. But you can learn a lot from the default templates.

Creating a theme is nothing more than creating a template and a stylesheet, maybe some layout-images. Then go to the ThemeManager module and hit the xml export button
But you only need to use it when you want to publish/share your theme here: http://themes.cmsmadesimple.org/

[PauliusJ]

Thanks a lot, that post explained everything.

Dreamweaver is probably the most suitable application for theme creation.

[applejack]

Dreamweaver is horrible or certainly used to be I haven't used it for avery long time but it used to put a ton of un-neccessary code into the file.

Learn to handcode using a plain text editor. On Mac I use BBEdit.