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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.

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/

Thanks a lot, that post explained everything.

Dreamweaver is probably the most suitable application for theme creation.

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.