Finding a base theme to create your Moodle theme on is the first thing that you need to do. There are, however, various ways to do this; you can make a copy of the standard theme and rename it as you did in part one of this book, or you can use a parent theme that is also based on the standard theme.
The important point here is that the standard theme that comes with Moodle is the cornerstone of the Moodle theming process. Every other Moodle theme should be based upon this theme, and would normally describe the differences from the standard theme. In part one of this book, we simply made a new theme by copying the standard theme's folder and renaming it. Although this method does work and is a simple way to get started with Moodle theming, it does cause problems as new features could get added to Moodle that might cause your theme to display or function incorrectly. The standard theme will always be updated before a new release of Moodle is launched. So if you do choose...