We will create a package with a default theme in it. At a later stage, we can add more themes in this package, which extend the default theme that we will create in this chapter.
Open your IDE and navigate to the theme folder (app/design/frontend and skin/frontend/default
).
The following procedure shows you which actions are required to create a custom theme:
Create the following folders:
app/design/frontend/packt/default
app/design/frontend/packt/default/layout
app/design/frontend/packt/default/template
skin/frontend/packt/default
Copy the content of the folder
skin/frontend/default/blank/
toskin/frontend/packt/default
. The folder looks as follows:Configure the new theme and package in the backend. Navigate to System | Configuration | Design and configure as follows:
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