Chapter 3. Preparing for Theme Development

In order to get you ready to develop Ghost themes, there are some preliminary steps you'll need to take and some base information you'll need to be aware of. There are four languages we're going to be working with as we walk you through the creation of Ghost themes.

The two primary languages used will be HTML and CSS, as you would expect with any web design process, and we'll also use a small amount of JavaScript in order to enhance responsive functionality and browser compatibility.

HTML and JavaScript will be typed directly into your documents in the regular fashion; however, rather than manually creating raw CSS, we're going to use a CSS preprocessor called Stylus to make the development process much easier for you. So you won't be typing up your CSS in raw form, rather you'll be coding in the Stylus syntax, which will be explained in more detail later in this chapter.

The fourth language, although the...