Chapter 5. Creating Your Own Themes
Many themes are available from various sources for XOOPS. To pick one, you just need to decide the type of website you wish to have, e.g. either related to fitness, music, or sports.
We will look at what a theme is, how to install one, and then take a two-pronged approach to creating our own themes:
Modify an existing theme to create a customized version suitable for your website
Create a brand new theme
As before, we will install themes and show how they work on our demo website at xoopsbook.steveatwal.com.
What is a Theme?
A theme defines the general look and feel of a XOOPS site. The theme, or skin, allows the separation of code that runs in the background of the site from the way information is presented to the user. The benefit of this is that an administrator (or user with sufficient privileges) can easily change the look of a site by simply selecting a new theme and then applying it.
From a developer's perspective, a XOOPS theme consists of a set of files...