Theming Drupal for Beginners

Creating a theme in drupal is really taking a bland site and giving it a specific appearance.
Drupal uses what they call themes to control the way your site is shown to the end client. It does this via css and template files which are ultimately normal html files with php snippets. Most people get overwhelmed by the whole theming thing but, it truely isn't anything more that just understanding simple html and a small amount of css. You will have a theme folder where every one of your changes should be made. On no account adjust any core files. This lets drupal to do its work and pass it to your theme folder where it will magically adjust the output to what you have included in your theme.
For new themers its easiest to take a peek at the customary drupal themes and work them backwards. Open up zen and garland and check out the file organization, most have mainly the same files. Once you understand this then open up the files individually. Examine them, you will see its just html and a tiny bit of php.
With a little effort you will start being capable of doing thes themes on your own so jump right in, as long as you aren't messing with the central files you will not permanently hurt anything.

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