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Hi

i am currently using drupal for some of our sites, but i am thinking about using EE for our next site, i wanted to know how easy is it create a custom theme for EE? are there any tools/instructions that someone can point me to?

thanks

Hi

thanks for the reply, ive heard themes are quite easy, regardless i cant find any instructions on how to create a completely new theme as that is what ill have to do?

would you recommend i start with a basic template and then edit it to how want it?

thanks

ExpressionEngine lets you have 100% control over the markup, CSS, and Javascript, kamesh, so just design your site like you would if it were a static site, using placeholder content.  To work that into a template, you simply replace your placeholder content with the appropriate ExpressionEngine tags to output your dynamic information.

The way Derek just explained is precisely how I did my recent theme change this last week.

I got the html to look perfect with just some filler content in the stories and other items. Once complete I took that page and split it up into pieces. header, left column, body, footer etc. Then I simply replaced the filler content with the expression engine tags.

It’s by far the easiest theme creation of any CMS/blog software I’ve ever used.