Customizing SMF > Graphics and Templates

New template system

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The Large Portion:
By god i'm confused!  Hehe got the forum nicely installed and was hoping to change the theme to something like what the main site is...but I haven't got a hope in hell :(

In the future, can we expect a tutorial or some sort of write up for how to create your own template?  I'm sure this way is probably much easier but to the untrained eye it looks sooo complicated!

Redeye:
Join the club  :(

Bouminok:
As far as I know, they are writing quite a bit of documentation for everything.

There is a little "tutorial" in this thread though: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=3194.0
Hopefully that can be of some use.

The Large Portion:
Some good and handy information there, cheer bostasp :)

Redeye:
I've been playing around and this is the best advice I can give - ***I've no php knowledge*****

Make a copy of index.template.php.
Start looking through the copy and when you spot something that actually looks like english change it radically. I'm going through it and changing colors to bright red (#FF0000)to see what effect and where they show up. It's slow but effective. Just make notes of what changes.
eg:

298    <div style="background-color: #FF0000;"><div style="padding: 2px 30px;', $context['browser']['needs_size_fix'] ? ' width: 100%;' : '', '">';

This seems to be the background for the main index.

Best of luck.

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