Beginning to make themes

[jjnicholascolwill]

Hello there,

This is my first post here so i'm a little scarred.

I have been browsing different forums and no one really gives any help on this subject. I am wanting to start making my own themes, eg Login, Register, Overall Game theme. But i have NO idea how to code it all together ect. Does anyone have a tutorial or something like that, that i could follow to make a basic one just to get to grips of things. Also i am aiming to make these themes for MCCodes v2 and v1 and then move onto different engines when i become more experienced. I consider my self to have pretty good photoshop and Fireworks skills.

Please can someone help me with this,

Thank you so much :)

[a_bertrand]

Well first of all welcome to the board and please show us some of your work ;)

For the pages, you must slice out your PSD / Firework template and create a static HTML out of it. Once you have that running you can check what the current template use as PHP code in it and put the code into your HTML.

[Danny696]

Ugh, I'm not copying that name, but yeh, dont be scared, I've changed ;)

I'd quite like to see your work.

Alain has it covered today, but theres plenty of tuts on places like youtube, and the golden oldy google. That's just for slicing though.

[Djkanna]

Hope these help;

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/71-building-a-website-photoshop-mockup/

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/72-building-a-website-2-of-3-htmlcss-conversion/

Those cover creating a design then the html/css coding up the design.

If needed the third part covers making that template into a Wordpress template.

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/73-wordpress-theme/

May give you a rough idea / pointers.

:)

Also if you have no or limited knowledge in HTML/CSS this one may help

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/58-html-css-the-very-basics/