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LICENSE.txt	17.67 KB	-rw-r--r--
README-FIRST.txt	3.44 KB	-rw-r--r--
logo.png	664 B	-rw-r--r--
template.php	24.5 KB	-rw-r--r--
theme-settings.php	6.39 KB	-rw-r--r--
zen.info	1.48 KB	-rw-r--r--

Code Editor : README-FIRST.txt

WHERE TO START
--------------

Yay! You opened the correct file first. The first thing that people notice when
they download the Zen theme is that there are A LOT of files -- way more than
other themes.

Don't worry! You don't need to learn everything all at once in order to make a
Drupal theme. Zen will do the bits you haven't learned and patiently wait for
you to discover the documentation and inline comments about them.

WHAT ARE BASE THEMES, SUB-THEMES AND STARTER THEMES?
----------------------------------------------------

Often the best way to learn a system is to take an existing example and modify
it to see how it works. One big disadvantage of this learning method is that if
you break something and the original example worked before you hacked it,
there's very little incentive for others to help you.

Drupal's theming system has a solution to this problem: parent themes and
sub-themes. A "sub-theme" will inherit all its HTML markup, CSS, and PHP code
from its "parent theme" (also called a "base theme".) And with Drupal themes,
it's easy for a sub-theme to override just the parts of the parent theme it
wants to modify.

A "starter theme" is a sub-theme designed specifically to be a good starting
point for developing a custom theme for your website. It is usually paired with
a base theme.

So how do you create a theme with Zen?

The Zen theme includes the Zen base theme as well as a starter theme called
"STARTERKIT". You shouldn't modify any of the CSS or PHP files in the zen/
folder; but instead you should create a sub-theme of zen and put it in a folder
outside of the root zen/ folder.

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Code Editor : README-FIRST.txt