Hello, I´m wanting to start a local directory for dog related businesses in our area. I will use a prefab script, not totally sure which one I´ll end up using. One problem I´m facing is the fact that I want to create my own self-designed template. I have some experience with another template system, phpbb2 and I created, with some nice help, my website´s design. Most templates available for the scripts I want to use use tables and a mix of inline and separate css. I want to use tableless and separate css layout. What would be the proper way to create a new template, any recommendations on the first steps? Greetings.
Are you wanting two or three columns? You might check out 3 Column Holy Grail - I used this one from Martin Ridgway and it was great
It's actually quite simple (contrary to popular belief ) all you have to do is design the page you want it to look like (In photoshop or HTML/CSS, etc.) then insert that code into the default template retaining all the information (e.g. placeholders, etc.) from the original template and it should work. Hope that helped even though it sounded like a bunch or garbage
What I want to do is strip down a default template and turn it into a personalized template. Most templates I see are an incredible combination of nested divs inside nested tables inside <td>s etc. A terrible mix of inline and external css combined with a lot of php includes. Pretty mindboggling for my nOOb-brain. Nevertheless, I want to give a good try. But I´d like to know more or less just what would be a good way of starting.