Is there a good tutorial that shows you how to create an Omeka theme from scratch or how to modify existing themes?
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If you are building an Omeka.org site on your own server and want to develop a custom theme, it’s probably easiest to edit an existing theme and From Scratch is a bare bones one designed for this purpose. Omeka has a guide on best practices for customizing themes and most of the work involves editing the PHP and CSS files. To learn which files control certain parts of the site, this video tutorial gives an overview of where to look. It’s a bit of a trial and error process but if you want to get more familiar with how the code works, I recommend the W3schools tutorials on PHP and CSS.
If you are building an Omeka.org site on your own server and want to develop a custom theme, it’s probably easiest to edit an existing theme and From Scratch is a bare bones one designed for this purpose. Omeka has a guide on best practices for customizing themes and most of the work involves editing the PHP and CSS files. To learn which files control certain parts of the site, this video tutorial gives an overview of where to look. It’s a bit of a trial and error process but if you want to get more familiar with how the code works, I recommend the W3schools tutorials on PHP and CSS.