Drupal Themes For Rookies

Theming a site in drupal is principally taking a bland website and giving it a certain appearance.
Drupal uses what they call themes to manipulate the way your website is displayed to the end client. It does this by way of css and template files which are basically typical html files with php placeholders. Most people get beleaguered by the whole theming thing but, it actually isn't anything more that just understanding simple html and a little css. You will have a theme folder where every one of your changes should be made. On no account transform any primary files. This allows drupal to do its thing and pass it to your theme folder where it will magically transform the output to what you have included in your theme.
For beginning themers its easiest to take a look at the customary drupal themes and reverse engineer them. Open up zen or garland and check out the file structure, most have basically the same files. Once you grasp this then open up the files separately. Study each of them, you will see its just html and some php snippets.
With a small amount of effort you will begin being able to do these themes or templates on your own so jump right in, as long as you aren't affecting the central files you won't lastingly impair anything.

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