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Creating My Own Rockbox Theme

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Chronon:
I definitely don't think memorizing every single tag is necessary for your first theme.  I think many people start with an existing theme (provided permission has been given to modify it) and edit the code to coerce it into something they like.  Eventually, you'll know what all of the tags do and you'll be able to kind of compose a theme from scratch.

I know I have done this when I was first learning HTML.  I would go to a page and view the source and then strip out the parts I wanted and alter the references to the media I wanted to display.  This gave me a way to get decent looking webpages without an exhaustive knowledge of HTML.  But eventually I became much more familiar with HTML and this was no longer necessary.

Mikerman:
The Simple Guide noted above really is a great walk-through of an "organic" approach to creating a WPS.

In the end, I find it easiest to think of what I want, and then perusing the WPS commands to see what is available to get there.  And then tackle it line-by-line--it's not as big that way.

Additionally, ravaging other WPS's for images especially, and code for a specific aim (e.g. album display, I suppose), can be helpful as well.

SataniK:
Ok I think I will try just modifying one that I like just till I get more comfortable with this.  How do I go about asking permission to modify a WPS.

GodEater:
< Email/MSN/Hold a seance with > the author.

bascule:

--- Quote from: SataniK on August 01, 2007, 07:07:29 PM ---Ok I think I will try just modifying one that I like just till I get more comfortable with this.  How do I go about asking permission to modify a WPS.

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Well, if you are just using it for yourself, it does not matter. You only need the authors permission if you wish to make it available to others.

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