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niico
niico

Reputation: 12739

Do I need to create an Orchard 'Custom Theme' to Style a site with bespoke HTML/CSS?

I have HTML/CSS complete - conventional stuff.

I now need a CMS for this site. To use Orchard for this do I need to create a Custom Theme? (eg as in this article http://www.deepcode.co.uk/2011/05/real-world-orchard-cms-part-2-creating.html

Or are custom themes for people that want to make something re-usable?

If there is an easier way to put Orchard CMS in a totally custom design - what is it?

Thx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 720

Answers (1)

Richard Garside
Richard Garside

Reputation: 89170

You definitely need to create your own theme. You could start with an existing theme and modify it, but if you've already got a static HTML/CSS design then you're probably best off starting from scratch.

For more information on theming you can check out:

Studying the code of some existing themes can be a nice way to see how a theme is made up.

You should not directly modify the base template files inside Orchard modules. These are made to be overridden in your theme and modifying them directly will make updating Orchard very tricky.

Upvotes: 1

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