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Thu, 10/12/2009 - 21:30 — abdullah

I am not very good at writing code, but want to make a website with a custom theme. Which good cms do you have to do the least programming in while creating the theme? thanks.

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Fri, 11/12/2009 - 09:41 — willhallonline

theme creation

You could start with the Zen starter theme and just build things on top of that in drupal? However, if you want a custom theme, you can't really avoid writing a bit of code. You could also look for ideas in other themes you like and copy ideas from them?

Fri, 11/12/2009 - 14:24 — websesame
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In my experience with most

In my experience with most open source CMSes , and I have worked with quite a few of them , the easiest  way to go is to find an existing theme which approximates your requirement and work fro there on. You may not want to get dirty with code but I am afraid good CSS/HTML skills is a must.

Sun, 13/12/2009 - 16:55 — inetdigital
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Artiseer maybe?

Artiseer might be useful for doing something like this? If you're going to be making more than one theme and you don't know much about theming it's maybe worth a look at. Failing that it's just a case of spending the time on learning! It doesn't take long to learn how to do basic manipulation of a Drupal theme.

Thu, 17/12/2009 - 15:59 — willhallonline

Artisteer

Artisteer is a good way to look at how some themes are put together and can quicly mock up a site using a wysiwyg stye interface. Personally I wouldn't pay for artisteer as I feel it does have a tendency to make all themes lok a bits similar, however, I have used it quite a few times to give someone a mock up within 10-15 minutes.

Have a look at it. I know that the program itself is getting more and more configurable (and personally I feel that there is little else on the market for theme generation).