History: Starting Fresh -- CSS

To make a Tiki theme that is not derived from an existing theme, a good way is to start with a "blank" CSS file. This way, it will be unique, not "inheriting" any page treatments from another theme. Tikiwiki2_CSS_selectors includes all — or nearly all — the selectors found in Tiki but only has placeholder color properties and some basic layout properties that probably don't need to be changed. The color properties were added to help prevent contrast problems, and each can be replaced en masse by the new theme color. In the final version, comments and unused selectors can be deleted to reduce the file size if desired. Copy this CSS, give it a new theme name, and the new "empty slate" theme is under way.

This file has selectors for both a "litecss" liquid layout, and a table-based layout for a "fixed width" theme (as demonstrated on Themes_for_TW2 ). Use the appropriate template files, if necessary.

If the new look can be created using the CSS file alone (and perhaps background graphics), then no template modification is needed. More complex layout changes may require theme-specific templates as well. Templates in Theme-making describes template modification in theme-making.