Chapter 11. Customizing the graphic

Table of Contents

What are themes?
Obliquid template system
The frame outer template
Block template
Slot template
CSS Styles
Creating your own custom theme

One of the most common questions I am asked from people approaching to Obliquid, is how deeply the graphic may be customized. In fact, if you build your own theme, it's possible to compose your page in a custom way. Once you are satisfied with your own theme you may want to lock the site with your theme by disabling core/changetheme slot.

Themes are plug-in skins that allow to change the appearance of a web site. To achieve this result some rules must be followed in order to create a theme that can be interchanged with others.

In practice a theme is composed of a few Smarty templates, a stylesheet and images.