Creating custom Drupal Themes

At the CIN Meeting recently there was a wish for some burngreave.net users to be able to create and develop their own themes or drupal. I've worked out how to do that .. and here is how it goes. in home folder create

mkdir ~/drupal/themes

copy an existing theme (to get a start)

cp -R /usr/local/htdocs/httpd/themes/aland ~/drupal/themes/mytheme_development

mv ~/drupal/themes/aland.theme ~/drupal/themes/mytheme_development

vim ~/drupal/themes/mytheme_development

and replace any instances of 'aland' with mytheme_development as root create a symlink from

ln -s /home/username/drupal/themes/mytheme_development /usr/local/htdocs/httpd/themes/mytheme_development

Now as a drupal admin log on and get the themes module and enable your new theme. Should now be able to modify the your theme and see its result on the global drupal site - without having to use root password or leave the cosy comfort of your home folder. If anybody would like to get on with this I can set it up for them just e-mail me.