How to create custom themes with sharetronix

If you already have  an experience of designing a theme with wordpress,joomla or any other web 2.0  terminologies you will find lot more easier to  design a custom theme with sharetronix. The best part to get started with desiging a custom theme is to copy any of the already available sharetronix templates and make the changes where you would like to see customizations.

By default sharetronix installation comes with 5 beautiful & clean templates namely

Blue sky
defualt
facebookish
rebackgroundable
simplicity

you can select between any of these templates to design your own theme and sharetronix recommends to use " simplicity" theme which is really made for
test drive while creating your own theme.

Custom Programming
When custom program with sharetronix theme you can find the "HTML code embedded variables" which is used to replaced by "Dyanmic values " by the template engine.

Here is a concrete example of how to make sure that whenever a user clicks on the logo he or she will go to the system’s home page, regardless of the URL of your Sharetronix installation.
When you make your theme, the logo above may look like this:
<a href="#"> <img src="logo.gif"> </ a>
To always have the correct URL, you must replace it with one variable as follows:
<A href ="<?= $ C-> SITE_URL ?>">< img src = "logo.gif"> </ a>
When the template engine processes this code it will replace the <? = $ C-> SITE_URL?> with the URL of your installation. This is how theme templates usually work.

Changing the Theme parameters

You can easily change the "Theme information parameters " by changing the values with "theme.php" file of your theme folder.This particular file is used to define the various parameters like " Author name,URL, Version " and so on. And you can change the administrative panel  theme view of the particular theme by replacing a thumb of your own  theme.

If you have any questions
You can ask your questions with our community
http://sharetronixguide.com/forum/3/gen … aretronix/

Thanks to Sharetronix