Creating an Atlas Quest Theme
You see the themes throughout the year on Atlas Quest—nearly 100 in all now—and members are always coming up with ideas for new themes. The ideas are endless, but the time to create them are not. For the most part, the only themes you get are the ones that the Green Tortuga gets an itch to create. No reason you can't make your own theme, though!
- Colors and images make the theme, so we will hit those first and thoroughly.
- C stands for Cascading, and this section will get to the bottom of exactly what that means.
- The webpages on Atlas Quest are structured in a consistent manner, with specific names assigned to specific areas. Part one explains the main elements to be styled in the content area of the page.
- Continues explaining how the page is structured, this time with a focus on the headers and footers.
- Part III of the page layout explains how the menubars are styled and manipulated.
- Creating themes is generally all about setting colors and images, but you can add additional custom tweaks to personalize features in ways that the official themes won't do.
- Set your theme preference, either from one of the official AQ themes, or to set your own!
On each page of this tutorial, you will see a "CSS Test" box in the lower, right corner. This is a place you can try out actual CSS and apply the rules directly to pages on Alas Quest. For instance, to turn the background of this page orange, type:
#content { background:orange none; }
Go ahead, give it a try. We'll wait for you.
Fun, isn't it? If you aren't sure how something works or want to get some hands on experience with CSS while reading the tutorial, type it into these boxes and submit them to see instantly what the changes will do.
After completing this tutorial, you'll be able to create your own Atlas Quest themes and share them with everyone else on the website. Let's get started!