Creating custom themes in Odoo

Odoo offers a powerful integrated Web Builder application you can use to publish your own business website. You can purchase themes from Odoo's app store but it is also highly desirable in some instances to build your own custom themes. This is a very advanced topic but below are some of the basic steps to follow in building your own custom theme.

Basic architecture of Odoo themes

Odoo themes are more complicated than a simple set of HTML pages or a simple dynamic page that uses JavaScript. Odoo's theme framework is built around blocks in which you can use drag and drop to assemble both your page structure and your page content. Before you start trying to create your own themes make...