Turning Zen into Tao
The process of transforming one theme into another consists of a set of tasks that can roughly be divided into three parts:
1. Configuring the Theme
2. Adapting the CSS
3. Adapting the Themeable Functions
Configuring the Theme
To begin the process of changing the Zen theme into our new Tao design, the first step is to enable the needed modules, blocks, and other configuration settings. As stated previously, the goal of this re-design is to create a blog theme with solid usability and a clean look and feel. The resulting site will need to support forums and comments and will need advertising space.
Let's start by enabling the functionality we need and then dropping in some sample contents so we can see the effects of what we are doing with the CSS and the themeable functions.
The first step is to enable our new theme. Go to the Themes Manager, and enable the theme Tao-fixed. Set it to be the default and save the changes.
Now we're set to begin customizing this theme.
