Tools to develop Theme for OSC

[bengalliboy]

I am not finding some good tutorials here and the docs are not clear as well. If I were to create some cool template for osc are there are any good tutorials step by step that I can follow? Can some one help me on this?

2. Second question, I know having basic css and html knowledge will be helpful for this but are there any paid or free Graphical UI tool that I can use to create some attractive theme and integrate with php pages? Please just don't tell me to use notepad++ or something, because that is not GUI generated.

If anyone is willing to teach me step by step on how to create a nice them, that will be helpful as well.

Many thanks!

[frosticek]

@bengalliboy
If you are asking such questions, you probably should not create themes, but learn basics of css, html & php.
Anyway:
- if you know all you need to know (read above), no tutorial is needed
- Dreamweaver allows you to run php site as local, but do not know details
- If you cannot create theme from source, do not do it (Notepad++ is best), it's quality would be poor 

[bengalliboy]

@frosticek
Thanks for the critics. I am not someone who will be just stop doing things because of criticism 
I just wanted to hear from the pro what they are doing in the market. Now I Will make some theme and let you see it - it may not the best of best but once I do that please feel free to do the comment at that time- not till then. I will welcome that.

[osCanyon]

Everyone!!! has to start somewhere, dont let someone discourage you. 
for graphics there is a good app called Gimp FREE
http://www.gimp.org/
notepad++ for editing php files FREE
teaching will be a matter of try and see what happens
start with one of the market themes, see how they are built
lots of posts here about many things that can help you understand more.

I am not finding some good tutorials here and the docs are not clear as well. If I were to create some cool template for osc are there are any good tutorials step by step that I can follow? Can some one help me on this?

2. Second question, I know having basic css and html knowledge will be helpful for this but are there any paid or free Graphical UI tool that I can use to create some attractive theme and integrate with php pages? Please just don't tell me to use notepad++ or something, because that is not GUI generated.

If anyone is willing to teach me step by step on how to create a nice them, that will be helpful as well.

Many thanks!

[teseo]

Hi,

Notepad++ is great for quick fixes, but you have the NetBeans IDE for free to manage an entire project more easily (syntax correction, tracing of variables and functions across the entire set of scripts, etc.) A must.

Regards

[keerthi]

I can teach you. But my time is money. only if you pay me.

[osCanyon]

lol

I can teach you. But my time is money. only if you pay me.

[design]

please know that creating a theme and osclass functionality are two separate beasts. you should come into this realm knowing at least one of the languages -moderately, but not beginner level, you will just get frustrated or take a year.


good places to start either one is


w3schools.com
and
php.net


get a good server host and or local working environment. there are also plenty of sites that let you play with code and see it live codepen.com for example. get to know your browsers web developer tools for more "live" testing and tinkering.


it also helps to know a bit about query.org - js because osclass uses it as well. (use netbeans as suggested by teseo)

[frosticek]

@bengalliboy
Was I critic? sorry for that.
As design said, do not start website development on osclass, try static pages first. For thishttp://w3schools.com is really best