Location of Installed Themes

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I have been searching for an answer to where installed themes get placed after being downloaded and installed from the dashboard. What is the directory? I am trying to design a theme from the skeleton theme: "Stripped" by Steven Braun at C5themepark.com

Is there a better way to do this? Are there any further improved methods that can be utilized to completely design a theme from the ground up other than design one from a skeleton theme?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 
ronyDdeveloper replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
ronyDdeveloper
The theme should be in packages folder. If you want to customize your theme, you can easily do it from there.

If you want to create a theme from scratch then there is a how-to available in marketplace.http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/making-a-t...

Apart from that, if you need any technical help regarding create theme, then I'm available. You can PM me directly.

Rony
minveraconcrete replied on at Permalink Reply
Okay, so I'm in the theme in that directory, but I'm having trouble working with the CSS. Is there any handy snippet of code (for this skeleton template) that will cause my menu to be horizontal? A general answer is just fine, I am surely able to figure it out from there.
MattWaters replied on at Permalink Reply
MattWaters
I'll add that if you intend to modify a packaged theme, you really should copy it out of the SITE_ROOT/packages/ directory and paste it into SITE_ROOT/themes and make your changes there, giving it a new name in description.txt and a new handle (folder name).

If you edit in-place, and then upgrade the packaged theme sometime in the future, your modifications will get moved to the trash and replaced with new code. That can be confusing.

See this how-to for more info:

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/modify-a-p...
minveraconcrete replied on at Permalink Reply
That's a REALLY good thing to know!
jvansanten replied on at Permalink Reply
Themes can be distributed as themes or packages.

When installed, these exist at the user level:
/MySitesRootFolder/themes/Themexxxx

Here is a howto guide to adapting an existing theme that you may find helpful:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/making-a-t...

All the best!
minveraconcrete replied on at Permalink Reply
This is great help! I'm going to be doing some reading over, and then I will more than likely PM you Roni.

Thanks again!