<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Pia Oliver" <pia@piasworld.com><br><b>To: </b>support@drupal.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:02:07 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [support] Sub-theme<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><title>Re: [support] Sub-theme</title><div>Have you tried:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Make a copy of the "Bartik" folder from the
core>themes file.</div><div>2. Put this folder in your sites>all>themes folder</div><div>3. rename this folder "bartik-cjm</div><div>4. open the "bartik.info file and add
"stylesheets[all][] = css/local.css"</div><div>5. Rename bartik.info file to "bartik-cjm"</div><div>5a. Create a file in the css folder called "local.css"
since it's here you will be over riding the Bartik original css
files</div><div>6. check all the other files in the "bartik-cjm" folder
for "Bartik" and replace this with
"bartik-cjm"</div><div>7. Go to Admin/appearance and you will now see your subtheme
"bartik-cjm"</div><div><br></div><div>Pia</div></blockquote><div>Hi Pia,<br></div><div><br></div><div>No. I haven't done that for a very specific reason and that reason is that your recommended procedure does not give me a sub-theme; it gives me a custom theme which is a modified copy of Bartik rather than a sub-classed descendant. In this case, I am no longer inheriting from the Bartik base theme; I will have a copy which means that any changes to the base theme will be ignored and I don't really have a sub-theme; I have a modified new base-theme. I am lead to believe that what I have done is sufficient. (<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1765_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1771_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://drupal.org/node/225125" target="_blank">https://drupal.org/node/225125</a></span></span>), but clearly there is something that I don't understand, because my understanding is at variance with practice. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Thanks for the help,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris.</div></div></div></body></html>