<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Laura,<div><br></div><div>Sub-themes outside of the the theme folder is very important. It has really helped me when I update the base contrib themes since the sub-themes no longer have to be a subfolder within the base theme as in Drupal 5.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing this up!</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Oct 24, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Laura wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Something others have not said, but is extremely important: Do not <br>modify a theme you download. Make your theme a sub-theme of the base <br>theme you select, and then just override what you want. More info on <br>that is here: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/225125">http://drupal.org/node/225125</a><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font><br>_______________________________________________<br>themes mailing list<br><a href="mailto:themes@drupal.org">themes@drupal.org</a><br>http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>