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10Creating a Mephisto Theme using Liquid
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Posted: 10th October 2007
Tags: mephisto, Ruby on Rails, tutorial, UI Design, Web Design
Posted in Ruby on Rails
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Mephisto is an excellent blogging platform written in Ruby on Rails by Rick Olsen and Justin Palmer both of whom are behind the excellent Lighthouse Issue Tracking Software . This article / tutorial takes you step by step through the process of creating a custom theme / templates.
To an extent I am going to assume you are already familiar with Ruby and the Rails Web Development Framework, but where possible I hope to keep things as simple as possible.
First of all one of the best ways to go about learning how to create a custom template / theme is to download one of the existing themes you like from the Mephisto Themes Gallery and look inside the .zip file and see how these template authors have gone about implementing their themes.
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