So you don’t like our themes huh? That’s ok, with some knowledge of XHTML/CSS and a teeny tiny bit of PHP, you can create your own theme (you bigshot).

Here are some quick instructions on how to create a new theme. We recommend duplicating the default theme and making your necessary changes in a new theme rather than changing the default theme, this way you always have a backup ‘default theme’ to revert to if you have any problems.

Steps in making a new theme

1. Duplicate the default theme
2. Rename the folder to a desired theme name (in this example newTheme)
3. Open the newTheme folder and rename the default.css file to newTheme.css
4. Open the newTheme.css file and change the Theme Name and Description comments at the top to newTheme
5. Login to your wp-admin section and browse to your ’Store>Settings>Presentation’ page, click on the drop-down list, your new theme should be in the list!

What happens now is a whole other story. You will probably want to start by checking out our Styling with CSS section, which gives you some hints/tricks for where to start your customization.