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Creating a skin for Cotonti is very easy, i think.

All you need to do is this :

1. Open these files :
-- sed-light.css
-- sed-light.en.lang.php
-- sed-light.php
-- sed-light.ru.php

2. Save them as to what your skin should be called, for example Zenzija :
-- zenzija.css
-- zenzija.en.lang.php
-- zenzija.php
-- zenzija.ru.php

3. Edit zenzija.php or as it was named before sed-light.php and add your name of the skin here on line 22. What you are basically doing is re-naming the files.

$skin_themes = array('sed-light' => 'Light');

and also on line 4-15 in the same file :

Seditio - Website engine
Copyright Neocrome
http://www.neocrome.net
[BEGIN_SED]
File=skins/sed-light/sed-light.php
Version=1.0
Updated=02.23.2008
Type=Skin
Name=SED-Light
Author=Xiode - XiodeStudios.Com
Url=http://www.xiodestudios.com
Description=Official skin

4. When this is done you need to start designing your theme/skin and the best way is to take a look, at least for beginners, is in these 3 files. As they can help you figure out where your header starts and ends as well as the others start and end. A big hint is <!-- BEGIN: HEADER --> and <!-- END: HEADER --> and <!-- BEGIN: MAIN --> and <!-- END: MAIN --> and <!-- BEGIN: FOOTER --> and <!-- END: FOOTER --> in these files :
-- header.tpl
-- index.tpl
-- footer.tpl

5. What i do when i'm designing is to start out on making the frontpage of my template, namely the header, index and footer files. Basically the framework of the upcoming design. I do this by making a single page where there is no separation between header, footer and index. Just a static page and then fine tune that. Adding comments like <!-- header ends here --> are good since it will help you later then you separate the parts that make up the page into 3 pieces.

6. After you separated the design into these above stated files, you need to take a look at all the other .tpl files that Cotonti uses. Some of them are tricky and have a lot of style="width:100%" and stuff, but if you love CSS you'll figure it out.

I hope this is a little hint to what you can do, when the first steps are done.