Program to create themes

[Gaviota Gatling]

I want to ask if any of the theme creators use a specific program. Because designing in code is quite boring and tedious.

I also want to know if you plan to include a frontend search engine and UTF-8 compatibility

[JonahUK]

Unfortunately not, there is no drag and drop solution to making themes.
As for your other points, Pieter can confirm if those will happen or ask in the feature request/suggestions thread.

http://retrofe.nl/SMF/index.php?board=3.0

[mikomi]

Hi

I agrea that coding is tedious, especially if you're a graphics designer.
They way I go about this is I make everything in a layered photoshop file then i can use the x-y coirdinates and export each layer as a cropped png file.

Once that's done I loaded all those image in as a static Image and put them on the right position and layer corresponding the psd file.

Once you're finished it's the hard part, making it all dynamic...

goodluck!
H

[JonahUK]

@mikomi

Very similar to me and its a good way to work.
Also, using data sets and variables is an excellent way to cut down on any repetitive creation of images that use a text overlay such as those used for year and genre etc.

[Gaviota Gatling]

Thanks for the suggestion of working with photoshop, I will try it