sub theme

We are going to have a very basic theme running before we start messing around with templates and so forth. All I need to do is move our logo and favicon into the theme folder to replace the default files, change a few things in the layout css to position the page elements, add a few background images and tweaks to cbmc.css (the old STARTERKIT.css file) and modify a few bits on the html elements.

We want our site to look unique so we need our own theme. We could tweak and modify an existing theme but this is nearly always a headache once you get into it. Creating a Zen sub theme is the most sensible route to take as style sheets are already set up in a sensible way and the templates are accessible. You shouldn't just upload the zen theme and start messing with the files in the main theme - to see why check out http://drupal.org/node/245802 .