Chapter 10
Creating Themes Using ThemeRoller
In This Chapter
Getting started with ThemeRoller
Working with ThemeRoller
Using predefined themes directly
Developing your own custom themes
Placing themes on your system for local use
ThemeRoller (http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/) is a special kind of tool and plugin for jQuery that makes it possible to create a theme for your site. A theme is a mixture of fonts, color, and graphic styles that gives your site a particular feel. You can use ThemeRoller to perform tasks such as defining the appearance of buttons when a user hovers the mouse cursor over them. The output of ThemeRoller is a custom version of jQuery and jQuery UI that meets requirements that you specify. So you get the same combination of CSS and JavaScript that you'd get when using these two libraries, but the result meets your specific needs far better.
Of course, you may not want to take the time to create a theme entirely by hand, even if the process is automated using ...
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