<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79a0c301-868d-4b1f-9893-c7cf284439b7/2C71F648-EB27-4C56-991A-FF92D5FDDEC3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://groups.google.com/group/elgg-users/browse_thread/thread/7baa33fc98456b73" href="http://groups.google.com/group/elgg-users/browse_thread/thread/7baa33fc98456b73" style="font-size: 11px;">groups.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://groups.google.com/group/elgg-users/browse_thread/thread/7baa33fc98456b73">You can redefine the interface however you like, although it would be <BR /> kind to maintain a link to elgg.org. <BR /> <P>The recommended way to skin Elgg, by the way, comes down to this: <BR /> </P><P>1.  Leave the core intact.  There is never any good reason to edit the <BR /> main core files when skinning. <BR /> </P><P>2.  Create a new plugin.  For this example, let's call it mod/ <BR /> mylovelytheme. <BR /> </P><P>3.  Create a blank file called mod/mylovelytheme/start.php. <BR /> </P><P>4.  Create a views hierarchy folder in there; in other words, create <BR /> mod/mylovelytheme/views/default as a folder. <BR /> </P><P>5.  Anything inside views/mylovelytheme/views/default will overwrite <BR /> the views in the main core.  If you stick css.php in there, it will <BR /> supercede the css provided in core.  Etc. <BR /> </P><P>That means you can create your own theme without having to modify any <BR /> core files; that way when new versions of Elgg come out, you can <BR /> overwrite the Elgg core files without worrying about losing your <BR /> changes. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2C71F648-EB27-4C56-991A-FF92D5FDDEC3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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