I am trying to sub theme Sky for Drupal version 6.25 and I followed this tutorial, http://www.missingubercartmanual.com/How-to-Customize-a-Sites-Appearance...

I created a new directory for my theme, created an .info file, and created my own css file. In the .info file I:
- Referenced the base theme directory
- Referenced the css file
- Copied the regions from the original sky.info file.

According to tons of sources on the interwebs, I should just be able to enable the theme and set it as default and I will be able to start making changes. However, when I enable the theme it doesn't look like the original sky theme that I had. According to Firebug, it isn't inheriting the style.css but it does however look like it inherit's the layout.css and custom.css files. I tried to add some overrides to my subthemes css file and nothing happened.

Is there any other steps that I need to include? Am I missing something? What other files from the original sky do I need to include?

Comments

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

If you have a file called style.css in your subtheme it will replace the one being loaded by the base theme of the same name - is that the issue? If so just name your CSS file something different.

grofftech’s picture

grofftech commented

The css file in my subtheme is not named style.css, it is named with the name of my subtheme. So my subtheme is called Orenda and the css file is named orenda.css

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Cant really say then, try clearing the cache, and make sure your CSS file is correctly reference in the info file (name, path etc), its been quite a while since I messed about with D6, probably 2 years at least.