CUSTOMIZE YOUR MULTIPLY PAGE (with themes)

Previously I discussed how to use the Custom Colors theme to edit your page in a method similar to that on 360 with a post called, "CUSTOMIZE YOUR MULTIPLY PAGE (with tools like those on 360)." Today we are going to take a basic step into the world of themes.

Please realize that while we're happy to help you out as best we can here at Y!360 Refugees, I don't know all that much (read: near zero) about writing CSS. I do know about themes, so there is some hope...

If you've got questions, you can post them here in our notes. We've got some folks that hang around that are pretty good at theme writing. If the problem is pretty difficult, we'll refer you on to someone who can help you.

That brings me to the next point. If you have questions about themes, whether it be implementing them, writing them, or anything that has to do with the look of your page, I give the highest accreditations to Multiply Design, an emerging group with some of the best admins far and wide.

I even had the opportunity to design an official group badge for them, below. Click to follow through to the group.

Many of you are members of Modify, another theme help group. Due to recent actions taken by one of the admin there, I feel that that group will be unable to provide you with the best and speediest service. There is currently only one admin who acknowladges that he does not have time to properly help members out. That is why I am encouraging you seek help at Multiply Design. User Support Group apparently has reached the same conclusion. They list some of the most reputable groups in their right rail; Multiply Design has replaced Modify there.

If you are looking for pre-made themes, or looking to get yours out, I suggest Customized Themes. This group is the largest group on all of Multiply, consisting of over 91,000 members. On Alexa.com, customizedthemes.multiply.com consists of an amazing 1% of traffic on Multiply, while multiply.com grabs 22% and everything else makes up the rest. For one group to seize 1% of the traffic is unheard of.

Anyway, at Customized Themes, you can use the search box at the top or the tags to search for a theme of your liking. Choose the correct base theme on your page, then copy the CSS provided into the CSS box on your page, and you should be done. If you have questions, first check out how to install a theme (found here.) Any further questions regarding that process can be directed to our notes section or Multiply Design. Customized Themes is not prepared to handle questions of any sort. They are, in essance, an art gallery. You wouldn't go to an art gallery for painting lessons, you'd go to an artist or art lessons.

I will nto be writing a tutorial on how to make a theme or on how to install a theme, but I'd welcome a guest writer to please PM me about writing one.

-Ze Baron