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What you need to know
This guide assumes that you have knowledge of HTML and cascading stylesheets (CSS). If you have no knowledge of either I recommend that you read some tutorials on HTML and CSS first. These are good places to start:
phpBB Template Design Guide
Welcome to my guide to phpBB template design. This guide is meant to cover all the aspects of template design for phpBB so you can learn how to successfully create your own template for phpBB2.
I assume you already know a thing or two about web design such as basic HTML and CSS. Contrary to popular belief you do not need to know how to program in PHP (the programming language phpBB is written in) in order to make templates for phpBB. PHP code is not necessary in order to create a template and it is actually even disallowed in templates you submit at phpbb.com.
