How to Create Skins for:
PHP/MySQL Web Database Application Code Generator Version 10

You can customise the appearance of the web applications you generate with PHP/MySQL Web Database Application Code Generator.

They consist of CSS files, images and a preview image which shows the end result and is displayed when the skin is selected.

Begin by navigating to your templates folder in Windows Explorer. The normal location is c:\program files\pmwdacg10\templates. Go into the skins folder, duplicate the folder called default and give it a new name.

The CSS files are laid out in a logical order with related items grouped together under a descriptive comment. If you are new to CSS try running your application in Firefox with Firebug installed. http://getfirebug.com

Click the inspect option in firebug, and highlight an item in your web application. It will show the name of the CSS class and the settings, and even let you change them on the fly. This is a good way of finding where to make the changes that you want to make.

Once you’ve created your new skin, take a screen dump of it in the browser and size it to 467x200 pixels and save it as a PNG file with the same name as the folder itself. E.g if you called your skin myskin, call the image myskin.png.

You are free to share your skin files with others. I hope to make new skins available soon.