This document provides steps for creating a subtheme for the Bartik theme in Drupal 7. It involves: 1) Creating folders and files for the new subtheme 2) Configuring the .info file to set theme name, description, base theme, and regions 3) Creating blank CSS and image files 4) Copying color files from Bartik to enable the color module in the new subtheme The final step is enabling the new subtheme from the administration page.

1. CREATING A SUBTHEME FOR DRUPAL 7
Example of how to create a subtheme for Bartik
This is an example steps of how you can create a sub theme for Bartik
1. Create the folder: /sites/all/themes/yourtheme
2. Create the file /sites/all/themes/yourtheme/yourtheme.info
name = Your Theme
description = A theme base on Bartik, which is a flexible, recolorable theme with many regions.
core = 7.x
base theme = bartik
stylesheets[all][] = css/yourtheme.css
stylesheets[all][] = css/colors.css
regions[header] = Header
regions[help] = Help
regions[page_top] = Page top
regions[page_bottom] = Page bottom
regions[highlighted] = Highlighted
regions[featured] = Featured
regions[content] = Content
regions[sidebar_first] = Sidebar first
regions[sidebar_second] = Sidebar second
regions[triptych_first] = Triptych first
regions[triptych_middle] = Triptych middle
regions[triptych_last] = Triptych last
regions[footer_firstcolumn] = Footer first column
regions[footer_secondcolumn] = Footer second column
regions[footer_thirdcolumn] = Footer third column
regions[footer_fourthcolumn] = Footer fourth column
regions[footer] = Footer
settings[shortcut_module_link] = 0
3. Create a blank file named: /sites/all/themes/yourtheme/css/yourtheme.css
4. Copy from bartik or create your own: /sites/all/themes/yourtheme/logo.png
5. In order to get the color module to work with your subtheme, you will need to do the following:
1. Copy the file /themes/bartik/css/colors.css to /sites/all/themes/yourtheme/css/colors.css
2. Copy the folder and its contents /themes/bartik/color/ to /sites/all/themes/yourtheme/color/
Go to the the Administration > Appearance page to enable your new subtheme called Yourtheme.
Now you can add CSS to your yourtheme.css file, and it will apply to your new subtheme.