In my last post, I explained how to install a new theme to your Ghost blog (assuming that you're able to find one you like). But, if you're picky or you want something unique, you'll probably want to build your own. This tutorial will get you started with the basics to build a custom Ghost theme. Installation If you don't already have Ghost installed locally on your machine, you should get that set up first. It will make developing and testing your theme much easier than uploading changes to a remote server. Here's a good article to get you going...
Ghost is a new open source blogging platform that is much more light weight (and prettier if you ask me) than the more popular Wordpress. Its so new that it doesn't have as many plugins as Wordpress (so it goes). This very blog is a self-hosted Ghost blog! Introduction Out of the box, Ghost comes with a very minimal and attractive default theme called Casper (cute, huh). It features a light sans-serif font and plenty of whitespace for optimal readability. It worked just fine for us for a while until we decided we needed two things: customization and COMMENTS. While...