I want to start making Big Box Themes, but no prior experiance

[TheMadMan007]

After using some of the amazing themes here, I want to try my hand at creating some themes, I've got some great ideas, but I unfortunately don't have any clue on where to start. Do you guys have any guides or anything like that to help me start out?

[CriticalCid]

The best way to get started with XAML is probably the Tutorial series from Jason himself: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pTDaHeAz-X8yNgOD3DPxUf1gaB2FLzb

There’s also a documentation.pdf file in the “Themes” folder of your LaunchBox installation which features most of the LaunchBox specific XAML elements.

The XAML Tips and Tricks thread is also quite useful: http://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/28698-xaml-tips-and-tricks/

And last but not least can you grab some themes in the download section and look into their XAML codes to learn how they have achieved the things you want to use yourself.

I also advice to always use the default theme as base for your own themes because it's the most clean and stable theme to build on.

[TheMadMan007]

Awesome! Thank you, This is the reason why this community is thriving, quick responses and people who genuinely help out instead of saying "it took me hours to learn this, figure it out yourself!"