A small introduction to designing Firefox themes, presented on Barcamp Malaysia event (26/27 July 2008)

1. Designing Firefox Themes Lim Chee Aun Author of Phoenity theme(s)

2. Huh? What Firefox theme? Can I eat it?

3. Any web designers can be a Firefox theme designer. “ Themer”.

4. A little history. Why Firefox theme? “ Phoenix”.

6. 1 st step Understand the UI. XUL rules!

9. Confused?

10. 2 nd step Get the files and start right away! A quick guide here.

14. DOM Inspector is your friend.

16. Default. Hovered. Disabled. Checked. Pressed.

17. The wonders of Firefox themes

18. 3 rd step Maintain it. And feel proud of your masterpiece.

19. It’s easy to create a theme, but it’s hard to maintain one. Be warned. It’s also addictive, somehow.

20. Have fun. It’s a great adventure.

22. Feel free to Twitter me. http://twitter.com/cheeaun