# Making my discourse site look a certain way

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 19, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531 "2021-01-19T09:21:52Z")
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### Author: ![MrDavis97](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mrdavis97/32/206391_2.png) [@MrDavis97](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MrDavis97)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531/1 "2021-01-19T09:21:52Z")

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I like the look and feel of [this](https://forums.wyzecam.com/) discourse in particular. How would I even begin to structure mine in the same way? Is this a custom use of CSS/HTML, or did they use themes that I could use? Which themes and theme components could get me started? Or would I have to learn CSS/HTML to structure my own discourse to look like this?

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### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531/2 "2021-01-19T11:19:18Z")

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custom CSS, sure, and probably [Discourse Docs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/knowledge-explorer-plugin/130172) and [Versatile Banner](https://meta.discourse.org/t/versatile-banner/109133)  
If you [search for “theme”](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=theme) here on meta I think the 10 first results are to be read (notably those in the howto category) for your endeavour.

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531/3 "2021-01-20T02:39:27Z")

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That site has a theme that we built for them. It uses the [Search Banner theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-banner-theme-component/122939) but the rest is custom (and is fairly extensive work that took around a week of work to create).

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531/4 "2021-01-20T02:43:35Z")

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Here’s another similar component that may help: [Showcased Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showcased-categories-theme-component/173524)

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-my-discourse-site-look-a-certain-way/176531/5 "2021-02-19T02:44:33Z")

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