# Theme Creator Web Dev Help

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-creator-web-dev-help/96500
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** theme-creator
**Created:** [September 6, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-creator-web-dev-help/96500 "2018-09-06T13:47:47Z")
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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: [September 6, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-creator-web-dev-help/96500/2 "2018-09-06T15:59:10Z")

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We have some guides on building themes for Discourse. See: [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) and [Developer’s guide to Discourse themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developer-s-guide-to-discourse-themes/93648)

There’s not really a guide to HTML/CSS specifically for Discourse, if that’s what you’re looking for.

If you’re somewhat familiar with HTML/CSS the best way to figure out which elements to style would be to use your browser’s inspector (right click, inspect). You can look at mobile view on desktop by adding `?mobile_view=1` to the end of your current URL (go back to desktop with `?mobile_view=0`).

If you’re not at all familiar with HTML/CSS, there’s quite a bit to learn. Codecadamy has [HTML](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html) and [CSS](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-css) tutorials. Mozilla also has [HTML](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML) and [CSS](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS) introductions.

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