Introduction (1/6 on Webskin Template Authoring)
There are several different scenarios for a skinning whether it be implementing a new look and feel to an existing farcry website or creating a new farcry website from scratch or even just making some changes to part of a farcry website. All scenarios should follow a similar pattern to implementation.
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Skinning can be a very easy process however there could be some difficult situations where you have to put your thinking cap on and figure out how you would implement the mark-up so a prerequisite to skinning is that you must have an understanding of the coldfusion programming language. If you follow these guidelines it will open up a whole world of knowledge and prepare you to tackle the most complex websites.
Read on in section B Design Considerations (2/6 on Webskin Template Authoring)