Here’s a great blank Magento starter template to get you going on creating your own custom Magento design.
The CSS, Layout and Template files are stripped to the core and perfect for developing your own custom Magento template (theme).
This is a great theme to use for wire-framing or as a base for developing a custom Magento [...]

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Magento templates are split in to two areas:

Directory 1: app/design/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the layout, translation (locale) and template materials.
Directory 2: skin/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the images, CSS and block-specific Javascripts.

You’ll notice the structure in our template .zip files is:

/app/design/frontend/default/template_name
/skin/frontend/default/template_name

To use our Magento Templates you simply need to do the following:

Unzip the downloaded [...]

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