Add VirtoCommerce Theme - themes

I am trying out VirtoCommerce for a work project. I am impressed with all the technologies being used. However the community seems rather small.
In VirtoCommerce, what file should I choose to add a theme?
Thanks for any help.

You can take any of the existing themes as a starting point to creating your own. You can also download skeleton theme, that contains all the basic controls.

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I recommend (although somewhat buggy and a code mess) this one:
FieldsAttach
It does exactly what you want.
Or, you could make your own as Toretto suggests, there are some tutorials on creating a plugin for extra items in the article form, but the already-made-extension route seems to make more sence.
I've been using FieldsAttach for this sort of thing, for a few years, the code is often a little messy, that is true, but the the concepts are clean and eloquent. Brian Teeman explains it well from an integrator point of view in his talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WLKWbRj5U but in some ways it is even more compelling from a developer's perspective.
However, after watching Marco Ding's Joomla Day UK 2016 talk on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDh1IPuZAVA I think DPFields may be a better choice. The architecture is perhaps more rugged and neater, but also because it may well end up being a core extension in Joomla in the near future. More info on DPFields is at http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/dpfields , https://joomla.digital-peak.com/products/dpfields and https://joomla.digital-peak.com/documentation/162-dpfields .

Should Magento's blank theme still be used as a theme baseline (Magento version 1.7)?

A good number of the tutorials I've found on Magento theme development recommend starting off with using blank as a guideline for making your own custom theme. A lot of these articles are pretty old, as of the current version (1.7), is this still the case?
P.S. - If there are any good/relevant theme development articles out there, aside from Magento's official design guide, please feel free to link them.
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http://zaclee.net/magento/make-magento-1-6-theme-from-scratch
If you run into any problems with 1.7 let me know and I'll be glad to take a gander.
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To further this discussion, for some time I have really been bugged by the default CSS that Magento ships with. It is a pain to work on, and when you start developing in an environment where multiple people are working on the CSS, you inevitably run into CSS Kudzu.
It's been on my plate for awhile to completely rewrite the default CSS to something more maintainable and trimmed down, but like rabmcnab mentioned, there are deadlines, bills to pay, etc.

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I wrote an intro blog post on theming Orchard.
On my latest project the designer in our team read it so he could turn his designs into an Orchard Template.
The key thing we found was that the designer needed to have his own local version of Orchard running that he could make changes to and see the affects. We had him running it through Visual Studio, but Web Matrix or IIS running locally with him using his own editor of choice would have been just as good.
A combination of the Developer module and visual studio helped him work out what was what.
My article is not pitched at designers though, so I did pair him with a developer at first to get him started. This worked really well and the designer now feels confident and can make new templates from scratch by himself.
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