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[Note - I previously started this conversation in a separate thread but I want to open it up for more discussion so am reposting here.] I am new to Pagelines and am trying to understand how build a child theme from scratch. I have some basic HTML/CSS knowldege but I am currently a beginner when it comes to PHP & Javascript. I have built some Wordpress sites before but have only ever made basic CSS modifications to an existing theme. I have never built a theme or child theme before. I want to learn how to create/customise a child theme in Pagelines but I have no idea where to start, and can't find any documentation to help me. I just watched the PDET Video tutorials. They were a little out of date but still very helpful in understanding how to create Pagelines Sections, even for a beginner coder like me. The problem is there are no more video tutorials! Sections were covered, but where are the rest of the promised videos on Themes and Plugins? We need a series of tutorials (maybe as videos) taking us though the steps of building a Pagelines child theme from scratch (or from the base child theme), similar to the sections video tutorials. I have looked at the Theming page but it does make a lot of assumptions about our knowledge. I currently don't really understand how all the different components fit together in creating a child theme. Here are my questions: To build a child theme for Pagelines, do we need to know Wordpress theming already? If yes, are there any good tutorials out there to take us through the process? How do all the components of a child theme fit together? How do hooks and actions fit into the design? Do we need to learn LESS before we begin? Any good resources for this? Is there an example theme that uses bootstrap available? I want to understand how to use the grid. Is it easy to take an existing Wordpress theme and convert it into a Pagelines child theme? How do I do this? Would I even want to, or is it too long-winded? What are the best tools to use? How do you see what you are doing (CSS changes etc.)? Are their any video tutorials explaining how to create child themes for Pagelines? I like Pagelines in principle, but these days very few of us would build a WP theme from scratch for a new website - we'd simply take an existing theme and customise it. Pagelines does not appear to have much choice in this regard, since there are currently very paid few child themes available. Thanks in advance.

Ok, so I've been jacking with this scrollspy for a while now... first adding content to the "appropriate" area... the content section. Works great, looks like shit. I'd like my own services page to replicate the look of the PageLines "sections" demo page, with the scrollspy scrolling to the different sections being shown. I've added my own box sets, and messed around with the html side of the content box in each individual box to try and get results with no dice. I've read twice now that the scrollspy was not designed to do what I'm asking for, however, the PageLines demo page clearly uses this functionality... something i'm sure many users were expecting to be able to replicate because it was demonstrated on the demo. If I could get some personal help getting this set up I'd spend the time to get a proper walkthrough up outlining how to get this functionality working on customers' sites. *Even downloading the dat file and sample content on a separate installation of WordPress did not yield the same results as the "official" demo page. The scrollspy on the separate installation was not "active" - meaning the default "how-to enable" instructions were being shown, and not the nav links to sections as they shouldve been.