# Theming

## Adapting existing HTML admin dashboard template

For themes, you can adapt all dashboard HTML templates into a theme for ShadowsDash. **The theme must be using bootstrap!** Shadow's dash is made using the dashboard template from Creative Tim called Argon. Unless you want to recode entirely the frontend, I recommend you to take a dashboard that has similar class names for its components

## Recoding the whole frontend directly from the source

Otherwise, you can edit the frontend directly from the source code, using all the .php files to your need.

{% hint style="info" %}
There is no need to do the steps in the "Installing add-ons" documentation pages. Just warn the users before they download the add-on.
{% endhint %}
