Magento Multi Theme Styling

Question

I've a multistore setup which is using a custom base theme for the structure but the colour scheme is to change per store. Is it possible to fall back to the base theme but only modify _var.scss per store?

Answer 1

You can use RWD as your parent and base your multi store themes off of this using Magentos theme fallback

This is a really useful step by step guide on how you can achieve this

http://info2.magento.com/rs/magentoenterprise/images/Nirvana_Wiese_ClassyLlama_Fitness%20Center_Final.pdf

Answer 2

Yes this is possible using Magento it's fallback system. In your new theme with the seperate color schemes you can define a fallback in a theme.xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<theme>
    <parent>rwd/default</parent>
</theme>

There might be more useful options out there but this is the only obvious way I know.

For more information on theme fallback please refer to http://alanstorm.com/magento_infinite_fallback_theme_xml