I totally agree, beyond needing to understand the basics of the Django template language nothing else is required to create a Mezzanine theme. In the blog post

I totally agree, beyond needing to understand the basics of the Django template language nothing else is required to create a Mezzanine theme. In the blog posts this discussion is about, I did go into some detail about creating custom content types but none of that is necessary to theme vanilla Mezzanine. edit: grammar