Will Magento recognize a theme with empty folders?

Question

I'm trying to learn Magento theme structure, I've been told that I should create a package and a theme folders under app/design/frontend and also under the skin directory, but whenever I save the configuration , I get package with this name does not exist and cannot be set.

Answer 1

What you've done is definitely the right thing to do.

To me, it sounds like a permission issue.

Check the permissions on the base/default folder in both app and skin and apply the same permissions recursively on your tutsplus folder, that should fix your issue.