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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By : Jakub Sanecki
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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By: Jakub Sanecki

Overview of this book

Designing good looking, professional quality web templates or building your own website are rather complicated tasks, demanding a lot of technical and graphical expertise. Artisteer has changed this situation, enabling you to do it by yourself, without the need to learn skills such as HTML, web-programming languages, or drawing."Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how you can prepare an elegant, professional looking website, on your own, using features of Artisteer. It also describes the process of designing templates for various popular CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla!, by giving you practical hints, showing how to install those templates and how to import the content into CMS. "Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" leads you through the process of designing a website, including all standard layout elements, from header to the footer, including menus and special boxes. You will learn how to prepare the templates, store them and export them in the form of ready-to-use HTML pages or packages that can be installed in various CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, or DotNetNuke. The last part of the book shows you some tips and tricks that allow you to extend standard themes generated by Artisteer for enriching the website with image gallery, combining two menus, and more.You will learn how to create a professional quality website or CMS template on your own, with the use of Artisteer with minimal technical difficulties.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Another way of modifying CSS files


This tip applies to all kind of templates. An example would be the OneDayBlue.artx file.

In the Styling from scratch and Adding additional CSS to the project tips, we have modified the CSS stylesheets of the relevant project. Each of these examples presents a different approach to the problem:

  • We modified an exported CSS template file

  • We added some CSS definitions directly in Artisteer

Each of these techniques has its advantages and disadvantages. If you edit the exported CSS file, you can do it with your favorite text editor, which is probably equipped with many tools that make the job more comfortable (like code highlighting). Also, while editing the exported CSS file, you will see all of the content (CSS definitions used in the template) and don't have to write blindfolded. The disadvantage of this approach is that if you modify your project in Artisteer (using GUI) and export the new version once again, your file will be overwritten with the new one, and...