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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)

Creating a template


Now we are going to prepare our first layout. We will do this together, one step at a time, explaining every step we go through. But before we begin, let me first explain what we are going to achieve.

We are going to prepare a website advertising you as a web designer. The structure of the site is shown in the following diagram:

As you can see, our site will consist of eight pages. The first page (drawn a little bit above the other pages in the diagram) is the Home page. This is the first page that the visitor will see on coming to our site, and also the first page that we have to design. Logically, it is on the same level as the other pages from the first row. The second row shows the subpages for the Offer page. For our project we will create a two-column layout, with the first column on the left side, showing a vertical menu and a block with the contact information. Our site will have also a horizontal menu. Are you ready? If so, start Artisteer on the startup screen...