Book Image

Creating Templates with Artisteer

By : Jakub Sanecki
Book Image

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)

Removing the vertical menu from some pages


This tip applies to HTML templates. An example project would be the chapterTwo.artx project file.

In Chapter 2, The Template Step-by-Step, we prepared a template with horizontal and vertical menus. The horizontal menu was the main menu of our site, showing the items related with directly linked pages, and the vertical menu was a complementary one, showing details of our offer. We came to the conclusion that the best way of organizing menus would be to show the vertical menu only on pages that are sub-pages of the Offer page. This would be better and more logical than to display details of our offer on every page.

Unfortunately, Artisteer doesn't allow us do define on which pages a menu should be displayed, and both the menus are displayed on every page. The way to work around this limitation is to create the template with both the menus (as we did) and then remove the vertical menu from the pages in which we don't want it to be displayed. This way...