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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)

Styling a particular module


This tip applies to Joomla! templates. An example would be the specialModule.artx file.

This tip is based on standard techniques used in Joomla!, but in the case of Artisteer, it requires some more explanation.

It's quite a common situation that you want to have one of your modules looking different from the others. For example, you may want the login module or some other module to be distinguished from others. In the case of custom HTML modules, you can of course modify HTML directly in the module, but this tip allows you to do it without touching HTML and is based only on CSS modification.

Note

This technique works for modules taking their CSS from the template stylesheet. It won't work with custom extensions that are rendered separately with their own styles. In such cases, you will have to take a look into the source of a particular extension and modify the code accordingly.

In our example, we will distinguish the login module to make it more eye-catching for visitors...