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Creating Concrete5 Themes

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Creating Concrete5 Themes

Overview of this book

Creating a concrete5 theme isn't complicated if there’s already a HTML document. There are only very few PHP functions you’ll have to add, but those are powerful and give you a lot of freedom. As you’ll learn to create mobile ready themes, you’ll start to see that there’s almost no limit in what you can do."Creating Concrete5 Themes" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of examples that will teach you how to create powerful concrete5 themes, change the look of content block elements, and even make your site ready for mobile devices."Creating Concrete5 Themes" starts with a few words about the editing concept and architecture of concrete5 and then continues with the creation of a basic theme which gets extended with more and more elements until the theme is mobile ready.You will learn where to find the information necessary to get your own concrete5 site and then get a quick introduction to understand the idea of the in-site editing concept. We’ll then create a theme which is extended with features and more details as we progress. You’ll also see some examples to show you the process of overriding elements from the core without losing the ability to upgrade concrete5 in the future. Once we’ve customized every element in concrete5 to build a complete theme, we’ll have a look at responsive techniques to make your site ready for small screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets.  
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Creating concrete5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Architecture of concrete5

We've looked at the basic operations in concrete5 in Chapter 1, Getting Started. You should now be familiar with using concrete5 and be able to update most of the content. Before we start building our own theme, we're going to dig into a few things in the background of concrete5.

This chapter is not a must, and if you're not eager to understand the technical things in the background, feel free to skip it. However, if you plan on using concrete5 for more than just one personal site, read this chapter to get a better understanding of the inner workings of concrete5. This should also help you if a customer of yours wants to know what's possible with concrete5. Knowing what can be done out of the box can help a graphic designer as well, even if he's not going to write the code himself.

You'll see that while you're building your own theme, you'll slowly start to understand a few pieces of concrete5. If you read this chapter, you should be able to connect these...