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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

Getting started with themes


The first example we're going to create will be a rather simple theme without a lot of HTML or CSS code. It's just an example to show you the most important elements in a concrete5 theme. In order to keep things simple, we'll use the Bootstrap library created by Twitter.

Bootstrap is a frontend framework that can often help you to be faster and more efficient when creating websites and applications. There are a bunch of CSS classes you can use to get better looking elements than plain HTML would produce, but it also comes with several JavaScript functions such as a carousel gallery, a drop-down navigation, and a few more. If you haven't heard of it before, you should probably have a look at their site to get a first impression about it:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/