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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 4. Styling Single Pages

So far, we've already covered what you need to build a basic site in the look you desire. In concrete5, you'll find more elements like blocks and something called single pages. You can build all of that on your own, but sometimes you just want to make sure that the existing single pages match the look of the theme. An example would be the page shown if the requested page couldn't be found—the so called "404 error" page.

In this chapter, we're going to look at these pages and make sure they match the look of your theme. We'll cover the following topics:

  • A few words about single pages in general to get a better understanding about them

  • The process to create a new single page

  • The steps that are necessary to install a single page

  • How to change the look of a single page

  • Overriding the parts of a single page from the core