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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've reached the limit of complexity we need to create themes. Customizing block templates isn't always necessary, but it's sometimes the icing on the cake. If you look around the concrete5 marketplace, you'll find a bunch of themes that don't contain any block templates; but those that are popular usually ship with a few block templates.

Even if you don't intend to distribute your themes in the marketplace, block templates might still be required to suit the needs of either you or your customer. If you don't have a lot of PHP experience, this part can be a bit tricky; but keep in mind that block templates can often be reused in different projects. Spending some time to build a set of block templates you know how to work with can give you a lot of benefits, especially if you intend to develop your business.

There's one more chapter in which we'll make sure that all of these things work on a device with a smaller screen as well, adding the final piece to make a quality...