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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

Responsive layout implementation in concrete5


In this part, we'll add everything that's necessary to make the previously created theme ready for small-screen devices. To do this, we'll have to add some CSS files and also create a new autonav block template to create a mobile-friendly navigation.

Responsive bootstrap CSS

The bootstrap framework we've worked with offers a wide variety of options to create a responsive layout. The most important part is a CSS file you can find in the bootstrap archive you've downloaded. Before you start making modifications, create a new copy of our theme by copying bootstrap9 to bootstrap10. If you don't have the bootstrap ZIP file anymore, go to http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ and download the current version. From that ZIP file, extract bootstrap-responsive.min.css and copy it to themes/bootstrap10/css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css.

Next, we have to make sure this file is included in our theme. Open elements/header.php and insert the highlighted line:

&lt...