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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


Congratulations, you've reached the end of the book! If you have carefully read everything up to this point, you should have the knowledge to use your experience with HTML and CSS to turn your layout into a concrete5 theme in no time.

In this chapter, we've looked at the basics you have to know if you want to make sure that your website works on different devices such as mobile phones and even tablets. This is mostly related to HTML and CSS, but as you've seen, concrete5 gives you a lot of freedom when building a theme. We've also cleared the hurdle of making your site responsive almost effortlessly. Adding CSS media queries, special meta tags and more isn't a problem in concrete5.

I hope you've enjoyed this book and are ready to create great concrete5 themes. If you have any problems, there's an active support forum available at http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/. If you found any mistakes in this book, please report them at http://www.c5book.com.