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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5. concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin. concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Working with theme add-ons


A theme is responsible for the look of your website. concrete5 ships with four default themes. We can choose between those themes. You can see them when you navigate to Dashboard and then click on Themes. You can see all the default themes on the following screenshot:

A theme isn't restricted to a certain layout structure such as a blog. concrete5 themes can be built using any HTML and CSS code you want. You can even create your JavaScript files on the fly. You therefore find lots of different layouts in the marketplace and there are pretty much no limits, so you can build whatever you like.

You can activate one of the default themes by clicking on Activate. Confirm the activation on the next screen and your website changes its layout immediately. If you're working on an active site, you might want to hit Preview first to see how your page is going to look with the new theme.

Parts of a theme

We're going to create a theme in the next chapter, but before we start creating...