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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By : Jakub Sanecki
Book Image

Creating Templates with Artisteer

By: Jakub Sanecki

Overview of this book

Designing good looking, professional quality web templates or building your own website are rather complicated tasks, demanding a lot of technical and graphical expertise. Artisteer has changed this situation, enabling you to do it by yourself, without the need to learn skills such as HTML, web-programming languages, or drawing."Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how you can prepare an elegant, professional looking website, on your own, using features of Artisteer. It also describes the process of designing templates for various popular CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla!, by giving you practical hints, showing how to install those templates and how to import the content into CMS. "Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" leads you through the process of designing a website, including all standard layout elements, from header to the footer, including menus and special boxes. You will learn how to prepare the templates, store them and export them in the form of ready-to-use HTML pages or packages that can be installed in various CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, or DotNetNuke. The last part of the book shows you some tips and tricks that allow you to extend standard themes generated by Artisteer for enriching the website with image gallery, combining two menus, and more.You will learn how to create a professional quality website or CMS template on your own, with the use of Artisteer with minimal technical difficulties.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 4. Tips and Tricks

We have gone through most of the Artisteer features and you can by now design and use your own templates. The last thing to cover is some tips and tricks—techniques that will allow us to achieve effects, not available in Artisteer directly. They would require a little modification of the exported code, but don't worry, the changes won't be difficult, and I will always describe the changes. The examples here are the common questions that I have been asked by many Artisteer users. I'm sure you will have your own questions too. A good source of tips and tricks is the subscription of the Extensoft newsletter, in which some nice tips are published. Also a good source of knowledge is Artisteer's official website www.artisteer.com and Szablonik (www.szablonik.net)—another website devoted to Artisteer. You may also look at my blog: http://artisteer.fajnyblog.eu, where I publish tips from time-to-time.