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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

Dashboard to manage concrete5


While you edit most of the content of a concrete5 site in the in-site editing mode, there's still a dashboard where you can manage a lot of different things. If you want to create a new user, group, manage your files, or change some permission, this is where you want to go.

The dashboard has two parts, a small part where you can see the most-used functions. Just hover over the Dashboard button and it will show up:

At the bottom, there's a View Full Dashboard link which will show you the entire dashboard. You can also get to the same screen by clicking on the Dashboard button at the top. The entire Dashboard screen is shown in the following screenshot:

If you like to explore things on your own, go on and click around to get familiar with the dashboard. We'll cover some parts of it in this book as we need them, but we aren't going to look at every single option, as this would be a topic for a whole book itself.

Tip

Managing dashboard favorites

In each screen of the dashboard, you'll find an icon looking like a star at the top-right corner, seen in the following screenshot. If you click on it, you'll mark that screen as a favorite. All of those screens will be listed in the dashboard menu which appears when you hover over the Dashboard button. This makes it easier to access often-used functions.