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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

The anatomy of a block


We won't go into the details of building a new block, if you want to go beyond themes, have a look at the book concrete5 Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing or read the following tutorial:

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/blocks/understanding-and-building-blocks-in-concrete5

The only thing we want to know is where a block can be found and what kind of files you'll usually find there. This knowledge can be helpful, even if you just want to customize the layout. Parts of the layout in your site are, of course, generated by the theme, but there are also parts which are created by different blocks. While an HTML editor block doesn't do much more than printing the text you've entered, there are blocks (such as the form block) where you have a more complex output, which might need a bit of styling.

There are four different places where you can find blocks:

  • /blocks/: This is for blocks in the root of your website. This directory is empty unless you add your...