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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

Chapter 3. Creating Your First Theme

If you got to this point, you should have a basic understanding about concrete5. We haven't done any coding so far, but you should be familiar with concrete5 from the user's side and have some rough knowledge about its possible uses.

In this chapter we'll start creating our own files. You'll need access to a site where you can modify and create files (it's not just about modifying files). It doesn't matter if this site runs on a remote server or on your local computer. Whatever suits you is okay.

You'll also need a text editor such as Notepad++ or a complete IDE such as NetBeans to work with your PHP, CSS, and JS files, as well as a tool such as FileZilla to upload your files if you're working on a remote server.

At the end of this chapter, you'll have a basic theme of your own. It's not going to be fancy, but you should have the understanding you need to make changes on your own by using your CSS and HTML knowledge.