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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

Adding more details


We've already created our first theme. It's nothing special; just a rather simple layout based on Bootstrap. In this part, we're going to add more details as we progress step by step.

You don't need all these features in every theme, but it's certainly good to know them to make sure you have some of the available solutions in your mind, in case you need them. As we add new features, we also create new themes. If you want, you can keep on working with bootstrap2, but the code in this book is split into different themes.

We just copy the theme directory, change the number in description.txt, and install the new theme.

Global areas

If you played around with the new theme, you'll probably have noticed that there's an autonav block on each page. That basically means that you can have a navigation that differs on each page. This is a great feature, which helps you to create a huge mess.

We could improve that by using page defaults, which allow you to add template-like blocks. Whenever...