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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

Summary


In this chapter we've covered a lot of different things related to the creation of themes. You've seen a few ideas about things you can do in concrete5 that might help you to come up with some new ideas of your own as well. You don't have to remember every detail as we continue, but understanding the basic principles of working with areas and elements is essential.

This book is about themes, but the journey isn't finished yet. While we've already covered the most important part, we still have to look at how we can customize some other elements in concrete5.

Most themes you download or buy in the marketplace not only contain what we've seen in this chapter, but also contain some styles to customize the look and feel of the blocks as well as certain pages of the concrete5 core.