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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

Changing the navigation


In concrete5, you can easily create a navigation using the autonav block, which will display a specified set of pages from the sitemap in a list or tree-like structure.

This block displays a very basic structure without too much styling. It's a great start as it doesn't contain a lot of distracting codes but it also means that you'll probably want to add a bit more of your own style, and therefore making sure it goes well with the layout of your theme.

The default template generates a structure using the <ul> and <li> elements similar to the following code snippet:

<ul class="nav">
  <li>Home</li>
  <li>Services
    <ul>
      <li>Mobile App Services</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

If you can, use some CSS to change the look according to your needs. It's very likely, though, that you'll encounter a situation where you need different classes depending on the state. It might even be possible that you want...