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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 6. Responsive Themes

There was a time when the Internet was only available on computers; things started to change slowly but are now taking up speed. There are even countries such as Japan where more people access the Internet on a mobile device than on a computer.

It might not be the same for your customers yet, but mobile devices are certainly something you should consider when building a website in 2013. There are several approaches to do this; lately it's the word responsive that has gained a lot of popularity. A responsive layout aims to provide a viewing experience that adapts to the device the website visitor is using by scaling, hiding, or adding certain elements to match the resolution of the device screen.

In this chapter we'll look at the following things:

  • A quick introduction on how to create a completely different layout for mobile devices, or a responsive theme

  • The basics behind responsive techniques to make a site work on small screen devices

  • The changes we have to make...