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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

Responsive or separate mobile websites


There has been a long talk about whether you should create a separate mobile site with a different layout or even different content, or use the standard site and make it work on small-screen devices by using responsive technologies. This is probably a discussion that won't end anytime soon, but it seems like responsive layouts have gained more popularity than technologies related to creating separate mobile sites.

If you intend to show different content on a mobile device, you might want to consider creating a separate site. But keep in mind that only your website's visitors really know what they want. You might have a visitor who is looking for the phone number and nothing else and gets annoyed because he has to scroll down to the contact page, but it could very well be possible that another visitor wants to read more of the content you have on your site.

We're not going to start a long discussion about this; just keep a few things in mind that you might...