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Primefaces Theme development

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Primefaces Theme development

Overview of this book

Developing stunning themes for web applications has never been easier! PrimeFaces delivers a powerful set of features that enables JSF developers to create and customize awesome themes on the web. It is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. With more than 30 out-of-the-box themes, jQuery integration, a mobile UI toolkit, Ajax Push technology, and much more, PrimeFaces takes JSF application development to a whole new level! This book is a hands-on example-rich guide to creating and customizing PrimeFaces themes using available tools. Beginning with creating a JSF project and integrating the PrimeFaces library, this book will introduce you to the features of theme components, how these are structured, and how PrimeFaces uses JQuery UI to apply a theme to your application. You will learn to examine and change the CSS rules and get creative by setting standard icons and adding new icons to them. You will use a combination of JavaScript and CSS to enhance your application with help of scheduler component and go on to adapt and package your custom theme so that it is compatible with the Resource Manager. Finally, you will explore PrimeFaces mobile apps, ensuring themes are compatible with your mobile applications best practices for theme design.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrimeFaces Theme Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Colors, icon sets, background, and foreground


Colors are the visual perceptual property that correspond in humans to the categories called red, green, blue, yellow, and so on. The use of color to indicate an arbitrary object/property state must be intuitive, or you will need to provide a color key to go with it. A color is a tricky thing, and you have to use it in the right way, at the right time, with the right target audience, and for the right purpose. Otherwise, a web design can go wrong with too much color, mismatched color schemes, and too many interactive features.

Around the globe, 12% of the population has some form of color-vision deficiency (or color blindness). Therefore, the color scheme or harmony is a very important criterion when selecting the colors. It is recommended that you use a limited number of colors and try to avoid pure primary colors too much, which really dominate in the web design. It is good and sufficient to design a well-balanced website with three to four...