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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By : Jakub Sanecki
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Creating Templates with Artisteer

By: Jakub Sanecki

Overview of this book

Designing good looking, professional quality web templates or building your own website are rather complicated tasks, demanding a lot of technical and graphical expertise. Artisteer has changed this situation, enabling you to do it by yourself, without the need to learn skills such as HTML, web-programming languages, or drawing."Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how you can prepare an elegant, professional looking website, on your own, using features of Artisteer. It also describes the process of designing templates for various popular CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla!, by giving you practical hints, showing how to install those templates and how to import the content into CMS. "Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" leads you through the process of designing a website, including all standard layout elements, from header to the footer, including menus and special boxes. You will learn how to prepare the templates, store them and export them in the form of ready-to-use HTML pages or packages that can be installed in various CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, or DotNetNuke. The last part of the book shows you some tips and tricks that allow you to extend standard themes generated by Artisteer for enriching the website with image gallery, combining two menus, and more.You will learn how to create a professional quality website or CMS template on your own, with the use of Artisteer with minimal technical difficulties.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What is CMS


In a static HTML website, the content is hardcoded—it is a part of the code of the page. Such a website consists of numerous HTML files and all of them are written separately, one-by-one. They could be prepared with the use of various tools (more or less simplifying the job), but each file contains both the look definitions and the content. All those files are copied to the web server, which make them available for the visitors. This is the most natural and easy-to-understand kind of website.

A dynamic page is definitely more technically advanced. It doesn't exist as a file, but is generated on-the-fly by the web server. After getting the signal that a particular page is to be displayed, a special kind of software gets the proper content (usually from database) and puts it into an available template. After content and template have been successfully combined, the page is ready and is sent to the browser.

Dynamic website is thus, not a collection of static pages (HTML files), but...