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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)

Adding Lightbox


This tip applies to HTML templates. In case you use a CMS, you should rather use one of the available extensions.

The Lightbox effect is a really cool Artisteer feature that enables you to enrich your projects with image galleries. But Artisteer's Lightbox is not as impressive as the real one. Wouldn't it be nice to have a gallery with the real Lightbox? In this tip, I will show you how to modify the code, to get the gallery with real Lightbox. In this example, we will use the betterImageGallery.artx project file.

Note

Lightbox is the generic name for the group of techniques that display images using modal dialogs. The name comes from original JavaScript plugin, created by Lokesh Dhakar (for more information, visit http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox/). Lightbox-like scripts show images in a nice border, with navigation controls and description text.

We will use the Lightbox2 effect, based on the jQuery library. There are many Lightbox-like effects available, but this one...