Creating Templates with Artisteer
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- Prepare and install professional looking templates for popular CMS systems, such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, DotNetNuke, and other platforms
- Design website templates with ease
- Step-by-step guide through the features of Artisteer to design website templates
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 170 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : March 2013
ISBN : 1849699410
ISBN 13 : 9781849699419
Author(s) : Jakub Sanecki
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Joomla!, WordPress
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Meet the Artisteer
Chapter 2: The Template Step-by-Step
Chapter 3: CMS Templates
Chapter 4: Tips and Tricks
Index
- Chapter 1: Meet the Artisteer
- What is Artisteer
- Artisteer versus other software tools
- Who can use Artisteer
- Hobbyists
- Designers
- Web developers and programmers
- Web development companies
- Your first template in 10 minutes
- Creating a new project
- The program interface
- The Suggestion tool
- Previewing the project
- Initial customizations
- Saving the project
- Exporting the template
- Removing the Footnote
- Summary
- Chapter 2: The Template Step-by-Step
- Templates
- The common parts of a website
- Elements
- Header
- Horizontal menu
- Vertical menu
- Content area
- Special blocks
- Footer
- Attributes
- Page width
- Typography
- Colors
- Layout
- Creating a template
- Layout
- Columns and their content
- Colors
- Background
- Pages
- Adding, removing, and renaming the pages
- Page properties
- Header
- Title and slogan
- Pictures
- Shapes
- Ordering shapes and pictures
- Flash
- Menu
- Horizontal menu
- Vertical menu
- Determining the pages displayed in menus
- Content
- Writing articles
- Inserting images
- Inserting a slideshow
- Typography
- Color theme
- Footer
- Summary
- Chapter 3: CMS Templates
- What is CMS
- Static page template versus CMS template
- Specific CMS template elements
- Post header icons
- Post footer icons
- Advanced techniques
- Displaying positions in a Joomla! template
- Additional template position in the header
- Additional template positions in the footer
- Joomla! templates
- Template Areas
- Exporting a Joomla! template
- Installing a Joomla! template
- Setting up the template
- Title and Slogan
- Horizontal menu
- Vertical menu
- Footer modification
- Importing content
- WordPress templates
- Widget areas
- Exporting a WordPress template
- Setting up the template
- Title and slogan
- Customizing the footer
- Menus
- Importing content
- Drupal
- DotNetNuke
- Content editing – Artisteer or CMS
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Tips and Tricks
- Image links in a slideshow
- Removing the vertical menu from some pages
- Styling a particular module
- Styling from scratch
- Combinations with other Artisteer-generated classes
- Adding additional CSS to the project
- Another way of modifying CSS files
- Making a copy of a web page
- Adding Lightbox
- Summary
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- Design a complete website template in Artisteer
- Modify all the elements of an Artisteer project, like menus, header, layout, and so on
- Prepare templates for WordPress, Joomla!, and other CMS systems
- Import content from template into the CMS system
- Get direct access to pictures from Flickr to enrich your content
- Use specific Artisteer CSS classes to change the look of modules directly in Joomla!
- Modify generated code to achieve some interesting effects, that is, a photo gallery with a lightbox effect
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.
"Creating stunning Templates with Artisteer" is a practical, step-by-step guide which will show you how to create professional-looking websites on your own.
This book is great for enthusiasts, Artisteer users, and individuals who want to create professional-looking websites without paying for professional services and expensive tools. The book also shows you how to speed up your work and automate time-consuming tasks.
