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    Creating concrete5 Themes
    Creating concrete5 Themes
    Creating concrete5 Themes
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    Creating concrete5 Themes

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    This book is a step-by-step tutorial with a lot of screenshots that help to explain the concept better. This book will cover the building of a 3D game for Windows Phone using XNA. We won’t explain the C# programming language itself, nor object-oriented programming. We will however explain the aspects of game development thoroughly, so don’t worry if you have never written a 3D game. We will cover all the basics, included the much dreaded math. This is the right book for anyone, regardless of age and gender, if: You are interested in game development You want to start building games for Windows Phone You have some programming knowledge In this book, we will first go over the technical topics, and end up building a 3D game for Windows Phone 7 together!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJan 25, 2013
    ISBN9781782161653
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      Creating concrete5 Themes - Remo Laubacher

      Table of Contents

      Creating concrete5 Themes

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

      Why Subscribe?

      Free Access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started

      Getting your own concrete5 site

      Start working with concrete5

      Dashboard to manage concrete5

      How to edit content

      What are blocks

      What is an area?

      Adding and updating blocks

      Publishing changes and managing versions

      Managing files

      Uploading files

      Working with stacks

      Change the layout and style of your pages, areas, and blocks

      Page types

      Design to customize the appearance of blocks and areas

      Splitting content in different columns

      Creating and managing pages

      Adding a new page

      Adding default blocks to page types

      Summary

      2. Architecture of concrete5

      The file structure of concrete5

      concrete5 updates

      Caching for better performance

      The distinction of Model-View-Controller (MVC)

      The anatomy of a page

      The anatomy of a block

      concrete5 API and helpers

      Helpers

      Events to hook into the core

      What happens when a page is rendered

      Why you might want to build a package

      Basic package installer

      Marketplace submission

      Summary

      3. Creating Your First Theme

      Getting started with themes

      Creating the first theme

      Adding our page type template

      Creating the shared header

      Creating the shared footer

      Adding a theme thumbnail

      Installing your theme

      Adding CSS files to a theme

      Adding main.css

      Adding typography.css

      Content block styles

      Performance perfection when including CSS files

      Customizable styles

      Adding more details

      Global areas

      Replacing the header area with a global area

      Putting blocks in templates

      Finding block properties

      Templates for page types

      Number of blocks per area

      Background picture by page attribute

      Creating the attribute to hold our picture

      Assigning attribute to page type

      Selecting background pictures

      Working with attributes in the theme

      Page-specific variables

      Getting page name and description

      Checking the edit mode

      Getting the current page type

      Summary

      4. Styling Single Pages

      What is a single page?

      Creating our own single page

      Installing single pages

      Changing the single page layout

      Adding view.php to your theme

      Applying the theme to single pages

      Overriding the single page's HTML output

      Summary

      5. Styling the Block Output

      Overriding block templates

      Additional block templates

      Block templates with CSS and JavaScript

      Content block in a box

      Overriding blocks in packages

      Changing the navigation

      Working with the drop-down block template

      Creating a portfolio list with filter

      Adding portfolio attributes

      Creating a page list filter template

      Summary

      6. Responsive Themes

      Responsive or separate mobile websites

      Responsive techniques

      Media queries

      How to scale pictures

      Pictures on high-density screens

      Viewport on small-screen devices

      Navigation for small screens

      Responsive layout implementation in concrete5

      Responsive bootstrap CSS

      Responsive drop-down navigation

      Responsive sidebar navigation

      Summary

      Index

      Creating concrete5 Themes

      Creating concrete5 Themes

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      Credits

      Author

      Remo Laubacher

      Reviewer

      Naume Keculovski

      James Shannon

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      About the Author

      Remo Laubacher grew up in Central Switzerland in a small village surrounded by mountains and natural beauty. He started working with computers a long time ago and then, after various computer related projects, he focused on ERP and Oracle development. After completing his BSc in Business Administration, Remo became a partner at Ortic, his ERP and Oracle business, as well as a partner at mesch web consulting and design GmbH. At mesch – where he's responsible for all development related topics – he discovered concrete5 as the perfect tool for their web-related projects and has since become a key member of the concrete5 community. You can find his latest publications at http://www.codeblog.ch/.

      About the Reviewer

      Naume Keculovski was born in 1983 in Macedonia, but grew up in a small village close to Zurich, Switzerland. After getting his EFZ degree with a focus on Application Development, he started working for a small company and gained his first practical web development experience. After finishing his internship, he started working for mesch and now builds the best possible web solutions on top of concrete5, with Remo Laubacher.

      James Shannon has been actively developing with concrete5 since its early days. He's contributed to the core and built a number of c5-powered sites, but mostly uses it as a framework to build complex web applications. Additionally, he's released a handful of popular packages that augment concrete5's core functionality. More generally, he's been developing websites for 15 years using a number of technologies.

      James' professional expertise is in strategic project management and change management.

      James grew up in Southern California and graduated from UC Berkeley. He collects certifications, most recently one that allows him to fly planes.

      I'd like to thank the person most important to me, Julie Talone, and the one most important to her, Henry.

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      Preface

      The Creating concrete5 Themes book contains everything you'll need to use your experience with HTML, CSS, and PHP, to build custom themes for concrete5. You'll also get a first glimpse at more advanced features as well as a few examples showing you how to customize parts of the concrete5 core to uncover the power of this CMS.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Getting Started, describes a few words about the requirements of concrete5 as well as instructions needed to get an understanding to edit content using concrete5.

      Chapter 2, Architecture of concrete5, helps you understand a bit more about the internals of concrete5 for those who want to understand how things are working in concrete5.

      Chapter 3, Creating Your First Theme, describes the practical part where you'll create your own theme.

      Chapter 4, Styling Single Page, helps you learn how to change the look of existing pages such as the login or 404 page.

      Chapter 5, Styling the Block Output, covers everything you need to know to change the output of the block elements, the actual content of a concrete5 site.

      Chapter 6, Responsive Themes, covers a brief look into responsive techniques and how they can be integrated in concrete5.

      What you need for this book

      You'll need an environment where you can install and play around with concrete5. This can either be a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer with Apache, PHP, and MySQL, or even a remote server in combination with a text editor such as Notepad++ and a tool to upload files such as FileZilla.

      Who this book is for

      You don't need to be an experienced programmer to understand this book, but you should have an understanding of web technologies such as HTML and CSS. Some experience with a programming language, preferably PHP, is highly recommended, but not needed if you are a quick learner with a good understanding of computers.

      Conventions

      In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

      Code words in text are shown as follows: The value of $pkg has to match the package directory and theme_book in PageTheme::add('theme_book', $pkg); has to match the name of the theme directory in themes.

      A block of code is set as follows:

      $mh = Loader::helper('mail');

      $mh->setSubject('Hello lovely World');

      $mh->setBody('Have a great day!');

      $mh->to('the@world.org', 'The World');

      $mh->from('me@switzerland.ch');

      $mh->sendMail();

      When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

         

      span9>

                 

                  $areaMain = new Area('Main');             $areaMain->display($c);

       

                  ?>                 

         

      New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: There are some links such as Add Image which are concrete5 specific.

      Note

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      Tip

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