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Creating Templates with Artisteer

Table of Contents

Creating Templates with Artisteer

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

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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. 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

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

One-column layout

Two-column layout

Three-column 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

Menu Area

Item

Coloring

Levels

No submenu (no subitems)

One column – multilevel

One column – extended

Multi-column – megamenu

Multi-column – megamenu extended

Vertical menu

Vertical menu behavior

Determining the pages displayed in menus

Content

Writing articles

Inserting images

Inserting a slideshow

Slideshow in the content area

Slideshow in header

Typography

Color theme

Footer

Summary

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

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

Index