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Creating Templates with Artisteer
Creating Templates with Artisteer

Creating Templates with Artisteer: Why pay for a professional website when you can do it yourself with this hands-on guide to Artisteer? With no need for HTML, web-programming, or drawing skills, this book is all you require to create fantastic CMS templates.

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Creating Templates with Artisteer

Chapter 2. The Template Step-by-Step

In the previous chapter, we discussed some overall features of Artisteer. So far, you have learned what the software is for and have acquired a little experience with its interface and work style.

Now we are going to prepare a template together. I will lead you through all the steps, from the beginning to the end. At the end of this chapter, you will have a complete template that you can directly implement for your website or modify to fulfill your needs. This will be a template for a static web page.

Templates


Before we can begin with creating a template, we have to define what exactly is a template.

A template is a set of common elements of the website. And you may then ask, what is a website? A website is a set of logically connected web pages, concerning one particular subject. When we talk about a company website, the subject will be the company. In case of a private website, the subject will be the person who the website is about, and so on.

You could, of course, design all the subpages individually with a different design for each of them. While this is possible, such a solution would have several serious disadvantages. They are listed as follows:

  • If the pages don't have a consistent design and layout, visitors may get the impression that they have been redirected to another website and may feel lost

  • If each page has a different, individual menu, located in different places, navigating between the pages would be difficult, and the visitor would have to focus on how to navigate instead...

The common parts of a website


It's time to try to distinguish the common parts of the website. We will divide them into elements and attributes.

Elements are those parts of a site that exist independently. I mean that you could replace them and those changes would not affect the rest of the site. An example of an element is a footer or a menu. You could change the look of the footer (color, font, or border) but it wouldn't affect the menu or any other element.

An attribute is something that affects the whole site (all elements). An example of an attribute is page width. If you decide to make your website wider or narrower, you will probably have to redesign all of the elements to fit into the new space. Think of the footer mentioned previously. The footer is usually as wide as the whole page. If you make the site wider, you have to make the footer wider too.

Elements

The list of elements may vary for particular websites, but in general we can distinguish them.

Header

A header is a container...

Creating a template


Now we are going to prepare our first layout. We will do this together, one step at a time, explaining every step we go through. But before we begin, let me first explain what we are going to achieve.

We are going to prepare a website advertising you as a web designer. The structure of the site is shown in the following diagram:

As you can see, our site will consist of eight pages. The first page (drawn a little bit above the other pages in the diagram) is the Home page. This is the first page that the visitor will see on coming to our site, and also the first page that we have to design. Logically, it is on the same level as the other pages from the first row. The second row shows the subpages for the Offer page. For our project we will create a two-column layout, with the first column on the left side, showing a vertical menu and a block with the contact information. Our site will have also a horizontal menu. Are you ready? If so, start Artisteer on the startup screen...

Summary


We went through the whole process of creating a simple website. We have designed its structure and added proper subpages to our project. You then learned what the main elements of a typical template are and how to design them using Artisteer. We did it one by one, from the header to the footer. At this moment you have a complete project of your first site:

The subpages are without content as of yet, but the design is ready. The menus work correctly, and the images at the bottom use the Lightbox effect. You can now export this project as an HTML website (as we did in Chapter 1, Meet the Artisteer) or if you plan for this site to grow, export it as a package that is ready-to-use with one of the supported CMSs. This is what we will cover in the next chapter.

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Key benefits

  • 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

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

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.

What you will learn

  • 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

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I purchased the PDF format from Packt Publishing (no I don't work there). I am a grandmother and great grandmother, and I was really surprised to find that this book is very helpful in teaching you how to master Artisteer. I did read one of the reviews that said, you can't hardly understand what's written, because of sentence structure, that's a lot of hooey! And because of that one review, I almost didn't buy this book. But boy! Am I glad I did. It's not my job to sell you the book, but If I can follow the instructions in the book and they actually work, I am sure, you will be pleasantly surprise!. The Artisteer 4.0 Manual is fine. But, this book makes it s-o-o much easier to customize things, on your own.
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I have been using Artisteer for a couple of years and thought that I knew the tool pretty well. The author showed me new tricks and gave some wonderful tips on how to get the most out of Artisteer.Once you read this book you will be creating unique templates for the various CMS applications as well as HTML sites in no time.This book will take you from a beginner to an expert in using Artisteer in no time.
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