Zen of Concrete 5
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Hi all,
I thought I'd make a General Layout theme to encourage and make it easier for regular graphic designers to create themes for Concrete 5. Plus, it will hopefully enable to grind out my own site projects faster. I called it the Zen Layout in tribute to the efforts of the csszengarden. It's a bit like the Drupal Zen starter.
It has multiple page layouts (full, 2 column, 3 column, right, left, home and a auto-nav'd/breadcrumb detail) and multiple wrappers designed for centered or full header/footer layouts with the capability to align left. It's fixed at 1000px so that people with a minimum of 1240 can see all the content and critical info is left aligned and divided at 800 for the 800px people.
It's pretty much set up to swap out the current images assets for almost all background sections and colors although it helps to know a bit of css.
I tested it in Firefox,IE 6 and 7, Chrome, Opera and Safari (PC), Firefox and Safari (Mac) - i'll get the specific version numbers later. Still need to do IE 8.
Anyway, it's free and I'm posting it here for suggestions before submitting it to the Marketplace. Please read the Read Me file that's included.
thanks!
-mario
I thought I'd make a General Layout theme to encourage and make it easier for regular graphic designers to create themes for Concrete 5. Plus, it will hopefully enable to grind out my own site projects faster. I called it the Zen Layout in tribute to the efforts of the csszengarden. It's a bit like the Drupal Zen starter.
It has multiple page layouts (full, 2 column, 3 column, right, left, home and a auto-nav'd/breadcrumb detail) and multiple wrappers designed for centered or full header/footer layouts with the capability to align left. It's fixed at 1000px so that people with a minimum of 1240 can see all the content and critical info is left aligned and divided at 800 for the 800px people.
It's pretty much set up to swap out the current images assets for almost all background sections and colors although it helps to know a bit of css.
I tested it in Firefox,IE 6 and 7, Chrome, Opera and Safari (PC), Firefox and Safari (Mac) - i'll get the specific version numbers later. Still need to do IE 8.
Anyway, it's free and I'm posting it here for suggestions before submitting it to the Marketplace. Please read the Read Me file that's included.
thanks!
-mario
i'll try that. I just made them according to Concrete5's examples.
hi TEr,
I gave your suggestion a try and unfortunately C5 wasn't able to pick out the customizable properties in your format. :( So I've put them back the way they were...
thanks again for trying it out!
I gave your suggestion a try and unfortunately C5 wasn't able to pick out the customizable properties in your format. :( So I've put them back the way they were...
thanks again for trying it out!
sorry mario,
I should have given the full line rather than just the names. My mistake.
/*customize_body_background-color*/PROPERTIES OF BODY BACKGROUND-COLOR/*customize_body_background-color*/
/*customize_body*/PROPERTIES OF BODY FONT COLOR/*customize_body*/
This theme might help.
http://mk24studio.net/works/creative_blot.zip...
I should have given the full line rather than just the names. My mistake.
/*customize_body_background-color*/PROPERTIES OF BODY BACKGROUND-COLOR/*customize_body_background-color*/
/*customize_body*/PROPERTIES OF BODY FONT COLOR/*customize_body*/
This theme might help.
http://mk24studio.net/works/creative_blot.zip...
i already submitted it but i'll see if I can roll it out for the next version.
I noticed on my theme that tinyMCE uses the default html/body background and text color. This can make things difficult to edit. Set the html/body background-colors to white and the text color to black (or whatever works for you) and transfer your colors to the #container to have them still apply to the overall page.
I've downloaded your theme.
You should use different names for each customize code to make it work right.
Like,
/*customize_body_background-color*/
/*customize_body*/
/*customize_misc_background-color*/
/*customize_misc*/