How to create a template?

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The beautiful appearance of your website will beserve for him as a kind of visiting card. According to the well-known proverb, they are met by clothes, and the template is for the website just such "clothes". But in fact the template does not only perform a decorative function, it also determines the position of various functional elements on the website.

With the popularization of CMS (management systemscontent) the creation of the website became incredibly simple, and many Internet users rushed to get their own pages on the network. To simplify the creation of sites as much as possible, CMS developers offer users a certain set of ready-to-use templates. Using such a template allows you to save time on creating a website, but almost completely deprives it of its uniqueness. Some users are ready to accept this, others are interested in the question - "how to create a template for your site yourself?".

Creating Templates

For each CMS, you can create your owntemplate. But having read the official instructions on the developer's website, many users are simply lost, as they often do not even have basic knowledge of web programming. Simplify the creation of a template using special software.

One of the most common, well-known andEasy-to-use programs is Artisteer. The program is implemented in the form of a visual editor, which simplifies its use. In addition, templates created in Artisteer can be used for popular CMS such as Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Tumblr and others. The main advantage of Artisteer is that the user does not need to know the basics of web programming.

It's very easy to use the program. Creating a unique template consists of several stages.

Run the program, select one of the ready source templates, open the template previously downloaded from the Internet, or create an empty one.
In the main program window you will see an open template. Each of its elements can be edited to your own taste. You can change everything - the size of buttons, fields, menus, their shape, color and fonts.
The main work begins with the "Layout" tab. Here you set all the basic parameters of the future template, place the main menu, blocks, site header and much more, select the main color, fonts.
In the "Page Styles" tab, you can edit the layout of a particular page of the site, also changing its contents.
Editing the page, you need to fill itcontent. To do this, the "Content pages" tab is provided. With its help, you can add to the pages of various posts, articles, images and much more.
The "Menu" tab allows you to edit the main menu of the future website. Here you can edit both the vertical and horizontal menus for the site.
Using the "Header" tab, you can edit the site header.
To preserve the results of its work andTo get the ready template, go to the "Export" tab. Here you can select the CMS for which the template was created, and tick the "Archive" checkbox: the program will create a Zip file that is completely ready for export to the CMS.

In addition to special programs there are also online designers, but they have some limited functionality.

Artisteer allows you to quickly createA unique template for any popular CMS. The only exception is the Ucoz system, popular on the territory of the CIS. You can see the template creation methods for Ucoz in the article How to create a site template.