The HEATWAVE never stops! In fact, as if to remind our team about all of the hot new features rolling out all summer long, our office air conditioning has periodically been taking breaks, keeping the inside temperature nice and toasty. So, it's hot in here and the new features are even hotter!
This week, we've got a very special new release for you designers who like to build your own templates for our Water, Sky, and LightCMS systems. Many of you have asked for simple code references to use when making your custom templates. Today, we're releasing a set of barebones templates which not only provide these code references, but they can also serve as a great starting point for any custom design. These templates contain basic generic markup, all of our template tokens, and CSS styles for all system elements, plus some commentary inside to make things more clear. They are free for you to use however you want.
Great as a starting point for any custom design
Our barebones templates give you a solid starting point for making templates for the CMS. Because they have minimal "style," they are perfect when you want to start with a "blank canvas" and build a design on top of it.
Inside the zip file (linked below), you'll find HTML templates offering several distinct home, inside, and admin layouts along with navigation options such as horizontal, vertical, accordion, and drop-down menus. You can use as many of these templates as you like in your designs. You can also modify them however you wish.
Great as a CSS and CMS reference
The included CSS provides underlying layout positioning as well as classes to style all of the content elements provided by the system. This makes a fantastic CSS reference. Also, the templates include all of our system tokens and lots of code comments to give you a great picture of how all of the functionality of the CMS can be integrated into your designs.
Download them now!
The templates are fully-functioning and ready to go – just download them and add your own styles.You can download them with the link below. You'll also find them linked within the design manager on any Water, Sky or LightCMS website.
Download: EF_Barebones.zip (56KB)
Have questions? For more information about using your own designs on our system, see this section on our account support site. If you still need help, why not ask our community of designers on the LightCMS forum?
Posted on
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
by Jason Zimdars