Templating & Design

Best practices and how-to guides for working with ExSite Webware's templating system.
How this site was designed in ExSite
The redesign of the ExSite Support Site offers up a good real-world example of how to set up and install a new graphic design completely from scratch. This provides a good review of some universal web...
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Advanced Templating Concepts
Analyzing Page Structure Your page structure consists of numerous different elements that can be managed separately.  Some are obviously separate, such as images and stylesheets, while others...
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Creating Templates
Templating Basics A template is a model page, which defines how the content of real pages should be laid out, decorated (enhanced with colors and graphics), and typographically styled. A template...
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Graphic Design Best Practices
Page Structure A page is typically broken into several regions, each holding a block of content that is independent of the others. For example, a common page structure uses a 3-column layout, with...
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Templating Best Practices
HTML and CSS can be combined in a myriad of ways. Some of these will be friendly to ExSite's CMS assumptions, and others will make content management difficult or inconsistent. This document guides...
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How ExSite Creates Web Pages
This document describes, in moderate technical detail, how ExSite constructs web pages for display on client browsers. It is intended as a primer for technically-oriented graphic designers who will...
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