Full website template needed

[Refica]

Hi,

I really need a full website example to study and see how everything is built. Watching videos is okay, but it would be great for easier understanding, to have a hands-on website to just play with in a local environment. Could the cwicly.com or an equal website be made available as a ZIP file for download?

Thank you!

/ René

[boris]

hi René. You should have a cloud icon at the top of the long vertical dark insert bar on the left of your screen when you’re editing a page.
In the cloud library there are a few templates that are full pages. It is not a full website but maybe this would help

[Refica]

Hi Boris. Thank you. I have tried different templates and played around with the design. Where I am struggling is how to use the Themer and how to use it alongside pages etc.

[boris]

basically the themer is a way to create automatic templates for specific pages. so for example for the home page you can choose to only apply a footer and header, whereas on other ‘normal’ pages you can use the themer to also apply a hero image dynamically chosen from the page featured image. does that make sense?

[Refica]

Yes that makes sense. What I did wrong was to insert the page design into the themer. I will try to only insert header and footer in the themer and make the page design directly on the page.

[boris]

yes that what i also used to do. But it depends on if you will have a client that wants to also edit stuff.

I’m only now learning this, but in that case you can also choose to put certain ‘fixed’ elements of the pages into their templates, and leave the editable room for editors in the page itself (because they can edit pages, not templates).

[StrangeTech]

@Refica

make the page design directly on the page.

Hi @Refica,

You may find this post related to the subject interesting:

Advice needed on how to create an editable/changeable website after layout

Hi @boris, I highly recommend firstly separating any layout or dynamic content into the templates and keeping page content specific to what an editor will expect to edit on the current page. Example: Home page with a content section followed by a recent posts list. In this case the only thing in the home page itself would be the content you would want to see in the content section, not the section itself and not the recent posts list. Those are added to the template. With regards to content,…

@boris

you can also choose to put certain ‘fixed’ elements of the pages into their templates, and leave the editable room for editors in the page itself (because they can edit pages, not templates)

Well said. Highly recommended for non-technical clients.

We recommend keeping anything that the client should not be able to edit (e.g. the structure, layout, any reusable dynamic elements and any fixed non-editable elements) in either the template or within components within the pages as appropriate.