Developing themes and skins | HCL Digital Experience
You can create themes using modules to contribute to separate
areas of pages to provide flexibility, enhance the user experience,
and maximize performance. To optimize themes on your website, use
the theme optimization module framework. The framework separates feature-specific
logic and capabilities from the theme code.
Roadmap: Creating and customizing themes | HCL Digital Experience Theme creation and customization are easy when you use the Theme Manager and download your static theme files by using a WebDAV client. This roadmap provides an overview of the theme creation and customization process. Links to detailed instructions for each step are provided in the roadmap.
Getting started with Themes | HCL Digital Experience Before you begin to develop themes, learn about the resources and the tools you can leverage to create and customize them.
The module framework | HCL Digital Experience The module framework allows extensions to contribute to different areas of a page to provide flexibility, enhance the user experience, and maximize performance.
Understanding the Simple Theme | HCL Digital Experience With the Simple Theme, you can create, copy, and customize themes in minutes with just a few clicks and far fewer files than the Portal 8.5 theme.
Understanding the Portal 8.5 modularized theme Modern websites and browsers enable incredible new capabilities that can greatly enhance your user's web experiences. However, these capabilities are not without cost in terms of large page sizes and more processing in the browser when each page is rendered. These capabilities are worth it when you need them, but removing them for an entire site or including them only on pages that take advantage of these capabilities provides for more flexibility.
Customizing the theme | HCL Digital Experience The module framework allows themes to be customized in order to provide flexibility, enhance the user experience, and maximize performance.
Developing themes for a production portal Use the theme artifacts to package a theme for staging to production.
Device classes | HCL Digital Experience Device classes are used in HCL Digital Experience as an abstraction for common properties for the device of a client. For instance, tablet computers can be grouped into a device class tablets, since they share a form factor and possibly other traits such as touch interface, or additional hardware sensors.
Responsive Web Design | HCL Digital Experience Responsive Web Design provides content parity between mobile devices and desktop channels, which enhances user experience and brand consistency. Seamless changes in screen size, from small to large, are now possible while the order of the content is maintained. Content maintenance is simplified by having one site that is represented by one set of assets.
Directory structure | HCL Digital Experience The topic shows the naming conventions that are used to denote the location of files on the servers and the types of resources you can find in those directories.
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