how do i find a good, responsive template?
How Do I?
have an old EE site. need to upgrade, and need a good, responsive design template.
when i first developed the site, i found a great template which i changed the heck out of — but now i need to do the same thing, but the added requirement is that the template must be inherently responsive.
previously, the EE forums had links to a wealth of templates. where do i find one now?
many thanks in advance —
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If you mean a ee-ready theme/template like a Wordpress theme/template, i don’t know. If you mean a general responsive, ready- to-use theme, you should do first some research about available frameworks for that. Examples are: Bootstrap, Foundation, YUI, 960gs and so on. You can compare them here:
http://usablica.github.io/front-end-frameworks/compare.html
I use Bootstrap from Twitter. http://getbootstrap.com/
Then, if you found what you want, search for themes based on the framework of your choice.
For bootstrap, as example, you can go here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/
A good and cheap example of a theme is Unify
Since this type of website designs depends visually of ‘blocks’, you can easy make a ee-template for each block and aggregate it in another template.
Hope this helps you a little bit. Have fun, and build a beautiful website
hi ingo 😊 thank you for your response. 😊
hmmm… i think were not quite connecting re what is needed here….
in the earlier days of ee, i came across pre-coded themes / pages / templates (it was called “kiwi,” as i recall). it had the basics for the pages that i wanted (e.g., three columns, color palette, menu, etc.), so i revamped the css, re-did a lot of the layout, added things, moved existing things around to get what i wanted the page to display (from my categories, etc.). i didn’t have to build it from scratch (thank goodness), ‘tho the end result was not really recognizable as kiwi. i just needed a place to start.
i’m not quite understanding you when you’re pointing me to bootstrap, unify, etc. (i don’t know what these are, and they don’t seem to relate to ee).
cheers –
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There are no pre-buillt EE-specific themes, to the best of my knowledge, but it’s not really difficult to adapt any valid HTML template to work with EE. Ingo was pointing you to various options concerning HTML templates: pick any template you like, from any place, really, replace lorem ipsum with {exp:channel:entries}… {/exp:channel:entries} tags (not quite, but almost), and you’re off to a good start.
Yeah, EE has never really operated like Word Press. Find any general HTML design/template you like and swap out the placeholder content in the HTML for the relevant tags from your existing templates. I assume the existing data and structure of your site is remaining as is, so this is the quickest and easiest way.