Template Creator CK - Creating Custom Joomla templates

Learn to create stunning Joomla templates from scratch with Template Creator CK. This course guides you through each step, enhancing your web development skills.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about making custom templates for Joomla using the Template Creator CK tool. You’ll learn step by step how to turn a design into a fully functional template, from the top to the bottom, all while making it responsive and stylish!

Key Points

  • Create custom Joomla templates from existing designs
  • Use Template Creator CK for easy template building
  • Focus on responsive design and using CSS effects
  • Begin with navigation and work to the footer
  • Requires knowledge of HTML, CSS, and either Joomla or Wordpress

Learning Outcomes

  • Build a custom Joomla template from scratch
  • Understand responsive design principles
  • Apply CSS transitions and transforms for visual effects
  • Navigate the Template Creator CK component with confidence
  • Extend skills to template creation in Wordpress

About This Course

Template Creator CK enables you to create Joomla templates from an existing design.

There's an absolute bevy of courses on the internet on how to build websites using all kinds of platforms and frameworks. Although these courses are generally very helpful in teaching more about certain topics like HTML and CSS, I have yet to come across a course that shows you how to create a custom template from scratch.

After doing multiple online courses on the internet to teach myself web development, I realised that teaching others my workflow could not only save them lots of time, but give them a solid understanding of a tool that has become one of the most powerful in my arsenal.

The objective of this course is to run you through a step by step process on how to create a custom template using a component called Template Creator CK. This component can be installed into Joomla and Wordpress, and operates inside the CMS to make the creation of templates from scratch an absolute breeze.

The course is structured in a top down approach, where students will take an existing design and start creating the template from the navigation area, all the way down to the footer area. Thereafter we will look at concepts like responsive design, template overrides and adding custom CSS to the template to add some aesthetically pleasing effects with CSS transitions and transforms.

Students wishing to enroll should already be familiar with HTML, CSS and either Joomla or Wordpress. Although Joomla is the preferred CMS for this course, Template Creator CK will soon be available for Wordpress, so if you have a solid understanding of the skillsets covered here, you can extend the utility of this course to create templates for Wordpress as well.

The total runtime of the course is roughly 2.5 hours, but I would recommend doing each section slowly and practicing the concepts taught to get the most out of the material. Students will need to purchase the Template Creator CK component, but I can assure you it will be money well spent.

Taking this course will teach you a fantastic new way of creating beautiful, versatile and responsive templates for the two biggest CMS's out there today.

  • Create a custom Joomla template based on an existing design.

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Andries Bester

After obtaining my B.A in Information Systems I started designing and developing websites for clients. I have been doing so ever since and have developed a great workflow that keeps my development time to a minimum and my client's satisfaction to a maximum. I have been actively honing my skills on Udemy for over five years and have come to...

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4.9 course rating
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K L.
5.0
1 year ago

Perfect!!

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Marcello S.
2.5
5 years ago

Die meisten clips sind etwas mehr als 1 minute lang, was sehr anstrengend ist, da hätte man locker 3 bis 4 clips zusammen nehmen können zumal es eh ums gleiche ging.

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Thomas H.
3.5
6 years ago

Extrem kleine Portionen - aber informativ und gut gegliedert.

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Anonymized U.
1.5
6 years ago

Unfortunately, I purchased this course a few years ago but never used it. I just purchased Template Creator today (1/2019) and it is a bit different so the videos so far have not corresponded to the current version of TC.

As I'm going through the course now, I'm finding that the instructor is not engaging....speaking tone is very dull. His videos are cut so short and go to the next one very quickly. He needs to keep his videos with similar components together so that users can stop, do the task, and continue, instead of having to wade through 10-16 different videos, with no idea of the specifics in that video. He instructs you to do something, then ends the video before you can make sure you have correctly completed the task.

Although I'm enjoying the software, this instructor really needs to improve on his presentation AND his video quality.

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Peter G.
3.0
6 years ago

Out of date

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ui-avatar of Ben Vorster
Ben V.
2.5
7 years ago

Unit/Components are to small. Very annoying to switch screens from module/component to component. Difficult to follow along.

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ui-avatar of Luke Stansmore
Luke S.
4.5
7 years ago

It's great.

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Vikas G.
4.5
7 years ago

Wonderful course for beginners. Easy and straight forward.

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Ricardo H.
4.5
7 years ago

It´s a 5 stars course. It´s easy, clear, graphic, and has a proper speed for me. The content is useful and relevant. But there is only one aspect I should chance. I had to add many notes in order to make an index by myself. There is no detailed index to help users to consult later, when they will actually do the template. But, I highly recommend this course. I already knew to use Template Creator CK. The first lessons cover topics that I knew. Even so, I learn interesting details. From the middle forward, I took many notes. Great for beginners and great for not so beginers.

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John E.
4.0
7 years ago

ability to back-step a lesson or two is not easy to do
to me it seems a course reset is the only option
UNLESS
you tell me different :)

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