Course Overview
This course covers everything you need to know to build and maintain a theme on the Liferay platform. This one-day training covers how a Liferay theme works at a code level as well as what configureable options you have in Liferay through a theme. From modifications to a portal page to thinking about responsive design, you will learn all of the best practices for creating your own theme project. You will walk away from this course with a solid understanding of how you can modify the look and feel of your Sites through themes.
What You'll Learn
By the end of the training, you should understand how to develop a Liferay Theme Project which includes:
- Understanding the Theme Architecture
- How to build off of a base Theme
- Applying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Configurable options using Theme Settings
- Configurable options using Color Schemes
- Using Velocity in a Liferay Theme
- Using SASS and Compass
- Using Aspects of AlloyUI in your Theme
- Developing a Layout Template
- Understanding how to think about Responsive Design
- Creating a Site Template using your Theme
Prerequisites: Building Themes with Liferay requires a knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is also recommended that one has fundamental knowledge of Liferay through either the Portal Administrator or Developer courses.
Course Format: Onsite
Version: 6.1
This course is also offered for Liferay Version 6.2