For all the developers who wish to develop templates in SageFrame and a guide to all the novices as well.

1. RevisitingSageFrame Templating

3. Less designer friendly, Less user friendly.

4. Only the basic wrappers could be changed, the default module style had to be overwritten.

5. No fallback mechanism existed i.e. if a new template was designed, all css(modules) had to be rewritten, the default is destroyed.

6. Support for handheld devices was not thought of.

8. Easy customization

9. Fallback logic exists for templates, css, themes, modules (i.e. the default for all these remains intact)

10. Theme-rollers, layout-rollers, page width rollers shall be included.

12. Switchable multi-layouts across pages.Easy layout customization with UI support. Ability to define the content panes and their html rendering markup programmatically. Varying layouts across pages is possible. Uses the concept of common classes(even more easier from designers perspective)

13. Themotive? To transform the layout of your site to a whole-new mesmeric web portal. An encouragement to all template developers who wish to develop templates in SageFrame. To demonstrate the aesthetic features the upcoming templates exhibit.

14. Folder Structure

15. Terminologies Layouts/Presets Themes Common classes Overrides Template Themes Layouts Module styles Dynamic Wrappers(Blocks)

17. Navigation

18. FooterTheme Roller (Themes) Template.css Page Rendered

19. The Flow A default layout exists A list of positions/content panes exist A custom layout consists of those panes to be included and other styling information A template.css carries the style information The template.css from theme overrides the default template style if theme is applied The html builder renders the appropriate markup around each block in the runtime

20. UI for Customizing the Layout

21. Current SageFrame Wrappers

22. Template Design (The Flow) Define Layout.xml (know the classes and wrappers rendered) Write template.css Customize module.css from within the template folder