Template Details: AllBooks

Refined, Professional Design

AllBooks gives you a refined, light design with a subtle literature motif, thanks to the lovely book photography. The design will suit any site about books, from online bookstores through to author sites and fan sites. Of course, you can use the design for any type of site simply by replacing the template's images and section names with your own.

The template's fixed-width layout aligns the main 780-pixel-wide page body centrally in the browser window. This ensures that the design looks consistent across all screen sizes.

Easy to Edit

All the text on the page is simply HTML text, so you don't need a graphics editor to change the headings or menu for example. Just open the page up in your favourite Web page editor (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.), select the old text and replace it with your own.

You can easily slot in your own logo or other heading image into the top left corner, replacing the "AllBooks" HTML text.

The template's HTML code was built by hand to ensure maximum compatibility across Web browsers and editors, and is well laid-out and fully commented for ease of maintenance.

AllBooks comes with two page templates: a home page template, and an inner page template. Use the home page template to build your site's home page; use the inner page template to build the other pages of your site.

Fully Web Standards Compliant

AllBooks uses CSS positioning for layout and conforms to the XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS level 2 W3C standards. This ensures a high level of compatibility with today's and tomorrow's browsers.

Flexible Layout

The template features a simple 2-column layout, with the main content on the left and a sidebar on the right.

We've included a nice "text-with-image" style for the sidebar content; you can include as many of these as you like in the sidebar on each page. There's also a "pull quote" sidebar style. Or you can just add your own free-form content to both the main content column and the sidebar. It's up to you.

All content areas can stretch vertically, ensuring that the AllBooks template can accommodate all your content.

Suggested Applications

With its books motif, AllBooks is particularly suited to any site about books, reading, or literature. It also works well as a theme for Blogger, WordPress and other blogging applications. Of course, as with all our PageKits, it's easy to adapt AllBooks to your specific needs!

Fast Load Time

The estimated load time of the home page on a 56K modem is 7 seconds. The page is built using CSS positioning rather than a tables-based layout, which results in a much faster and smoother load of the page, and better compatibility with modern browsers. It also improves accessibility, enhancing the browsing experience for text-only browsers and screen readers.

Tested Browsers

This template has been tested and is guaranteed to work with the following Web browsers. Other browsers will probably work fine too - they just haven't been tested with this template.

Windows Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8 Firefox 3.5 Opera 10

Mac OS Safari 4.0 Firefox 3.5 Opera 10

Linux Firefox 3.5 Opera 10

Fonts Used

AllBooks uses Georgia and Arial for all text in the page. These fonts usually come as standard on PC and Mac systems.

Files Included

• Source PSD files including all the graphics used to build the templates, editable in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, etc.

• HTML files for main page and sub page, editable in FrontPage, Dreamweaver or any other Web page editor or text editor.

• All images for the template, optimised for fast downloading.

• CSS style sheet controlling layout, text appearance, colours, etc, editable in any Web page editor or text editor.

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