Design guidelines

Through the separation of content from design the demand for freelance website designers is becoming increasingly driven by the requirements of a company's preferred Content Management System.

Our Content Management System has been built from the ground up to be as generic as possible. A major part of this is the ability to load different CSS stylesheets; completely changing the layout and look of a site without having to do any sort of bespoke backend programming.

The following pages outline the basic requirements for achieving this objective.

1. The CMS file structure
2. Style sheets
3. Web standards

How do I produce a design template?

1. Click here to download the sample files.
   These include a sample stylesheet page and the default stylesheets.
   
   
2. Extract the files to a suitable location on your hard drive.
   
   
3. Edit the files to produce your design following our design guidelines.
   
   
4. Once finished, compress the root folder using your own compression software and send it to us via the Submitting designs section of this site.