Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Designing view modes Updated Markdown page
How theme designers plan the views of each content class - full, line, embed, embed-inline and custom modes such as card - with a view matrix, how few modes a design really needs, and what to hand the developer.
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Designing with real content Updated Markdown page
Why and how theme designers draw with the content an Exponential site really holds - where to get it, how to measure the extremes, a set of stress cases, and how to test a design against content on a development…
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From design tool variables to CSS custom properties Updated Markdown page
How to carry the variables of a design tool (colors, sizes, spacing, modes) into the token stylesheet of an Exponential theme - one naming scheme, light and dark modes as two value sets, an export table, the tokens.css…
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From mockup to theme Updated Markdown page
The workflow from a design in a design tool to a working Exponential theme - seven stages, who does what in each, what each stage hands to the next, and where the technical steps are documented.
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Handoff checklist Updated Markdown page
The checklist of everything a theme designer hands to developers for an Exponential theme - inventory and mapping sheet, tokens with dark values, components with states, view matrix, image and block sheets, special…
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How Exponential themes differ Updated Markdown page
For theme designers who have built themes for other systems. The six ideas that make an Exponential theme different, each in a few sentences, with the page that explains it in depth.
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Mapping a design to content classes Updated Markdown page
How theme designers turn mockups into a map of content classes, fields and view modes - reading a class, what each common datatype can look like, a mapping sheet to fill in, and what to ask the developer when a field is…
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Motion and interaction Updated Markdown page
How theme designers specify motion and interaction for an Exponential theme - what motion is for, durations and easing as tokens, reduced motion, carousels and sliders editors fill, disclosures and dialogs, and how…
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Reading paths for theme designers Updated Markdown page
Ordered reading lists for theme designers by situation - visual designers who do not code, designers who write CSS and templates, designers redesigning a running site, designers of themes for publication, and designers…
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Redesigning an existing site Updated Markdown page
How theme designers redesign a running Exponential site - auditing the current design and its overrides, deciding what to keep, introducing tokens into an old theme, building the new design beside the old one on a…
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Show your theme as a live static demo Updated Markdown page
Put your Exponential theme in front of clients and users as a live demo site on GitHub Pages, free and always up, with example content and a link to the theme's repository.
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Social share and metadata images Updated Markdown page
What theme designers need to know about the image and text a page shows when it is shared - Open Graph and Twitter tags in the head, how the xrowmetadata extension chooses and sizes the image, a default image per class…
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Spacing and grid Updated Markdown page
How theme designers define spacing and a layout grid for an Exponential theme - one spacing scale as tokens, space inside and between components, a page grid that also works inside narrow layout zones, logical…
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Theme design review checklist Updated Markdown page
A checklist for reviewing a theme design before it is built or before a release - concept, content fit, system consistency, accessibility, multilingual and multi-brand readiness, editor experience, and the project's…
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Theme designer FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short answers to the questions theme designers ask most about Exponential - do I need to write templates, why no inline styles, how dark mode works, why my change does not show, how editors change pages, fonts, images…
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Theme designer glossary Updated Markdown page
The terms theme designers meet in this section that the Design glossary does not already define - image alias, view type, layout type, shared layout, remote id, preview siteaccess, skin, ramp, role token, state matrix…
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Theme designers: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for theme designers - what this section adds to the designer help, a task-to-page index that maps every task of a theme designer to the right page, the pages of this section, and the pages from other…
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Themes for Exponential Platform Updated Markdown page
A short orientation for theme designers asked to design for Exponential Platform DXP, the Symfony line - Twig instead of TPL, designs as ordered theme lists, the @ibexadesign namespace, templates/themes folders, what…
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Tools for theme designers Updated Markdown page
The tools a theme designer uses with Exponential - the settings that reveal which template drew what, the debug output, packed or unpacked stylesheets, the preview siteaccess, the template editor and the design…
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Type scale Updated Markdown page
How theme designers choose a type scale for an Exponential theme and turn it into tokens - a small number of steps, fluid sizes with clamp(), line height and measure, headings that editors create in rich text, other…