Turn a static layout into a living website.
Start with HTML you love. Connect templates, reusable components and content through Wulver — and give the design a life beyond its demo page.
Follow the transformation ↓The template is the beginning of the story.
A finished HTML theme already carries a visual language: typography, spacing, cards, navigation and the rhythm of a page. But its sample headings, repeated sections and hard-coded links still describe a demonstration. A real website needs those elements to work with real content.
Wulver provides a workspace for that adaptation. Import the theme, prepare Django templates, separate shared fragments and connect the places that should change to the data they need. You decide how much of the original layout to preserve and where the website should become dynamic.
Four steps from a layout to a system.
Import
Bring the HTML theme and its assets into the project.
Structure
Separate the shared layout from individual pages.
Connect
Replace sample content with template variables and modules.
Verify
Review the rendered website with your own content.
Bring the design into your workspace.
The HTML theme importer accepts a ZIP archive and builds a map of the discovered HTML files. Styles, scripts and images enter the theme’s static directory. This gives you the source material for the next stage: preparing the templates that will render the site.
Use a prepared HTML build when the source theme depends on a build pipeline. Importing files does not by itself connect a shop, search form or article card to application data. Those connections are the purpose of adaptation.
One shared foundation. Many distinct pages.
A header, footer and common resource links usually repeat across a theme. Move the shared structure into a base template, leave named blocks for page-specific content and extract reusable fragments into includes. The template editor provides tools for extracting includes and page blocks, as well as converting asset references to Django static tags.
The benefit becomes tangible when the design changes. A shared fragment has one place to maintain, while each page keeps its own composition. The result remains readable Django code that a developer can inspect and extend.
Explore the template builder →Let the design express the idea. Let the system carry the content.
The moment a sample becomes your website.
A fixed heading becomes a page title. A sample article becomes the selected publication. A repeated card becomes part of a loop. The layout stays familiar, while the content comes from the context prepared for that template.
<h1>About our project</h1><h1>{{ title }}</h1>This small example uses the title supplied to a Wulver page template. Larger sections follow the same principle, but require the appropriate context: article fields for an article page, category data for a category view, or a configured module for a selection of publications.
Content in its place
Connect titles, introductions, images and links to the fields used by the page.
Reusable selections
Use content modules where the design calls for a list of publications or images.
Purposeful interactions
Connect forms and interactive elements to the appropriate application behavior.
The final test is a real page.
Assign the prepared template to the appropriate page or content type, then review it with real headings, images and text. A short demo title rarely reveals the same layout issues as a long publication title or an empty image field.
- Check styles, scripts, fonts and image URLs.
- Review narrow screens, long text and missing optional content.
- Test navigation, forms and links between pages.
- Verify translated text, metadata and the final public URLs.
Keep the freedom to choose your design.
Wulver gives a developer tools to turn an HTML starting point into a structured Django website. The template supplies the visual idea; adaptation connects it to the content and behavior your project needs. Start with one page, make the connections clear, then expand the system.
For a practical introduction, watch lessons 09–12 in the Wulver video course: themes, HTML import, the template editor and components.