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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Time for action—preparing a new header file


As it is, our design still very much looks like any Joomla! site—and that big Joomla! logo on every page isn't helping much! You'll replace this with your client's logo. The original Joomla! logo is just 298 pixels wide and 75 pixels high. We'll create a new image that takes up the full width and height of the header; this way, we can change the site's looks distinctively with just one graphic.

  1. 1. Open up your image editing tool. In this example, we'll use Adobe Photoshop, but any image editor will do.

  2. 2. The space where we want to place our image (the full width and height of the template header) has these dimensions: 920 x 108 pixels. To leave room for a little margin, we'll create a new header file of slightly smaller dimensions: 900 x 98 pixels. Click on New. In the Width and Height boxes, fill in 900 and 98 pixels. Choose Background Contents: Transparent.

  3. 3. In Photoshop, the PNG file shows a grey and white "checkerboard" background. This indicates...