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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Overview of this book

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Using conditional stylesheets in Joomla!


Internet Explorer supports conditional comments that can be used to target stylesheets specifically to versions of Internet Explorer; these are known as conditional stylesheets. Conditional stylesheets can be used to alter the appearance of elements of your Joomla! website in the Internet Explorer browser, and are particularly useful in providing quick fixes to your Joomla! template that occur only in Internet Explorer.

Getting ready

Open your template's index.php file, which is located in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\ directory of your Joomla! installation.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Within the<head> element of the template, add the following code:

    <!--[if IE]>
    <link href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/css/ieonly.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <![endif]-->
    
  2. 2. You can now specify CSS solely for Internet Explorer in the ieonly.css file in the templates\rhuk_milkyway...