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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

Understanding Joomla! template positions


Positions within Joomla! templates let you customize where you can place modules and content in your Joomla!-powered website.

Getting ready

While you're reading this, we'll need the rhuk_milkyway template enabled, as this has quite a large number of options for positions within its template.

How to do it...

  1. 1. View your Joomla! template in a web browser:

  1. 2. Edit the address of the page you're currently on, adding ?tp=1 to the end of it:

  2. 3. If you now refresh the page, you'll see the template positions of the various content blocks on your website:

You can see the template positions in boxes at the top-left of each of the blocks of content within the website (for example, top[none outline], user3[none outline]).

How it works...

The ?tp=1 addition to the end of the address in your browser tells Joomla! to display information about the template positions, which makes it easy for us to see what Joomla! is doing. The extra information that Joomla! includes...