Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Book Image

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

Creating a mobile stylesheet


Once you have specified a mobile stylesheet for your Joomla! template, you'll need to create a suitable mobile stylesheet. Things to remember when creating a mobile stylesheet are:

  • Screen width is limited, so it's best to keep your website to a single column of content

  • Large images and photographs will slow down the loading of your website for devices that may have a slower connection than most computers, and can be a barrier to your visitors reading content on your website

  • Ensure the colors that you use are sufficiently different, as screen glare (for example, from the Sun) can mean that your design appears paler than on your computer monitor

Getting ready

Create a new CSS file in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\css\ directory called handheld.css.

How to do it...

  1. 1. The style for handheld devices can be similar to the style for print; the aim is to minimize clutter and unnecessary content for each page. As such, you'll add this CSS to the handheld.css file that you...