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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – activating a different template


Let's try a different template on for size. In this example, we'll choose the Beez 3 template:

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Template Manager.

  2. Click the star in the Default column of the Beez3 - Default template. This turns Beez3 into the default template. Click on View Site to see the results:

    The default site name Joomla! Open Source Content Management is displayed in the header. Let's fix this now.

  3. Click the template name in the Template Manager: Styles page. In Template Manager: Edit Style screen, click the Options tab to change the Advanced Options as desired. Select the CORBA logo image file you've used previously and enter the appropriate Site Title (in our example CORBA) and Description (Collectors Of Really Bad Art).

  4. As the template's color, select Turquoise. This will affect the header graphic and replace it with a smooth gradient color. Save changes and take a look at the output on the frontend:

The new template looks much better now. As...