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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 – creating a copy of the current template


First, let's make a copy of the current template. This is the best approach if you want to modify the current template. You avoid the risk that any code changes will be overwritten if the original template should ever be updated. Joomla allows you to easily create a copy of all of the template's files in a new folder.

  1. To create a copy, go to Extensions | Template Manager. Click Templates in the submenu on the left-hand side.

  2. In the Template Manager | Templates screen, click the link Protostar Details and Files. You're taken to the Template Manager | Customise Template screen. Click on the Copy button. Enter a name for the template copy (for example, Protostar_copy). You can use only letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores. Click Copy template in the pop-up screen. The pop-up closes. Now click Close to return to the Templates screen.

  3. Finally, switch to the Template Manager | Styles screen by clicking the Styles link in the menu on the...