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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Switching to a different template


Until now, we've worked with Protostar, the default template in Joomla. However, there are more templates available in the Joomla package. To see an overview, navigate to Extensions | Template Manager and click on the Templates link in the menu on the left-hand side to go to the Templates Manager: Templates screen. This is shown in the following screenshot:

Here, all available templates are displayed with thumbnail images, giving you a quick impression of the page design. In the Location column, you can see if it's a frontend or a backend template. Joomla comes with two frontend templates (Location is Site) and two templates that can be used in the backend (Location is Administrator). To get a better impression of what any of the installed templates look like, click on the template thumbnail in the Template Manager: Templates screen to see an enlarged image.

The templates that come with Joomla!

A main change since Joomla 3 is the use of Bootstrap, a framework...