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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

Time for action – creating a template style for one specific page


Let's assume your client has a few special pages on the site about a special event. They want to make this event page stand out from the rest of the site. To create this effect, we'll create and apply a template style. We'll create a copy of a template and use it to style only the pages that are linked through one specific menu link. This can be done as follows:

  1. First, we'll make a dummy page and a menu link that points to it. In this example, we'll create an article page named Visit the Bad Art Event and a Main Menu link of the Single Article type, which is named Bad Art Event.

  2. Go to Extensions | Template Manager to access the Template Manager: Styles screen.

  3. We'll use the Protostar template and create a copy of it. Select protostar - Default by ticking the select box to the left-hand side of the template name. Then, click on the Duplicate button. This is shown in the following screenshot:

  4. A copy of the template appears in the...