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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 – tweaking the design details


Maybe you're happy with the template as it is now that you've personalized the logo and tagline text. However, in many cases, you may want to customize the design even more. To do this, you have to edit the CSS files of the template. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) define the design of the site—the HTML code provides the basic structure of the page. It is used to customize the layout, color, and typography. We'll come back to the principles of CSS soon, but the best way to find out how it works is to play around with it a little. As an example, we'll change the style of the tagline text. Right now, it's pretty small and inconspicuous, so let's make it bigger and bolder.

  1. Go to Extensions | Template Manager and click on the Templates menu link on the left-hand side. Click on Protostar_copy Details and Files to edit the copied template. This will take you to the screen that shows the (editable) files of the current template. In the file tree on the...