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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Overview of this book

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Changing your template's logo


One of the most fundamental changes that you will want to make to your Joomla! template is to change the logo.

Getting ready

You will find the logo of rhuk_milkyway in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\images directory of your Joomla! website's installation. The file that we're looking for is called mw_joomla_logo.png.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Save the logo file as mw_joomla_logo.png. You'll be using this logo for your Joomla! website:

  2. 2. Upload the new logo file from your computer to the template's image directory. Refresh your website and you should see your new logo display:

Note

You may find it helpful to save a backup copy of the default logo, just in case!

Can't see the new logo? If you don't see the new logo, you may need to delete your browser's cache.

How it works...

By overwriting the default logo file for your Joomla! template, you can quickly and relatively easily start customizing your website for your own needs.

See also

  • Changing your template's color variation