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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

Adding a custom favicon to your template


A favicon is the icon you see next to a website's address in your browser's address bar; it's an often-overlooked part of a template design and can really help your website to stand out from others. By default, your website's favicon will often be the Joomla! logo:

Getting ready...

We need to create our template's favicon.ico file first; it's best to create a file of 16 by 16 pixels in dimension for use as your website's favicon. For our template, we'll use a j from our logo's design (enlarged to the right for clarity):

Note

Converting your image to a .ico file

There are a number of online services which allow you to create .ico from more common image formats such as PNG, GIF, and JPEG, including Dynamic Drive (http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/).

How to do it...

  1. 1. Once you have settled upon a design for your template's favicon, upload it into your template's directory (templates\rhuk_milkyway\ in this example), overwriting the existing favicon...