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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

Using template overrides in your Joomla! template


You can use template overrides in your Joomla! template to redefine the output HTML that Joomla! creates for the modules and components on your installation. This can be useful when you are unable to achieve the style you want for your Joomla! template with the markup provided in the base template that you are using.

Getting ready

In this example, you'll be changing the search component's Search button, as displayed at http://example.com/index.php?option=com_search, assuming that you have Joomla! installed at example.com:

One such thing that you may want to change is the Search button. In this example, we'll change it to a<input type= "image" /> so that we're able to use an image for the Search button rather than the browser's default rendering of the<button> element that we can see in the previous screenshot.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Save the search button graphic that you want to use in place of the Search button in the templates...