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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

Preventing common bugs in print style


As with CSS for the screen, there are a few inconsistencies and bugs that appear in print stylesheets.

Getting ready

Open your template's print stylesheet; you'll be editing templates\rhuk_milkyway\css\print.css.

How to do it...

There are a few common bugs that you may come across when creating print stylesheets for your Joomla! website:

  • Firefox: Long, floated elements don't print.

    Some older versions of Firefox will not print content within floated columns beyond the first page, where the floated column is longer than a page in length. The only way to prevent this is to specify float: none upon all floated elements within the print stylesheet.

  • Various browsers: CSS background image doesn't print.

    A fairly common bug that occurs across a number of browsers is that background images defined with CSS do not print.

    If the background image is not relevant to the context of the article (that is, if it is just for decoration for your website's visitors viewing...