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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 the icons on the Joomla! administrator dashboard


You may wish to change the icons that are displayed on Joomla!'s administrator dashboard in the Khepri template, which is enabled as your administrator template by default.

Getting ready

Firstly, let's take a look at the Joomla! administrator dashboard, which is located by visiting the \administrator directory of your Joomla! installation in your browser. For example, if you have Joomla! installed at http://www.example.com, you access the administration panel at http://www.example.com/administrator.

So, the Khepri template looks like this:

How to do it...

  1. 1. You will need to open the mod_quickicon.php file in the \administrator\modules\mod_quickicon\ directory of your Joomla! installation. Your aim is to change the Add New Article icon (highlighted below) to make it more obvious for a new administrator for your Joomla! website:

  1. 2. You now need to locate the line in mod_quickicon.php that reads as follows:

    quickiconButton( $link...