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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Editing template code


Until now you've changed the design by setting the built-in template options to your taste. If you want more control over the look of your site, you can also edit the HTML and CSS code of an existing template. Joomla! 1.6 features a new editor to make this a little easier.

You can edit the code files by navigating to Extensions | Template Manager. Click on the Templates tab and then click on the Details link next to the template name (for example, beez_20 Details). Click on a filename to open the file and adjust the code. You can edit both the HTML in the main template file (index.php) and the template CSS files.

Removing the "Powered by Joomla!" text

At the bottom of the default template, the Powered by Joomla! text is displayed. This message is hard coded in the index.php file. To remove it, you need to remove a few lines of HTML code:

Note

Do be careful: if you remove too much code, the template may not function anymore.

  1. 1. In the Template Manager, click on the Templates...