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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Changing the settings of the current template


Your starting point for managing and customizing the current templates is the Template Manager (Extensions | Template Manager). The Template Manager screen consists of two main screens, accessed through the menu on the left-hand side: Styles and Templates. In the Styles screen you select which of the available templates you want to use on the site. The current default frontend template is called Protostar. The default template for the backend of the site is called Isis. If you've followed along with the exercises in Chapter 4, Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour, your current default template should be called Protostar_copy.

What are Template Styles?

Why is the first screen you see in the Template Manager called Styles? You might expect that this screen enables you to customize CSS styles and stylesheets that control the template design. However, this is not the case—a Template Style is a variation that you can create based on an existing...