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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

Time for action – changing the site color and layout options


We'll first have a look at some settings that affect the overall color scheme and the layout:

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Template Manager and click the Styles tab. The Template Manager: Styles screen is displayed.

  2. In the list of available templates, click on protostar_copy – Default:

  3. You're taken to the Edit Style screen. Click the Options tab to reveal the Advanced Options panel, where the available settings are displayed:

  4. We'll have a look at the effects of these customization options. The Template Colour option allows for some quite powerful changes in the look and feel of the site. Let's try out an alternative color scheme.

  5. Click Template Colour to select the color for accents on the website: the colored line at the top of the page, the color of menu links and headings. A color palette appears that allows you to pick a color of your choice. Click on Select inside the palette pop-up to confirm your choice.

  6. Do the same for the Background...