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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – downloading and activating a new template


For your site's redesign, you've hit upon a great looking template on the Web. In this example, we'll use the Future template developed by IceTheme. It is a clean and basic template that offers enough opportunities to customize the layout and appearance. This can be done as follows:

  1. Navigate to http://www.icetheme.com/Downloads/Joomla-Templates/Free-Joomla-Templates/Future/View-Category.

  2. Click on the Download button. The compressed template file (IT_Future_V.3.0.1-(unzip-first)-9544626154.zip) is saved on your computer.

  3. Navigate to the ZIP file on your computer and unzip it. The ZIP file contains several other ZIP packages: the template, an installation guide, and several free extensions that come with the template. After you've decompressed the ZIP file, the files shown in the following screenshot should be available:

  4. After you've uncompressed the main ZIP file, you should also unzip the following files: IceMegaMenu_Unzip_First.zip...