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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

Typography for your Joomla! print stylesheet


One of the most obvious aspects that we can change for our website's print stylesheet is the typography used. Although "sans-serif" fonts are typically easier to read on screen, it's often easier to read printed material in a "serif" font.

Getting ready

Open the print.css stylesheet that you created in an earlier recipe, located in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\css\ directory of your Joomla! installation.

How to do it...

You can specify a font stack (that is, a hierarchy of type) that applies to your Joomla! template's print stylesheet with the font-family attribute in CSS:

body {
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", "times", serif;
font-size: 12pt;
}

It may also be a good idea to reset the font-size to a larger size for your print stylesheet to help legibility once the page has been printed. If you now view a page of your Joomla! website ready for print (for example, by using Firefox's Web Developer add-on),...