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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

Styling content for print


The content is probably the reason your visitors are printing a page from your website, so it's worthwhile spending some time to style the content a little more.

Getting ready

Open the template's print.css file that you created in templates\rhuk_milkyway\css\ in your preferred editor, which should contain your print style so far:

body {
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
font-family: "georgia", "times new roman", "times", serif;
font-size: 12pt;
}
/* Hide these elements from printing */
#tabmenu,
#search,
.bannergroup,
.buttonheading,
.module_menu,
#power_by,
#syndicate
{
display: none;
}

How to do it...

We now need to add more style to the print stylesheet to define styles for lists, headings, and other content.

  • Styling images: It's a good idea to remove styling from images within your content for print styles, with the exception of a border surrounding the edge. The float attribute is set to none to prevent any problems with images wrapping content around in unsuitable...