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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

Installing a Joomla! administrator template


A fundamental task in changing your Joomla! administrator template is installing an administrator template.

Getting ready

You can find a number of free alternative administrator templates on the official Joomla! extensions website at http://extensions.joomla.org. Once you've found the administrator template you want to use, save it to your computer.

For this example, we'll use the AdminPraise Lite template, available at http://www.adminpraise.com/joomla/admin-templates/free/adminpraise-lite.php.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Log in to the administration panel of your Joomla! website, and go to Extensions | Install/Uninstall:

  1. 2. Next, select the template's compressed file from your computer and select Upload File & Install:

  1. 3 You should then see an Install Template Success message appear on the screen:

Note

File permissions

If you receive an error at this stage, it's most likely because you need to set the directory permissions on the \administrator and \tmp...