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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Replacing a logo in a template


Almost all commercial templates come with a default logo. While changing them involves artwork, replacing them is usually a simple matter of replacing the current image file that is represented in the template with one of your own.

A word of caution, you may be limited in size of the artwork the template will accept. I'll demonstrate replacing a logo on the rhuk_milkyway default template and the BEEZ default template.

Getting ready

You will need your "artwork" or new logo, your FileZilla client, and password.

To get ready let's use the BEEZ template, and identify what the LOGO file is called.

Our first template logo change will be on the BEEZ template. For this, I already assigned the template to our site and it looks like this:

Now to see the "logo" of this particular template, right-click BEEZ in the upper left of the screen. You should see this:

Click View Image and you will see:

This reveals our 'logo' in this template. We can see the name in the browser bar, as...