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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Installing and assigning a new template


The steps involved in installing a new template haven't changed much since Joomla! 1.5. You'll download the template files as a zipped file. Go to Extensions | Extension Manager and upload the template ZIP file through the Upload Package File option.

Once it's installed, you can activate it through the Template Styles screen as described earlier in this chapter in the Styles tab: selecting templates and settings. To refresh your memory: go to Extensions | Template Manager, click on the Templates tab, select the appropriate template, and then click on Make default.

Note

At the time of writing, more and more Joomla! 1.6 templates are becoming available on the web. A good example can be found at: http://www.joomlapraise.com/blog/item/503-free-joomla-16-template.

This is a clean and professional looking template and it's an interesting example, as it's a conversion of a Joomla! 1.5 template.

To learn more about what's needed to adapt existing templates for...