Joomla Template Design Guide
May 19th, 2009
In this tutorial, we’ll go through the steps of creating a joomla template. Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that is freely (literally) available and supported by a large on-line community. Specifically, we will create a template that uses cascading style sheets (CSS) to produce a layout without use of tables. This is a desirable goal as it means that the template code is easier to validate to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. It will also tend to load faster, be easier to maintain and perform better in search engines. We will discuss these issues in detail later in the tutorial.
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FireBoard is a native forum software which means it integrates into your Joomla! site with no hacks or bridges, just a straight component installation and you have a powerful forum at your disposal. FireBoard is currently translated to 35 languages.
Well you have made the most important choice so far, by selecting Joomla! 1.5 as your choice of Content Management System (CMS). Joomla! is currently one of the most popular and effective Open Source projects and has won a number of prestigious awards in its short, but illustrious existence. Joomla! 1.5 is the second, main incarnation of the Joomla! series of releases. The original Joomla! 1.0 series being a direct derivative of the Mambo CMS which many of the current Joomla! Developers helped create. Joomla! 1.5 is a major step forward from 1.0, with many new features and a far more integrated framework. This manual seeks to provide you with the necessary information you need in order to safely install the basic core package onto an existing, fully operational, Web server. We will, by necessity, touch upon the essential needs for setting Joomla! Up, but this manual is not a detailed guide on how to build and configure a Web server or database. You are essentially expected to have these in operation already.
Yes, we’re starting with the disclaimer. This is not intended to be the wizard’s cookbook for Joomla! The topic of Joomla! is not a small one and to write everything there is to say about this topic could not be done in less than a few hundred pages. What we have here is our version of what’s important in 20 pages, and even that wasn’t easy. The list of contents below are answers to the questions we have most frequently heard every time we introduce Joomla! to someone new.
Visual Style can mean different things to different people, but here it will mean the use of typographical and formatting elements as they affect the presentation of documentation on the Help Site and to a lesser degree, upon the Workshop site, as well as how we use these elements in the production of hard-copied material.
The “Banner” component allows the user to manage banners by Categories and Clients. The “Banners Manager” has three tabs, “Banners,” “Clients,” and “Categories.” The “Banners” tab shows a detailed list of active (published and unpublished) banners within the website. It also provides the ability to add new or edit existing banners and their details. The “Clients” tab shows list of clients and their contact details. The “Categories” tab allows whole categories of banners to be organised and “Published” status changed. Each banner is managed individually with various parameters for essential information such as “Impressions Purchased” and “Click URL.”
Hello there! Today, we are going to walk you through setting up your first Joomla! website. In this demonstration, you are going to help set up a website for a landscaping company. In your meeting with the company’s president, he described that he would like a section dedicated to trees, another for bushes, and a final for grasses. He would like his own section that will be dedicated to company reports and such. The front page will be reserved for specific material. You also need a section for links, a search page, and a page dedicated to news feeds relevant to landscaping. The public relations director also requested that news feeds be made available for the front page.
The following is a brief introduction to the Joomla! Content Management System. Use this guide to quickly get to grips with the basic operation of Joomla!, and as a reminder of how to achieve common tasks. Once you get the hang of the basics, it is recommended that you familiarise yourself with some of the more advanced features detailed in the official documentation, so as to get the most out of your website. Text presented in bold is just to highlight key words or points, and to help you scan quickly through the document.