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Joomla Templates |
Thu 23 Nov 2006 4:33AM compton |
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The Joomla Template system is very powerful and seemingly elegant. It will be essential for our graphic designers to be able to create templates that give the required professional, and unique, look and feel to our clients' sites. Part of this will necessitate an awareness of exactly how the templates work, so that new ones can be built and deployed smoothly. There are actually two sets of templates on a site - the public ones which determine how the public pages appear, and the admin ones, which only apply to the back-end admin pages. Each template has its own subdirectory within the templates folder (or administrator/templates). In this location, there is typically an index.php page, an XML file called templateDetails.xml, a thumbnail preview image, and two folders called css and images. |
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compton2:42 pm, Friday, 24 November 06 |
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There is a certain amount of flexibility in how modules are rendered. However, for our purposes, we don't need the end user to be able to customise modules, so a more appropriate solution may be to create our own modules for page components, based on the designs from the graphics guys (viz Kashif).
I now need to take a good look at how to go about creating new modules. A module is no more than a rendering component, it offers an interface to the admin GUI where the rendering can be customised, and I believe that interface is defined by the module's XML file. The two modules which are similar to what the client needs are the category list (mod_virtuemart) and the featured items list (mod_virtuemart_featureprod). As mod_virtuemart is least like our requirements, I'll see if I can create our own custom version, which renders according to our design. |
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Bill Bartmann10:50 pm, Wednesday, 2 September 09 |
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| I'm so glad I found this site...Keep up the good work | |
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