The second file is templateDetails. You can see this as a list of instructions to Joomla. This list must include the name of the template, the names of the files used in the template images, etc.. The above is an example of a templateDetails. As you can see, this is a specific list that tells Joomla about the template, like the name, the author, date created, etc…. Notice the positions section in the code above.
These are the positions we spoke of earlier, the includes. If you put the Joomla footer include in the footer area of your design, you will be able to control some aspects of the footer using the Joomla back end. Let's try and throw together a simple template. Let's do some preparation so we have something to work with. Go to your templates folder, and create a new folder. Inside your new folder, create a file called index. Open up your index. This is not in the XML list because it is not a position.
What this does is include the Joomla header code which includes the page title , and a bunch of other stuff that can probably fill half a tutorial on its own. Give your article a title, fill in an alias, make sure it's published to the front page and hit save. Click on preview in the upper right corner after saving. You should see the front page of your site with your text.
Hit preview and check out your glorious new template. Well maybe not so glorious but your first joomla template. If you go back to your admin area and go to the Module Manager you will notice a module already there, the Main Menu module. This module gets installed even if we choose to install the simple version of Joomla.
Hit preview. As you can see, we now have a menu with a link to Home. You can add more menu items and link to different content through the Menu Manager. Let's get a footer working. Go to the Module Manager, click new and select Footer. Then press next. On the following page, give the new module the title: Footer, and in the Position dropdown, select Footer. Let's style our page a bit so we can see what we are doing. Stick the includes in index. And, there are a number of open-source as well as paid CMS software available in the market.
We also have listed some of the top open-source content management software for businesses. It gained the high rates thanks to its open source solution and availability for everyone. Is a free and open-source content management system for publishing web content, developed by Open Source Matters, Inc. To create a very basic Joomla template first, create a new folder in the templates folder.
Name the folder whatever you want to call your template e. Using your favorite text editor create the files index. To manage your images and style sheets, make 2 new folders called images and css. Inside the css folder create a file called template. The templateDetails. Contents of the templateetails. You can just copy the contents the modify the necessary bits. Leave the positions as they are — these are a common set so you will be able to switch easily from the standard templates.
The index. This page will show the bare-bones code ready for you to cut and paste into your own design. You first need to tell Joomla! This feature is called Discover Extensions and can be accessed via. Click Discover Button to discover your template, then select it and click Install to install it. Now your template should show up in the Template Manager Styles , accessible via. An unzipped directory with several files is not a good method for distribution.
So, for the sake of distribution, we should create a package of our template. The package can be in ZIP format with a. In this article, we learned about the Joomla Template. We went through step by step on how to create a Joomla template. This is just a very basic tutorial to get started with template creation.
Of course, you can build a very customized and enhanced template based on this bare-bone structure. If the site you referenced is a Joomla site which it very well may be , they probably used one or more of the flash extensions that are available for install.
I've attached a zip file with an extremely basic template just as an example. If you unzip the file, you'll get a "myTemplate" directory. Copy it into your templates directory and then use the template manager to assign it to one or more of your menu items to see what it looks like. It contains the templateDetails.
It contains the template. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. Joel » Wed Oct 15, pm Hi Guys, If you want to create a quality template and have a bit of time to invest in reading here's a fantastic tutorial. Quite useful two years later. Last edited by ooffick on Wed Feb 29, pm, edited 1 time in total. Reason: Mod Note: Removed manual Signature. Please read the Forum rules for details.
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