[...]... cover this topic in detail later in this book [] Getting Started as a Joomla! Template Designer What about the new 1. 5.x Beta? Yes! You can use templates made for 1. 0.x Joomla! installations in the new 1. 5.x Beta releases! The examples in this book have all been tested in Joomla! 1. 5 Beta 2 using backwards compatibility mode Any templates you create using the techniques in this book should work with Joomla!. .. to your Joomla! template designs Let's Get Going! If you're reading this book, chances are you currently have or work with a Joomla! powered site or are ready to embark on a new Joomla! powered project Joomla! already comes with two built-in templates, and there are many free and commercial templates out there in a wide range of themes and styles to choose from The benefit of using pre-existing templates. .. content The template is the basic foundation design for viewing your Joomla! website To produce the effect of a "complete" website, the template works hand in hand with the content stored in the Joomla! databases This book will help you learn about how to use multiple templates in the same site It also guides you on using animations and other effects in Joomla! templates and provides you with tricks... tricks into your template as well as a few final "fix them" tips for problems that you'll probably run into, once you turn the site over to the content editors Who is This Book for This book is aimed at web designers who want to create their own unique templates for Joomla! Readers should have a basic knowledge of Joomla! (Building Websites with Joomla! by Packt Publishing will help you with this ) and... how templates work within the Joomla! CMS enabling you to have full control over your site's design and branding, no matter which route you take to get there Designing Templates vs Designing Web Pages If you are designing for the Joomla! CMS for the first time, you will need to understand that designing a template for a Content Management System such as Joomla! is quite different from designing a web... to let you see where it's beneficial to use your favorite graphic and WYSIWYG editors, and where it's better to "peek under the hood", and look directly at the CSS and XHTML markup we'll be creating for our templates in this book [] Chapter 1 In a nutshell, your Joomla! template design is not the website Joomla! has been designed to have many different templates installed so that you can quickly and... difficult to review your Joomla! template' s layout at a glance from within your local WYSIWYG editor If you're used to working with a WYSIWYG editor to create Cascading Style Sheets for your layout, you'll notice that Joomla! generates many id and class names on-the-fly, which make it difficult (though not impossible!) to use your editor's CSS Wizard to create style sheets for Joomla! In this book, I've... most designers are) it's money and time well spent You can find out more at http://lynda.com [] Getting Started as a Joomla! Template Designer Summary To get going on your Joomla! template design, you'll want to understand how the Joomla! CMS works and have your head wrapped around the basics of the Joomla! powered project you're ready to embark on If you'll be working with a more technical Joomla!. .. Chapter 1 we reviewed a high-level overview of what templates consist of and what the Joomla! CMS application produces at run time (when it loads the site with the page data into the template) We'll now look a little deeper into how those parts work together so that you can start making decisions about your template' s design Identifying Key Elements for Design The Joomla! Template When you install Joomla!, ... it comes with one or two built-in templates In my version 1. 0.8 installation, MadeYourWeb by Mark Hinse and rhuk_solarflare_ii by Rhuk, are the two available If you have a different version, you may have different templates available to you We'll use the rhuk_solarflare_ii template to review the basic parts of a Joomla! template that you'll need to think about when you create your visual design First, . alt="" Joomla! Template Design Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide A complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates. free Joomla! PHP Content Management System Tessa Blakeley Silver BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Joomla! Template Design Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide Copyright. Your Template in Action 99 A Picture's Worth 99 Easy XML 10 0 Getting to Know Your XML 10 2 Zip it Up! 10 9 Uploading to Joomla! 11 0 Summary 11 4 Chapter 6: Templating Markup Reference 11 5 Your