Dimensions
181 x 232 x 19mm
The only authorized, comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to customizing Joomla! websites with Joomla! templates
* Covers all aspects of template design, creation, and customization.
* Illuminates new Joomla! 2.5 features, including creating mobile views with HTML5 native apps and focuses on a key area of Joomla! that web pros ask about constantly.
* Covers new Joomla! 2.5 features, including mobile views with HTML5 native apps.
* By Angie Radtke, world-renowned Joomla! expert.
Joomla! users who want to customize their own websites need to understand templates: that's why thousands of them have asked for template help at Joomla! web site. Now, for the first time, there's an authorized and definitive guide to all facets of designing, developing, and customizing Joomla! templates. Internationally respected Joomla! template developer and trainer Angie Radtke guides users through everything they need to know to quickly create sites that meet their clients' precise visual requirements. Clear, concise, practical, and packed with full-color visual examples, Joomla! Templates covers everything from beginning-level skills to 'power' techniques. Building on previous work that has earned multiple reader raves at Amazon.com, she covers all this, and more:
* Understanding how Joomla! templates are structured and how they behave.
* Quickly changing a Joomla! site's look and feel.
* Designing standard output individually.
* Adapting and modifying output with the System Template.
* Modifying Standard Templates.
* Integrating new site features.
* Using powerful new features built into Joomla! 2.5, including mobile views for HTML5 native apps.
* Mastering advanced techniques involving custom modules, template parameters and layout overrides
