Understanding Joomla! administrator templates
Joomla! administrator templates are similar to the frontend templates for Joomla!. While frontend templates and associated files are located in the \templates directory of your Joomla! installation, administrator templates can be found in the \administrator\templates directory.
Getting ready
View the directories and files in the \administrator directory. We'll take as an example the administrator template that is enabled by default in Joomla! 1.5, which is called Khepri.
How to do it...
As you can see, along with the familiar CSS, images, and JavaScript directories that are present in normal Joomla! templates, two new files, login.php and cpanel.php, are also present.
How it works...
Much like Joomla!'s frontend templates, Joomla! administrator templates have a hierarchy of related files such as stylesheets and images. Each administrator template requires an index.php file like a frontend template, but administrator templates also make use of a...
