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Joomla! 4 Masterclass

You're reading from   Joomla! 4 Masterclass A practitioner's guide to building rich and modern websites using the brand-new features of Joomla 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238975
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Marzo Luca Marzo
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Joomla! Out of the Box
2. Chapter 1: A Powerful and Extensible Core FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Manage Content 4. Chapter 3: Advanced Content Management 5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Flexibility of Modules 6. Chapter 5: Building Your Site Structure: the Menu System 7. Chapter 6: Managing Users and Their Permissions 8. Part 2: Advanced Features
9. Chapter 7: SEO at Its Best 10. Chapter 8: One Site, Multiple Languages 11. Chapter 9: Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks 12. Chapter 10: Tailored Communication with Mail Templates 13. Chapter 11: Command-Line Interface 14. Part 3: Styling and Securing Your Website
15. Chapter 12: Styling Your Website – Templates 16. Chapter 13: Customize Everything with Overrides 17. Chapter 14: Child Templates 18. Chapter 15: Template Frameworks 19. Chapter 16: Advanced Features – Access and Security 20. Part 4: Case Studies
21. Chapter 17: Case Study – A Corporate Website in Joomla 22. Chapter 18: Case Study – Online Academy with Joomla 23. Chapter 19: Case Study – A B&B Booking System with Joomla 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercises

It’s time to apply your knowledge about templates acquired in this chapter.

Exercise 1 – customizing your frontend template

In this exercise, you are required to customize the default template style for your site, upload your logo, and add a personal tagline:

  1. Open System Dashboard on your website.
  2. Click on Site Templates Styles and open the Cassiopeia – Default style.
  3. In the Advanced tab, enable the Brand option and upload an image in the Logo field.
  4. Specify some text in the Title field. You may type your full name.
  5. Type some text of your choice in the Tagline field. Remember that this text will be displayed right after the logo.
  6. Enable the Back-to-top Link option and save your changes.
  7. Now, look at the website frontend to check the result.

Exercise 2 – creating a new template style

In this exercise, you will create a new template style for the Cassiopeia template. Starting from the default one, you...

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