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Develop and customize Joomla! templates to make your website stand out from the crowd

A great mix of recipes for beginners, intermediate, and advanced Joomla! template designers

Start from the very basics of customizing Joomla! templates and master the most complex functionalities as well

Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

Description

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.

What you will learn

Get to grips with the basics of template design for Joomla! such as changing the logo and altering color schemes for your templates

Understand Joomla! concepts such as module chrome and template positions

Add a multilingual aspect to your website to cater to a larger audience

Create custom error templates and generate revenue by displaying advertisements on your website

Style Joomla! s search results and customize Joomla! s breadcrumb trail

Create attractive and functional print styles for your website to make your content printer-friendly

Customize the look and feel of your Joomla! website s administration panel to match either your business or client identity

Create social bookmarks, embed videos, and add a shoutbox to your Joomla! website to make it more user-friendly

Integrate Joomla! with social media such as Twitter and YouTube

Create and specify mobile stylesheets for you Joomla! website to style your Joomla! website more effectively for mobile users

Use JavaScript to enhance your Joomla! templates

A wide range of miscellaneous tips, tricks, and tasks to help get your Joomla! website one step closer to perfection

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Donna Dec 24, 2010

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook is incredibly thorough. From the title of the book I assumed it was about how to make your own template for Joomla!. The Cookbook is much more than that! The very beginner and advanced user alike will find this book extremely helpful and a must-have for their Joomla! library.Joomla! 1.5 Templates CookbookThis Cookbook starts with the basic -- how to find your default template. From there it takes you step-by-step to customize the default templates.For the users who want more control over the look of their site, the Cookbook takes them through styling the error pages, Email-a-Friend popup, print page, favicon, pagination, breadcrumbs, offline message, and so on. As template club members will note, many of these areas are not included in commercial templates.Modifying your site for mobile devices is now a necessity. The Cookbook devote a chapter to these styling issues.Do you know about Internet Explorer's "double-margin" bug? Learn how to fix this and other IE bugs, and how to test your site in other browsers and operating systems.Need to compress javascript files for faster pageload? Need to use JQuery with Joomla? An entire chapter is devoted to understaning the use of Javascript in Joomla sites.Template overrides are a fantastic feature that was added to Joomla! starting in version 1.5. You can make your own template overrides to change the layout of any component, including articles, categories, etc., without having to modify the Joomla! core.The Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook explains everything you need to know to give your site a polished, professional look that is not cookie-cutter, out-of-the-box Joomla.

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blog.elimu.pl Jul 17, 2010

Hard to have only one opinion about this book. Maybe I expected too much, because myself I am a writer of books about Joomla! (but written in polish language). Several chapters are really good and contains interesting tips eg. in particular from the 177 page. Earlier chapters are mainly (or only) for very beginners or dummies.There is no information about: typography, CSS3, how to use Firebug, put flash in template layout (major omission!). This book is for one-two hours of reading, because there is lots of screenshots (most of the unnecessary) and code listings. Sorry Richard, but Tessa Blakeley Silver book was generally better that yours.

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Tim Krause Aug 11, 2010

Joomla 1.5 Templates Cookbook is a good beginner's title in the Packt Publishing series of titles on Joomla. One of the biggest frustrations that I often see beginner's have with Joomla is that, although there are many freely available templates for Joomla, few of them are without at least either some minor errors, or stylistic issues that a Web site manager might like to correct. What this book does best is walk the beginner through the process of making minor modifications to templates using a cookbook-based approach with easy-to-follow recipes.The first chapters begin with an overview of Joomla's Template Manager and does a decent job of explaining some of the alternatives to editing templates. However, Carter does not describe the inherent risks in some of those approaches. For example, if you do edit your template's HTML and then reinstall that template, all changes will be lost.Carter also takes a closer look at some of the more specific conventions Joomla! uses to manage site templates, including the use of positions to control module and component layout, the syntax for parameters for providing more advanced options for themes associated with templates, and the role of the XML file in creating an actual template package for distribution. While this information is both accurate and useful, some of it seems a bit out-of-place. For example, the information on the role of the XML file would suggest that Carter also provide some additional detail on how to create a template package. That discussion, relative to other Packt titles on the subject, is extremely light, and I think means that creating a purely custom template is beyond the scope of this title. That said, I would recommend leaving some of this information out of future editions, or would point the reader more directly to other titles that would help with this kind of task (note: the end of the book does reference related Packt titles, but I believe that doesn't go quite far enough.).Chapters three through eight provide recipes for a number of useful revisions to a template, including:* styling the search module* customizing the look of breadcrumbs* adding random background images* working with the administrator templates* adding social bookmarking and integrating TwitterThe code for all of these recipes is very clean, and the recipes both useful and relevant.The remaining couple of chapters of the text deal more specifically with integrating components and modules with one's template. In addition to social bookmarking and Twitter, Carter describes how to work with stylesheets for mobile devices, solve problems associated with cross-browser issues, install jQuery, and install Google Analytics. These are all excellent topics, and worthy of inclusion in a book of this scope.If I start, however, with stylesheets for mobile devices, it seems that the book gets a bit off of its cookbook approach. There are some relatively basic things I might do to create stylesheets for mobile devices. I do like that Carter gives some basic recipes for what those solutions might look like. They're very similar to his print stylesheets, and should be relatively easy for the end-user to adapt. Carter then goes on to discuss the MobileJoomla! extension. I've used this extension on my site as recently as a month ago. The author should point out that the latest version (0.9.6 as of this writing) is still in beta--suggesting that it is technically not ready for a production environment. The developers have done an excellent job working a significant number of bugs out of the extension, but it is definitely one I wouldn't recommend.The last item that I looked at in great detail was Carter's advice on installing Google Analytics. In one word: horrible. Templates should describe the look and feel of the pages associated with one's site. That includes font sizes, the color associated with design elements, the placement of logos and of modules. Templates are not, however, an appropriate place for functionality of any sort. Why? I change templates for any reason and that functionality has to get recreated in the new template. It completely defeats the purpose of working with a platform like Joomla! The solution is simple: instead of copying and pasting the code for Google Analytics into one's template, create a custom module, position it, and publish it. The same advice should be followed for any of the other examples Carter provides where he suggests adding custom code to a template.In closing, there's some good information in this title for beginners, but there are definitely some places where some serious revision--and in some cases a different approach--need to be considered in the second edition of this title. In addition, some of the conventions for illustrating code are inconsistent, screen shots use different conventions (arrows that point to specific aspects of a screenshot, for example, are inconsistent; screen shot sizes are arbitrary; screen shots designed to illustrate color are useless in a grey-scale book, and generally irrelevant, regardless). The index is generally solid, though the introductory section on Symbols seems arbitrary and incomplete.Am I still recommending this title? Yes, there are still some great recipes in this title, and the introduction to templating is perfect for a beginner. But I also think there's more potential for this book than the current edition reflects.

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