Introduction

Template design involves several tasks and you should have some basic knowledge of website design. You don't need to have a complete understanding of web design technology, but you need an overall appreciation of some basic techniques like: XHTML, CSS, XML, and PHP. The w3school website, http://www.w3schools.com/, is one of the best online resources, for beginners, for learning these techniques. To start designing a template for your Joomla! 1.5 jobsite, first you need to draw a basic structure and layout in Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, or other image editors depending on the look you want to apply to your site. Then you have to start the coding of your template in Notepad or any other text editor. During the coding process, you may need to use background and color schemes on style elements of code. You also need to use some important elements of the Joomla! template reference in your code for the title, metadata, contents, and almost everything about your Joomla! site.

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