Creating Unique Web Applications with Template Overrides
Every successful web application must be visually appealing to your users and simple to use. No matter how good your software is, if it’s not attractive to your users, you will see less success.
In Joomla!, templates are a powerful tool to match any design specification we need. In fact, templates are a great way to split functionality from design, as they only affect the look and feel of a Joomla! site.
When we work on a full-featured project, not only do we have to create extensions to fulfill the project requirements, but we also need to adapt the site design to fit visually.
In this chapter, we are going to learn about template overrides in Joomla!. Template overrides allow us to adapt any Joomla! component or module to match our required designs.
These are the specific sections we will cover in this chapter:
- What is a Joomla! template?
- What are template overrides?
- Creating a template override...