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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – activating a different template

Let's try a different template on for size. In this example, we'll choose the Beez 3 template. This can be done as follows:

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Template Manager.
  2. Click on the star in the Default column of the Beez3 - Default template. This sets Beez3 as the default template. Click on View Site to see the result shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – activating a different template

    As this template uses other module positions than Protostar, the module contents are displayed in different screen positions. Another effect of the new template is that the default site name (Joomla! Open Source Content Management) is displayed in the header. First let's fix this.

  3. Click on the template named Beez 3 - Default in the Template Manager: Styles page. In the Template Manager: Edit Style screen, click on the Advanced tab. As the Logo Image, select the CORBA logo image file that you've used previously. Enter the appropriate site title (in our example, we used...
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