Time for action – downloading and activating a new template
For your site's redesign, you've hit upon a great looking template on the Web. In this example, we'll use the Future template developed by IceTheme. It is a clean and basic template that offers enough opportunities to customize the layout and appearance. This can be done as follows:
- Navigate to http://www.icetheme.com/Downloads/Joomla-Templates/Free-Joomla-Templates/Future/View-Category.
- Click on the Download button. The compressed template file (
IT_Future_V.3.0.1-(unzip-first)-9544626154.zip
) is saved on your computer. - Navigate to the ZIP file on your computer and unzip it. The ZIP file contains several other ZIP packages: the template, an installation guide, and several free extensions that come with the template. After you've decompressed the ZIP file, the files shown in the following screenshot should be available:
- After you've uncompressed the main ZIP file, you should also unzip the following files...