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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from  Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Pages 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running 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 Keeping the Site Secure Creating a Multilingual Site Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – changing the site color and layout options


We'll first have a look at some settings that affect the overall color scheme and the layout.

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Template Manager. The Template Manager: Styles screen is displayed.

  2. In the list of available templates, click on protostar_copy - Default as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. You're taken to the Template Manager: Edit Style screen. Click on the Advanced tab to reveal the available template settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. We'll have a look at the effects of these customization options. The Template Colour option allows some quite powerful changes to the look and feel of the site. Click on Template Colour to select the color for accents on the website: the colored line at the top of the page and the color of menu links and headings. A color palette appears that allows you to pick a color of your choice (in this example, I picked the red color). Click on Select inside the palette pop up to confirm your...

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