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Eric Tiggeler
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Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla!, such as the highly successful Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide  and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla!. He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla!, which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand. He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www.joomla.erictiggeler.nl(in Dutch) and www.joomm.net(in English).
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Time for action – placing modules in new template positions


After you have installed a new template, not all module blocks will show up. This is because different templates contain different (and differently named) module positions. As you saw in the previous chapter, templates contains positions that are referred to as left, position-1, position-2, and so on. In this case, the new template positions are different from the positions in the Protostar template. The next step is to assign modules that we have used in the example site to their new template positions.

  1. To find out what module positions are available, navigate to Extensions | Template Manager | Templates and click on the Preview link for the Ice Future template. The positions available in the current template are shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Navigate to Extensions | Module Manager. Open the following modules and assign them to the appropriate positions:

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