Book Description
Master All Facets of Joomla! Site Customization with Templates
Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, authorized guide to template design, development, and customization with Joomla!. Packed with examples, this clear, concise, practical text covers everything from beginning-level skills to power techniques–even creating new HTML5-native mobile views, today’s most exciting new Joomla! capability.
Internationally renowned Joomla! expert Angie Radtke brings together essential knowledge about usability, CSS, information architecture, PHP, JavaScript, accessibility, HTML5, and more. Using concrete examples, Radtke guides you through applying these technologies and best practices to construct and deploy world-class site templates. You’ll walk through every key technical option, fully understanding the internal interactions that control Joomla! template behavior. Radtke concludes by walking you step-by-step through a complete workshop project: transforming a template created in Photoshop into a working Joomla! template.
Joomla!® Templates will be invaluable for every professional web designer and developer who uses Joomla!, for advanced nonprofessional users, and for less experienced users who want to customize their own sites instead of paying others to do it. This title’s concise, easy-to-use coverage includes
Using Joomla! templates to customize any website to your exact requirements
Learning how Joomla! templates are structured and how they behave
Quickly changing a Joomla! site’s look and feel
Making sure your templates fully support accessibility and standards
Getting your basic template structure into shape with CSS and HTML
Designing responsive Joomla! templates and sites
Supercharging your templates with JavaScript
Analyzing HTML, CSS, and accessibility
Integrating template components, including index.php, the XML file, template parameters, and language files
Adapting and modifying output via the system template
Mastering advanced template customization
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- A Message from Open Source Matters
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. The Basis: Designing the Content and Visual Concept
- 2. Accessibility—What Is It?
- 3. CSS and HTML—Getting the Basic Structure into Shape
- 4. Responsive Web Design
- 5. PHP and Joomla!
- 6. MooTools
- 7. Tools
- 8. Now for the Details: A First Look at Templates
- 9. The Underlying Structure
- 10. The index.php: The Heart of the Matter
- 11. The XML File and the Template Parameters
- 12. The Language Files
- 13. Modules—Dynamics within the Presentation
- 14. Designing Default Output Individually
- 15. The System Template: Adapting and Modifying Output
- 16. Advanced Template Customization Tricks
- 17. The Default Templates and Their Features
- 18. Practical Implementation
- 19. Step by Step to a New Layout
- 20. Integrating Custom Features
- 21. Final Tasks: Fine-Tuning and Creating an Installable Zip Archive
- Appendix
- Index
- Footnote