7. Working with Joomla! Templates: The Basics

Joomla! templates control the design of your site: how the site looks in terms of colors, typography, and icons and how components, modules, and other elements are laid out on a Web page. In this chapter we will examine how to work with the built-in features of ready-made templates and how to customize existing templates. Templates use HTML, CSS, and PHP to control the appearance of your site, and we will introduce you to the basic concepts of each.

The Basics of Joomla! Templates

Joomla! templates are a type of extension, but they are really so much more because they actually define the look, feel, and user experience of your site as a whole and unify the appearance of all of the different components, ...

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