8. Creating Your Own Simple Joomla! Template
After Joomla! itself and your site content, templates are the most important aspect of your Joomla! site. In this chapter we will explain the details of templates in more depth by taking you through the steps of creating your own simple template. To build the template we will take advantage of Twitter Bootstrap, which forms the basis of the Joomla! user interface package beginning with Joomla! 3. However, the concepts and procedures are exactly the same whether or not you use Bootstrap.
Basic Template Structure
Web pages that you see in your browser are made up of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code, which in turn works with other files, such as images, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript ...
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