Changing the appearance of your site
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Changing the appearance of your Joomla site
Joomla has one of the easiest systems available for editing your webpages. In order to change a standard page you will need to follow a few steps. One way to look at the system is like an apartment complex. It is made up of buildings, each building has apartments, and each apartment has people. The buildings in Joomla would be the sections, the apartments would be categories, and the people would be the articles. That said, let's begin.
1. There are several templates available on the net, you can download them and install them, the downloaded file will be in archived format probably ZIP format (Don't worry, just leave it as it is). To install a new template you need to have administrator privilege. Log in to administrator section - click on Extensions - install/uninstall click on the option Upload Package File and click on browse and point this to the recently downloaded Template file (.zip file) and click on upload file and install wait for a few seconds for the template to be installed. Voila your new template is installed.(If there is no error message.)
2. To make the recently installed template as your default template. Click on Extensions - Template Manager you will see the list of installed templates. Select your New template you just installed and click on default icon. Now check the appearance of the new template installed by clicking on the preview link.
Creating A Standard Page
- You will need to create a section if there is not one existing that you want to use. If your website is about sports, a section could be football.
- You will need to create a category. In your sports site, under the football section, your category could be teams.
- You will need to create articles. This will be done in a WYSIWYG editor, it can include images, text, and formatting. Under your teams category, you could have a Dallas Cowboys article with pictures of the team, and articles about how great they are.
Are You Ready To Build?
A lot of what makes any page great are the graphics and the layout. Once you get used to the html editor, and you follow the standard procedures of building pages, you too will be producing awesome webpages with Joomla!
