Template Development/Reading list
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Revision as of 22:07, 22 September 2013 by Tom Hutchison (talk | contribs) (update, but these need to listed better, read... 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc... Better articles)
Our template development documentation contains many articles, FAQs and tutorials. These are the first key articles you should read.
Recommended Reading[edit]
- Accessibility
- Creating clickable background images using CSS
- Jim Yuzwalk has contributed a useful introduction to Joomla templates (download the example template from here).
- Changing the site favicon
- Using Class Suffixes
- Using Firebug With Your Joomla Website
- Understanding Output Overrides
- Layout Overrides in Joomla 2.5
- How are templates executed?
- How to determine if the user is viewing the front page
- jdoc statements
- Objects methods and properties available from your template - what you can do with
$this - How to cloak email addresses
