Web designers

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Introduction Web Designers

As a Web designer you are concerned with the visual appearance and user functionality of a website.

For example, you will want to know how to alter the visual style of an article but will usually not be concerned about the article content or how that content is entered and maintained. Your primary focus is the visitor experience. You will be knowledgeable about HTML and CSS but might have only rudimentary programming experience and so could need extra support when dealing with Javascript and PHP.
Your knowledge of Joomla! itself may not be advanced as you may have to deal with a wide range of content management systems while working for a range of clients. You may be contracted to supply just a template or set of templates, or you may be asked to deliver a complete working website. You are likely to be increasingly concerned with issues of accessibility and will probably want to ensure that your designs pass various standard tests.

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Web Designers FAQs

List of all articles belonging to the categories "FAQ" AND "Template Development"

• Extensions GPL notices
• Extensions distribution
• Extensions name
• How do you change the favicon?
• How do you change the images in your template?
• How do you list your extension in the extensions site?
• How to add a span element to menu entries
• Template FAQ

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Recommended Reading

Our template development documentation contains many articles, FAQs and tutorials. A first step to developing a template is understanding how templates are executed.

Beginners

• Changing the site favicon
• Using Firebug With Your Joomla Website
• Using Joomla's Default Icomoon Fonts

Intermediate

• jdoc statements
• How to cloak email addresses  
• Understanding Output Overrides  
• Layout Overrides in Joomla!  
• Creating clickable background images using CSS
• Using Class Suffixes

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Web Designer Tutorials

List of all articles belonging to the categories "Tutorials" AND "Templates"

• Adding JavaScript
• Adding stylesheets for other output devices
• Advanced topics
• Counting modules in a given module position
• Creating a basic Joomla! template
• Creating clickable background images using CSS

• Customising the way modules are displayed
• Declaring module positions
• J3.x:Getting Started with Templates
• How to override the output from the Joomla! core
• More advanced Joomla! templates
• J3.x:Switching templates
• Understanding Joomla! templates