Book Description
Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide
Create Joomla! 1.5 Templates for your sites
Debug, validate, and package your templates
Tips for tweaking existing templates with Flash, extensions and JavaScript libraries
Using Joomla! Templates with HTML and CSS allows you to give a unique
look and feel to your site, present a fresh face to your pre-existing
content, ensure that your site design is consistent with your brand, and
build a site layout that suits your unique needs. A quality web site is
easily within your grasp using these cutting-edge templates. However,
even experienced web developers need help to take their designs and turn
them into flexible and easily maintainable Joomla! 1.5 templates.
The release of Joomla! 1.5 meant a radically enhanced template system
that is very different from that of Joomla! 1.0. Joomla! 1.5 comes
complete with the ability to create template overrides and customize
module chrome. The Joomla! development team has also revamped the
template process by introducing clean, understandable jdoc tags in place
of the PHP function-based Mambo-derived markup that Joomla! 1.0
templates used. This book focuses squarely on the new enhancements to
the Joomla! 1.5 templating process and walks web designers through the
process of turning a working XHTML and CSS mockup into a fully
functional Joomla! 1.5 template.
This well-crafted and easy-to-use book provides you with everything you
need to create your own unique Joomla! 1.5 template. It guides you
through setting up a basic work flow for Joomla! template design,
debugging and validating the template code, creating drop-down menus and
dynamic forms for your site, and packaging up your finished template in
a ZIP file for users. At the end of this book you will be able to
create a template that is effective, flexible, and presents a new look
for the pre-existing content.
This book focuses on the new jdoc template system for Joomla! 1.5. It is
geared toward web designers who need to know how to turn their designs
into Joomla! 1.5 templates. It covers how to enhance and speed up your
design and revision process, then focuses squarely on the Joomla! 1.5
essentials of creating a template. It covers implementing template
overrides, the best approaches for implementing Flash and AJAX
techniques, as well as advanced enhancements such as creating design
parameters so users can have some control over the template via the
administration panel. The original 1.0 book covered how to amend an
existing 1.0 template before creating one from scratch, the new
templating features of Joomla! 1.5 are so logical to implement we move
right into creating a full table-less, semantic XHTML/CSS template from
scratch.
What you will learn from this book?
Debug and validate your template code
Use the W3Cs XHTML and CSS validation tools
Package up your finished template into a working ZIP file
Know the standard XHTML markup and CSS classes for Joomla!
Create Suckerfish drop-down menus
Get Flash content quickly into your Joomla! site
Create interactive and dynamic forms in your Joomla! site
Download and install Joomla! Extensions for your Joomla! site
Use the wrapper (Wrapper Menu Item) for fully working AJAX applications
Approach
This book covers the how-tos of creating templates for Joomla! 1.5.
There is also advice about what works and what to consider when working
with your Joomla! 1.5 template. Because this title is about Joomla! 1.5
templates and not about CSS or semantic XHTML, an understanding of
established and current XHTML and CSS techniques for achieving
compliant, semantic, and accessible designs is assumed. However, quality
references and links are always given so the reader can learn more
about any specific CSS or XHTML technique discussed if they are
unfamiliar with it.
Who this book is written for?
This book is aimed at web designers who want to create their own unique
templates for Joomla! 1.5. Readers should have a basic knowledge of
Joomla! 1.5 (Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 by Hagen Graf from Packt
Publishing will help you with this) and also basic knowledge of
table-less CSS and XHTML techniques, as well as using Dreamweaver or
other text/code editors for coding purposes.
About the Author
Tessa Blakeley Silvers background is in print design and traditional
illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media
development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. Prior
to starting her consulting and development company hyper3media
(pronounced hyper-cube media), Tessa was the VP of Interactive
Technologies at eHigherEducation, an online learning and technology
company developing compelling multimedia simulations, interactions, and
games that met online educational requirements like 508, AICC, and
SCORM. She has also worked as a consultant and freelancer for J. Walter
Thompson and The Diamond Trading Company (formerly known as DeBeers) and
was a Design Specialist and Senior Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers
East Region Marketing department. Tessa authors several design and web
technology blogs. Joomla! Template Design is her first book.
Book Details
Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd edition edition (June 19, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847197167
ISBN-13: 978-1847197160
File Size: 8.3 KiB
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موضوع: Joomla! 1.5 Template Design 
