I have a website and recently installed Joomla!, but I cannot get it yet. I need a tutorial or a manual, specially about how to create templates for it.

http://www.packtpub.com/joomla/book

thanks

view the source code , ( press View then PageSource in mozilla )
after that just search for the world "joomla" if you find any ,means its created with joomla (unless it was there as a text ofcaurse )

Now, I want to create professional visually stunning sites, and I’m stuck. I appreciate Joomla.org for providing this nice CMS platform, but I need more than what they offer. With the parameter-based CMS, it’s so cumbersome to get nice looking web elements that you want ready to use like tabs. Do I just need to install custom templates? Where can I get free Joomla templates that looks nice. Please, give me a link to high quality templates. I’m not looking for blog-style templates with simple headers like WordPress.org or Blogger.com. I’m looking for high quality Joomla templates that have the visual presence as well as complex programming elements such as shopping carts using PayPal, opt-ins, user login form and database. Please help. Are there any free ones? I’m willing to pay if the prices are reasonable. Thanks.
Thanks, cazpa. I didn’t see yours until after I posted this one.

Thanks, B Smith. I appreciate your info as well.
Thanks fish out of water and technojunkie.

I appreciate everyone’s help.

If you can design a site in html you can make a template for joomla.

Design your site with what want, custom for your needs. Then plug in modules where you need them to be driven by the CMS system.

I work for a web design company that uses Joomla as our main CMS. We design custom templates for every site… so I really don’t know of a good place to download them.

It is really not hard to make a custom template for you needs. I say look in the default template for the "calls" for the different sections. Like User1, User2, Left, etc. Then you stick those in your layout and assign modules to those areas in the admin.

As far as logins and a database, those are standard, any other features you need (paypal linking modules, etc) you can just search for them online and install them in the admin.

Once they are installed, you can just assign them where you want just like the standard features.

Good Luck.

http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs/

or this:

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/horizontal05.htm

its making them looks bad, because my tabs CSS collisioning with joomla JA_Purity’s template…
(screenshot here: http://pub.ashphp.info/sccc.JPG )
i tried to edit the CSS of the template, tried to place the tabs css in bottom/middle/top of the page and notting helped… any idea?

2. OR there is any super basic clean template of joomla to download for free? no css, etc. i just need this site as a One page site…

Thanks!

You may contact a joomla expert live at website like http://definitivelab.com/ ,etc .

my question is can i use joomla with this template ?
if yes how ?!

please explain this step by step i really wanna know the answer

thanks alot for all those trying to help

yes sure, you can use joomla with your own template , but you must first make it suitabe (make some changes to your template) for more try searching google on how to create joomla templates.

for now there are even many softwares that can easily create one new looking template for you ,,,

besides you can pay someone to do this for you

I’ve seen quite a few templates, including commercial ones, that break horribly if you resize the text or which fail, in my opinion, to adequately handle the range of possible content heights or widths that might occur. And these are just two of the most common problems.

To do it yourself, you will need to be:

* an experienced PHP, HTML, and (cross-browser) CSS programmer
* probably an experienced javascript programmer too
* good at locating and understanding API documentation
* good at reading other people’s code for examples
* very patient

in order to have a good chance at being successful.

There are certainly customizable templates (colors, textures, artwork), but to my knowledge there are no(t yet any) drag-and-drop or similar template designers.

Firstly for Joomla version 1.0.XX there are visual tutorials:

http://help.joomla.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,253/

My favourite is from Compass Designs, it is free, very easy to understand and for up to version 1.5!:

http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/

They also supply a great blank template…

Also check out Rocket Theme’s site. They too have great tutorials:

http://tutorials.rockettheme.com

With regards to CSS it sounds like the path to the stylesheet is not correct. Here’s what I use (all on one line of course when in my code – here broken up for easier reading):
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="
<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>
/templates/
<?php echo $cur_template; ?>
/css/template_css.css" />

NOTE the combination of the PHP call for the site URL. That is then joined with the templates folder name and then a PHP call for the template name.

As you have found paths can be tricky; whether to call he absolute or relative, what if it changes, etc. These PHP shortcuts help but as you can see I had to add in the template folder path to make it work.

Personally I don’t bother with Dreamweaver and the likes. The Joomla templates are just simple files, editable with a text editor like Notepad+.

All the best,
Mike

PS. Try adding Yahoo’s base.css (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/) and reset-fonts-grids.css (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/).
They are stylesheets which smooth over cross-browser differences and making styling and changing your site a lot easier.

Infinite media will provide ongoing video tutorials for joomla and if you would like to get updates on the new ones then you can subscribe here on you tube.

Enjoy Joomla! and always understand its license. Free 0pensource. Get to know the GNU public license..

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

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