Comments on: How Do I Customise My Joomla Site?

By: The Web Man

The Web Man — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:35:59 +0000

Well first thing’s first.

1. Planning
Really before you installed joomla or even selected a CMS in which to do your site, it should be well though out and planned.

2. Design
Start with a photoshop concept mock-up and lay out your page how you would imagine it to look/work. A nice image, login/signup section, latest singles, latest forum posts etc.

3. Start creating your HTML/CSS. Make sure everything will look/work as planned. Make sure you understand the joomla code and how to spit out the required into from the database.

If it’s any help, you might want to download dolphin (http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/) instead of joomla, which should come with everything you need for dating and socialising.

Either that, or you create one yourself from scratch, or pay lots of money to a professional company to get exactly what you want, including bespoke design and branding.
References :
http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

By: Bob M

Bob M — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:01:59 +0000

You do not need to learn how to program as was mentioned.

But it is true that you have a lot of work still to do, most of your site is still at the defaults.

Sign in as Admin, maybe with that tutorial open beside it, and start arranging and designing each page. It takes time but it is fairly easy to follow. Get you site how you want it before you start adding items, though I found it hellped to have a few dummy categories and associated documents.
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By: Jeanray

Jeanray — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:51:59 +0000

You have a lot to do! You site is nothing but Joomla!
You must replace EVERYTHING…
(And to do that, you have to learn how to program…)
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By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:09:59 +0000

The best tutorials I used were at http://www.joomlatutorials.com
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Personal Experience