Joomla First Time User – Help Appreciated.?

Hey there. This is my first time setting up my own Joomla website. Any help is apprieciated!

My Questions are:

- How do you actually buy a Template. I know theres plenty of sites selling them, but how does it work. Can I just do a one off payment and then download the Template to host via FTP?

- How much can you alter a template? Like this for example: http://joomla.siteground.com/index.php?mos_change_template=siteground58

Could I make ‘Easy customization’ and ‘Free themes’ appear in the one column so all the news is visable without it being cut off.
Could I change the Green font and lines to a different color?
Could I add a subnavigation? So when I hover/click something in the top right navigation, there is pages WITHIN those pages. So if you had multimedia, you could have Music and Videos as pages within.

Sorry for all the ‘could i’, but basically I want to know how much I can alter and customise the templates.

- Thanks, any other useful bits of information are welcome :)

You can alter VERY much of the joomla template. The best way to learn how to do all this is to get a PAID membership at either one of these 2 template sites – www.joomlart.com or www.rockettheme.com

Both these sites have a VERY VERY live and strong userbase. The community there will be happy to help do simple things like changing the logo, colors, or re-sizing and adding boxes and stuff. Don’t bother with the free stuff. Stick to either one of those 2 sites and get tons of free help from the forums. That’s the best place for a joomla newb to start.

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3 Responses to “Joomla First Time User – Help Appreciated.?”

  1. Johnny N

    You can alter VERY much of the joomla template. The best way to learn how to do all this is to get a PAID membership at either one of these 2 template sites – http://www.joomlart.com or http://www.rockettheme.com

    Both these sites have a VERY VERY live and strong userbase. The community there will be happy to help do simple things like changing the logo, colors, or re-sizing and adding boxes and stuff. Don’t bother with the free stuff. Stick to either one of those 2 sites and get tons of free help from the forums. That’s the best place for a joomla newb to start.
    References :

  2. chrissik1

    Since you are a first timer to joomla you especially want to check the forums on http://www.joomla.org/ and you may want to see if joomla video tutorial would help you on http://www.joomla-videos.net
    References :

  3. Joseph Y

    you do now download a template from ftp on joomla joomla system is built-in system, all you have to do is go to "install template" select your template and click "install", from inside the system…

    455mb, Totally Free Web Hosting,Unlike other hosts- we do not place ad on your website, and no forum posting require, 455 mega space,100 gb monthly bandwidth, php
    References :
    http://www.455mb.com


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