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This is a video tutorial from JoomlaForBeginners.com for the Open Source Joomla! Content Management System version 1.5. This tutorial discusses migrating content from your Joomla! 1.0 Website to a Joomla 1.5 Website.

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Hi all, to cut a long story short I’ve tried to create a Joomla template in dreamweaver and got everything working, expect for the CSS – the main template just wouldn’t entertain it at all. I’ve made sure all the correct <php> is in place in the .xml files and so on and so forth – but still, I’m about to give up – any ideas where to find a guide to run from A to Z of template creations!?

There _are_ excellent template guides around.

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.

http://psd2cssonline – This is a video description of a common misconception when making Drupal and Joomla themes with psd2css Online.

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