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Learn how to create menus in Joomla! from this excerpt of Joomla! 1.5 Essential Training with Joseph LeBlanc.

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Need Sharepoint themes, joomla, mambo, wordpress, drupal tutorials, as am a beginner, Need the basic informations like getting the source files, installing and working on it with clear instructions.

http://santhoz-teaches.blogspot.com/

All CMS’s are explained here and the install files are also ready to download here.

Thanks,
Santhosh

Learn how to manage your templates including the install and uninstall process using Joomla 1.5

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Can Someone teach me how to design joomla template….is there any software that we can create joomla template??

Firstly let me reassure you that it is not that complicated to learn. The very essence of a CMS like Joomla is to make things easy for you – and that includes template design. You don’t need to spend any money nor have fancy software.

Start with a basic one from a tutorial (see below) and edit it. You can use Notepad (Win) or Textedit (Mac) but I would recommend free editors like Notepad+ (Win) or TextWrangler (Mac) which allow things like multiple file editing and code highlighting.

Which version are you going to install?
1.5 is the latest but work is still in progress on official template documentation and tutorials.
Luckily however two of my favorite sites have great tutorials and starter templates:
Compass Designs:

http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/joomla-tutorials/joomla-1.5-template-tutorial.html

and Rocket Themes:

http://tutorials.rockettheme.com

If you prefer not to "move with the times" 1.0.14 is the older (more stable) version of Joomla and there are good official templates in the help section of the joomla.org site.

There are websites which offer tempaltes typically functioning as non-exclusive template clubs. They can give you enough flexibility to personalise your site and a wide range to choose from and you can change when you want, for example:

http://www.yootheme.com

or

http://www.rockettheme.com

Remember that a template is ALWAYS downloadable and editable by you .

Hey, I need a completely blank Joomla template that I can edit with Joomla 1.0! Anyone know where to find one – it would also be useful if I could edit the header, but I’m not going to complain if you can’t find one like that

My favourite blank template is part of the tutorials from Compass Designs:

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

Here is the tutorial:

http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/17-joomla-tutorials/48-joomla-template-tutorial.html

Here are the files – you will have to register and login to get them but it is really worth the effort:

http://www.compassdesigns.net/downloads.html?view=list&category_id=2

The template is free, clean and xhtml friendly and the tutorials are very easy to understand:
As Joomla templates are just simple files they are editable with a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++.

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/

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

http://tutorials.rockettheme.com

My only personal adjustment to their template is the path to the template in the index.php file on line 15 starting <link href="… – which I change to the following to allow for easy cross-site changes:
<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.

All the best,
Mike