Comments for How to Create a Basic Template at http://www.howtojoomla.net , comment 1 to 32 out of 20 comments http://www.howtojoomla.net Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:56:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-1067 Hi Saumya, This was written for building a template with Joomla! 1.0. If you follow these steps with Joomla! 1.5, it will not work. Cory - Cory Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:39:29 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-1066 This is very good tutorial. I face a problem that after installation I am not to view preview. It show "Restricted site", how can i solve this problem - Saumya Bera Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:33:11 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-883 Cory - thank you so much for this amazing resource! It is by far the most comprehensive guide that I have found so far. Thanks to you, I successfully created my first template - archived the file - and uploaded through the joomla interface. Only one problem... I'm a 1.5 user! I know that you must be a busy person. However, could you please briefly list the things one must do differently when templating for 1.5? This would be such a great help to those of us who are new to joomla and using the latest version. Thanks again for all of your great work, Natasha :D - Natasha Murphy Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:23:13 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-841 Hi Andre, I'll try to answer your questions, but those are pretty loaded questions that are difficult to answer in a comment post: 1) mosShowHead is a function defined in the mainframe object in Joomla 1.0. It is pre-set to load certain meta tags and the page title. The page title is set to be the site name and (if you have dynamic page titles enabled in your global configuration) the title of the article or component on any given page of the site. It is possible to customize the title, but that would take too long to explain here. mosShowHead also enables component developers to dynamically add to the "head" of your html page, so for example they could add custom CSS or javascript. 2) mosLoadModules( $positionname [, $modulestyle]) - see [url=http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/11/6/]this article[/url] for a more thorough explanation. 3) mosMainBody() is what Joomla 1.0 uses to load the currently active main component of the system. It knows what to load based on the link query parameters sent to it. For example, if the link were "index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1", mosMainBody knows to load the content component to view the article whose id is 1. You set up your links in the menu manager, so you can set up a menu that links to the content component (article, category, section, etc) or any other component that you have installed. I really hope that explanation helps. There is a lot more I could say about those 3 questions, but I think this answers them as succinctly as possible. Good luck! - Cory Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:44:29 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-840 1) Exactly how does "mosShowHead()" know what title to display( how do you set the title)? (same for meta tags) 2) How do you define new positions for modules? 3) How does "mosMainBody()" know what to display? - Andre Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:23:46 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-788 acctually i want to make DIV but it is very dificult for me so how do solve my problem kindly u have a mail me. - jaynarayan Tue, 13 May 2008 00:27:25 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-780 i want to just study the joomla,,in this i want to create my own template so any one can help me to solve thisproblem - vinit sinha Wed, 07 May 2008 06:01:17 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-749 Thanks, Steve. I hope I get a chance to update it for 1.5. Spare time is a hard thing to come by these days. - Cory Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:04:35 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-748 Great template tutorial! I learned a lot. Is there a plan to update it for 1.5? - Steve Hylton Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:00:46 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-701 Hi Cory: First of all, I would like to thank you for this excellent work you've done to help out newbies. I've had difficulties to find documentation about how to manage/modify Joomla, so your site came handy. I just installed Joomla 1.5 in my localhost to learn and thinking in building a community site with the following - forum, video, blog, photos, news, buy & sell, etc. So here are some questions from a newbie: - in your site, you recommend to use WordPress for blog, is there any other extension you recommend beside WP to have above features? - how to build a "tab" content just like the one showing in http://www.joomlahacks.com/joomla/templates/0,0,0,0,6,6,8/ (it's on the right side of the page, under Dell. I'm thinking in having some of the sections in tab. Sorry for those dumb questions, I just started with Joomla. Thanks in advance.[removed]void(0); smile - michael Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:02:58 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-699 Thank you for this tutorial, very clear and useful tips! :) - acmedia Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:09:16 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-626 Hi, very helpfull tut. But there is something between the design-step and the writing of the CSS. Adobe FW and Photoshop are slicing to put your images into tables. But I want to make a tabeless website. So, is it just that easy to write down the dimensions of the graphics etc. to make a css? Maybe you can help me white that. Greetings,Geert - Geert Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:36:21 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-604 Hi cory, really nice tutorial. with help of your tutorial I created a template for my home page. And I created home page for www.mavininfotech.com. Now i want to go for all other pages, now is it necessary to create another template ? Please answer me. Thx in advance. Anand kumar perumalla. - anand Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:18:20 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-601 Hi cory i am anand, I am trying for this type of article from two days. with this tutorial i got a way to start with my own template. Thankyou very much to you. - anand Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:06:14 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-591 "restricted access" appears if you're using Joomla 1.5.x (this template is for 1.0.x). Strange that you managed to install this template at all...anyway you just have to enable System Legacy in the Plugin Manager. - quick Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:58:12 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-513 Hi Den, I do not know if such a picture exists. The only thing I can tell you is to look at the source HTML of your site. Cory - Cory Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:23:23 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-512 Where to get picture showing a position of each CSS elements for rhuk_solarflare template? (header_outer, top_outer, top_inner, other...) - Den Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:19:22 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-509 Great advice from a great guy... Thanks for the advice, thanks for your time, and thank you for the work you put into Joomla helping people. - Brian Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:00:07 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-476 Your front page says "There are no items to display" because you have not published any content items to the front page. - Cory Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:27:32 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/20/6/#comment-475 why in my front page " There are no Items to display" ?? - ila Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:40:47 +0100