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How to Create a Basic Template PDF Print E-mail
Written by Cory   
Monday, 25 September 2006
Article Index
How to Create a Basic Template
Step 1: Design
Step 2: HTML Markup
Step 3: CSS
Step 4: Joomlafy
Steps 5-9
Sample Template Files
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Sample Template Files

You can download the sample template installation file here. Feel free to modify it and use it for whatever purpose you want. I hope that it is useful for you in your attempts to create your very own Joomla! template.

Good luck!

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Nesin: ...
Thank you for your help Cory!
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January 29, 2007
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
You're welcome! smilies/smiley.gif
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Neal: ... http://www.lostintheplot.com
Your site is exactly what I've been looking for, Joomla is no doubt flexible and useful but it sure is packed full of strange complexities! :- Thanks for the excellent tutorials and resources, I can tell they're gonna come in handy! smilies/cool.gif
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Adeline: ... http://www.adelineyaw.com
Thanks for your useful advice, it has definitely helped me out alot! smilies/smiley.gif
Much appreciated, Adeline
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Lisa: ... http://www.skytopdesigns.com
great! ive been looking for thoes little tidbits
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ghost face: ... http://www.donthaveoneyet.com
nice tutorial..

i have a quik question tho. how do you turn off the filter search thingy?
it gives a bad look and very useless.

please reply to my email too..thanx cory..
cant wait for your next tutorial
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
Hi ghost face,

I'm not quite sure I understand your question. What filter search thingy are you talking about?

Cory
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Harri Vienola: ...
Hi, what all means "Joomlafy", sounds complicated?
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Harri Vienola: ...
I dowloaded this your example packet, tried to load the sites in my localhost. I got only "restricted access", I have changed the directory right to accept me. What's wrong? I have IIS, PHP an MySQL in this PC.
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
Hi Harri,

The word "Joomlafy" is just a word I use to mean "make it work in Joomla". In other words, I take my design, HTML, and CSS, then I add the necessary PHP code to make a template work in Joomla, or "Joomlafy" it. I hope that makes sense.

I'm not sure what to tell you about your directory problem. I hope you are able to get it to work.

Thanks for visiting!
Cory
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shaax: ...
i also got the same "restricted access" as Harri Vienola did.. why is that?
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
Hi shaax,

I have not seen that problem before you and Harri. I'm not sure why it is happening. It probably has something to do with your server configuration and/or permissions.
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ila: ...
why in my front page " There are no Items to display" ??
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
Your front page says "There are no items to display" because you have not published any content items to the front page.
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Brian: ...
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.
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Den: ...
Where to get picture showing a position of each CSS elements for rhuk_solarflare template?
(header_outer, top_outer, top_inner, other...)
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
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
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quick: ...
"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.
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anand: ...
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.
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anand: ...
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.
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Geert: ...
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
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acmedia: ... http://acmedia.eu
Thank you for this tutorial, very clear and useful tips!
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michael: ...
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/joo...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);
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Steve Hylton: ...
Great template tutorial! I learned a lot. Is there a plan to update it for 1.5?
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
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.
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vinit sinha: ... http://www.mirageds.co.in
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
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jaynarayan: ...
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.
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Andre: ... http://none
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?
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
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 this article 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!
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Natasha Murphy: ...
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 smilies/cheesy.gif
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