Does anyone know anything about Joomla? I am having trouble making my own template for my joomla layout. It is composed of all
tags and no tables what so ever. It has all of the pictures and everything defined in the CSS. Is that going to matter? Will I have to convert the whole index.htm into a table format rather having all
tags?? If you can email me with further assistance that would be great! jcon416@yahoo.com Thanks very much.
Thanks for the quick help guys! Ive started to figure it out slowly and am starting to work with positioning and such!
Thanks for the quick help guys! Ive started to figure it out slowly and am starting to work with positioning and such!
Firstly, Joomla is a CMS.
Secondly, If that’s what you want, go ahead and change it all to tables. Its actually a good thing to try and avoid too many tags (a symptom often referred to as “divitus”). However, understanding how the tag works can really unlock some doors as well, so if you haven’t coded with it before, you really should.
If you are using Joomla 1.0.x then designing your own template is not difficult. It is more difficult with Joomla 1.5+ because this relies on template overrides and uses a number of files to produce the visual appearance of the site.
For Joomla 1.0.x using divs is fine. Tables should only be used for tabular data anyway. What you are doing sounds exactly right. However, once you have designed the layout and appearance you need to save your index.htm as index.php. Then you need to add the PHP code to your template that allows the Joomla content to be displayed.
For the CSS, you will want to include styling for the inbuilt Joomla elements.
In order to install your template it needs to be packaged for Joomla. A template package includes a folder with the name of the template, a thumbnail screenshot of the template, the index.php file, a subdirectory called images that contains all your template images, your css file (this must be named template_css.css) and an xml file containing the data relating to your template.
Mambo templates work with Joomla so you may find this useful:
For the additional CSS styling you will want to include this is a good guide:!-knowledgebase-free-guide-to-joomla-css-51.html
You should post it at forum.joomla.org .