In Joomla!: Creating and Editing Custom Templates, Jen Kramer shows web designers how to create eye-popping web sites with Joomla! templates and CSS. The course starts with the basics: how to add the Joomla! template codes to a static HTML layout, install the template package, and clean up styling after installation. The course also covers advanced styling techniques, such as creating multiple layouts within the same Joomla! template, configuring menus and submenus, and implementing template overrides and template styles.
Topics include:
- Preparing an HTML comp for conversion to Joomla!
- Converting from the index.html file to index.php
- Installing the template package file
- Downloading and installing tools
- Styling active links, navigation, sidebars, and more
- Assigning optional regions in the template
- Displaying modules within an article
- Performing overrides
- Setting exceptions for the home page
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Frequently asked questions
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about Joomla!: Creating and Editing Custom Templates.
- Q: I am running Joomla! 2.5. Can I use this training?
- A: Yes, this course is appropriate for Joomla! 2.5.
- Q: After following along with the exercise files, all has gone well until I installed JCE. When I did this my control panel on the backend came up with the following "strict standards" error:
( ! ) Strict standards: Non-static method WFEditor::getInstance() should
not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in
C:\wamp\www\administrator\components\com_jce\models\model.php on line 112
Please advise. I looked for a way of uninstalling JCE and could not find one. The exercise site seems to work quite well otherwise, although I can't change the profile of JCE as instructed because of similar messages throughout the JCE profile. - A: Anytime you receive an error about "strict standards" when work with WAMP (any additional messaging doesn't matter), please apply the following fix. This fix is also described in the Joomla! 3 Essential Training Chapter 11 video, "Turning off WAMP error reporting."
Because the error reporting is an issue with WAMP and not Joomla!, this fix works for Joomla! 1.6, 1.7, 2.5, and 3.0, as well as later versions of Joomla.
1. In WAMP, find the icon in the system tray and click it.
2. Choose PHP - php.ini from the list.
3. Search the php.ini file for the following line:
error_reporting = {there will be some kind of value in this place}
4. Change whatever value is there on that line to the following:
error_reporting = E_ERROR
5. Save and close php.ini, then go back to the WAMP menu and choose "stop
all services", followed by "start all services" to reboot Apache.
6. You should no longer see errors. If errors are still present, then do
the following:
a. follow steps 1 and 2 above
b. Search the php.ini file for the following line:
display_errors = off
Change this to
display_errors = on
c. Follow step 5 above.
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