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    Joomla! 2.5
    Joomla! 2.5
    Credits
    About the Author
    About the Reviewers
    www.PacktPub.com
    Preface
    1. Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites
    2. Installation: Getting Joomla Up and Running
    3. First Step: Getting to Know Joomla
    4. Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour
    5. Small Sites, Big Sites: Organizing your Content Effectively
    6. Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles
    7. Welcoming your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
    8. Helping your Visitors Find What they Want: Managing Menus
    9. Opening up the Site: Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute
    10. Getting the Most out of your Site: Extending Joomla
    11. Creating an Attractive Design: Working with Templates
    This is what templates do
    And this is why templates are so much fun
    Changing the settings of the current template
    Time for action — changing the site color and layout options
    Changing to a different template
    Time for action — activating a different template
    Time for action — changing the logo and header image
    Applying Template Styles to individual pages
    Time for action — creating a Template Style for one specific page
    Downloading and installing a new template
    Time for action — downloading and activating a new template
    Time for action — place modules in new template positions
    Time for action — replace the logo file
    Time for action — adding a banner module
    Customizing a template: tweaking CSS styles
    Time for action — editing CSS on the fly using Firebug
    Time for action — removing the fixed footer text
    Backing up and restoring a customized template
    Creating your own template
    Summary
    12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic: Tips and Techniques
    A. Keeping the Site Secure
    B. Pop quiz — Answers
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    Time for action — downloading and activating a new template

    For your site redesign, you've hit upon a great looking template on the Web. In this example, we'll use the Genesis template developed by JoomlaPraise. It is a clean and basic template that offers enough opportunities to customize the layout and appearance. To download the free template, you must first register with the site of the developer.

    1. Go to http://www.joomlapraise.com and click Templates | Free Joomla templates. Click Genesis — Free Joomla template and click Join the Club. On the next screen, you'll see a Free membership option. Click Join now to register. After completing the registration procedure, you can log in to the JoomlaPraise site to download the template you need.
      Time for action — downloading and activating a new template

      

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