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Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:31

Understanding Joomla / Mambo CSS in 5 minutes

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Mambo CSS TutorialThis tutorial will give you an overview of Joomla / Mambo CSS styling. All of the basic css elements of Mambo is put into a clean and easy-to-read picture which will help you to remember in a quickest time. The CSS elements here are updated with the latest version of Joomla / Mambo and I strongly believe that they can be applied in coming Joomla 1.0.X / Mambo 4.5.X releases.

1. Picturize the CSS

The below diagram displays most basic css elements of the latest Mambo version (4.5.x) using the default template (rhuk_solarflare_ii).

Mamboserver rounded modulesI am going to guide you step by step in making a rounded corner style templates for Mambo 4.5.2.x (and over)
This tutorial consists of 2 parts:
1. Part 1. Images preparation: making the rounded conner. (You are reading this...) and
2. Part 2 Putting corners into Mambo

As promised, I come back this week with the second part of "How to make rounded module like Mamboserver.com" for Mambo 4.5.2.x (and over)
Make sure you do not miss the Part 1: Images preparation
In this 2nd part, we will learn how to put the 4 images we made in Part 1 ( box_t_l.png, box_t_r.png, box_b_l.png and box_b_r.png ) into Mambo.

Saturday, 25 June 2005 01:32

Joomla / Mambo Layout

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1. What you can learn?

Reading this article will give you:

  • Basic overview of mambo layout.
  • Tricks to well organize your page contents with mambo modules.
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