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JA Bellatrix – Userguide for Joomla! 1.0.x
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Bellatrix, named as ja_bellatrix_quickstart_v…_1.0.x.zip. For instruction how to use JoomlArt quickstart package, please check the QuickStart guide
- For users who new to Joomla!, there are many useful documents available at http://joomla.org about Joomla! and how to use, please spend some time to check them out.
Here is some other guides that may useful for you:
- For users that already have a site with contents and other extensions installed, please follow my instruction below to understand how JA Bellatrix works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Bellatrix package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_bellatrix_template_v…_j1.0.x.zip
Proceed installation of JA Bellatrix as other normal Joomla! templates. If you don’t know how to do installation or set a template as default, please check the How to install Joomla! template guide.
After installing and setting JA Bellatrix as default template, your site should look like this:
To see position located in site, in Navigation toolbar input string “?tp=1” at the end of site link
1.2 Template Configuration
To configure JA Bellatrix template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
You can change all JA Bellatrix parameters as you wish.- Color Variation: 3 color themes (Default, Brick, Green)
- Template Width: type of template screen (Wide/Narrow/Auto screen)
- Font size : Increase/Decrease font size (from 1 to 6).
- Menu Module: include Split/Css/Trans/Dropline menu
- Display template tool: include No display/Screen type/Font size//Screen type and Font size/ Font size and Color css/All tools
Right modules collapsible function
- Right modules collapsible function: Enable or disable collapse function
- Default status: two option Expend All/Collapse All
- Exclude Module: input module id that will be exclude
JA Bellatrix module positions are available here You just need to configure your modules to be loaded on those positions to match JA Bellatrix style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
Other Notices
- If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the “ja_bellatrix/footer.php” then modify it to suite your needs.
- The {mosimage} may show some extra padding and margin. To solve this problem, go to your Joomla! Administrator -> Mambots -> Site Mambots and change the margin and padding parameters of MOS Image mambot to 0.
- PSD/PNG files and fonts can be found in the template’s source package. Please download the file at our download page in case you need to modify something.
- You can easily enable and/or disable the tools in JA Bellatrix. Go to the 30th line of “ja_bellatrix/index.php” and change the value of $ja_tool to the value you want. For example, 0 is disable screen and color, 3 is enable both.
- JA Bellatrix template also supports multiple colors. To add another color, go to the 21st line and add the color you want to the array $ja_color_themes.
- The css of each color located at folder “ja_bellatrix/css/colors”. You should name the css file match with the new color you’ve created.
- If you want to highlight the left or right module, just add the module class suffix -hilite to your module parameter.
- You can use three modules appear in the home page with the following code:
<div style=” float: left; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0;”>
<img src=”your image source” width=”60″ height=”75″ hspace=”0″
vspace=”0″ alt=”Sample Image” title=”Sample Image” border=”0″ />
</div>
Your content goes here Remember to turn off the Rich Text mode in your Content Editor.
III. TYPOGRAPHYJA Bellatrix came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Bellatrix typography here at JA Bellatrix Typography
IV. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
Q: I want to add a template position in to my Joomla!
A: Go to your Administration Panel, Site -> Template Manager -> Module Positions. Add your template positions and hit the Save button.Q: Where can I change my footer?
A: If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the “ja_justicia/footer.php” then modify it to suite your needs.Q: My images take a lot of white space and do not look good?
A: The {mosimage} may show some extra padding and margin. To solve this problem, go to your Joomla! Administrator -> Mambots -> Site Mambots and change the margin and padding parameters of MOS Image mambot to 0.
Q: Images without caption are stuck with text?
A: It is because Joomla! generates the code different when {mosimage} has and doesn’t have its caption. So when you decide that the image will not having a caption, put it between the div tag like this <div class=”mosimage” style=”float: left;”>{mosimage}</div>Q: What’s a module style? And module class suffix?
A: Almost modules offer you a parameter called Module Class Suffix. Set a value for this parameter and you will have your module’s appearance differs from the others. JA templates often provide you some module styles which can be found in Module Styles area of the guide.Q: I changed my default color/font/resolution but when I refresh the page, it didn’t change?
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