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JA Pollux – Userguide for Joomla! 1.0.x

JA Pollux – 1st JATC template for Nov 06 is released. JoomlArt is proud to bring to our club members another highly accessible Joomla design.

With a simple and grey color, JA Pollux is recommended for portal site with large content. As all other JA templates, the accessibility matters of the templates are of high attention. The essence of accessibility is to put the content of a web page first and the design second, therefore the “Content First” css technique is introduced in this Joomla template; if you view source codes of the JA Pollux demo site, you will see that the mainbody texts are loaded first instead of left column like other template. This not only means that the content is easier to view with all type of browsers but also helps with search engine rankings.

Moreover, five built-in menu options are revamped and all menu items now have it’s own title tag: <Title=”Menu name”>New! Especially, the Horizontal JA Dropline menu Updated! is totally rewritten so that user can navigate more comfortable since it’s first presence at JA Kruger. All of these improvements simply are parts of our effort to enhance web accessibility for your Joomla sites.

I. TEMPLATE

1.1 Template Installation

Download template package named: JA Pollux for joomla 1.0.x

Proceed installation of JA Pollux 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 Pollux 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 Pollux template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!

You can change all JA Pollux parameters as you wish.

1. Color Variation: 4 color themes (Default, Grey, Blue, Red)
2. Font size : Increase/Decrease font size (from 1 to 6).
3. Menu Module: include Split/Suckerfish/Trans/DL menu
4. Display template tool: include No display/Screen type and fontsize/Color css/All tools
5. Template Screen: Wide/Narrow/Auto

JA Pollux module positions are available here . You just need to configure your modules to be loaded on those positions to match JA Pollux style.

If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide

1.3. Other notices

• If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the “ja_pollux/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 Pollux. Go to the 30th line of “ja_pollux/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.

• You can add more header decoration to your banner by adding more image to the /header-deco/ folder in each color. These image will be randomly showed when the page is loaded.
• JA Pollux 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_pollux/css/colors“. You should name the css file match with the new color you’ve created.

• JA Pollux provides type of module class suffix. To make a module showed in high light mode module , add the class suffix -hilite to your module parameter. If you’d like to set a module to be another color, you only need to follow the instructions I’ve set out for you below:

• Go to the Administrator >> Modulues >> Site Modules area and open the module you wish to change colours for
• Look for “Module Class Suffix“
• Save the module

III. TYPOGRAPHY

JA Pollux came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Pollux typography here at JA Pollux 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.

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