Joomla! Documentation™

Modifying the Default Template

There is already a very informative beginners guide linked at The main help pageAdrianm 16:06, 1 June 2008 (EDT)

Suggested Additions

From the perspective of a person relatively new to CSS and templates, the first question I had was:

1. What can I do about changing this banner? Corsulian 14:24, 1 June 2008 (EDT)

Basic Additions

As this happens to be what I'm doing (hijacking the milkyway template for own devices), I'll attempt some updates here:

The Page Background

In the file, <root>/templates/rhuk_milkyway/css/white_bg.css there is some code:

#page_bg {
background: #COLOR;

Change "COLOR" to whatever color you want the site background to be (the big window background that exists "around" your joomla site"). Here's a reference of some colors. Corsulian 15:21, 1 June 2008 (EDT)

Set up this page like

It would be a good idea, to set up this tutorial page like the tutorial for the [JA_Purity template]! That would make it more easy to understand. That page also presents more information about the template itself, which again makes it more easy to make changes. JanEnEm 09:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Copyright Notices in Footer

Usually, I copy and paste the Copyright notice into the index.php file at the bottom of the main template site. This works and html, too. Just look up the Copyright notice, I mean search for it in the files and copy and paste it wherever you want it.