How To Make Professional Joomla Templates

Biggie Smalls created a lot of buzz throughout the community on arrival. It led to vast amounts of enquiries regarding details on the creation of Joomla Templates.
Many enquiries were similar to others, So I thought it might be an idea to sum up details as best I can, to a presentation concerning the main features on how to make professional Joomla Templates.

 

A knowledge base like this packs the needed information into a learning curve that should get you up and running in hours, rather than months from self teaching methods....

To get things underway here's my first intriductory video.Take a look and let me know what you think(do you like my accent, etc :))

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Full workshop content:

• General template information
  • What is the purpose of a template?
  • Why does Joomla! use templates?
  • How are templates executed?
  • Installing a template
  • Working with the template manager

• Create your own template
  • Setting up a directory structure
  • Creating a basic templateDetails.xml file
  • Creating a basic index.php file
    • jdoc statements
    • the type attribute
    • the style attribute
  • Packaging the template for installation
  • Overriding the system output
    • a little theory about MVC
    • Template vs. Layout
    • Output types
    • Layouts
    • Create or copy layout files
    • Overriding sub-layouts
    • Module overrides
    • Module chrome
    • Pagination links overrides
  • Template params
    • Defining a parameter in templateDetails.xml
    • Storing template parameters values
    • Retrieving paramater data in a template file
    • Creating custom template parameter types
      • Location of standard parameter type codes
      • Starting a new custom parameter type
      • changes to the XML file for custom parameters types
      • coding a custom parameter type
  • Multilingual templates
    • Location of template language definition files
  • Print version
    • Customizing the print pop-up
    • Pop-up only Styles
    • Pop-up only Modules
  • Favicon
    • Changing the site favicon

• 30 minutes for questions and answers

Bonus

You also get get the developer version of the Biggie Smalls template which retails for $147. I'm doing this so that you can not only learn how to do it yourself but also have something as a reference point so that for sake of convinence, you can even model on it.

 

Full money back guarantee

Note

Because there are only so many people that can be trained at a time, the live training is restricted to 20 people.

For the webinar we will use: http://dimdim.com

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P.S. If you have any questions or suggestions what the workshop should also cover don't hesitate to leave a comment!

The webinar will start at exactly 16:00 Berlin time.