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JA Altair – Userguide for Joomla! 1.0.x
Altair is a smart combination of joomla! template and joomla! menu system.
JA Altair has two menu system options using default menu and JA Transmenu , 9 header images with .PSD files so template tuning and customization will be easy.
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Altair, named as ja_altair_quickstart_v…_j1.0.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 Altair works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Altair package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_altair_template_j1.0.x.zip and ja_altair_wide_template_j10.zip(wide version)
Proceed installation of JA Altair 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 Altair 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 Altair template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
JA Altair support two types of menu:- Using the Default Joomla! Menu System. $menutype= “1”
- Using the dynamic JA Transmenu Menu System. $menutype= “0”
JA Altair module positions are available here. You just need to configure your modules to be loaded on those positions to match JA Altair style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
1.3. Top & Bottom Menus- Top Menu: use “-top” as module class suffix and “header” as module position for mainmenu. Menutype is “Flat list”
- Bottom Menu: use “-bot” as module class suffix and “bottom” as module position for mainmenu. Menutype is “Flat list”
1.4. Other notices
- If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the “ja_altair/footer.php” then modify it to suite your needs.
- PSD file for the header is in the “includes/psd” folder of the template package.
- Font file for the header is in the “includes/fonts” folder of the template package.
- The JA Altair template comes with 9 different backgrounds for your header. To change a header background, just following these simple steps:
- Step 1: Open the “css/template_css.css” with your CSS or text editor.
- Step 2: Find “head-bg-2.jpg”. About line 469.
- Step 3: Change the name of the header image (head-bg-2.jpg). Eg. head-bg-5.jpg
II. 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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