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JA Genista – Userguide for Joomla! 1.0.x

• For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Genista, named as ja_genista_quickstart_j10.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:

• How to install JoomlArt QuickStart package?

• How to create a new module position in Joomla!

• How to install JoomlArt template?

• For users that already have a site with contents and other extensions installed, please follow my instruction below to understand how JA Genista works:

I. TEMPLATE

1.1 Template Installation

After downloading JA Genista package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_genista_template_j10.zip

Proceed installation of JA Genista 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 Genista as default template, your site should look like this:

Now you will see that there no icons in the main navigation menu, nvm then, please extract the images package come with the template or GET IT HERE into images/stories and then select it in each menu properties.

And here is the menu after my random choosing icons:

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 Genista template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!

You can change all JA Genista parameters as you wish.

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

Then we need to create custom positions to place modules, If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide

II. EXTENSION INSTALLATION

When extracting JA Teline ii package, you will see the folder named Extension with all extensions built in the JA Teline ii, including JA Content Slider and JA Slideshow modules. That means when you install via template installer, you need to install them separately, then configure their positions as instructed in Template configuration section.

You check How to install Joomla! module guide for installation.

Here are extensions used in JA Genista:
Note: [xx] before each extension is its position.

• [user6] JA Content Slider module

• [slideshow] JA Slideshow module

And extension details as follow:

2.1.JA Content Slider module(mod_jacontentslider.zip)
[position: user6]

Slide your contents with category.

This module will display your content in a slide. Its will slide one per one content with your direction. When you move your mouse over the image beside slide, The slide’s direction will change with that direction in image and slide will move faster. Then, when you move your mouse out the image, the slide will keep new direction and the slide will move with old speed.

You can set to use or not use ajax, if you set not module will load all product one time else module will load only one product one time. We advise you should set this option to Yes if you have a lot product and No if you have a few product.

You can:

• Slide your content with your width and height properties.
• You can set the number of content will display in a tab.
• You can set the categories contents will display.
• You can set display title, link title, introtext, read more text links or not.
• You can set the slide to auto run or not. Default is yes.
• Set direction of slide. Default is left
• Set to use zip javascript file or not. You should chose yes for this option.
• And the last is set time for rolling delay time and animation time.

Note:

1. check in your configuration in your site if there isn’t this line “var $absolute_path = ‘your absulute path’;” you have to add its there to run.
2. If your site hadn’t import mootools.v1.1 so to run this module you have to remove all comment characters in code On line 78 in mod_ja_contentslide.php file to import mootools v1.1

On demo, it looks like:

In Admin panel, go to Modules>Site Modules and click on module name ( JA Content Slider )to go to configuration page.

Now, is parameters explanation:

• Include Mootools library: Choose if you want to include mootool library or not. This module require mootools library ver 1.1x to functions, if your page already included motools library, you don’t need to include it again.
• Title: Choose show or hide content title
• Read More: Choose to show or hide Read more… link
• Intro text: Choose to show or hide content’s intro text
• Show image: Show the images in the content or not
• Category: The category that JA Content Slider will display its contents
• Linked Titles: Make the title link able or not
• Number Characters: How many characters will be display, set to 0 for unlimited.
• Height of div: Height of the div will be displayed
• Width of div: Width of the div will be displayed
• Height of image: Height of images will be displayed
• Width of image: Width of images will be displayed
• Number Element: How many element (items) will be displayed.
• Auto run slide: The slide will run automatically or not.
• Direction: Direction for the Auto Run
• Use compression js file: Use the compressed javascript file or not
• Use Ajax: Set to use Ajax to get content or not
• Rolling delay time: The time in millisecond for items change.
• Animation time: the time in millisecond for animation.

2.2.JA Slideshow module(mod_jaslideshow.zip)
[position: slideshow]

This module will enable you display as a slideshow all the images in specific folder of your choice

On demo, it looks like:

In Admin panel, please go to Modules >> SiteModules and click on module name (JA Slideshow) to go to configuration page.

Here is parameters explanation:

• Start status Set the start status of slide show is play or pause.
• Slide Width Width of Slideshow [px(s)]
• Slide Height Height of Slideshow [px(s)]
• Images Folder URL URL to folder contain images in slide show
• Alt Images Alt images display when the images not found or when you hover your mouse on the image
• Order by The order of the images
• Sort Order Sort the order by
• Set image array display Set the list of images will be display, each filename separate by comma (,). If you want to display all images, leave this blank.
• Start image Set the name of the first image will be displayed. Leave it blank if you want images display like order above
• Auto resire image You can set auto resize the images with a size define. Note: This option is best with Face animation
• Display time Display time of image on slide show.
• Transition Duration Time of animation on slide show
• Animation Type Animation effect you want to display
• Percent of animation This option used with Panning or Combo animation. You can set value in 0% – 100%
• Percent zoom effect This option used with zoom effect only. You can set value in 0% – 100%
• Effect Animation effects. Used with Wipe/Push animation only.
• Navigation type The type of the image navigation
• Show description Show the images description or not
• Description parameters Specific parameter for each image. Images can have or don’t have caption and link to another page.<br /><br />Syntax: imagename:caption=Image caption&url=http://imagelink<br /><br />Each image per line.

III. TYPOGRAPHY

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

IV. TIPS & TRICKS
To have best presentation like JA Genista demo, you have to configure content item not show on frontpage by these steps:

• In administrator area, go to Menu~Mainmenu and click to Home
• And create your customs module, publish them in user1, user2, user5 modules.

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_genista/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?
A: JA template use client’s cookie to save your preferences. If you made change to default value, please close the browser, open a blank new window and then clear the browser’s cookie. You’ll see the new preferences applied.

Q: Some of my menu looks horrible. Why?
A: Menus in JA templates are designed with the most semantic mark up are used over the net, it’s the list style. If you made change to the menu type, go to you menu module and change the menu type parameter to Flat List. It will solve the problem.

Q: I want to change some graphic contents
A: 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.

Q: It’s just a template, why need so many steps to configure and install?
A: No, it’s more than just a template. The package we provided included template and related modules, components and source files. The page you see in our demo site is the set of template + module + component. If you want to make your site look like the demo page, you need to follow our instructions above.

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[nanls1055 Friend nanls1055Join date: May 2009Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

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I would like to know how to change/add text to the areas named, “User 5, User 7, 8 and 9. in this template/demo. I don’t see them in the articles or front page view listed under Unser5 etc in the admin area. Also on nav bar I only have three links and would like to know how to add more as seen in the demo.

My site is not live so I cannot send a link. This process is very frustration as far as customer support is concerned.
ooppss I have 1.5.

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