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JA Iolite – Userguide
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Iolite, named as ja_iolite_quickstart.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 Iolite works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Iolite package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_iolite_template.zip
Proceed installation of JA Iolite 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 Iolite 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 Iolite template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
You can change all JA Iolite parameters as you wish.- Font size tools: Increase/Decrease font size.
- Template Width: Wide/Narrow screen
- Color Variation: 3 color themes (Default, Cyan, Green)
- Template Layout: Right/Left
- Body Theme: Light & Dark
- Menu Type: Mainmenu/Topmenu…..
- Menu Module: Split/Css/Moo menu
Please click here for JA Iolite module positions and its arrangement. Base on module positions, you can publish your modules on them to match JA Iolite style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
II. EXTENSION INSTALLATION
When extracting JA Iolite package, you will see the folder named Extensions. All extensions needed for Iolite template in here, there are 2 modules packages and 1 mambots package.
You check How to install Joomla! module guideand How to install Joomla! mambot guide for installation.
Here are extensions will be used in JA Iolite:
Note: [xx] before each extension is its position.- [user5] JA NewsFlash module
- [user7] JA Tabs module
- JA Tabs mambot
And extension details as follow:
1. JA NewsFlash Module (mod_janewsflash.zip)
[position: user5]
After installed, please go to Modules >> Site Modules and click on JA NewsFlash name to go to configuration page.
Here is the setting of JA NewsFlash on demo page
Here is the details for each parameters of JA NewsFlash:
- Category: Select category here to display in JA NewsFlash
- Rolling delay time: The time in seconds between 2 articles.
- Animation time: The time in miliseconds for animation effect.
- Template: The template to display content items:
<div style=”overflow:hidden;”><div class=”nfimages”>##IMAGE##</div><div class=”nftitle”>##TITLE##</div><div class=”nfcontent”>##CONTENT##</div></div>
<div class=”nfimages”>##IMAGE##</div>: display images of content item
<div class=”nftitle”>##TITLE##</div>: display title of content item
<div class=”nfcontent”>##CONTENT##</div>: display content of item2. JA Tabs Module (mod_jatabs.zip)
[position: user7]
Please follow this guide to understand how to use JA Tabs
3. JA Tabs Mambot (ja_tabs.zip)
To use module JA Tabs, you need to install JA Tabs mambot in order to make it work. Please install it and then go to Mambots >> Site Mambots and Enable JA Tabs mambot.
4. JA Hidden Panel (built-in)
If you want to use JA Iolite hidden panel (currently have JA User Tools), please publish your desire module on position ja-hpanel. Currently in this template, JoomlArt has overrided the layout of default Login module to fit the hidden panel. So when you publish default Login module on ja-hpanel, it will have the style shown on demo.
That’s it. When you finish installing and configuring, you are done with setup JA Iolite.
We waiting to see your site at JA Members Showcase 🙂III. TYPOGRAPHY
JA Iolite came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Iolite typography here at JA Iolite Typography
IV. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
Q: How can I create module position in Joomla! ?
A: Please follow this guide to create module positions.Q: How can I make a custom HTML module?
A: In Module Manager, Click on New button. Then select Custom HTML, and click Next. Fill your HTML code to Custom Output textarea and click Save. You will have a new Custom Module as you expected.Q: Why I need to do many things to make template work? Why don’t you just provide template only?
A: JoomlArt template is More than just a Template. When you download template package from JoomlArt, you will have all extensions included. The template simply will not be perfect without a hand of extensions. It will not only make your site more attractive but also provide users more features and ability to explore your site easier.
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