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JA Iris – Userguide
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Iris, named as ja_iris_quickstart_v…_j1.5.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 Iris works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Iris package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_iris_template_v…_j1.5.x.zip
Proceed installation of JA Iris 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 Iris as default template, your site should look like this:
To see positions located in site, in Navigation toolbar input string “?tp=1” at the end of site link
1.2 Template Configuration
To configure JA Iris, On Admin panel, choose Extentions >> Template Manager, click on template name , you will see parameters of template.
In here, you can change all JA Iris parameters as you wish.- Color Variation: 3 color themes (Default, Red, Green)
- Font size : Increase/Decrease font size (from 1 to 6).
- Template Width: type of template screen (Wide/Narrow screen)
- Menu Module: include Split/Css/Moo/Dropline menu
- Display template tool: include: Screen type/Font size/Color css/Screen type and Font size/Screen type and Color css/Font size and Color css/All tools.
Please hover your mouse to each parameter to see its explanation and details.
Please click here for JA Iris module positions and its arrangement. Base on module positions, you can publish your modules on them to match JA Iris style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
II. EXTENSION INSTALLATIONWhen extracting JA Iris package, you will see the folder named Extensions. All extensions needed for Iris template in here, there is a modules package JA Newsflash
You check How to install Joomla! module guidefor installation.
JA Newsflash module(mod_janewsflash.zip)
[position: top]On demo, it looks like:
In Admin panel, go to Extensions >> Modules Manager and click on module name ( JA Newsflash )to go to configuration page.
Here is the setting of JA Newsflash on demo:
Parameters explanation:
- Category: Select category for JA NewsFlash to display
- Rolling delay time: Time to change between two articles (in seconds)
- Animation time: The time of an animation (in miliseconds)
- Linked Titles: Make the Items Linkable or not
- Style class: Choose the animation style here (Fade, Scroll, Replace)
- Height of div: Height of the div will be displayed
- Templates: Template for this module (see default for example)
III. TYPOGRAPHY
JA Iris came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Iris typography here at JA Iris Typography
IV. TIPS & TRICKS
To have best presentation like JA iris 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
- In right zone, you will see Headline, Intro, Link set all of them to 0 to invisible all content in frontpage.
And create your customs module, publish them in user1, user2, user5 modules.
V. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONQ: 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.
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