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JA Kruger – Userguide for Joomla! 1.0.x

JA Kruger – 2nd JATC template for Oct 06 is a great artistic Joomla blog styles template. Your Joomla! now looks more like a Blogger, WordPress or Movable Type.

In addition to what we have offerred in previous templates, this joomla template represents the outmost ability of a joomla design with 4 layout options (3 columns, 2 columns-full left, 2 columns-full right, collapse all), all three published user modules, user1+user2 module or even without any modules).

In our commitment to provide the highest customization, the template could be configured to use any of five menu types: Standard Joomla menu, Horizontal JA split menu New!, Horizontal JA Dropline menu New!, JA Transmenu or JA Suckerfish menu.

I. TEMPLATE

1.1 Template Installation

Download template package named: JA Kruger for joomla 1.0.x

Proceed installation of JA Kruger 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 Kruger 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 Kruger template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!

You can change all JA Kruger parameters as you wish.

1. Color: 3 color themes (Default, Light)
2. Size width: type of template screen (Wide/Narrow screen)
3. Font width: Increase/Decrease font size (from 2 to 5).
4. Tool: tool will be displayed on frontpage, include: Disable all/Screen tool/Font tool/Screen + font/Color tool/Screen + color/Font + color/all
5. Menu type: include Split/Son of Suckerfish Dropdown/Trans/Dropline menu

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

If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide

1.3. Other notices

• If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the “ja_kruger/footer.php” then modify it to suite your needs.
• 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.
• 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.
• You can easily enable and/or disable the tools in JA Kruger. Go to the 29th line of “ja_kruger/index.php” and change the value of $ja_tool to the value you want. For example, 0 is disable screen and color, 3 is enable both.

• JA Kruger template supports 2 colors integrated with multiple header images. These headers are well matched with each color and stored in the color folders of the template.

To add another header images, go to the 20th line and add the name of the image to the array $ja_header_images. You should add the file with the same name to every folder of the color you are using (located at folder “ja_kruger/images/color name“).

• JA Kruger template also supports multiple colors. To add another color, go to the 18th line and add the color you want to the array $ja_color_themes. The css of each color located at folder “ja_kruger/css/colors“. You should name the css file match with the new color you’ve created.

III. TYPOGRAPHY

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

IV. 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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