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JA Nerine – Userguide
Have you heard about K.I.S.S concept in web design? It stand for “Keep It Simple Stupid”. Although it is named “Simple Stupid”, do you now how hard it is when creating simple web which still be subtle and elegant. We proudly release JA Nerine, Subtle and elegant template for corporation.
The clean and simple view of JA Nerine gives your company a reliable and stable appearance. When take time to see this template, you can see that our developers have used CSS and Javascript in the best method to make a streamlined JA Nerine main menu. “Less is More” approach make a consitent navigation help visitor easier reach their content need. Large Slideshow photo module help you illustrate your words to customer in friendly way.
Beside that, JA Nerine have 5 color options and many built-in typography style that make content creation process never be easier before.
And now is installation:
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Nerine, named as ja_nerine_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 Nerine works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Nerine package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_nerine_template_v…_j1.0.x.zip
Proceed installation of JA Nerine 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 Nerine 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 Nerine template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
You can change all JA Nerine parameters as you wish.Please click here for JA Nerine module positions and its arrangement. Base on module positions, you can publish your modules on them to match JA Nerine style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
II. EXTENSION INSTALLATION
When extracting JA Nerine package, you will see the folder named Extensions. All extensions needed for Nerine template in here, there is one module package: JA Slideshow
You check How to install Joomla! module guidefor installation.
JA Slideshow module(mod_jaslideshow.zip)
[position: slideshow]On demo, it looks like:
In Admin panel, go to Modules>Site modules and click on module name ( JA Slideshow )to go to configuration page.
Here is the setting of JA Slideshow on demo:
Click here to view video tutorial about JA Slideshow configurationIII. TIPS AND TRICKS
To have best presentation like JA Nerine 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.
IV. TYPOGRAPHYJA Nerine came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Nerine typography here at JA Nerine Typography
V. 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_Quillaja/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.
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