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JA Rochea – Userguide
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Rochea, named as ja_rochea_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 Rochea works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Rochea package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_rochea_template_v…_j1.0.x.zip
Proceed installation of JA Rochea 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 Rochea 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 Rochea template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
You can change all JA Rochea parameters as you wish.Please click here for JA Rochea module positions and its arrangement. Base on module positions, you can publish your modules on them to match JA Rochea style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
II. EXTENSION INSTALLATIONWhen extracting JA Rochea package, you will see the folder named Extensions. All extensions needed for Rochea template in here, there are 2 modules packages
You check How to install Joomla! module guidefor installation.
Here are extensions used in JA Rochea:
Note: [xx] before each extension is its position.- [top] JA Newsflash module
- [user5] JA SpotLight module
And extension details as follow:
2.1.JA Newsflash module(mod_janewsflash.zip)
[position: top]On demo, it looks like:
In Admin panel, go to Modules>Site modules and click on module name ( JA Newsflash)to go to configuration page.
Here is the setting of JA Newsflash on demo:
Parameters Explanation:
- Category: Choose the category to get the news from
- Rolling delay time: Time to change between 2 article
- Show image: Show or not show image (two option: Yes/No)
- Linked Titles: Title will be linkable or not
- Style class: The effect for display
2.2.JA Spotlight module(mod_ja_slwi.zip)
[position: user5]
On demo, it looks like:
In Admin panel, please go to Modules>Modules site and click on module name (JA Spotlight) to go to configuration page.
Here is the setting of JA Spotlight on demo:
Module position: user1, user2 or user5 (three module positions for spotlights)
Parameters Explanation:
- Image path: path of image you want to show in module for example:If you upload image sample.jpg to http://www.yoursite.com/images/stories/sample.jpg, Image path is images/stories/sample.jpg
- Full text: Content of module
- Outsite link: is link for hold module when user click it.
- Module height: Height of module
- Text Color: Color of text in spotlight
- Background Color:
- Background transparent: from 0 to 100 (it is opacity of your content background)
If you want to add more module in spotlight go to Site->Modules and copy your current module, rename it and set it to another position (user1, user2, user5)
III. TYPOGRAPHY
JA Rochea came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Rochea typography here at JA Rochea 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_Rochea/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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