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JA Spica – Userguide for Joomla! 1.0.x
May 06 JA Club template – JA Spica is introduced in a light elegant style inspired by the official template of JoomlArt.com with 06 built-in color variants (‘green’,’yellow’,’cyan’,’brick’,’magenta’,’blue’).
With JA Spica, JoomlArt team has an ambition of putting our Joomla! templates to a new level where “Flexible Customization“, “Elegant Design“, “Web Standards Compliance” will highly emphasized in templates creation. 80% of effort in JA Spica goes to in-depth programming of the site tools(Resolution and font-size style changer), modules collapsible functions, menu system and important CSS and html hacks to ensure a perfect fit for all kinds of sites as well as that all Joomla! elements.
JA Spica comes with a built-in JA split colorized menu system giving you the option to dynamically assign each site section/menu to a specific CSS style with an unique look and color. Your Joomla navigation is improved when ‘mainmenu’ tab stays active & highlighted when your visitors are in any sublevel elements.
The flexiblity to add more colors to the menu with simple and easy changes via separate colors CSS files is another key feature of JA Spica.
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you using QuickStart package of JA Spica, named as ja_spica_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 Spica works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Spica package and extract it, you will find template package named: ja_spica_template_v…_j1.0.x.zip
Proceed installation of JA Spica 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 Spica 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 Spica template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
You can change all JA Spica parameters as you wish.- Font size : Increase/Decrease font size (from 1 to 6).
- Template width: type of template screen (Wide/Narrow screen)
- Display template tool: include No display/Screen type/Font size/Screen type and Font size
JA Spica module positions are available here. You just need to configure your modules to be loaded on those positions to match JA Spica 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_spica/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 Spica. Go to the 28th line of “ja_spica/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.
II. 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.Q: I changed my default color/font/resolution but when I refresh the page, it didn’t change?
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