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JA Teline – Userguide for Joomla 1.0.x
- For users who start your Joomla! site at the beginning, I recommend you use QuickStart package of JA Teline, named as ja_teline_quickstart_v…_j1.0.x.zip. For instruction how to use JoomlArt quickstart package, please check the QuickStart guide
- For users who are 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 are some other guides that may be 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 Teline works:
I. TEMPLATE
1.1 Template Installation
After downloading JA Teline package and extracting it, you will find template package named: ja_teline_template_v…_j1.0.x.zip
Proceed installation of JA Teline 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 Teline as default template, your site should look like this:
To see positions of modules, in Navigation toolbar input string “?tp=1” at the end of your site url
1.2 Template Configuration
To configure JA Teline template, check How to configure Joomla! template guide!
You can change all JA Teline parameters as you wish.JA Teline module positions are available here. You just need to configure your modules to be loaded on those positions to match JA Teline style.
If you don’t know how to create module position in Joomla!, please follow this guide
II. EXTENSION INSTALLATION
When extracting JA Teline package, you will see the folder named Extension with all extensions built in the JA Teline, including: JA News, and JA Tabs. That means when you install via template installer, you need to install JA News and JA Tabs modules separately, then configure their positions as instructed in Template configuration section.
You check How to install Joomla! module guidefor installation.
Extensions built in JA Teline comprise:
Note: [xx] stands for module position- [ja-news] JA News module
- [ja-tab1; ja-tab2] JA Tabs module
And extension details are as follows:
2.1.JA News module(mod_janews.zip)
[position: ja-news]On demo, it looks like:
In Admin panel, go to Modules>Site modules and click on module name ( JA News ) to go to configuration page.
Here is the setting of JA News on demo:
JA News module consists two parts as you can see in our Demo. The first part of the module is JA Ajax Headline, which shows the latest frontpage news items in a rollover box. The second part is the other news classified by categories. Below are the full descriptions:
- Headline part:
- Show Headline: Determine whether the headline was showed.
- Headline text: Title of the headline if showed.
- Number of headline news: Number of items in the rollover box. These items is your latest frontpage items.
- Headline fixed height: Fixed height of JA News Headline. Use it if your news intro have noticeable height to prevent flicks in your site.
- Auto Roll: Set the rolling state for first time user.
- Rolling delay time: Delay time of the roll between two items in rollover box (in seconds).
- Other news part:
- Category ID: Categories that your news items will be selected from, separated by commas. Leave it blank means all categories will be selected.
- Link Items: Number of other items listed in each category.
- Max Chars: Limit the number of characters in the showing item of each category.
- Image Width: Fixed width of the image of news item.
- Image Height: Fixed height of the image of news item.
- Columns: Number of columns division.
- Show Intro: Determine whether the intro text was showed.
- Show Image: Determine whether the image was showed.
Hint: To know what is your category ID, go to Content -> Category Manager and look at the Category ID column.
Make your news intro have the same length of text, it will make your module looks smoother.
2.2.JA Tab module(mod_jatabs.zip)
[position: ja-tab1; ja-tab2]
On demo, it looks like:
JA Teline supports multi tabs information presentation. Create the positions ja-tab1 and ja-tab2 and set your modules to be loaded in these positions. Modules put in ja-tab1 will be in the top and ja-tab2 in the bottom of the panel respectively.
In Admin panel, go to Modules>Site modules and click on module name (JATabs ) to go to configuration page.
JA Hidden Panel (Member Area)
The hidden panel on top of the template will be shown when you click to Member Area text beside the search form. It will contain modules which is put in ja-hpanel position. To add a Joomla! position, please have a look at:
You can’t set the original Joomla! Login module in this position because its HTML markup can not be styled this way. Use JA Alternate Login Module instead. You can find this module under JA Teline download area. Download mod_ja_login.zip, install and publish it to ja-hpanel position.
III. TYPOGRAPHY
JA Teline came with a rich typography to give users more ability to customize content look and feel. Please check all JA Teline typography here at JA Teline 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_teline/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 have a caption, put it in 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.
Please report bugs of Teline in this thread. Thank you for your reading.
