It is Saturday so I am looking over our current projects and at the same time monitoring Joomla! CMS Group discussions and this post made me come to conclusion that since Joomla MVC we did not have default core template overrides examples except the documentation on how to make one.
Once you have your Joomla website installed and ready to use, one of the first items of business is adding your own content. With Joomla, this process is easy and can be done in just a few short steps.
First, log into your Joomla administrator portal and mouse-over the menu called ‘Content’. Within this drop-down mouse-over the first menu item called ‘Article Manager’.
Joomla Web developers do not think twice about this task , but we understand that being new to Joomla CMS or web design in general is sometimes hard to get your head on straight and get along with all terms. Modules , module position , extensions , install , uninstall , update... Gees ! Give me a break! So to make it simple, here is a very fast tutorial on how to add new module position to your Joomla 1.5 Template.
Many of you have already heard about it but not everyone knows what it is and how to use it. In this short "how to" tutorial we will explain what CSS override is and how to use it on your websites. First rule of CSS is the last defined property in CSS file order is the one that is going to be used in layout. Basically if you have same property defined in your stylesheet twice , the one that is last will be the one that is used.
As web developers we often have to use different CSS techniques for different browser types. Now days every browser has it's own hack but imagine if you have to use different CSS hack for each browser there is and load html conditional comments for each! That would be to much code in head tag . To keep it neat and load conditional comment only when specific browser is used here is a small PHP snippet that can help keep your code organized.