Website Design – What is more important Beauty or Usability?
This is an age old question that hounds everyone concerned. Or at least I feel it is an old query that just about every website development team often debates after the launch of…
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Joomla is a versatile software which is available as a free download from the website. It is an open source software that can be installed by just about any one. It also has a very easy and simple user interface which is an added advantage especially if you are not very IT Savvy.
Joomla is a full fledged content management system that needs time to understand. But the good part of it is that it has low learning curve and thus you won’t be spending hours at end trying to find your bearings.
Once you do install Joomla you will notice that it uses a default template for the layout of the website. In addition to which it also provides a couple of other options which are fairly generic.
It is highly unlikely that you will still with the template provided by Joomla since they are quite common and not fancy and neither attractive. Thus the next obvious step is to install a new template.
professional Joomla Web developers around that would be more than happy to help you create a customized design.
Since there are two different ways to go about getting your own template; there are also two different ways of installing the template. This article will cover the method of installing the template in both the cases.
In case of a custom template you will need to access your web server via FTP. Hence first login to your server via FTP and navigate to the template directory. You will several folders here that represent individual templates. Now select the folder of your custom template (the name of the folder is usually the name of the template) and upload it to the template directory.
In the Joomla versions prior to 2.5 your template will be immediately recognized by Joomla and you will be able to spot it in the template section that we referred to about earlier.
For the Joomla version 2.5 and later you will need to help Joomla discover the template. This can be done from the admin menu Extensions >> Extension Manager >> Discover. Thus first hit the discover button and then click install from the list of templates to install your template.
The simple task of installing a template can get quite complicated at times. However if you do have a readymade template the installation is quite straight forward. Though some of the readymade templates have dependencies on additional plugins in which case you will be informed to install those additional plugins. The customised template on the other hand demands a higher skill level.
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