Bhushan Dhumane

Creating a Simple Template: Step 1 To understand the contents of a template, let’s start by looking at a blank Joomla template. Template File Components This section reviews the manual process of setting up template files. Normally, you would install the template using the Joomla installer, which takes care of all these steps. When constructing your own templates, you need to set up several files and folders in a coordinated manner. A template needs to contain various files and folders. These files must be placed in the /templates/ directory of a Joomla installation, each in a folder designated for that template. If you had two templates installed called Element and Voodoo, your directory would look something like this: /templates/element   /templates/voodoo   Note that the directory name for a template must be the same as the name of the template—in this case, element and voodoo. These names are case-sensitive and shouldn’t contain spaces. Within the d...