Joomla! Template Design

Book Description This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to creating Joomla! templates for your website. It guides you through setting up a basic workflow for Joomla! template design, debugging and validating the template code, creating drop-down menus, interactive forms, and dynamic forms for your site, and packaging up your finished template in a ZIP file for users. This book is aimed at web designers who want to create their own unique templates for Joomla!. Readers should have basic knowledge of Joomla! (which can be obtained by working through Building Websites with Joomla!) and also some knowledge of CSS and HTML, and using Dreamweaver for coding purposes.
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Content

Chapter 1: Getting Started as a Joomla! Template Designer
Chapter 2: Identifying Key Elements for Design
Chapter 3: Coding It Up
Chapter 4: Debugging and Validation
Chapter 5: Your Template in Action
Chapter 6: Templating Markup Reference
Chapter 7: Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements
Chapter 8: AJAX / Dynamic and Interactive Forms
Chapter 9: Design Tips for Working with Joomla!