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Ricochet: Recreating the Demo - Showcase

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Ricochet Demo for Joomla


Three Triangles

The three triangles represented in this area of the page are created using CSS. You can find the CSS source used to create them in the ROOT/templates/rt_ricochet/less/demo.less file. The written content in this area is managed using RokSprocket. Details about this are found in the sections below.

FP RokSprocket Features - Showcase

The RokSprocket Features module used near the top of the front page is a great way to feature some of your site's more notable articles or areas of interest.

Details

Option Setting
Title FP RokSprocket Features - Showcase
Show Title Hide
Access Public
Position showcase-a
Status Published
Content Provider Simple
Type Features

Filtered Article List

We utilized the Simple Content Provider, allowing us to create custom content independent of full articles. The Title, Description, and Link fields in each article have been altered. A few examples of these article changes can be found below.

Article 1

Title

An Explosion of Possibilities to Showcase your Data.

Description

<div class="gantry-width-container">
    <div class="rt-sprocket-text">
        <div class="gantry-width-70 hidden-tablet">
            <p>Ricochet combines an elegant and corporate design with rich
            content visuals to professionally present masses of data.</p>
        </div>

        <div class="gantry-width-60 visible-tablet">
            <p>Ricochet combines an elegant and corporate design with rich
            content visuals to professionally present masses of data.</p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="gantry-width-30">
        <div class="gantry-width-spacer">
            <div class="rt-triangle-set">
                <div class="rt-triangle-1"></div>

                <div class="rt-triangle-2"></div>

                <div class="rt-triangle-3"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Article 2

Title

An Array of Template Specific Styling for RokSprocket.

Description

<div class="gantry-width-container">
    <div class="rt-sprocket-text">
        <div class="gantry-width-70 hidden-tablet">
            <p>RokSprocket benefits from a wide range of different layout
            modes, several themes, and many configuration options.</p>
        </div>

        <div class="gantry-width-60 visible-tablet">
            <p>RokSprocket benefits from a wide range of different layout
            modes, several themes, and many configuration options.</p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="gantry-width-30">
        <div class="gantry-width-spacer">
            <div class="rt-triangle-set">
                <div class="rt-triangle-1"></div>

                <div class="rt-triangle-2"></div>

                <div class="rt-triangle-3"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Article 3

Title

A Fixed or Sliding Position aside the Full Height of the Page.

Description

<div class="gantry-width-container">
    <div class="rt-sprocket-text">
        <div class="gantry-width-70 hidden-tablet">
            <p>A side module position existing outside of the main wrapper,
            configurable to be either permanently fixed, or via a slider.</p>
        </div>

        <div class="gantry-width-60 visible-tablet">
            <p>A side module position existing outside of the main wrapper,
            configurable to be either permanently fixed, or via a slider.</p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="gantry-width-30">
        <div class="gantry-width-spacer">
            <div class="rt-triangle-set">
                <div class="rt-triangle-1"></div>

                <div class="rt-triangle-2"></div>

                <div class="rt-triangle-3"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Layout Options

Option Setting
Display Limit
Theme Showcase
Article Titles Show
Article Text Show
Preview Length
Strip HTML Tags No
Arrow Navigation Show on Hover
Pagination Show
Animation Bottom to Top
Autoplay Disable
Autoplay Delay 5
Image Resize Disable
Default Title Default Article Title
Default Article Text Default Article Text
Default Article Image Default Article Image
Default Link Default Article Link

Advanced

Option Setting
Module Class Suffix fp-roksprocket-features-showcase

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