steps to creating own joomla template
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- donkeymusic
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adding on from a previous post i am whilst trying to update an existing template i would like to learn how to go about creating my own template and was looking for some advise.
What steps do you take when starting a new template?
ami right in thinking that you could design on paper, design in photoshop/fireworks/slice the site then to be honest not sure what the next steps are
so any help with the above would be great, thanks
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- Amandeep Singh
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You can see this link:
docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Creating_a_basic_Joomla!_template - Quick tips::
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Tutorial-- http://www.rockettheme.com/blog/team/255-tools-firebug
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- donkeymusic
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i have looked t them but was looking to speak to someone that could respond to design and coding questions that are not always answered by tutorials
thanks
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- Sam Taylor
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I have found this site to be VERY useful in the process.
www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/208-joo...mplate-tutorial.html
TO answer your question, yes you can sketch up or photoshop and slice a template. But you will be doing some extra things as you will see in the tutorial. Not a biggie since most of the stuff in there is HTML template but things to include content/modules and such are not hard to learn.
Follow that tutorial. It does coincide with the Joomla one but I find this site filled with easy to follow steps and files to download to help walk you through.
One other note, alot I have learned came from deconstructing/reverse engineering RT themes. I mostly just play around with them to learn new techniques and better CSS solutions.
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