How to Customize the Rocket Theme Joomla Templates
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by admin in Joomla Tutorials.
Rockettheme.com is a membership based website that provides intricate web designs and amazing templates for your Joomla website. RocketTheme.com offers full range of quality Joomla templates, which can be customized according to your requirements. The Rocket Theme templates are shipped with the rocket launcher which is used to instantly deploy the Joomla website.
The Rocket Theme templates are professionally designed and every template has a number of options for designs, colors and styles. In this tutorial, you will learn that How to Customize the Rocket Theme Templates.
The Rocket Theme templates feature stylistics and unique designs, which provide special touch to your websites. With few modifications, you can change the look and feel of your Rocket Theme Joomla templates.
When you download a template from Rockettheme.com, you also need to download the rocket launcher. The Rocket launcher integrates the full Joomla application and your selected design. The Rocket Theme templates include the preset style options, built-in font configurations, tabbed modules, versatile module positions and a number of pre-configured components.
After downloading the rocket launcher, unzip all the files and upload to your web server through FTP. The Joomla installation procedure is covered in our other tutorial “How to Install Joomla from Scratch”.
After you successfully installed the Joomla with the rocket launcher you have the options to modify color, font, design, style, module positions, logo customization and virtually any other change which you want to make in your Joomla website.
To make the basic customization in your Rocket Theme Joomla template, you need to make the changes in the following two files.
- HTML (Template File)
- CSS
You can access these files by logging on to your Joomla control panel. In the Extensions menu click “Template Manager”.
Select your template and click edit on the top right corner.
On the next page you will find a number of configuration options.
Here you can change the style, width, color, font size, header, menu type, menu name, menu transition and a number of other options.
Click “Edit HTML” from the top right menu and once the template file is opened, make the necessary changes carefully and save the file. It’s recommended that you take backup of your Joomla files before making any changes.
Similarly you can make changes in the CSS file to change the color, font size/style and number of other formatting options.
On the main home page of Template Manager, click “Edit CSS” and on the next page select your desired CSS file and click edit.
After making the required changed click “Apply and “Save”.
With the abovementioned methods you can make many modifications in your Rocket Theme Joomla website. With the following tutorials, you can learn that how to make the advanced customizations in your Rocket Theme Joomla Template.
http://tutorials.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/terrantribune-tutorials
