Joomla/mambo Theme Tutorials How can I make my own themes?

[barnes 0]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for a way to make Mambo/Joomla themes? It seems a bit confusing to me...Thanks.

[Paul 0]

Its quite easy actually.

Just design a site as you normally would, but while using CSS keep in mind the classes and ids that Joomla generates by default.

If you know PHP, you can edit the com_content (components) and the joomla.php (includes) to generate content like you want it, i can tell you fron expirience that editing the core files is a pain, but once you're done, everything's looking better

Then after you create the general template, for the main body section, place this in your template

<?php mosMainBody(); ?>

and for the other module positions just place this code:

<?php mosLoadModules ('ModulePositionName'); ?>

And you can add your own custom module positions by going to:
Site >> Template Manager >> Module positions

Just play around with the original template and you'll figure it out soon

Hope this helped!

Paul
Edited May 30, 2006 by Paul (see edit history)