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Sep 06th
| JA Genista |
| Written by MiCCAS | |
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1. Template Installation like demo version This is the guide for you to make your site look like demo, please follow the instructions step by step. a. In Administration area choose Installers->Templates - Site  b. Click browser and choose template in zip format which you have downloaded from JoomlArt.com and click Upload file & Install  c. Choose JA Genista as your default template. d. Viewing your site now, it will look similar like this  d1. Okay, now you will see that there no icons in the main navigation menu, nvm then, please extract the images package come with the template or GET IT HERE into images/stories and then select it in each menu properties.  And here is the menu after my random choosing icons:  d2. Then we need to create custom positions to place modules. Goto Site >> Template Manager >> Module Positions and create positions are: user10, search, gallery,slideshow Here is the image of all positions at the demo page:  e. Our next job is installing JA Images Slider module, which handle image rolling at bottom right, goto Menu >> Installers >> Modules and Browse for ja_imageslider package zip file. f. Goto Modules >> Site Modules and choose JA Images Slider we will got this:  If you want to know which parameter stand for, simply hover your mouse on each parameter. Put the module on the position: user6. This is the default values at demo config page:
 Remember to publised JA Content Slider. Now refresh your site to see the result.  g. Next we have to install JA Slideshow module. The installation process should be the same like above. Select JA SlideShow in the module list to see the configuration page:  Put this module to slideshow position we've created before.  Please set the parameters like below to work same like demo, you can always change them to another values to match your site:
f. Next we have to push the Login to the right module position. Select module Login and change the position to right  Then we set the order to: "Login Form" 1 then click on Save Order h. Select the module Syndicate and disable it. j. And you will say, still got different. Of course it is, since the content are always different from site to site. Now it time to edit your content to make your site more beautiful. There are more module positions at user7, user8, user9, user10 for you to put any module to them. In the demo page, we just put the sample modules to those positions, so I leave them blank for you to put any module you want to there. I hope you will enjoy with the new template. 2. Modules Introduction A. JA Content Slider (Position: user6) Slide your contents with category. Feature: This module will display your content in a slide. Its will slide one per one content with your direction. When you move your mouse over the image beside slide, The slide's direction will change with that direction in image and slide will move faster. Then, when you move your mouse out the image, the slide will keep new direction and the slide will move with old speed. You can set to use or not use ajax, if you set not module will load all product one time else module will load only one product one time. We advise you should set this option to Yes if you have a lot product and No if you have a few product. You can: - Slide your content with your width and height properties. - You can set the number of content will display in a tab. - You can set the categories contents will display. - You can set display title, link title, introtext, read more text links or not. - You can set the slide to auto run or not. Default is yes. - Set direction of slide. Default is left - Set to use zip javascript file or not. You should chose yes for this option. - And the last is set time for rolling delay time and animation time. Note: check in your configuration in your site if there isn't this line "var $absolute_path = 'your absulute path';" you have to add its there to run. - To run virture Mark on Joomla 1.5 you have to Enable " System - Legacy " in plugin Manager. - If your site hadn't import mootools.v1.1 so to run this module you have to remove all comment characters in code On line 78 in mod_ja_contentslide.php file to import mootools v1.1 Parameters Explain 
B. JA Slide Show (Position: slideshow) This module will enable you display as a slideshow all the images in specific folder of your choice Here is parameters explanation:
3. Menu Types Configuration JA Genista offers you 4 types of our traditional menu. The menus applied are JA Split Menu, JA Suckerfish Menu, Moo Menu and JA DropLine Menu. You can view the menu in action here To choose your menu type, go to the 39nd line in the "ja_genista/ja_vars.php" and change $ja_menutype to what you need. 1 is Split Menu, 2 is Suckerfish Menu, 3 is Moo Menu, 4 is Dropline Menu  4. Screen Resolution Configuration JA Genista allow you to set 2 types of screen resolution. You can easily config JA Genista template's width by modifying the Template Configurations part in the "ja_genista/index.php". To choose which screen's width you want to use, go to the line 31 of the "ja_genista/ja_vars.php" file and change the value of $ja_width_default to 'wide' (1024x768), 'narrow' (800x600),  5. Font Resizer Configuration You can also configurate the font resizer function. Go to line 35 of "ja_genista/ja_vars.php" and replace the value of $ja_font_size_default to the size you want. You can choose the font size ranged from 1 upto 6.  6. Colour Configuration JA Genista comes with 3 colours, the default blue and the alternate colors. To change default template color, go to line 26th in "ja_genista/index.php" and change $ja_color_default to the color you want ('default', 'red', 'green')  7. Tools Configuration To enable/disable the font and resolution resizer, you can use the variable $ja_tool in the 37th line onf "ja_genista/ja_vars.php"  Set to 0 to disable all, 1 to enable resolution, 2 to enable font tool and 3 to enable both resolution and font, 4 to enable only color, 5 is to enable color and resolution, 6 is to enable color and font and 7 is enable all. 8. Typography Here are the guideline help you using our pre-built typgraphies to decorate your content. The New Blockquote (with open and close quote). Use <div class="blockquote"><blockquote>Your quote goes here!</blockquote></div>  The traditional ones are: The Sticky Note. Use <p class="stickynote ">Your note</p> to form a sticky note The Download Note. Use <p class="download">Your note</p> to form a download box      9. Tips & Tricks To have best presentation like JA Genista demo, you have to config content item not show on frontpage by these steps: In administrator area, go to Menu~Mainmenu and click to Home In right zone, you will see Headline, Intro, Link set all of them to 0 to invisible all content in frontpage. And create your customs module, publish them in user1, user2, user5 modules. 14. Frequently Asked Questions Q: I want to add a template position in to my Joomla! A: Go to your Administration Panel, Site -> Template Manager -> Module Positions. Add your template positions and hit the Save button. Q: Where can I change my footer? A: If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the "ja_genista/footer.php" then modify it to suite your needs. Q: My images take a lot of white space and do not look good? A: The may show some extra padding and margin. To solve this problem, go to your Joomla! Administrator -> Mambots -> Site Mambots and change the margin and padding parameters of MOS Image mambot to 0. Q: Images without caption are stuck with text? A: It is because Joomla! generates the code different when has and doesn't have its caption. So when you decide that the image will not having a caption, put it between the div tag like this <div class="mosimage" style="float: left;"></div> Q: What's a module style? And module class suffix? A: Almost modules offer you a parameter called Module Class Suffix. Set a value for this parameter and you will have your module's appearance differs from the others. JA templates often provide you some module styles which can be found in Module Styles area of the guide. Q: I changed my default color/font/resolution but when I refresh the page, it didn't change? A: JA template use client's cookie to save your preferences. If you made change to default value, please close the browser, open a blank new window and then clear the browser's cookie. You'll see the new preferences applied. Q: Some of my menu looks horrible. Why? A: Menus in JA templates are designed with the most semantic mark up are used over the net, it's the list style. If you made change to the menu type, go to you menu module and change the menu type parameter to Flat List. It will solve the problem. Q: I want to change some graphic contents A: PSD/PNG files and fonts can be found in the template's source package. Please download the file at our download page in case you need to modify something. Q: It's just a template, why need so many steps to configure and install? A: No, it's more than just a template. The package we provided included template and related modules, components and source files. The page you see in our demo site is the set of template + module + component. If you want to make your site look like the demo page, you need to follow our instructions above |
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