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JoomlArt: JA Wistery - User's Guide

1. Menu Types Configuration

JA Wistery offers you 4 types of our traditional menu. The menus applied are JA Split Menu, JA CSS Menu, JA Transmenu and JA Script Dropline Menu

To choose your menu type, go to the 32rd line in the "ja_xenia/ index.php" and change $ja_menutype to what you need.
1 is Split Menu, 2 is CSS Menu, 3 is Transmenu and 4 is Script Dropline Menu

2. Screen Resolution Configuration

JA Wistery allow you to set 3 types of screen resolution. You can easily config JA Wistery template's width by modifying the Template Configurations part in the "ja_xenia/index.php".

To choose which screen's width you want to use, go to the 24th line of the "ja_xenia/index.php" file and change the value of $ja_width_default to 'wide' (1024x768), 'narrow' (800x600) or 'auto' (100% width).

3. Font Resizer Configuration

You can also configurate the font resizer function. Go to "ja_xenia/index.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.

4. Tools Configuration

To enable/disable the font and resolution resizer, you can use the variable $ja_tool in the 25th line

5. Typography

Beside the traditional typography since JA Pollux, JA Wistery has been multiplied with 4 more typography styles:

* The Sticky Note. Use Your note to form a sticky note
* The Pin Note. Use Your note to form a pin note
* The Clip Note. Use Your note to form a clip note
* The Block Number. Use NumberYour content to form a clip note

6. JA Header Module

The flashing module you've seen in demo page is the new, style-revamped flashing header of JoomlArt. You can choose between Fade Javascript style, or Flash Object style to display your cool images. All are XHTML validated and have flexible parameters for you to configure.

* Go to your Administration Panel, and choose the Modules in Install Menu.

Then, choose the mod_ja_header.zip (you can download the file in JA Antares Club Download Folder). And then, press the Upload & Install button.
* After successfully installed, the modules will be placed at menu Modules -> Site Modules

Navigate through the list and select JA Header Module.

* In Module Detail Settings, please set up the module attributes look exactly like this image.

* In Module Parameter Settings, please set up the module parameters to suit your needs

For more information, these settings mean:

Header type: Type of the header: JavaScript or Adobe Flash.

Image type: Supported image types. Use "|" as a separator.

Image folder: The folder that module will look for images. The default folder is templates/ja_wistery/images/header. Note: Use forward slashes instead of backward slashes.

Width: Width of the header, you can use per cent or pixel as unit.

Height: Height of the header, use pixel as unit.

For JA Wistery, use 152px as the height of the module.

Timer: Time for the next image will be appeared. Use second as unit.

Order: Determine how image will appear: sequential or random.

Fadetime: Speed of the transition. Use 1 as slowest speed.

Looping: Repeat option in sequential mode.

xpos and ypos: The offset of the image in its container. Use 0 as default.

7. Modules Style

JA Wistery offers you many styles of module suffix to help you to get impressions from your blocks. Add the module suffix '-orange', '-green', '-blue' to fit the highlight module with your color theme.

8. Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where can I change my footer?
A: If you want to change or remove something in the footer, just open the "ja_wistery/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: 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.

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