To access the social network settings included in the template control panel complete the following steps.
Log into the administrator area of your website
Select the Extensions menu
Template Manager menu
Open the template you have installed to access the control panel
Open the community links tab
You will now see a number of fields where you can enter the URL for the social networking site plus in version 2 of the control panel you will see a slider switch which you can slide from OFF to ON
For example to display only the Twitter image in the header of the design you would enter the twitter URL in the field following by your twitter user account and slide the switch next to the field from OFF to ON
If you want to disable all the other social network images just leave the fields blank and slide the switch next to each option to OFF
Once you have made the changes select the Save & Close button and updates will appear in the header of the template.
A number of the templates we have released at the website come with a easy to use built-in slideshow which is great for getting your customers attention about the services or products you have to offer.
The slideshow is not a separate extension or module which you need to install via Joomla the slideshow is built into the template.
To find out more information about how to use and setup the slideshow read the knowledge base article noted below.
To access and update the settings included in the control panel complete the following
Log into the Joomla administrator area of your website
Select the Extensions menu and Template Manager menu
Click on the template you have installed to open the control panel
Open the slideshow setting tab included in the control panel and you will now see the following
For more information about how to use the settings included in the slideshow hover your mouse over the text next to each setting and a help tip box will appear which will include more information.
For both the site name and slogan settings you have the option to display an image which you can upload to the website or to use text which will appear in the header area of the template.
If you want to use text you need to turn the site name and slogan image option to OFF or to NO
If you want to use an image for the site name and slogan turn the site name and slogan image options to ON or YES
If you want to use text for the site name and slogan you need to enter the text into the site name title field and slogan title field
After you have made the changes to the settings select the SAVE button to save the changes
How Do I Update The Site Name And Slogan Images
If you want to use images for the site name and slogan complete the following steps.
Step 1 Create The New Images
Create two new PNG format images for the site name and slogan name
We recommend you name the images sitename.png and slogan.png
Step 2 Upload The Images To Your website
1. From the site name and slogan settings tab you will see two options to upload the images to your website.
The first option is the built-in site name and the second is select your slogan.
To upload the site name and slogan PNG images you have created just choose the select button next to each setting and the following will now appear.
2. To upload the new image select the Browse button to choose the image you want to upload from your computer.
3. To upload the image select the blue Start Upload button to upload the image to the website.
4. Once the image is uploaded to the website you can select the image from the directory view as show in the above screen shot.
5. After you have clicked on the image select the blue insert button to insert the image into the control panel field.
Once you have uploaded both site name and slogan images click the save and close button to save the changes to the control panel and the new images will appear in the header area of the template.
The log in form setting is great if you want to give web site visitors quick access to register a new account or to log into your website.
If you have enabled user registration at the website then the register button will appear next to the log in button in the header of the template as shown in the screen shot below.
Before using this setting you must enable & publish the default Joomla log in module to the loginform module position.
To enable the log in form setting in the control panel complete the following
Open the template control panel
Select the user accounts settings tab
You will now see the option to enable or disable the setting using the ON & OFF slider
To enable the settings Slide the switch to ON
The log in form will now appear
To turn the log in form off just slide the switch to the OFF position
The basic settings included in the control panel allows you to easily change the default font size for the template which will be applied to the text you have created and published at your website.
To access the basic settings included in the control panel for Joomla template complete the following steps
Log into the administrator area of your website
Select the Extensions menu and Template Manager menu
Click on the template you have installed at your website
Open the basic settings included in the control panel
From here you can change the default font size
Example if you want to change the default font size from 12px to 13px then just update the value in the field
Once you have made the changes click on the Save & Close button
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