Joomla Template Madness!?
February 26, 2010 under FAQ
Hi all, to cut a long story short I’ve tried to create a Joomla template in dreamweaver and got everything working, expect for the CSS - the main template just wouldn’t entertain it at all. I’ve made sure all the correct is in place in the .xml files and so on and so forth - but still, I’m about to give up - any ideas where to find a guide to run from A to Z of template creations!?
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Unfortunately there is not a good template tutorial. But as for your issue just open firefox to your main page and run firebug. Then just inspect the page and make sure the css file is referenced at the top. Then go to the css firebug tab and verify that the right css is being used for that object.
If you don’t see the css reference make sure you add it to the template header, in the main index.php file located in the root of the template folder.
There _are_ excellent template guides around.
Firstly for Joomla version 1.0.XX there are visual tutorials:http://help.joomla.org/component/option,…
My favourite is from Compass Designs, it is free, very easy to understand and for up to version 1.5!:http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/
They also supply a great blank template…
Also check out Rocket Theme’s site. They too have great tutorials:http://tutorials.rockettheme.com
With regards to CSS it sounds like the path to the stylesheet is not correct. Here’s what I use (all on one line of course when in my code - here broken up for easier reading):