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Site Shapers


So what are Site Shapers? They are quick installs of Joomla combined with all the modules, content, etc used on our demo, excluding stock photography. Within a few minutes you can have your site up, running and looking just like our demo. No more importing SQL dumps and installing modules. Just head on over to the download section of this template and grab a Site Shaper. Simply install the Site Shaper like any other Joomla installation, it's that easy!


How to setup a Site Shaper


  • Login to your cpanel or your server admin panel.
  • Locate the area where your databases are (usually labeled Mysql Databases)
  • Create a new database
  • Next create a new database user and assign it to this newly created database in the previous step
  • You will then need to extract the site shaper to either a folder on your server or the root directory such as WWW. NOTE: if you already have a website in the root of your WWW folder, we suggest creating a new folder and extract the site shaper there. If your cpanel does not have an extract option or you cannot find it, you may also extract the contents of your site shaper in to a folder on your desktop and upload all the files via an ftp client to your server.
  • Next, navigate to the url where you extracted the site shaper via your web browser.
  • Continue through each screen until you reach the below screenshot:



  • At the above screen be sure to enter localhost as shown, continue to fill in the following text fields with your newly created database and username information
  • Follow through the rest of the site shaper setup and click the install sample data at the last screen and the installation is complete! (be sure to rename/remove the installation directory after finishing the install)



Tool Tips


Note - The tool tips script is by default disabled. If you wish to use it you must enable this script in the template's configuration area. This also includes site shaper installations.



Demo 1:


Demo 2:
Demo 2 Image Tool Tip

Demo 3:
Demo 3 Image Tool Tip

S5 Image and Content Fader

The module for this months design is published to a top row position. These positions are designed to underlay the logo and menu.

This module can be viewed at the top of this page. This specific style of the module can only be used with this template. Publish your own content into each slide transition and for multiple slide transition effects, navigation arrows and also a drop down gallery tab that allows you to select a slide via a thumbnail. The S5 Image and Content Fader v3 is powered by Mootools by default but still includes the S5 Effects library and allows you to use it in a "legacy module" if you are experiencing script conflicts. Best of all it's free!

NOTE: Legacy mode will display all your images, titles and slide text but includes limited functionality thus it does not include navigation arrows or the new drop down gallery tab.

Features at a glance:

  • NEW - Responsive layout compatible
  • horizontal sliding transition
  • Choose between 4 slide transitions: Fade, Continuous Horizontal, Fade Slide Left, Continuous Vertical
  • Specify height and width of module
  • Includes a gallery tab drop down to show all images
  • Each image slide can have its own hyperlink
  • Show up to 10 images at once
  • Publish your own content to each picture slide
  • Navigation arrows
  • Not all slides require titles
  • Change delay time
  • Hide or show: Navigation arrows, thumbnail carousel and popup text



Admin side of the module:







Tutorial


For this month we've done some CSSing to get the image and content fader to appear like it does. So first off to get your description text to appear like on the homepage you need to wrap your text with the following:

<span class="s5_darkback">your text here</span>

Next if you plan to use an image like the laptop image we have used on the homepage you will need to add the following class to the image so that it is aligned properly:

<img class="s5_imagefader_position" src="/demo/cleanout/image url here" />


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How To Setup the Search Box and Menus

1. Column Menu Setup

  • Publish any menu module to the main body module positions on your site.
  • There should be no menu style suffixes applied under advanced parameters.
  • The menu style should be set to list.

2. Top and Bottom Menu Setup

  • Publish any menu to the 'bottom_menu' or 'top_menu' position.
  • There are no menu style suffixes applied under advanced parameters.
  • The menu style should be set to list

Page, Column and Row Widths


Fixed or Fluid Width


This template has the ability to set the entire width of your set to either a fixed pixel width or a fluid percentage width. You can set the width to any size you want.


Column Widths


You may also set the widths of the following positions to any width that you need to: left, left_inset, right, and right_inset. You may set them to any width you need to.

Row Widths


This template comes loaded with module positions, many of which appear in rows of 6 module positions. Any row that contains 6 module positions can have it's row columns set to automatic widths or manual. For example, in the picture below the first row shows 4 modules published and since it's set to automatic each is set to 25% width. The second row shows a manual calculation for each module in the row. Again, you may do this for any row that contains 6 modules. If you setup a manual calculation they must total to 100%. Not all 6 modules need to be used, as shown below.

All of this is done very easily in the template configuration.


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