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Published on Friday, 01 April 2005 00:00
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Written by MamboHut
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Appendix A – Installing a
Template
If you are setting up Mambo yourself, one of the first things you will
need to do (after installing Mambo itself), is to decide on a template for your
site. There are many free templates available for Mambo, and installing and
applying a new template is quite straightforward.
Mambo templates are usually supplied in the form of a .zip file – which
is like a compressed folder containing the information needed to recreate several
files. To install a new template, save the zip file on your computer –
somewhere where you can find it easily. Then access the template installer
through the ‘site’ menu, as shown in figure a.
Figure
A – Accessing the Template Installer
Then, just point to the zip file, and click on ‘Upload File &
Install’ to install the template, as shown in figure b.
Note: Installing a template does not
automatically apply that template to your website; it just makes it available
to you. You can install many different templates if you like, and you can even
specify a different template to each menu item if you want. There is even the
possibility of allowing the end user to choose the template for themselves,
from a choice of those that you have installed (by using the ‘template chooser’
module – although this is beyond the scope of this guide).
Figure
B – Uploading and Installing a Template Package
In order to apply
a template to your website, you need to access the template
manager. You can do this by clicking on the ‘Back to Templates’ link at the
top right of the screen shown in figure b, or through the ‘site’ menu as shown
in figure c.
Figure
C – Accessing the Template Manager
In the template manager, you can select a template to apply to the
entire website, or to a particular menu option – as shown in figure d.
Figure
D – Applying a Template
If you choose to assign
the template to a particular menu option, you will be presented with a list of
menu options to choose from when you click on the ‘Assign’ toolbar button.
Select the page you want, and click on ‘Save’ to apply the template to that
page only. When you select default, a green tick will appear next to the selected
template, and any pages which have not been assigned their own template will
use the selected one.
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