Build a Joomla Template From an Empty Folder
A Joomla template is ordinary HTML with a handful of placeholders in it. Strip away the frameworks and the starter kits and a working template is three files…
Templates & Frontend
Template building, markup, CSS and frontend techniques.
How to Organise Stylesheets in a Joomla 6 Template
Template CSS starts tidy and ends as one long file nobody wants to touch. Most of what preprocessors were adopted for — variables, nesting, splitting files…
Build a Custom Error Page in Your Joomla Template
The default error page has nothing to do with your design, and a visitor who hits a broken link gets dropped onto something that looks like a different site…
Put the Joomla Login Form in a Modal Dialog
A login form sitting permanently in a sidebar takes up room on every page for something visitors need once. Moving it into a modal is a template job, not an…
Using Bootstrap in a Joomla 6 Template Without Loading All of It
Joomla ships Bootstrap 5, and the question for a template author is not whether to use it but how much of it to pull in. The asset manager registers each…