Setting up with a fresh version of Joomla

15July2010

Written by Administrator

Democontent - Setting Up

Setting up the Journal template in a fresh installation of Joomla is reasonably straight forward. This document assumes that you have already setup Joomla and you have also included the default Joomla sample data.

Elements to install.

• Essential elements Install the Zen Grid Framework
• Install the Journal template and set it to default
• Install the JB LIbrary plugin and enable it in the extensions > plugin manager

Optional Elements

• Install JB Slideshow
• Install Microblog
• Install the JB BB Code plugin (For two line menus)
• Install K2

Elements to unpublish

• Unpublish all modules in the right column (Optional - right column is not available in this template)
• Unpublish all modules in the left module position except for the main menu module
• Disable the module title in the breadcrumb module

Elements to publish

Publish the login module to the panel1 position.

Unpublish the default Joomla banner module that is published to the footer position.

Unpublish the default footer module that is also published to the footer position.

At this stage you should have a pretty simple and straight forward site to start creating your site from. For a detailed anlalysis of how to setup the slideshow and microblog modules on the demo site please refer to the main Joomla Bamboo documentation for the Journal template.  The screenshot below shows you the default Joomla installation after following the points above.

Another to make sure is that the main content layout is not hidden. This setting is set in the general layout parameters int he template administrator.