Website Design Forum

**TechArt_1117** · 07-06-2011, 10:56 AM

Hi, Im trying to create a Joomla template from an already made html site
http://srty.webs.com/index.html
(Look at the source code)

Although Its not working
http://showroomtoyou.com/
(Joomla Site)

Does anyone have any tutorials on how to build a joomla template? I couldn't find any good ones. I have to get this done by this afternoon so easy tutorials would be awesome.

This is what I have, (Look at http://srty.webs.com/index.html source code for html and css)

XML Code:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE install PUBLIC "-//Joomla! 1.6//DTD template 1.0//EN" "http://www.joomla.org/xml/dtd/1.6/template-install.dtd">
<extension version="1.6" type="template" client="site">[b]
<name> Srty Default </name>
<creationDate>02/07/2011</creationDate>
<author>Fake</author>
<authorEmail>fake@live.com</authorEmail>
<authorUrl>www.showroomtoyou.com</authorUrl>
<copyright>2011</copyright>
<license>GNU/GPL</license>
<version>1.6.4</version>
<description>Website Template</description>
    <files>
      <filename>index.php</filename>
      <filename>templateDetails.xml</filename>
      <filename>index.html </filename>
      <filename>template_thumbnail.png</filename>
      <folder>css</folder>
   </files>
<positions>
    <position>head</position>
    <position>businessName</position>
    <position>sideModule</position>
    <position>component</position>
    <position>footer</position>
</positions>
</extension>

PHP Code:

Code:

<?php defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
   xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" >

<head>
<jdoc:include type="head" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/system/css/system.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/system/css/general.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template?>/css/template.css" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="businessName" />
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="sideModule" /> 
<jdoc:include type="component" />
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="footer" />
</body>

</html>

File Tree:

Code:

srtyDefault
    /css
        /images
            ...AllTheImages
        template.css
    index.html
    index.php
    template_thumbnail.png
    templateDetails.xml

**Giselle** · 07-06-2011, 03:11 PM

Hello TechArt,

I would stick with these Forum People, unless someone here might have some other ideas. Looks like they are giving you sound advice.