I'm going round in circles. The documentation or knowledgebase seems to have no structure, or the articles seem to refer to specific templates - not general issues. I see there's a great tutorial on how to install a template using the quickstart approach, but I already have several Joomla websites, already with templates and content installed. So I need to figure out how to reconfigure the site to display using the new template design.
What would be very useful is an ordered sequence of steps that need to be followed to install (manually), configure and later customize and integrate the templates.
Firstly, I think I understand how to install a template manually to replace an existing template on a site I already have. I found the article for this, but it wasn't right at the top of the documentation. The first item should be the link to installing using quickstart, the next item in the manual should be how to install manually. And then...
I'm not sure of the next step. I've tried to modify the settings and add menus and articles to the various "modules" (?) but the result seems to be all over the place.
Please explain in more detail what you mean by adding a suffice/prefix onepage to make various selected articles part of the same front page (for those templates that have the "onepage" design, that is).
Please also explain what you mean by creating two versions of the template, one called frontpage and the other called subpages. I also tried to create two sets of menus with different access permissions, so that one shows up for guests (with login and signup buttons and different content for the front page) and another for already-logged-in users (with a logout and member profile button and member-only content for the front page).
I got something to work by having just one Main Menu and creating three permissions for the menu items: all the common menu items were public, the "sales" pages were set to guest access, and the member items were set to registered.
But then the front page seemed to get all messed up. At first, I had just anchors (#bottom-1) as the external URL to jump to a page in the menu, but this didn't work if I was on another (sub) page, because obviously the anchor in question is on another page. I then changed the URL to an absolute address: http://site.com/index.php/#bottom-1 and that seemed to work.
However, the home page (which should simply be http://www.site.com) displayed something completely different: site.com/index.php/template/joomla/users-manager/login-form. Where did all the extra text "template/joomla/users-etc" come from?
It would be very useful if you could explain the typical installation and configuration settings for this third step of building or configuring a website, viz., how to set up the front and sub pages, and configure the menu settings appropriately. Maybe a tutorial would do the trick, so we can see exactly what needs to be done step by step; and then an advanced tutorial to explain what the various alternatives could be.
I also found that three separate pages #bottom-1, #bottom-2, #bottom-3 gets displayed all in one row (with giant text instead of the font size selected in the template configuration), rather than one on top of each other in a separate "page". Please explain how to trouble-shoot these typical problems.
Otherwise, I'm afraid, I'll be clogging up the forum at every step of the way trying to get my websites configured using one (or more) of your templates. Maybe others might find this useful... this thread could then become the from-start-to-finish step-by-step tutorial that I'm asking for
Looking forward to your response and suggestions...
Thank you,
Gary
