We have released our new line of Joomla templates.  These templates are managed using the Joomla web interface.  Below are the installation instructions to get you started.

Joomla requires that you have a hosting account with MySQL, PHP, and Apache.  We suggest that you use a Linux web server.  In preparation for this install you should create a MySQL database and a user that has full access to the database.  You will need to keep the user, database, and password you created for the installation

1)      Download the Joomla package from http://www.joomla.org/download.html

2)      Unzip the Joomla download and upload it to your hosting account

3)      Open a browser and navigate to your domain

4)      Choose your language and click next

5)      This screen verifies that all settings on your hosting server are ready for the installation.  After making sure you server is ready click next

6)      Agree to the license information and click next

7)      You will enter your data base information on this screen.   After you have entered this information click next

8)      Enter the FTP information for your hosting account

9)      Enter your site information in this area.  For the login and password use:
administrator:admin
password:admin

10)   Using your hosting control panel and phpmyadmin import the dumb.txt that was included with your downloaded file from us.

11)   Upload the files from the security zip that was included with your downloaded files from us

12)   Remove the folder on your hosting account “installation”

13)   Log into your administration panel at http://yourdomain.com/administration with user:admin and password: admin .  Choose “Site” and “user management” and immediately change your password to a more secure password

Font types and sizes: http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/font.php
HTML color codes:  http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/htmlcolorcodes.php

For this example I am using http://flash-template-design.com/preview.php?tid=1832 .  After you have downloaded the website template you will need Winrar to open the file (http://www.rarlab.com/) .  The evaluation version will be sufficient.

Editing the  text

Use Winrar to open and extract the website template to a folder.    Open the folder and navigate to the folder “swf-html”.  This folder contains the files that control the way your template appears.   Each section of the template will have its own folder and inside that folder is a text document that you will edit.

As an example:

Inside the contact-txt folder the contact.txt file controls the contact page

After you have edited the highlighted areas you should save the text file.  Go through each folder and customize each of the folders (home-text, team-txt, and work-txt).

Setting up the contact form

Setting up the contact form is done using the form.txt .

The highlighted section of this text should be updated to your information.  This controls where the contact form will send the emails from your site.

Editing the images on the website template

Areas of the website template have images that you will want to replace for instance:

The images for this portion of the website template are located in the swf-html\images folder.    Place your replacement images in the folder and edit the text file located in swf-html\team-txt

Editing the website template music:

The number of tracks that are played throughout the website template are controlled by the total_tracks.txt .

You can increase this to as many tracks as you want to play while a visitor is on the site or put 0 to remove the music all together.   Place the music in the folder swf-html\music .  Rename the music to mp3-0 increasing the last digit for each track you add.

After making the changes to the template you will use FTP or you hosting company’s control panel to upload the files to your hosting account.

We are here to support our customers.  If you have any questions or suggestions contact us at support@flash-template-design.com