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General website template layout

Objectives:

• Learn how your site html template is laid out (image below).
• Understand that there are extra publishing elements added to Joomla!
• Realise these can be moved around to different page locations.

Open your school website

• With a web browser open to http://yourschool.eq.edu.au/wcms/

View the general layout of your site

• Layout of the website html/php Template
  • Areas controlled and predefined by HTMP/PHP code (web experts only).
    
• Like most templates, this one has a:
  • Header area at the top set in code for the whole site.
  • Footer area at the bottom also set for the whole site.
  • Left column area to which items (e.g. menus for navigation) can be added/removed
    • on a page-by-page or site area basis.
  • Right column area which has the same ability as the left column
    • traditionally used to locate extra site functional elements...
    • see links at the bottom of this page for more information
  • Centre Content pane used to display page information.

• Type of page elements and how they are used.
• Modules and moving Modules to different module positions.
• Organise layout of page elements with the Module positions tutorial.

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