How to give your Joomla template a native app look

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In this tutorial I will be building on the full screen home page design that I demonstrated in last month's tutorial How to create a full screen photograph home page to create a more native app look to the template.

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Cassiopeia, Joomla’s powerful built-in template: how to modify the header with css grid

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With Joomla's built-in powerhouse template, also known as Cassiopeia, you can do so much more than you’d think. In this tutorial we’ll create a slim and stylish header with just CSS!

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Templates and frameworks for Joomla - EPISODE V: the last 5

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The Future is bright for Joomla 5 (and beyond)…

EPISODE V: T3, Extendible TM, GK, YT & Plazart Frameworks

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How to create a full screen photograph home page

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Everything I am going to show here could have been done by creating my own template but as I wanted to ensure that it would be future proof I have done it with CSS, a tiny bit of javascript, and existing Cassiopeia template options. 

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Templates and frameworks for Joomla EPISODE IV: UIKit, Gavern, Gantry

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The Future is bright for Joomla 5 (and beyond)…


EPISODE IV: UIKit, Gavern, and Gantry Frameworks


As we have seen in the last 3 episodes in this series, you have options in building a Joomla 5.x website:

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EPISODE III: Sparky, Astroid and T4 Frameworks

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In this third episode of the series about templates and frameworks for Joomla, Emmanuel Lemor shows us three popular frameworks: Sparky, Astroid and T4.

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Building your site in Joomla 5 - Episode II: Focus: Helix Ultimate 2.x

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When it comes to building your website in Joomla 5.x, you have a few options as mentioned in Episode I, you could use the built-in template of Cassiopeia, custom fields, tags etc and opt for the great built-in option: Joomla's Built-in Content Templates Page Builder, as presented in the article by Brian Teeman or like so many of us, you could opt for one of the Template Frameworks and possibly Visual Page Builders that exist… (for a reminder on those, check out May’s Episode I where I set the groundwork for this series).

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Collapsible sections with Bootstrap

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Do you have pages with a lot of content, or do you want to create a page where the visitor can decide for themselves which info they’d like to see (like an FAQ page)? An accordion is perfect for that. The visitor gets an overview of the topics, clicks on the interesting ones and the content gets revealed. And the good part is: you don’t need an extension for this, you can do it with a little tweaking - creating an override - of one of Joomla’s core views. Here’s how you do it!

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Templates for Joomla - Episode 1: Templates, Frameworks & Clubs or not…

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In less than 4 months, Joomla will turn 19 - and boy has it evolved into a truly powerful, very capable, yet easy to use solid and accessible young adult (and platform). Thanks to not just its vibrant community of promoters, testers, developers, documenters, marketers and helpers but also our component, module, and plugin builders that are all around - and a very appreciated part of the Joomla project. 

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Less than 10 mins to change the design of the login module

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"Joomla is complicated", "Joomla is for tech guys", "Joomla isn't user friendly". These are just a few of the most common (unfair) critics - or rather: assumptions - I've read about this awesome CMS.

In fact, Joomla is exactly like any other CMS or topic: cooking, astrophysic, woodcraft, scuba diving, etc. It's complicated if you don't take time to learn and to train about a minimum.

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