I was therefore a bit miffed that I saw tables in my markup once I had installed Joomla. I did some digging around and also saw that the choice of template affected this which was encouraging.
A quick bit of searching around in the new docs wiki http://docs.joomla.org and I found several cool things
- Module Chrome: http://docs.joomla.org/What_is_module_chrome%3F. This is a nice improvement to how modules are loaded.
- And then I found this excellent tutorial on template overrides http://www.scribd.com/doc/2300107/Joomla-v-1-5-Getting-Started-with-Template-Overrides. Wow! This new system in Joomla is great. At last you can completely control the behaviour of any item without hacking the core module.
I know all Joomla 1.5 experts will know this stuff (this is a blog of a journey through learning Joomla after all.), but for me as a 1.5 newbie this is fantastic. No tables and total layout control - wicked.
I still think the Joomla crowd should make sure that the default templates delivered in the build are tableless, it would start users off on the right foot. I appreciate that there has to be backward compatibility but at least make sure the 3 delivered templates demonstrate best practise.
I'll document thoughts on this as I get results.
2 comments:
Same here.
I tought Joomla was easy in use for both me and customers but the F tables..
I also started overriding the templates, but it cost time.
Mind sharing? :)
Greets
Sorry I missed your comment, so I don't know whether you will get this.
So far I have not had to do any template overriding for modules once I had followed the instructions. The only template overrides I am having to do is where I want to change something - and I think it's a great systems
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