Using Typography
A guide to implementing the included Akiraka typography styles and elements into your site as well as instructions for inserting typography using the HTML editor option of your WYSIWYG editor.
Video Tutorial Currently Available! Launch the Joomla Using Typography Video Tutorial now!Every RocketTheme template has its own set of content styles, these styles are known as Typography. Typography can come in a number of varying and diverse formats, ranging from simple text modifications to image insertions to improve the look, layout of your website and give it life. This tutorial will take you through the necessary steps to adding typography to your Joomla! content.
Inserting Typography with the HTML Editor
To insert the Typography into your content, you must use the HTML feature of all Joomla! content editors. The following tutorial will outline the steps in which to does this with the default Joomla! content edit, TinyMCE. Please be aware, even though there are other content editors available, all are basically the same and the steps with be just as effective if you are using another Content editor.
Please note that the following tutorial will show you how to insert HTML (typography) into Article, the same procedure is apparent for Content Items and Custom modules. You may skip steps 4 and 5 if you are using No WYSIWYG editor or you using RokCandy.Step 1 - Login
Login to the Joomla! Administration Control Panel. Go to www.yoursite.com/administrator. Enter the Administrator's Username and password.Step 2 - Navigation
Navigate to the Article Manager. Hover over the Content link on the top taskbar, scroll down to Article Manager.Step 3 - Article Manager
When you have selected the Article Manager link, you will be sent to the Article Manager control panel. Select either Edit (after selecting a particular content item) or New, depending on whether you want to add typography to an existing or new item.Step 4 - HTML Icon
To add typography to your content, you must enter the HTML mode of your Content editor. In the TinyMCE editor, this an icon called "HTML", in some other content editors, it is a tab. Press the icon to enter HTML mode. This step is not necessary if you are using No WYSIWYG editor.Step 5 - HTML Mode
A popup shall appear with your content in HTML format, only if you are using TinyMCE, with other editors, a new tab may become selected. You shall do all your editing here for typography.Step 6 - Inserting HTML
You then proceed to add your HTML coding into the tab/textbox that appears in front of you. This can be any HTML such as span class typography or styled lists.- Color Chooser
- RokCandy
- Ajax Search
- RokTabs
The return of the Color Chooser is upon us, but in a revolutionary, administrator only form. The Color Chooser is an ideal feature to help web developers quickly, and easily change and test the colour scheme of their sites. Akirka has been constructed to be fully transparent and all the colours are generated by the Color Chooser, comfortable situated in the Template Manager parameters for the template.
The all new plugin from RocketTheme which allows you to implement typography easily, without fear of the WYSIWYG editor ruining your formatting and allows you, and/or your clients to add them to your content with ease. This is through a method similar to BBcode in a modern. WYSIWYG friendly syntax can be used, or even custom custom configured that will transform a set snippet to the correct HTML when it is parsed by Joomla.
RokAjaxSearch brings fantastic search functionality to Joomla, using the powerful and versatile javascript library, Mootools.
So, what does the module do? The best description is an example, simple type test in the search box in the upper right of Akiraka and wait ... and a popup shall materialise, showcasing the Joomla search results for you.
RokTabs, the fully independent and incredible flexible standalone version of the former RokSlide. The module itself is installable into Joomla! and can be easier utilised on any template, not just Akiraka. As the name implies, it is a tabbed based module used to efficiently showcase your content to your visitors.