Did you ever need to create a page where this is no article present or no component to be shown, and only load modules? This template makes it all possible! From the template configuration page you can hide the main content area on any page on the site.
Below is a screenshot of this function from the configuration page, found under the General tab:
This template includes limited support of CSS3 for IE7 and IE8. With the power of css3, websites can now be built much faster and with far
less code. Design features such as gradients or shadows that used to be
created and then called as images on the page are now simply called
by css code. Transition effects that used to require full javascript libraries can
now be called with less than 1kb of text. Rounded corners that used to
require upwards of eight wrapping div elements can now be done with a
single element. What does this mean for you? Simple, a lightning fast website,
that becomes even more search engine friendly.
Many modern browsers such as Firefox4 of IE9 already support CSS3 natively, but where does that leave IE7 and IE8? Thankfully a great solution called CSS PIE (Progressive Internet Explorer) has been introduced and is integrated into this template. Simply put, CSS PIE a script that upgrades IE7 and 8 to support most CSS3 formatting. There are slight variations and some CSS3 formatting isn't supported, but overall it does a great job and allows us to extend CSS3 support to IE7 and 8.
This template includes a scroll to feature that will scroll your page to a specified section of your site. All you have to do is create an external link in your menu manager and then in the URL area enter in any ID on your page. You can reference any of the following IDs in order:
- #s5_header_area1
- #s5_top_row1_area1
- #s5_top_row2_area1
- #s5_top_row3_area1
- #s5_center_area1
- #s5_bottom_row1_area1
- #s5_bottom_row2_area1
- #s5_bottom_row3_area1
- #s5_footer_area1
Screenshot of admin area of an external menu item with DIV reference entered:
This template includes a "Fixed Tab" option that you can enable and publish on your site and will show in a fixed position on either the left or right side of the screen. The great feature about the fixed tabs is that you can enter any text you desire and the text is automatically flipped vertically! This is great for search engines to read your text and also saves the hassle of creating an image with vertical text and placing it on the side of your site. The tabs are published site wide and can have the following options that can be changed via the template parameters area and can link to any URL that you desire.
The following is a quick list of features:
- Change background to any hex color
- Change the border to any hex color
- Change the font to any hex color
- Set vertical position of each tab
- Set the height of each tab
- Set each tab to either the left or right of the screen
- Add a class to each fixed tab to enable s5 box or perhaps a lightbox or other 3rd party extension
- Add a URL to each fixed tab so onclick the URL loads
- Enter any text you desire
This template comes with CSS tabless overrides for the main Joomla content, overriding the default table layout. This makes your content much more accessible to search engines.
Do you want your own custom font? Not a problem, this template comes with Google Fonts enabled, allowing you to pick from over a dozen font families for your website. In the template parameters area of the template you can choose your own custom font, and preview it from the Vertex interface. Below are some examples of the fonts available.