I am making an online portal for a non-profit non-governmental network of libraries in Honduras. They want the teenagers to have their own area on the site and they want it to have somewhat of a different style that is more appealing to their age group. However, design-wise, I don`t want to make it too different, because it needs to look like it is the same site. I think I will start with the same template as the rest of the site and just modify it a little bit, maybe adding more pictures or brighter colors but keeping the layout the same. Is it possible to have two different joomla! templates for the same site?
Yes, you can have multiple templates per site.
It doesn’t matter what templates you use, so long as they share common module position names for modules that you want to use with both templates.
Make one template the default (probably the one that will be used on the most pages), and assign other templates to specific menu items. Both functions are performed in the Template Manager. It’s under the Site menu in Joomla 1.0 and the Extensions menu in 1.5.
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kathy8232001
2009 Jul 27 1The JA_purity template which is available for download on the Joomla! site allows this.
References :
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=215367
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=541&t=298272&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
Brian K
2009 Jul 27 2Yes, you can have multiple templates per site.
It doesn’t matter what templates you use, so long as they share common module position names for modules that you want to use with both templates.
Make one template the default (probably the one that will be used on the most pages), and assign other templates to specific menu items. Both functions are performed in the Template Manager. It’s under the Site menu in Joomla 1.0 and the Extensions menu in 1.5.
References :
Joomla! administrative backends.
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