Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Custom Layout Theme - Using Joomla templates

Customizing Look and Feel with free or commercial Open Source templates

Escon products now includes functionality to use Joomla templates to control and change software overall look and design at your whim.

We've taken a new approach to software layout customization. Since the Joomla template market is one of the most significant in Open Source Content management Systems, and holds dozens of excellent and fashioned designs, we've built a feature which allows to use the Joomla templates.

Software administrators are now able to choose any of available templates on the market, and then download them to /templates directory of HelpDesk or SupportPortal installation. The installed template shall be then available to choose within Configuration panel and Appearance menu.

Of course, the current approaches to theme customization still exists: "Portal Customization" page that enabled color and logo selection using a simple configuration screen and/or enabled replacement of the stock CSS style sheet with a custom one which allows significantly more control.