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Introducing a template to an existing site

Asked by Fiona Campbell 3 years ago Last activity 3 years ago

Short version: Have existing site and one to use template with it. Is there a best practice, blog or article that points in the right direction?

Longer version:
We have a site with over a 1000 articles that we want to update using one of the templates. Can understand the deploying of joomla with the quickstart pack and adding new content to a brand new site is a way to go but we cannot do this with the amount of articles we already have.

So I was wondering if there is a blog or article about adding a new template to a siteand then the best steps to get it to to look like the template preview or use it to its best effect with our own content.

I can install the templates ok. Website we are working on is a non public server that is part of an upgrade of our old site.

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Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
3 years ago

Hi Fiona,

Template - is only design, styles, it doesn't have demo content inside.
If you already have a website with your content - yes, you can install a new template and set it as default for all subpages or seleted - then design/appearance of front-end will change.

On your site you cannot install Quickstart -becuase it contains Joomla, components and demo content inside. But you can install it on test subdomain for preview purpose.

Pavel
3 years ago · edited

So I was wondering if there is a blog or article about adding a new template to a siteand then the best steps to get it to to look like the template preview or use it to its best effect with our own content.

Hi. Simple steps - install Helix and set it as default template, configure the appearance through available interface settings.

If this is not enough for you, then use your browser's dev tools to determine the necessary HTML selectors, use custom CSS coding by adding your code to the custom.css file to bring your site to any appearance that you want.

Therefore, a blog or article in your case will be (if you do not have CSS skills) the studing of HTML/CSS, for example using https://www.w3schools.com/, the reading Helix documentation and the studing Helix's code structure via dev tools.

Or hire someone for this work.

All this applies to any template in the market, but not only to Helix. You can use any template, as it is, with the default styles from the box. Or you can make any appearance through CSS coding.

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