Beginner's Guide

Would you like to change later only the colours of the template, you can simply modify the files
personal.css or nature.css as desired. The positioning of the content remains the same, as they are
defined in other files.
All style templates are still arbitrarily modifiable and can be amended by template developers to
include additional templates.
In the design of the source code I have taken into account to offer the maximum possible creative
variations by modifying the CSS files. I'm telling you that very, very quietly, but in their own way, the
Beez templates are something like frameworks and save you a lot of working steps.
POSITION OF THE NAVIGATION
For aesthetic reasons or to improve the search engine friendliness and accessibility, it may be
necessary to position the navigation before or after the content. Both versions of the Beez templates let
you choose between two options in the backend.
Figure 2: Select position of the navigation
The navigation is visually and semantically positioned before or after the content and formatted by
use of CSS.
If you open the index.php of beez_20 or or the template you have already modified, you can find
around line 27 the following assignment:
$navposition = $this->params->get('navposition');
The variable $navposition is assigned to the currently selected value in the backend. The variable
expels the value left or center. Left represents the position before the content, center stands for the
positioning after the content.
The term center seems to be a little confusing here, it would be logically better to say it is right. But
depending on how you design the CSS, you can place the navigation in three-column view in the middle.
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
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