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Welcome to another article in our tutorial series on creating a Joomla 3.0 template<\/a>. In our last tutorial, we showed you how to install the Joomla 3.0 template<\/a> that we are in the middle of creating. Installing a template does not immediately activate it, and so we will show how to change your Joomla 3.1 site template<\/strong> in this tutorial.<\/p>\n

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Please note!<\/b> The steps in this tutorial for changing site templates applies regardless of whether you are following our tutorial series and installing the template we are creating, or if you downloaded a Joomla 3.0 template<\/a> from the web.<\/p>\n

Changing your Joomla 3.0 Site Template:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Log into your Joomla 3.0 administrative dashboard<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. In the top menu, click Extensions<\/b> and then click Template Manager<\/b>.<\/li>\n
  3. \"click<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n

    You will see two types of templates, Site<\/em> and Administrator<\/em>. In this tutorial, we are changing Site templates<\/em> (the templates that affect the front end of our website).<\/p>\n

    In the list of templates, click the hollow star next to the Site Template that you would like to activate. You will then receive the following message:<\/p>\n

    Message<\/b>\nDefault style successfully set<\/em><\/pre>\n
    In the screenshots below, you can see that after choosing a new site template, the look and feel of our Joomla 3.0 website has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
    \n
    BEFORE:
    \nDefault Protostar Template<\/div>\n<\/th>\n
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    AFTER:
    \nBasic Joomla 3.0 Template selected<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
    \"previous<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n<\/td>\n
    		\"new<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
    Please note!<\/b> If you\u2019re following along with our tutorial series on creating a Joomla 3.0 template, you\u2019ll want to read our next article on How to add javascript to Joomla 2.5 articles<\/a>. If you can see in the screenshot above, the template does not look all that impressive, at this point it is just a mess because our CSS file is not being loaded (which we will explain more in our next tutorial).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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