Success with overrides in Joomla!
For once I’ve made real progress - I have successfully applied the Joomla override mechanism to all three types of ‘things’
- component output - by overriding the whole of the layout of the weblinks module so it looks more like a list of links than the default layout
- removed the sequence number from the start of each line
- removed the hit counter from the end of each line
- removed the dropdown box that selects the number of links shown on the page
- rearranged the line layout so that the link description and hyperlink are shown on one lin
- module output -
- css - by overriding the css associated with a commercial template (js_mytemplate from Joomlashack.com), to be exact
- removing the 10px top margin on the page
- removing the top border from the page
- removed the newsflash module position from the header to make more space to the right of the site title
- removed the -1px letter spacing from the site title (can’t you tell I have a design background)
- removed the -1px letter spacing from the site slogan
- put a background image into the header
- moved the site title and slogan to the right to accommodate a logo
What a difference that made to the visual appearance!