bt arise user manual v2.0

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Copyright 2012 Bowthemes Inc.| [email protected]

BT ARISEJOOMLA TEMPLATE

User guideVersion 1.1
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Contents

troduction ....................................................................................................................................................................3

1. Template Features ......................................................................................................................................3

2. Compressed File Contents ........................................................................................................................3

3. Accompanying Extensions .......................................................................................................................4

stalling ...........................................................................................................................................................................5

1. System Requirement...................................................................................................................................5

2. T3 Framework Plug-in ..............................................................................................................................5

3. BT Arise template ........................................................................................................................................6

4. BT Arise Quickstart package ..................................................................................................................7

odule Configuration .................................................................................................................................................8

1. BT Slideshow (position: slideshow) .....................................................................................................8

2. BT Content Slider (position: content-mass-top).............................................................................9

3. BT Google Map (position: googlemap)............................................................................................ 13

4. BT Twitter Feed (position: user9)..................................................................................................... 14

5. BT Login(position: loginload)............................................................................................................. 16

6. BT Facebook Like Box(position: position-7)................................................................................. 18

7. Images size in K2 component.............................................................................................................. 19

emplate Customization ........................................................................................................................................ 21

emplate Layout ........................................................................................................................................................ 23

emplate Profile ......................................................................................................................................................... 25

odule Positions ........................................................................................................................................................ 27

odule Variations ..................................................................................................................................................... 29

ypography................................................................................................................................................................... 30

ecommendations ..................................................................................................................................................... 31

ontacting Bowthemes ........................................................................................................................................... 32


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ntroduction

T Arise is the first free template for Joomla 1.6 and 1.7 of BowThemes Club,

equently used as Corporate website template. Because of its clean and multi-

urpose design, still now, BT Arise is always one of the most downloaded free

mplates. This is a good start for many professional templates released by us. Its

ur commitment that all our templates are going to be elegant, professional

esigned and coded by our team of experts.

1. Template Features Running on T3 Framework Version 2 05 Colors themes support, 04 Menu type options Inbuilt Google Fonts configuration 20+ module positions and various module class suffix Improved style of Joomla! Core system pages. Multiples modules suffix's build-in template for module styling. Inbuilt CSS and Javascript Compression Template support for MooTools 1.2 Delivered with source Adobe .PSD files Compatibility with Joomla 2.5, Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7 Cross Browser Support: IE7+, Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, Chrome 8+, Opera 9+

2. Compressed File Contentshe BT Arise Template zipped in file has contents such as following:

Extensions (components, modules and plug-ins) Documentation License Photoshop files Quickstart Screenshots All the files are contained in a zip archived. You need to extract them by using

Winrar, Stuffit or your archiving tools
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3.Accompanying Extensionshis template comes with 06 powerful extensions:

BT Slideshow module BT Content Slider module BT Social Plug-in BT Login Module BT Twitter Feed BT Facebook Likebox


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nstalling

1.System Requirement A working installation of Joomla 2.5 or 1.6 or 1.7

To install this template you must have a working version of Joomla already installed. For

formation regarding to installing the Joomla platform, please refer to:

ttp://docs.joomla.org/Beginners#Install_Joomla.21

T3 framework plug-in installed and enabled.2. T3 Framework Plug-in

order to use Bowthemes template, you have to make sure that the plugin JAT3

ramework is installed and enabled.

Installing T3 Frameworkthe Joomla administration panel, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to Extension Manager

Step 2: Browse the install package

Step 3: Click Upload & Install
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Enabling T3 Frameworkthe Joomla administration panel, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to Plug-in Manager

Step 2: Find JAT3 Frameworks position

Step 3: Check the Status to publish this framework

Step 4: Save the change

3. BT Arise template Installing the template

the Joomla administration panel, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to Extension Manager

Step 2: Browse the install package

Step 3: Click Upload & Install

he template file name is: bt_arise_template_j!25_v1.1.zip


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Publishing the templatethe Joomla administration panel, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to Template Manager

Step 2: Find BT Arise position

Step 3: Check the star icon at Default column to make BT Arise the default template

Installing needed plug-in components and modulehe installation procedure is the same as installing the template

4. BT Arise Quickstart package How a Quickstart package works?

Quickstart package is a total Joomla website installation kit that installs the template and

l of the components and plug-ins onto your server at once.

owthemes provides quickstart package for each template which aims to easy to use and

omfortable for users. It will help you save much time of installing and configuring if you

an to start your site from the beginning. Installing Quickstart package is quite easy as you

stall normal Joomla!

How to install a Quickstart packageease refer this instruction in Bowthemes Website:

tp://bowthemes.com/how-to-install-bow-themes-template-quickstart-pack.html
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Module Configurationhe example below show how to configure Bowthemes modules to make them display in

our template like the way they do inthe demo page.

1. BT Slideshow (position: slideshow) Details

Images Gallery
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Global Setting

Source Setting


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Effect Setting

Advanced Options


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3. BT Google Map (position: googlemap) Details

Basic Options


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Preferences

Appearance

Advanced Options


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5. BT Login(position: loginload) Details


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Basic Options


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Advanced Options

6. BT Facebook Like Box(position: position-7) Details


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Basic Options

7. Images size in K2 component


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K2 Layout Configuration


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Template Customization

1. Changing logo in headerhere are two ways to change logo image located on top of the template:

1stwayst replace thet3_logo_light_17.pngon your template folder with the one youwant on the

p of your site (rename the image file in png first). The folders path is:

\templates\bt_arise\images.

2nd waypen file: ...\templates\bt_arise\css\template.css

- On line 324: Replace the name t3_logo_light_17.png by your logos name- On line 326 and 327: Replace logos height and width here2. Changing logo in footer

administrator, go to Extensions -> Module Manager, find the position logo-footer, then

pload your image logo (Logo footer is custom html module).

3. Changing color themehe templates administration panel allows you to customize a lot of features regarding the

mplate layout, color profile and other settings like file compressions. Once youve

stalled the template, the first decision you have to make is which profile you are going to

se for your site.

ou can also select any of the other profile as your primary profile:

- Open the template's administration panel- Click on the profile tab and scroll down to the advanced settings to use for your site- Select the profile you want to use

here are six profiles included in the template. A default profile is already loaded. This

rofile is the backbone of the template.


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the Theme settings section, please click on the edit icon. A pop up will display the

rofiles list.

elect your desired profile by ticking the little box to the right, then click Apply.

croll up the page and save the changes you just made.


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Template Layouthe BT Arise template comes with one default layout made up of 03 columns:

ain - Left - Right

he layout parameters are contained in XML files which can be customized from the

mplates administrator panel, to generate these following layouts: Left - Main, Left Right

Main, Main - Left, Main Left - Right, Main - Only, Main - Right, Main Right - Left, Right

ain - Left.


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ou can also customize the positions by simply moving the blocks around.

or an in-depth read on layout customization, please check out article about JA T3

ramework on the Wikipedia:

ttp://wiki.joomlart.com/wiki/JA_T3_Framework_2/Guides#Default_Layout
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Template Profilehe template contains five color profiles:

Default Blue Cyan

Deep Orange Purple

ou can manage these profiles through the profiles panel found in the template

dministration panel.


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With this panel, you are free to create, clone, edit, delete (your own) profiles. In addition,

r each profile you can customize all template settings: logo, font-size, layouts, menu

ystem, colortheme, text-direction, etc. All these settings are split into several sections as you

an see in the illustrated image. You can easily select a profile as your default profile for your

ebsite as well.


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Module Positions

T Arise comes with 20+ built-in module positions. The number of modules contained in

ach module position is unlimited. For example: you can have 2 or 3 modules in the left

odule position.

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r more understanding.
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Module Variations

here are six special module styles, namely:

Position-7 User1 User2 User3 User8 User9

ach style is activated by assigning a module class suffix to the module. You can see moreetails on the page:

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pecial module styles
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Recommendations

Joomla

omla quickstart guide

ttp://help.joomla.org/ghop/feb2008/task048/joomla_15_quickstart.pdf

omla Getting Started - http://docs.joomla.org/Getting_Started_with_Joomla%21_1.5

3 Framework Overview - http://wiki.joomlart.com/wiki/JA_T3_Framework_2/Overview

Extensions

2 - http://getk2.org/

T Slideshow - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-slideshow.html

T Content Slider - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-content-slider.html

T Login - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-login-module.html

T Facebox Like Box - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-facebook-like-box.html

T Twitter Feed - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-twitter-feed.html

T Google Map - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-google-maps.html

T Social Plugin - http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-social-plugin.html
http://help.joomla.org/ghop/feb2008/task048/joomla_15_quickstart.pdfhttp://docs.joomla.org/Getting_Started_with_Joomla%21_1.5http://docs.joomla.org/Getting_Started_with_Joomla%21_1.5http://wiki.joomlart.com/wiki/JA_T3_Framework_2/Overviewhttp://getk2.org/http://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-slideshow-pro.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-content-showcase.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-accordion-menu.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-content-showcase.htmlhttp://bowthemes.com/joomla-extensions/bt-slideshow-pro.htmlhttp://getk2.org/http://wiki.joomlart.com/wiki/JA_T3_Framework_2/Overviewhttp://docs.joomla.org/Getting_Started_with_Joomla%21_1.5http://help.joomla.org/ghop/feb2008/task048/joomla_15_quickstart.pdf


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Contacting Bowthemes

All Bowthemes products include forum support, email support and ticket support.

ease refer your membership package to select the compatible kind of support, as we may

e able to solve the problem without delay.

Website:http://bowthemes.com

Forum support: http://bowthemes.com/forums/9-bt-arise-corporate-joomla-

mplate/

Email support: [email protected]

Ticket support: http://bowthemes.com/submit-a-ticket

If you encounter any issues with Bowthemes extensions and templates, email us at

[email protected] we will be happy to answer your questions.
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