About Typography:

Take care about your typography to make better user experience for your readers. How to achieve that?

• Learn more about typography, escpecially about the most often used codes, such as <p>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <img> and <a>.
• This template has valid XHTML, but if you want to keep it like that, you must learn and follow the XHTML principles. Also, if some of your extensions are not XHTML valid, pages based on this component would not be XHTML valid as well (no matter if template itself is valid).
• Familiarize yourself with CSS styles that comes with this template.
• Never copy/paste directly from layout text editors, such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. Try to paste text in plain editors first (such as Notepad).
• Use a WYSIWYG editor that comes with Joomla or install a better editor, but always check your code in the editor’s HTML mode.

Heading One

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Heading Two

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Heading Three

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Heading Four

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My mother said to me, «If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.» Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso… To have a quote styled like that, use «blockquote» element, like in this sample code: <blockquote><p&gt…your text here…</p></blockquote>

This is a dropcap style applied to a paragraph of text. To use it, apply class of dropcap to your paragraph of text, in example: <p class=»dropcap»>…some text goes here…</p>. To edit this style, find class .dropcap in CSS stylesheet file template_css.css.

Notice Styles:

This is a warning message you may use in your text. Simply add appropriate class to your paragraphs to achieve this effect. Here’s a sample code: <p class=»warning»>…your text here…</p>. The rest of text is just filler. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat.

This is an information message you may use in your text. Simply add appropriate class to your paragraphs to achieve this effect. Here’s a sample code: <p class=»info»>…your text here…</p>. The rest of text is just filler. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat.

This is an error message you may use in your text. Simply add appropriate class to your paragraphs to achieve this effect. Here’s a sample code: <p class=»error»>…your text here…</p>. The rest of text is just filler. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat.

This is typewriter style you may use in your text. Simply add appropriate class to your paragraphs to achieve this effect. Here’s a sample code: <p class=»typewriter»>…your text here…</p>. This style uses a font with constant width of characters.

Paragraphs Marked with a Number/Letter:

1This is a paragraph of text marked with a big number or letter. To make such paragraph of text, you should enter number before the rest of the text in the paragraph, and wrap it in span with a class of p_number, like this: <p><span class=»p_number»>1</span>…your text here…</p>

2This is a paragraph of text marked with a big number or letter. To make such paragraph of text, you should enter number before the rest of the text in the paragraph, and wrap it in span with a class of p_number, like this: <p><span class=»p_number»>2</span>…your text here…</p>

AThis is a paragraph of text marked with a big number or letter. To make such paragraph of text, you should enter number before the rest of the text in the paragraph, and wrap it in span with a class of p_number, like this: <p><span class=»p_number»>A</span>…your text here…</p>

BThis is a paragraph of text marked with a big number or letter. To make such paragraph of text, you should enter number before the rest of the text in the paragraph, and wrap it in span with a class of p_number, like this: <p><span class=»p_number»>B</span>…your text here…</p>

Unordered and Ordered Lists

Inset Styles:

Block TitleDuis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisi.To make such block of text, wrap it into a span with a class of inset-left. Optionally, inside this span you can add another span with class of inset_title for title. Here’s an example: <span class=»inset_left»><span class=»inset_title»>Title</span>…your text goes here…</span>. In a similar way, you can align the block of text to the right. Use inset_right, instead of inset_left. Block TitleDuis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisi. If you need to change width or something else in those blocks, you can edit classes .inset_left and .inset_right in CSS stylesheet template_css.css.

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Menu System

This template has a fast-loading jQuery based top menu with nested sub-menus. Sub-menu opens on mouse over action. Core Joomla files are not hacked. Various menu options are available for all menus that you create in Joomla. You can change colors, fonts, sizes and menu other parameters for each menu.

Sparky Framework supports several menu options, such as drop-down menu (like the top menu in this template), accordion menu, horizontal menu and classic Joomla menu. Each menu type has its own specific parameters and options.

Unlimited color options! Select colors and make your template unique! This is useful if you want to match the main template color with your company logo or brand. All our templates come with several pre-defined color schemes.

To get to the parameters in your Joomla Admin go to: Extensions > Template Manager and click on the template name. Beside many other parameters, here you can select colors. The template colors can be selected using a handy palette tool or entered manually in hexadecimal format (combination of 6 letters and numbers). If you don’t have Photoshop, Fireworks or similar application, Color Combos can help you to find out the hexadecimal code of your color.

Change few options in template parameters and… Boom! You got template with completely new experience!

Newer versions of Joomla (after 1.6) have a nice new feature in template manager. It’s possible to save multiple template styles! If you are using a template that has many parameters (like our templates), and you wish to use different template settings for Page A and Page B, it’s now possible. Please read Joomla template styles from our Blog to learn more about this.