Introduction

I don't provide any quickstart install so your website will be all white at the beginning. Don't worry. Read this manual and follow the steps in the next paragraph "How to obtain the Home page of the demo ?"

To customize the appearance of your website, look all the options in the section "General", "logo", "menu" and "content box" in Template manager. After that, you can adjust the options in the section "Responsive" to adjust your design for all screen resolution.

How to obtain the Home page of the demo ?

• Firstly, you must create at least 1 article
• Then, I published the menu (position "menu" - see next paragraph "How to configure your menus")
• I make no change in Template manager
• In Menu manager, I edit the link "Home" and choose the type "articles --> single article". I choose my article with two h2 titles inside and I don't show the article title.

• I install and publish the module "Supersized3" with the position "supersized". In Menu assignment, I choose "all pages except the page with Video and Google map".

Template Settings

You can access to template manager with the top menu : "Extensions --> Template Manager --> full_screen_13 "

With "full_screen_13" template, you can set a lot of parameters. All the details here.

Module Positions

Example for the "address" position : go to the module manager and create a new module with the option "Custom html". Write your address or/and copyright and choose the position "address".

How to display your logo ?

With this template, you choose if you want insert your logo image or just write your site name (by default) :

Go to the Template manager (section "Logo") and choose/upload your image. If no image is selected, the text of website title will be displayed.

And I added an option to adjust the horizontal position of your logo. With this option you can move a little your logo on the left side or the right side.

There's a last option in the section "Responsive". You can choose if your logo will be above the slideshow when the slideshow is above the content (in small screen).

How to configure your menus ?

Main menu:

To use it, you must select your main menu in module manager and enter these settings :

• position : "menu"
• Always show sub-menu items : "yes"
• No Module class suffix
• No Menu class suffix

Important : This main menu use javascript. If you have a javascript conflict with another extension, the menu can stop to work (it's not possible to open it).
Of course I recommend you to solved this javascript problem or search another extension. But if it's not possible, you can replace this menu by a classic menu without any javascript code. It's the last option of the section "Menu" in Template manager.

Additionnal horizontal and vertical menu

If you want display a second menu in the content part, you can choose almost 22 differents possibilities.

Click here to read all the details in the demo page with some examples.

Note : Except the main menu, all these menus work without javascript code (pure CSS : no risk of conflict with another extension !).

Typography

You can find a lot of possibilities to create a beautiful website. I explain all that in the demo :

• Click here to see the General typography : titles, alignment, drop cap, inset, background color, image, ...
• Click here to see the Effects for your images.
• Click here to see the Column layouts.
• Click here to see the Multi columns with CSS3.
• Click here to see the ordered and unordered lists.
• Click here to see the tables.
• Click here to see the Font Awesome.
  Font Awesome allows you to add vector icons from a library of over 360 to any part of your joomla template including Articles, Article titles, Menu items and Module titles.
• Click here to see the testimonials.

Module class suffix :

Options for displaying your modules in the "left", "right", "top", "bottom" or "user" positions :

• Without module class suffix : No styling for your list and the links.
• With the module class suffix " horizontal-menu" or "vertical-menu" : to display an additionnal menu. More details in the previous paragraph.
• With the module class suffix " no-margin" : you remove the margin around your module. It's useful to display an image.
• With the module class suffix " border" : you add a border around your module.
• With the module class suffix " radius" : you add a rounded corner.
• With the module class suffix " shadow" : you add a shadow under the module
• With the module class suffix "white" : you add a white background
• With the module class suffix "black" : you add a black background
• With the module class suffix "grey" : you add a grey background
• With the module class suffix "orange" : you add an orange background
• With the module class suffix "violet" : you add an violet background
• With the module class suffix "red" : you add a red background
• With the module class suffix "blue" : you add a blue background
• With the module class suffix "green" : you add a green background
• With the module class suffix "turquoise" : you add a turquoise background
• With the module class suffix "brown" : you add a brown background
• With the Module class suffix "title-centered" : the module title is centered with a line on each side (this option work only with an opaque background and you can't put "title-band" in the same module)
• With the Module class suffix "text-centered" : the text and title are centered
• With the Module class suffix "title-band" : display a dark background under the module title (you can't put "title-centered" in the same module)
• With the module class suffix "badge-new", "badge-free", "badge-hot", "badge-top", "badge-news", "badge-gift" : to display a badge in the upper right corner of your module.

Note : If you choose a background color , the color of module title is always white.

Note : You can enter several Module class suffix. Example "shadow green badge-top title-centered"

Extra Module class suffix for mobiles

For faster mobile-friendly development, use these utility classes for showing and hiding content by device. More details here

How to display the full screen slideshow like on the demo ?

In this template, I use the script SuperSized 3.2 for the full screen slideshow. Thank to the developper !

I remove a lot of options to keep only the essential.

To active it, I include a specific module "supersized3" in this package.

You must :

• Install and edit this module (mod_supersized3.zip)
• Select the position : "supersized"
• Select 1 by 1 all your images and write an optionnal text for each of them.

• Note 1 : I recommend you a ratio of 4:3 and a size of 1200*900 or 1600*1200 pixels. A part of your image will be cropped. It's normal for a full screen slideshow because the image isn't distorted. So I recommend to put the main purpose of your image in the center.
• Note 2 : I recommend you to use JPEG Optimizer to compress your images.

On several pages of the demo, the slideshow is always above the content. How can I achieve that ?

Go to the template manager and look the option "General --> Width of the box for your website in px or %". When the value is 100% , the slideshow will be automatically above the content.

Of course, you can obatin that only for some specific pages. You must duplicate the template in Template manager. Then, you edit this copy, change this option and choose only your specific pages with the option "Menu assignment".

How can I add a link or a break line in my slideshow text ?

You can include any HTML or CSS code in the textarea of your text.

Example of code with a link :

Example of code with a break line :

How to hide the content box on a specific page ?

It's possible to don't load the content box on a specific page. You obtain that.

• Firstly, you must create a menu item for this page. So, you must create a new article (with no content) and after, you can create a new menu item with the type "article --> single article".
• Now, you have a menu item for a standard page. You must stop the loading of the content box.
• For that, you must create a new module with the option "custom html". Assign this module to the position "no_content", keep it empty and publish it. Note : When this module position is active, the content box (with your articles) isn't loaded. So, don't forget the Menu assignment : you must choose "only your specific page".

How to display the Google map in full screen like on the demo ?

I wanted a module very easy to use. So I choose to display the standard Google map and you can create it in less than a minute !

How to publish your google map ?

• Install the module "mod_google_map.zip" (you can find it in the package). Edit this module and choose the position "google_map", and don't forget to set the Menu assignement :
  
  

note : if you want hide the content box, you can publish a module with the position "home_page" (see the paragraph above).

How to obtain the URL of my Google map ?

In the "simple Google map" you must enter the URL of your map and only that.

Go to the Google maps

Choose your location and click on the "parameters" icon :

In the new window, copy the URL and paste it on your Joomla module :

note : you must create a google account to add a marker

How to display a video like on the demo ?

I create a video module specially for this template. It's very simple and work with the video from Vimeo and Youtube.

Thank you very much to peter amber to share this beautiful video.

Note : the video is not cropped to match the size of each screen. So you can see a border around.
When you display a video, the content is always under the video (never in a corner).

Very easy to use :

• Install the module "mod_video.zip"
• Go to the Vimeo page of your video and click on the button "share"
  
  
  
  
• Copy the ID of your video (only the number between the character / and ? ).
  
  
  
  
• Edit the module "video" on your admin and choose the position "video". Paste the video ID in the parameters on the right side.
  
  
  
  

With Youtube :

It's the same thing : you must copy the ID of your video in the url.

Video without any article

In Template manager, you can choose to load the content in your Video page or not. If you want display only the video, how is it possible to create a link to this module ?

• You must create a link to this module. But it's not possible to make that with Joomla. So, you must create a new article with the name "video". After that, go to the Menu manager and create a new item to this article (link "article --> single article").
• You have now a link to this article.
• Edit the Video module and in the option Menu assignment, choose "only for Video page"

The search module

The search field is automatically displayed above the main menu. You can disable this option in Template manager (section "Menu"). It's the standard Search module of Joomla (you can't use the Smart search).

How to remove the background under the article title ?

A soft background is automatically displayed under each article title. If the article title isn't displayed (option in Joomla admin), the background will be displayed under the titles H2 of your article (like on the Home page of my demo).

You can disable this option in Template manager : "Content box --> Display a background under the article title or H2 title"

How to use several width for the content box ?

Go to the template manager and select your template. Then, click on "Duplicate" to obtain a second instance of this template.
Edit this new instance and choose another width for the content box. Finally, choose one or several specific pages in Menu assignement

Tips for your images

By default, a border is added around all your images in your articles. You can disable this option in the section "General" of Template manager.

If you want add this border only on specific images, disable this option and add the class "js-border" in the HTML code of your image.

If you want remove this border only on specific images, enable this option and add the class "no-style" in the HTML code of your image.

How to add a new Google font in Template manager ?

• Go to the Google font page. Choose your font and click on the button "quick use"
• Paste the code below and copy it in Template manager.
  
  
  
  
  

In this example the code is : Playfair+Display+SC:400,700italic

Tips for the user modules

In the template manager, you can choose the width for user4 and user6. The width of user5 automatically adjusts.

So, if you publish only one user module : publish user5 (for a width of 100%).

If you publish two user modules : publish user4 and user5, or user5 and user6.

It's the same thing for user1, user2 and user3.

Link

To continue to offer affordable prices, I decided to display a soft Copyright in the bottom right corner to increase awareness of the site JoomSpirit.

This does not affect your site, but if you want remove this link, you must edit the file "index.php" and delete this code in the line 925 :

<?php echo $js ; ?>