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Joomla! 4 Masterclass

You're reading from   Joomla! 4 Masterclass A practitioner's guide to building rich and modern websites using the brand-new features of Joomla 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238975
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Marzo Luca Marzo
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Joomla! Out of the Box
2. Chapter 1: A Powerful and Extensible Core FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Manage Content 4. Chapter 3: Advanced Content Management 5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Flexibility of Modules 6. Chapter 5: Building Your Site Structure: the Menu System 7. Chapter 6: Managing Users and Their Permissions 8. Part 2: Advanced Features
9. Chapter 7: SEO at Its Best 10. Chapter 8: One Site, Multiple Languages 11. Chapter 9: Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks 12. Chapter 10: Tailored Communication with Mail Templates 13. Chapter 11: Command-Line Interface 14. Part 3: Styling and Securing Your Website
15. Chapter 12: Styling Your Website – Templates 16. Chapter 13: Customize Everything with Overrides 17. Chapter 14: Child Templates 18. Chapter 15: Template Frameworks 19. Chapter 16: Advanced Features – Access and Security 20. Part 4: Case Studies
21. Chapter 17: Case Study – A Corporate Website in Joomla 22. Chapter 18: Case Study – Online Academy with Joomla 23. Chapter 19: Case Study – A B&B Booking System with Joomla 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reproducing the previous website using another technology

The first challenge was to reproduce the previous website’s look and feel. The company management wanted to make the release of the new website unnoticeable to visitors, so the whole website layout, navigation system, graphics, and color palette were reproduced in a Bootstrap 5 template for Joomla 4.

The development of this custom template, based on Cassiopeia, required a few weeks of work on the part of two experienced Joomla developers, Marco Biagioni and Alessandro Chessari.

The result was identical, as you can see in Figure 17.1 and Figure 17.2.

Figure 17.1 – Host.it home page developed in JSP

Figure 17.1 – Host.it home page developed in JSP

As you can see in the following screenshot, there are just small spacing and sizing differences between the two versions:

Figure 17.2 – Host.it home page developed with Joomla 4

Figure 17.2 – Host.it home page developed with Joomla 4

Replicating the whole layout required the development of a series of...

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