Documentation

Template Settings

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

With "minimalist" template, you can set a lot of parameters :

Typography

You can found 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 ordered and unordered lists.
• Click here to see the Column layouts.
• Click here to see the testimonials.
• 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.

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 ?

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

• To change the site name, go to the template manager and write your text (section "Header").
• To insert your logo, you must create a new module (option "custom html"), insert your logo inside (with the wysiwyg editor). Choose the position "logo" and publish it. The size of your logo is free.

How to configure your menus ?

The dropdown menu (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

Note for mobile devices : the type of all parent items must be "external url" (don't use the type "text-separator"). Choose the type "external url" and enter the character # in the url field :

Additionnal horizontal and vertical menu

If you want display a second menu in the content part, you can choose almost 40 differents possibilities.

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

Bottom menu

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

• position : "bottom_menu"
• Always show sub-menu items : "no"
• No Module class suffix

Note : you can use only 1 level of links with this menu.

Note : All these menus work without javascript code (pure CSS : no risk of conflict with another extension !).

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", " horizontal_menu2", "vertical_menu" or "vertical_menu2" : to display an additionnal menu.
• 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 (you can't put "title-band" in the same module)
• With the Module class suffix "text-centered" : the text is 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.
• With the module class suffix " no-margin" : it's a useful option to remove the margin around the module position . You can use it to display an image in a Custom HTML 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 obtain the Home page of the demo ?

I publsih the slideshow module (see next section) with the module position "top"

I create and published 3 modules with the type "Custom HTML" and with the position "user1", "user2" and "user3". For each of them, I added the Module class suffix "title-centered"

How to display the slideshow of the demo ?

You can download this responsive slideshow on my website.

Install the module and edit it :

• choose the position : "top"

Thesse are my settings :

Animations

This template use the script ScrollReveal to display a fade animation in each part of your template. Animations use CSS3 so that work only on modern browsers.

You can animate 19 differents module positions as you want. Each animation can be enable or disable.
You can use my settings or customize each animation as you want. The syntax is very friendly : all the possibilities are described here.

Is it possible to active an effect only on a specific page(s) ?

Yes it's possible. In Template manager, you must duplicate the template. Then, you can set an unique animation and assign this copy to your specific page with the optiopn "Menu assignement".

Bootstrap

The template is build with Bootstrap 3.1.1.

Tips for the user modules

In the template manager, you can choose the width for user1 and user3. The width of user2 automatically adjusts.

So, if you publish only one user module : publish user2 (for a width of 100%).

If you publish two users module : publish user1 and user2, or user2 and user3.

It's the same thing for user4, user5 and user6

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

How to add an icon before a menu item or before an article title ?

Click here to see the details of 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.

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.

Customize the template

You can put all your custom code in the file "css/custom.css".

Link

To continue to offer affordable prices, I decided to include a Copyright in the template in order to increase awareness of the site JoomSpirit.

This does not affect your site, but if you want remove this link, thank you to donate 10 euros on donation page here and contact me at: contact@joomspirit.com to obtain a clean version.