Hi All,
Just a quick question for any Joomla users out there (looking at you
Jochen). I'm new to Joomla and are doing a reskin job today, which is
urgent like everything else so my usual approach of reading a book and
running through tutorials won't work here.
I'm needing to customise the various interactive elements (modules) to
look like what the designer supplied - eg the search form, login form,
category listing in the sidebar etc.
The design is very specific and I'm not able to skin the module's HTML
using only CSS - in some cases the modules are outputting tables and
other markup not needed in the design. For little tweaks I'd normally
just fire up jquery and hide the bits I don't want or move things
around, but that's a bit of a hack in this case where the formatting is
quite different.
What's the correct Joomla approach to changing the HTML outputted by a
module? Is there a clean way I can overlay some replacement HTML that
won't do bad things when the site is upgraded?
Second question. There is a category menu to show in the sidebar
(generated by redSHOP), and each item needs a unique graphic (a little
icon representing the category). Is there a standard way to add an extra
field to the database, a file upload field to the admin UI, and to read
the field in the frontend? This one isn't such a biggie as the client
will be getting the designers to make new graphic should they start
adding new categories etc, so if it's easier to hard-code the files then
that would be acceptable here.
Thanks for any help,
Harvey.
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