I love the templates and I think they are among some of the best on the web, bar none. There are some great free templates from that will serve the purpose just fine. The solution I have found is simple and requires the designer to have already a very basic template to work from. That makes the graphical rendering of the page a nightmare and even just working on the CSS a frustrating process. The reason working on the index.php file is difficult in DW is that, aside from the simplest of table based layout, the index.php file must contain some conditional statement of some sort to accommodate more advanced Joomla features and it’s completely devoid of any content, even in menus and such. I think I might have found a workable solution that with some adjustment allows a designer to customize a Joomla template in fine detail.įirst of all, we have to distinguish between the actual index.php file and the related CSS (template_css.css). However, because of the way Joomla templates are structured it is often impossible, or at least unpractical, to work on a Joomla template from within DW in any satisfactory fashion. The latter in particular is very well supported in DW8 and it allows for very visual work on CSS files. Many web designers are used to and like to use Macromedia Dreamweaver (DW) to work on their HTML and CSS.
If you’d like to read an updated version of this fantastic workflow, check out my article here. As soon as I started writing it, Adobe released version CS4 of Dreamweaver to confuse things further.
I have written a new article available on my new website on how to work with Joomla 1.5 and Dreamweaver CS3.
Since I wrote this article, a lot of things have changed in the Joomla world and with Dreamweaver.
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