Basic Customisation
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Created: 19 October 2008
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Last Updated: 14 August 2012
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Written by Super User
A guide to the basic Versatility IV customisation options that can be configured in the template with a description of each of the available options and how they affect the presentation of the template.
Here is a breakdown of the available options:
The template is bundled with 10 pre-made style variants that be be easily and quickly chosen from the template configuration.
The template is bundled with 4 pre-made menu style variants that be be easily and quickly chosen from the template configuration.
This option allows to choose whether the header bar extends across the whole page or is cropped to the size of the wrapper.
This option allows to choose whether the Footer bar extends across the whole page or is cropped to the size of the wrapper.
Warn your visitors using Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade to a more secure version with this toggle. This option activates a javascript based dropdown in IE6 at the top of the template where a description of why IE6 is a redundant browser is visible. The warning will only appear once as its stored via a cookie.
You can choose which font you would like to use for your content item, these are all web standard fonts.
Choose whether module titles are multi-coloured by enabling Font Spans.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the template itself, simply change the number to another pixel value.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the left column, simply change the number to another pixel value.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the right column, simply change the number to another pixel value.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the left inset position, simply change the number to another pixel value.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the right inset position, simply change the number to another pixel value.
One of the template's menu options is splitmenu which displays the first and second level items in the horizontal menu bar and the 3rd in a side column module. This option allows you to choose between the left column or the right column.
The following parameter controls which Joomla menu is loaded for the horizontal navigation bar, by default this is mainmenu but you can change it to whatever menu such as othermenu.
Versatility IV is bundled with 4 menu options, 3 of which are integrated menu approaches. These are splitmenu, moomenu, suckerfish and module. Splitmenu displays the 1st level menu items in the horizontal bar and the 2nd in the side column; moomenu and suckerfish display the menu items in dropdown lists with moomenu having a javascript powered approach; and the module options turns the menu bar into the
toolbar module position so you can insert modules into the area (this will disable the menu however). You can also select none so the entire horizontal menu does not appear.
This option allows you to choose what the font size will be, you have 3 options to choose from, these are smaller, default and larger.
This option allows you to enable or disable the Module slider that operates on the User11-User20 module positions.
Select which area of the template you wish to have the RokSlide (Module Slider) feature located.
Set the height value, in pixels, that the Module Slider will conform to.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the left banner position, simply change the number to another pixel value.
This template configuration option allows you to easily change the width of the right banner position, simply change the number to another pixel value.
Select which icon set you wish to load for the module hilite module headers, if any.
The pathway or breadcrumbs function can be disabled with this setting.
Versatility IV allows you to turn the logo into a module position (
icon) to allow for more flexible control.
This setting allows you to enable/disable the RocketTheme logo.
This setting allows you to disable the date in the upper left of the template.
This setting allows you to disable the text size controls in the upper right of the template.
Enable or disable js compatibility mode for better compatibility with non mootools based js libraries. Warning, setting to "true" will cause several js template features to not work properly
The module configuration variable below controls how many consecutive modules you can have for a position.
