RokTabs

RokTabs is a tabbed content module, standalone and themed. Content is transitioned, either by fade or scroll, powered by Mootools, which can be automatic or manual. Plugin support is also featured, whether loading module positions, read more content, or the K2 CCK component.

Module Features

  • Tabbed Content: Display multiple content items in a tabbed enclosure.
  • Module Position Support: You can insert module positions inside the tabs.
  • Inbuilt Styling: Both light and dark styling for standalone support
  • Configurability: Highly configurable from options dealing with transition, to content type and layout.
  • K2 Support: Fully compatible with the powerful content constructive component K2.

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Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → Roktabs Module. Important demo settings are highlighted accordingly:

Other

  • Theme Style: Light and Dark. Or Custom, if the template has styling for the modules.
  • Content Type: Joomla Core Content or K2 Content (Requires K2 to be installed).
  • Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling

Joomla Core Content

  • Joomla Section: Section to load tabbed content from.
  • Joomla Category: Category to load tabbed content from.
  • Joomla Frontpage Items: Determine whether frontpage content is loaded.

Content Parameters

  • Item Ordering: Control tab ordering — Default, Oldest First, Most Recent First, Title Alphabetical, Title Reverse-Alphabetical & Order.
  • Default Readmore: Determine whether the system Read More is active.
  • Custom Readmore Text: Control the label of the Read More.

Animation and Styling

  • Width: Set to the width of the container element, or a custom value.
  • Max # of Tabs (0 = All): Control the maximum number of tabs.
  • Transition Duration: Time, milliseconds, for tabs to transition between one another.
  • Type of Transition: Choose between Fading or Scrolling for transition
  • Transition Effect: Determine the effect for tab transition.
  • Subtract roktab-links margins: Control calculation of margins for scrolling tabs.
  • Scrollable Tabs: Determine whether tabs are scrollable when they exceed the specified width.

Subtract roktabs-links margins needs to be enabled for best visual effect with scrollable tabs.

Tab Details

  • Tabs Position: Position of tab row, either Top, Bottom or Hidden.
  • Tabs Interaction: Control transition trigger of tabs, Click or Hover.
  • Tabs Title: Determine how tabs are named, By Incremental, By Content Title, or By first Content h6 tag.
  • Incremental prepend text: If By Incremental is selected, specify the prepended text for each tab.
  • Hide h6 tags: Disables H6 content in the tabs.
  • Prefix tabs with numbers: Inject incremental numbers before tab titles.
  • Show Tab Icons: Display tabs adjacent to the tab titles.
  • Tab Icon Side: Position of tab title icons.
  • Tab Icon Path: Set the path of icon images.
  • Tab Icons: Control which icons appear with each tab title.

Autoplay Settings

  • Autoplay: Determine whether tabs transition automatically or manually.
  • Autoplay Delay (ms): Set delay for automatic transition in milliseconds.
roknewspager

RokNewsPager is an article previewer and rotator. It displays content articles, in a summarised form and, using mootools based javascript transition, rotates through a series of pages displaying articles in a contracted list format.

RokNewsPager allows you to display a large number of news items and links in a small compact area via its paging functionality and includes a multitude of configuration options and parameters to customize how your news is displayed.

RokModule needs to be installed if you are using this module within Joomla 1.5.x

Module Features

  • Javascript Transitions: using the power of mootools, the module fades between lists of your content articles
  • Previews: set the number of characters you wish to display from your articles
  • Section Control: choose all articles, or those from particular sections or categories
  • Auto Update: select whether the module auto-updates using AJAX
  • K2 Support: Fully compatible with the powerful content constructive component K2.

Details Download Support

Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokNewsPager Module:

Other

  • Load built-in StyleSheet: Disable if you wish to override the standalone style by custom template styling.
  • Theme Style: Light and Dark.
  • Content Type: Joomla Core Content or K2 Content (Requires K2 to be installed).
  • Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling

Joomla Core Content

  • Joomla Section: Section to load tabbed content from.
  • Joomla Category: Category to load tabbed content from.
  • Joomla Frontpage Items: Determine whether frontpage content is loaded.

Content Parameters

  • Count: Insert a numerical value of the number of articles you wish to appear.
  • Enable Accordion Effect: Enable the accordion module, versus standard list style.
  • Enable Paging: Display several pages if articles exceed count value.
  • Max Pages: Determine the maximum number of pages
  • Show Title: Control whether to show the article title inside the previewed content.
  • Show Thumbnails: Control whether to show the article image inside the preview content.
  • Width of thumbnail (px): Set the pixel width of any thumbnails.
  • Use Thumbnail as link: Determine whether the image becomes a link to the full article.
  • Show Thumbnail Overlay: Control whether the thumb overlay appears.
  • Overlay File: Load which file appears as the overlay over the thumbnails.
  • Show Item Ratings: Control whether to display article rating.
  • Show Readmore Link: Determine whether to show a Read More inside the preview content.
  • Read More Text: Insert the text that you wish to appear on the Read More.
  • Item Ordering: Control tab ordering — Default, Oldest First, Most Recent First, Title Alphabetical, Title Reverse-Alphabetical & Order.
  • Show Preview Text: Control whether the preview text is shown.
  • Allowed HTML tags: Insert all HTML tags, separate by a comma, which you wish to remain intact in the snippet.
  • Preview Length: Input a numerical value which equates to how many characters you wish for the module to show.
  • Show Comment Count: Determine whether to show the number of comments for the article.
  • Show Author: Control whether to show the article author.
  • Show Published Date: Control whether to show the article publishing date.
  • Auto Update: Determine whether articles load automatically.
  • Auto Update Delay (ms): Set delay for automatic loading in milliseconds.
RokTwittie

RokTwittie is a module that integrates Twitter into your Joomla site. Display tweets of any username, or even by search terms, as well as your profile information and various other elements from Twitter itself. RokTwittie is the perfect compliment to any Social site, or Business site that uses Twitter.

Module Features

  • Real Time Tweets: Tweets update live from Twitter
  • Search: Use the inbuilt search to scan for usernames or keywords
  • Profile information: Show your profile details, such as name, avatar and bio
  • Fast Loading: Written from the ground up for greater performance
  • Highly configurable: Options to control every aspect of RokTwittie
  • Twitter Authentication: Choose between Anonymous and App Authentication
  • Retweet Support: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/77606-what-is-retweet-rt
  • Caching: Use of Joomla Cache for greater stability
  • Friendly Errors: If Twitter is down, or CURL is not installed, RokTwittie will fail gracefully

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Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokTwittie Module:

Twitter Options

  • Use OAuth: Set this to yes when using RokTwittie on a live site.
  • Authenticate: Sign in with Twitter with your username and password to authorize RokTwittie.
  • Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling
  • Load Built-in CSS: Choose whether to load the standalone styling or to load the CSS from the template. You should disable this option only if you wish to use your own styling which you have already created.
  • Output Caching: As the name suggests, if this is enabled, the module will enable caching in order to save on performance and prevent the 100 Twitter API limit being met.
  • Timeout on connect (secs): The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect to Twitter. User 0 to wait indefinitely.
  • Timeout on response (secs) The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
  • Cache Time: If caching is enable, set, in minutes, the time you wish before it is cleared and new data is called.
  • Usernames, separated by comma: You can insert your username or multiple usernames (separated by a comma) here and the module will load them.
  • Inactive user opacity: This sets the opacity of the inactive user tab, if you have multiple users set to show in RokTwittie.

General Options

  • Show default avatars: When enabled, your profile picture from Twitter will appear in the module, alongside your other profile information.
  • Show default avatars: Choose between a light and dark style, depending on the background of the module.
  • Include ReTweets: Determines whether retweets are shown.
  • Enable username statuses: This option controls whether the statuses from each username appears in the module.
  • Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
  • Show RSS feed link: This parameter controls whether the RSS feed link for your profile appears in the module, it is accompanied by the RSS feed icon.
  • Show Follow Updates Link: Set to show if you wish to show the updates link.
  • Show the Bio Description: Set to show if you wish to show your Twitter Bio in the module.
  • Show the URL: If you have a website address in your profile, this option allows you to show it.
  • Show the location: Again, if this is set in your twitter profile, you can set it to appear.
  • Show user updates count: Show the number of updates of the user.
  • Show user followers count: Show the number of those who are following the user.
  • Show user following count: Show the number of those who the user is following.
  • Show following icons: Set to show if you wish to show the icons/avatars of the users who are following the user.
  • Icon Count: If icons are enabled, this option controls the number that are actually displayed.
  • Show View all after Icons: When enabled, an additional link will be placed below the icons to view all of the following twitter users.

Tweet Options

  • Enable usernames tweets: This parameter allows you to show the tweets from the user set above.
  • Show usernames avatar: Set to show if you wish to show the avatar next to each tweet.
  • Size in pixel of the avatar: If you set the username avatars to show, this controls the size in pixels.
  • Tweet count: This sets the number of tweets to show if enabled.
  • Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
  • Show tweets sources: When enabled, the sources of each tweet will be shown.
  • Show username as preopened text: If set to show, the username of the tweeter will appear before each tweet.

Search Options

  • Enable search tweets: This parameter allows you to show the tweets from the search option.
  • Search string: Enter the value you wish to search for in Twitter.
  • Show search avatar: Set to show if you wish to show the avatar next to each search tweet.
  • Size in pixel of the avatar: If you set the search avatars to show, this controls the size in pixels.
  • Tweet count: This sets the number of tweets to show if enabled.
  • Open links in new window: A self explanatory parameter, basically, all links in RokTwittie can be set to either open in a new window (will default to a new tab in certain browsers) or load in the page you are viewing.
  • Show tweets sources: When enabled, the sources of each tweet will be shown.
  • Show username as preopened text: If set to show, the username of the tweeter will appear before each tweet.
rokstories

RokStories is a great module to display your articles and accompanying images as a featured item. The module itself is facilitated by Mootools to transition between images and articles seamlessly. Perfect for showcasing featured articles or image on your site.

Module Features

  • Content Transition: The module transitions through content items, whether they are full text, a single image or combination of both.
  • Article Controls: Advanced selectors for content, choose from categories, sections and authors and control the order.
  • Customisable Opacity: Thumbnails can be set from transparent to opaque
  • Navigation Interactions: Parameters to set whether to change news by clicking or hovering over the thumbnails
  • K2 Support: Fully compatible with the powerful content constructive component K2.
  • Standalone Styling: Inbuilt theme allows the module to be used on any site.

Details Download Support

Module Configuration

Options available at Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → RokStories Module:

Other

  • Module Class Suffix: Add a custom class for individual styling
  • Load built-in StyleSheet: The module has inbuilt module styling so set this to Yes if you wish for it to work standalone. As we override this file from the template, you still need to set this to Yes for the styling to work.
  • Layout Type: RokStories is built with 8 layout type: Default, Showcase, Compat Showcase, Compat Showcase with Numbers, Masked Showcase, Scroller, Scroller Showcase & Showcase Tabs.
  • Content Type: Joomla Core Content or K2 Content (Requires K2 to be installed).

Joomla Core Content

  • Joomla Section: Section to load tabbed content from.
  • Joomla Category: Category to load tabbed content from.
  • Joomla Frontpage Items: Determine whether frontpage content is loaded.

K2 Content

  • K2 Category Filter: If you selected K2 Content as your content type, then this option allows you control whether to load your content from all K2 Categories or make a selection from a list.
  • K2 Filter Items by Category: If you chose Select as your K2 Category Filter option, then this setting will become active in which you can select the categories you wish to load the module content from.
  • K2 Featured Items: Select between Show or Hide depending on whether you wish for the Feature Items in K2 to appear in RokStories.
  • Item Image Size: Specific the image size you wish to use from the K2 component. Either, XSmall, Small, Medium, Large or XLarge.

Content Parameters

  • Max Number of Articles: Set a limiting value for the number of articles to publish in.
  • Item Ordering: Control tab ordering — Default, Oldest First, Most Recent First, Title Alphabetical, Title Reverse-Alphabetical & Order.
  • Allowed HTML Tags: The module automatically strips out all HTML tags and leaves just the content and the first image. This is to prevent the module from being distorted by incompatible HTML code. However, this option allows you to specify specific HTML tabs that will not be stripped, ideal if you still wish to add some diversity to your content. Simply insert the text of the tag, minus the < > elements, separated by commas such as a,i,br which will not strip all links, all italic text and line breaks.
  • Content Position: Either Left or Right for the position of the text, the images will be placed on the opposite side. Also, there is an option for None if you wish to use RokStories as a slideshow, best with the Showcase layout type enabled.
  • Show Title: Show or Hide the title being displayed from the content item.
  • Show Date: Control whether the creation date of the content item appears in RokStories.
  • Show Article: Set to Hide if you wish to display just the image and no text.
  • Show Link: Select whether to show the Read More button or to hide it.
  • Readon Style: Choose between Legacy and Standard. Use standard for newer templates.
  • Width of thumbnail (px): Set, in pixels, the width of the thumbnails, only applicable to the Default layout type.
  • Width of thumbnail display (px): Set, in pixels, the width of the large image, only applicable to the Default layout type.
  • Author: This option allows you to select articles from a particular author.
  • First Article: Control which content item appears first in RokStories, set the number of the article (its order number from the article manager).
  • Thumb Opacity: Set the opacity of thumbnails, between 0 and 1. Only applicable to the Default layout type.
  • Fixed Height: Sets Rokstories in a fixed height to avoid loading jumps if not wanted.
  • Navigation Interaction: Choose between Click or Mouseover as the trigger to transition the content items.
  • Autoplay: Enable this option for RokStories to automatically rotate through its articles.
  • Autoplay Delay (ms): Set the number of milliseconds (1000 milliseconds = 1 second) for each article to appear before it rotates to the next article.

Additional Showcase Layout Content Parameters

  • Show Label Title: Show or Hide the caption on top of the main image display.
  • Show Arrows: Show Arrows on RokStories Image when in Layout2 mode.
  • Show Circles: Show Circles on RokStories when in Layout6 mode.
  • Arrows Placement: Whether to show the arrows 'inside' or 'outside' the image-container.
  • Show Previews on Arrows: Select whether to show preview of the next image when hovering over the arrows..
  • Fixed Previews: Choose whether to have the previews in a fixed position or not.
  • Linked Titles: Whether to link the titles to the article.
  • Linked Labels: Control whether the label / captions link to the full content item.
  • Linked Images: Whether to link the images to the article.
  • Show Image Mask: Whether to show the Image Mask for Layout 'Masked Layout'.
  • Description Animation: Type of animation for the descriptions. Works only on Masked Showcase.
  • Images Animation: Type of animation for the images. Works only on Masked Showcase.
  • Scroller Duration (ms): Duration of the scroller animation.
  • Transition Effect: The effect to be used for the transition.
  • Show Controls: Show Controls of layout 6.
RokGallery

RokGallery is a ground-up revolutionary gallery extension, developed to be hugely flexible, customizable and thus extendable far into the future.

Description

The system itself is built on a custom tag-based architecture with the ability to have multiple tag-based galleries. RokGallery uses design and concepts that have been traditionally reserved for platform-native applications and are for the first time making their way into a web environment. For example, you will not have to resize images, or make thumbs before using them in RokGallery, just upload the raw image and use the RokGallery slice editor to resize and crop the images. This non-destructive editing method allows you to create and edit your image size, cropped view, etc, at any point without having to reupload or recreate your image in external photo editing software.

Other features include an all-new multi-file image upload mechanism that incorporates the latest HTML5 drag-and-drop upload functionality, but can also fall back to Flash if your browser doesn’t yet support this feature. Compound filtering can be used to isolate specific images you are looking for and a sophisticated Jobs Manager handles processes like image resizing in the background so you can get on with your work without having to wait for time-consuming image computations to complete.

Access the RokGallery Component at Admin → Components → RokGallery

RokGallery

This section is an introduction to the general interface of RokGallery, specific instructions on the functions, such as filtering, will be explained below.

#1 Image Controls

  • Publish
  • Unpublish
  • Tag
  • Delete

#2 Gallery Controls

  • Jobs: A log of all previous and current operations, such as imports.
  • Galleries: Create, Delete and Manage all tag galleries.
  • Settings: Configuration the general aspects of RokGallery.
  • Upload: A HTML5/Flash drag and drop image uploader.

#3/4 Filters

The filters have a range of variables such as gallery, file type, published etc... to allow you to sort your images for management in an efficient and simple manner. Statistics for the filters appear at #4.

Photo Upload

RokGallery uses a HTMl5 file uploader, or Flash for unsupported browsers.

  • Go to Admin → Components → RokGallery
  • Click the Upload button
  • Either Drag and Drop the files, or click Browse and find
  • Click Upload
  • Monitor progress
  • Click Close once completed

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Gallery View and Jobs

All photos will appear at Admin → Components → RokGallery. RokGallery has support for multiple image selection, either by drag and highlight with the cursor, or via individual selection with the Shift Key and click.

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Jobs Manager

The Jobs Manager provides you a log of operations undergoing or undergone in RokGallery. You can view:

  • Import status, with time stamps
  • Slice status, with time stamps
  • Clear all Jobs
  • Delete individual Jobs via the trash icon
  • Refresh individuals Jobs via the reload icon

Galleries Manager

RokGallery is a tagged based gallery component, therefore, Galleries are controlled by tags and not specific photos in albums. Subsequently, you can easily have one master photo in multiple albums with ease.

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A single image can appear in numerous galleries based on its tag, and also can be different sizes based on the gallery settings, without editing the original image.

  • Dropdown: To create a new Gallery, select Create New, or the name of another Gallery to edit it
  • Name: Set the name of the Gallery
  • Tags: Set the tags that are associated with the gallery (separate via a comma)
  • Images: Set the maximum height and width of the full image
  • Thumbnails Size: Set the height and width of the thumbnails
  • Background Color: Set the background color for the thumbnail surround
  • Aspect Ratio: Check if you wish to keep the dimensions of the image intact, or cropped.

Remember to Publish a Gallery after clicking Save. If you make any changes to a Gallery, whether in the Galleries Manager, or in the Image Slice Editor, you will need to re-Save in the Galleries Manager for the changes to take place on the site.

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Image Editor

RokGallery has a very advanced image editor, akin to a native application. The various parts will be discussed below.

After selecting the edit button, you will be able to edit the META data of the image, the image itself, plus delete or publish the image.

  • Title: The name of the image file to be displayed on the frontend gallery
  • Slug: The individual identifier for an image (we recommend not to change)
  • Description: The description of the image file shown on the frontend gallery
  • Tags: Add the tags that you wish to associate with the image
  • Slicing: Edit the image
  • RokGalleryPublish:Show or Hide an image for specific tags/galleries.

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In the Slice Editor, you can edit the META data and the actual image. You can crop the image, similar to that of an native application, with a set or variable marquee, in addition to Zoom controls. Edits in the Slice Editor are on a per gallery/tag basis.

The original image that was uploaded is maintained, as a new image is created after applying the crop. This can be reverted at any time from the Slice Editor.

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Additionally, you can also Share the slice via the Share button, or Delete the image via the Delete button, from the Image Editor:

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Multi-Tagging

Tagging is at the core of RokGallery, and with its multi-selection ability, you can easily manage tags across multiple images with great ease. Simply highlight several images and click Tags. Here, you can add, remove, or change any common tags applied to your selection.

If you wanted to quickly move several images to another gallery, simply change their tag.

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Filtering

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A system based on tagging needs an advanced search facility, so RokGallery employs a simple but powerful filtering mechanism:

Filter Type

  • Tags
  • Gallery
  • Published
  • File Size
  • Width
  • Height

Filter Operation

  • Is
  • Is Not
  • Contains
  • Does not Contain
  • Greater than
  • Lesser than

Order by Type (Asc/Des)

  • Title
  • Created At
  • Updated At
  • File Size
  • Width
  • Height

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Filters are not singular and can be applied cumulatively:

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Access the Style Control settings from: Admin → Extensions → Template Manager → (J15) rt_momentum_j15 or (J17) rt_momentum → Settings

Simple configure the options, then save and Gantry will automatically load the modified preset to your site.

Color Chooser Settings

A Color Chooser template uses CSS color values, combined with transparent overlay images, to determine its color and style. Therefore, you can change the entire color scheme via the Gantry Administrator. The available options are outlined below:

  • Main, Page. Showcase Primary & Bottom: Color, Text, Pattern, Link and Overlay (Light/Dark)

Background Picker

The Background Picker allows you to load a background image, either through RokGallery or the Joomla Media Manager.

Image

  • Files Window: View all individual images from RokGallery
  • Galleries Window: View all galleries from RokGallery
  • Selection Window: Select the individual slice of a file
  • Media Manager: Load an image from the Media Manager
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Other Style Settings

  • Load Transition: On - Off; Enable or disable the page loading transition animation effects
  • Fixed Header: On - Off; Enable or Disable a fixed floating header section.
  • Read More Style: Button and Link; Set the read more link styling for the template
  • Web Fonts: On - Off, Google Font Directory; WebFonts allow you to use 3rd party WebFonts from providers such as Google. You must SHOW then APPLY before the new fonts will show up in the Font Family dropdown.
  • Font Settings: Select a font family from the available options and also choose a default font size
    • Font Family: momentum, Geneva, Optima, Helvetica, Trebuchet, Lucida, Georgia, Palatino, or Various Google Fonts (dropdown)
    • Font Size: Default, Extra Large, Large, Small, Extra Small (dropdown)

Assigning a Style to a Specific Page

With Gantry, the ability to assign a certain style to an individual page has never been easier and/or more efficient. Just follow these simple steps:

  • (J15) Go to Extensions → Template Manager → rt_momentum_j15 → Menu Items → *Menu Item*
  • (J17) Go to Extensions → Template Manager → rt_momentum → Assignments → *Menu Item*

  • (J15) Select your preset from Presets → Style Presets, configure and save.
  • (J17) Select your preset from Show Presets, configure and save.
Gantry Framework: Per Menu Item Controls

Gantry sets the dimensions of the logo, so CSS modification is unnecessary.

Step 1 - Open the File

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  • Open the logo-source.png file in Adobe® Fireworks.
  • In the right column, find Layers. Select the Web layers directory and click the eye icon to the left of the logo slice (the green object). This will make the slice invisible so you can edit the file.

Step 2 - Text/Slogan/Icon Editing

  • Double click on the logo text. Now you can edit the text of logo to your choosing. Edit the icon as desired.
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Step 3 - Slice Modification

  • Reactivate the Slice in the Web Layers column, this will place a green rectangle over the logo image. Change the size of the slice (or move it) to match the new size if applicable.

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Step 4 - Export

  • Now you will want to export the logo. Right click on the image slice and select Exported Selected Slices... from the contextual menu. Proceed to export it to your computer for uploading.

Step 5 - Multiple Frames/States

  • If there are multiple logos for a template, they are located in Frames or States within Fireworks.

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Please ensure you are using the latest version of RokNavMenu, available here.

To find all the parameters for Fusion Menu and Splitmenu, such as transitions, duration and sublevel position, go to:

  • (J15) Extensions → Template Manager → rt_momentum_j15 → Menu → Menu Control → Set Menu Type
  • (J17) Extensions → Template Manager → rt_momentum → Menu → Menu Control → Set Menu Type

Descriptions of each template parameter can be seen when you mouseover the label of each option.

Fusion with MegaMenu

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Fusion Menu is a menu theme of the RokNavMenu extension, the addon that drives all RocketTheme template menus. It is primarily a javascript enhanced CSS dropdown menu, that combines standard suckerfish type functionality with animations, transitions and other advanced effects powered by Mootools.

  • 1/2/3/4 Column Modes
  • Custom Column Widths
  • Custom Menu Width
  • Menu Item Grouping
  • Item Distribution Controls
  • Animation Controls
  • Transition Controls
  • Duration/Delay Controls
  • Opacity Controls
  • Per Item Styling
  • Inline Modules
  • Inline Positions
  • Menu Item Subtext
  • Menu Item Icons

All Menu Items can be edited from Admin → Menu → Menu NameMenu Item.

Basic Fusion Parameters

  • Subtext is the option that allows you to insert additional text to the Menu Item Title. There is separate styling for this, making it useful for adding brief descriptions to menu items.
  • Menu Icon is the option that allows you to insert an inline icon / image to the Menu Item.

Advanced Fusion Parameters: Columns

Menu Columns

Columns of Child Items allows you to determine how many columns the Fusion dropdowns are presented in. You can have anywhere between a single dropdown to a four column dropdown.

Item Distribution

Item Distribution allows you to control how the menu items are ordered in the dropdowns:

  • Evenly: If there are 7 menu items in 3 columns, Fusion will allocate a 3,2,2 distribution - trying to equalize each dropdown.
  • Order: If there are 7 menu items in 3 columns, Fusion will allocate a 3,3,1 distribution - maintaining the item ordering.
  • Manually: Determine the exact distribution of items across all columns in the Manual Item Distribution field. For example, if there are 7 menu items in 3 columns, you can specify a 4,2,1 distribution.

NOTE: If your Columns of Child Items setting is configured to be 2 or more columns, you will need to manually set the column widths and distribution, as outlined below. The default is 180px which is too small for multiple columns.

Drop-Down Width (px)

Drop-Down Width (px) determines the total width of the dropdown, regardless of how many columns are shown. This option is to be used in conjunction with Column Widths (px)

Column Widths (px)

Column Widths (px) determines the width of each Column. Separate each width by a comma. The final column's width is determined automatically. This option is to be used in conjunction with Drop-Down Width (px)

Below are some example configurations:

  • Drop-Down Width: 480px: 160,160. Fusion automatically calculates the final width as 160, so in practise, 160,160,160 is the actual distribution.
  • Drop-Down Width: 600px: 160,160. Fusion automatically calculates the final width as 280, so in practise, 160,160,280 is the actual distribution.

Advanced Fusion Parameters: Groupings

What is Grouping?

Group Child Items changes the behaviour of child items in the dropdown menus, instead of creating a dropdown for the immediate sublevel, this option places them inline. See below for an illustrated example of the differences:

Configuration

NOTE: Grouping cannot be applied to root items, only child items.

Set Group Child Items to Yes to activate the mode. The sublevels well then appear below the parent menu item in a categorical type structure.

Advanced Fusion Parameters: Modules

Fusion is now capable of loading individual modules or entire module positions inside its dropdowns.

  • Inline Modules: Set Child Item Type to Modules to load all modules setup on your Joomla site in a list. Select the module you wish to display in the dropdown.
  • Inline Positions: Set Child Item Type to Modules Positions to load all module positions on your Joomla site in a list. Select the position you wish to display in the dropdown.

Splitmenu

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A static menu system that displays 1st and 2nd level items in the main horizontal menu and further children in the Sidebar.

  • Subtext is the option that allows you to insert additional text to the Menu Item Title. There is separate styling for this, making it useful for adding brief descriptions to menu items.

Code Modification: Remove the Menu in the Title

(J15) Open /templates/rt_momentum_j15/html/modules.php:

(J17) Open /templates/rt_momentum/html/modules.php:

Change

<?php echo $menu_title_item->name.' '.JText::_('Menu'); ?>

To

<?php echo $menu_title_item->name; ?>

Or delete the entire line.

How to create Child / Sublevel menu items

Go to Admin → Menu → A MenuA Menu Item → Select a Parent Item, and it will appear as a child of it.

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Note: The Bundle Template is only necessary if the Gantry Library is not installed at /components/com_gantry (J15) or /libraries/gantry (J17).

Step 1 - Installation

  • (J15) Install from Admin → Extensions → Install/Uninstall → Choose File → Select file → Upload File & Install
  • (J17) Install from Admin → Extensions → Extensions Manager → Choose File → Select file → Upload File & Install

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Step 1 - Template Default

  • (J15) Make the template default at Admin → Extensions → Template Manager → rt_momentum_j15 → Default
  • (J17) Make the template default at Admin → Extensions → Template Manager → rt_momentum → Make Default

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RocketLauncher Instructions

Note: All sample content images will be replaced with blank versions in the RocketLauncher version.

RocketLauncher is a customized Joomla install, that installs a replica of the demo onto your site - inclusive of sample data, content, extensions, the template and sample images.

We always recommend installing a RocketLauncher first to trial and understand the template more efficiently. It must be installed as new, and not over an existing Joomla install.

Step 1 - Upload

  • Download the RocketLauncher
  • Unzip
  • Upload the created folder to your server

Note: You can upload all the files via FTP, or use cPanel or SSH to upload the zip and unzip directly onto the server. Enquire with your hosting provider.

Step 2 - Installation

  • Go to www.yoursite.com/*folder name*
  • Follow the Installation instructions
  • Ensure you click Install Sample Data during installation
  • (J15) Delete the /installation directory on your server
  • (J17) Remove the installation folder in the Installation interface

Go to Extensions → Template Manager → (J15) rt_momentum_j15 or (J17) rt_momentum. Mouseover the labels to view a description of each parameter.

General Documentation

There are several sites which offer a range of useful resources for using Joomla, beyond the specifics of the template:

Demo Utilities

Demo Utilities

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RokCandy

RokCandy is a snippet inserter, that transforms custom syntax into complex, HTML elements upon rendering of the content item.


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RokPad

RokPad is a code editor for Joomla, providing a rich UI and advanced features for HTML code editing in Joomla content articles.


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RokBox

RokBox, is a Mootools powered, popup plugin, that can load images, videos, web pages and other elements in a styled popup.


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RokGZipper

RokGZipper is a performance utility that compresses JS and CSS files into one, reducing HTTP request and increasing speed.