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Design management

With the new JYAML-Package you can several designs manage in a template.

The design "default" already enclosed complies approximately with the standard of the YAML-Framework examples to offer a uniform basis. Only special customizations were carried out which are necessary for Joomla!. This concerns primarily the CSS-Files in this place.

Every design has a configuration structure completely of its own. This fact makes a simple export and import possible.

Structure & Construction

The YAML-Joomla!-Template has the ability to manage several designs since the otherwise usual directory structure is more deeply a plane this. The complete directory tree of a design is itemized following.

Directory	Description
html/index/[Design]	The HTML/Index files of the template be here. These contain the real HTML-Framework for the representation of the page. In the configuration can be adjusted, which file be loaded.
CSS/[design]	All Stylesheets of a design are in this directory. The structure corresponds 1:1 to that of the YAML-Framework. Through this one has a good summary of the files. All Stylesheets contained here can be loaded in the configuration.
images/[design]	All these is the directory in it pictures are left. One must more to this I do not think say. Gives M_images a directory with the name, however. Here are the Media pictures which are template searched and used by Joomla! in everybody automatically if it is available. There is more exact information about it in the section M_images replacement.
scripts/[design]	JavaScript files which you would like to use for your page. All scripts included here can be loaded in the configuration, too. The main directory includes a couple of jQuery files these are used for example in the DEBUG mode. The jQuery-JavaScript library used in JYAML-Template plugins also.
config/[design]	The custom configuration files are in this directory. All these files are saved as XML. This serve for the custom page configuration.

Note:
From knowledge of this basis it is required that you drop all files, like pictures, stylesheets, scripts and other in the corresponding design directory. It is guaranteed only in such a way that at the export/import also everything is enclosed.

The status display

At the status display you show JYAML-Template has a valid structure in this, whether the design. A corresponding note is shown if a directory is missing. A button also appears to eliminate the mistake in the directory structure.

The corresponding directory path in addition is displayed in a tool tip as a small guide.

File & Directory Explorer

Every design has already one determined directory structure explained how above. To make easier editing fast and managing files and subdirectories, the JYAML-Component places a simple file browser next to disposal. With a click on a file even Syntax-Editor opens.

Configuration information

The status of various settings is shown to you in the summary here.

Custom page configuration & there files

As mentioned into structure already briefly, you can create additional configuration files. In the design settings you can define at which page which file be loaded. You get information for which page which files were defined in the design overview.

For more information, see the section configuration.