Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – creating a Template Style for one specific page

Let's assume your client has a few special pages on the site about a special event. They want to make this event page stand out from the rest of the site. To create this effect, we'll create and apply a Template Style. We'll create a copy of a template and use it to style only the pages that are linked to through one specific menu link.

1. First, we'll make a dummy page and a menu link pointing to it. In this example, we'll create an article page titled Visit the Bad Art Event and a Main Menu link of the Single Article type, titled Bad Art Event.
2. Go to Extensions | Template Manager to access the Template Manager: Styles screen.
3. We'll use the Beez 2 template as the base template and create ...