This template is built on the very powerful S5 Vertex Framework, which comes packed with amazing features! Learn More About Vertex...
Every template built on Vertex also comes with its own unique template specific options applicable to that particular template such as highlight colors, social icons, and much more. These features are in addition to the standard functions of Vertex, and are still controlled through the very user friendly interface of Vertex. This page will document the features specific to this template.
Every template built on Vertex also comes with its own unique template specific options applicable to that particular template such as highlight colors, social icons, and much more. These features are in addition to the standard functions of Vertex, and are still controlled through the very user friendly interface of Vertex. This page will document the features specific to this template.
Template Specific Configuration Interface of Vertex
Below is a screenshot that shows all the template specific features available in the user friendly Vertex admin:
Custom Highlight Colors
Stylize your site with any color you want. Set your own custom color scheme with the built in highlight color. There are 2 custom highlight colors you can set. These colors control menu items, titles, buttons, hover over effects, backgrounds, and much more. You can set these colors to any color that you want. Below is an example so you can see how this works.
Custom_1, Custom_2 and Custom_3 Positions
This template contains three custom positions. custom_1 contains the Online Giving button found in the header, you can publish any content you wish to this area but due to its size it should remain limited. custom_2 contains the S5 Image and Content Fader module. Whenever this module is published and modules are published to the top_row1 area, the top_row1 area will overlap the custom_2 position as shown on the homepage. custom_3 is found directly under the the top_row1 area and it contains the S5 Tab Show module.
Header and Bottom Color
By default the header color is a dark grey, however you can change this to any color you want, along with the font color that shows on top of it for the menu. These colors also effect the bottom row and the custom_3 position. Alternatively, you can control custom_3 with an override color, because it is intended to be dark with white text.
Uppercase Letters
Choose to enable or disable uppercase letters on most menu items, buttons, titles and more.
Floating Header
This template comes with the ability to enable or disable a floating header and menu area. The header will automatically decrease in size and stay at the top of the website at whatever trigger height you set it to. This is a great way for your users to easily navigate your website! Note - this feature does disable for small tablets and mobile devices.
All content and images shown on this site is for demo, presentation purposes only. This site is intended to exemplify a live website and does not make any claim of any kind to the validity of non-Shape5 content, images or posts published. Stock photography and icons are often purchased from shutterstock.com for this demo only, and is not included with this template. Occasionally open source images are used as well, but are also not included, eg: unsplash.com. You may not use these items for your own use without first purchasing them from their copyright owner. Links will be provided for some of these items if you wish to purchase them from their copyright owners or download them from their sources.
SEO - Get your site noticed!
Not only is this template beautifully designed but it is great for search engine optimization as well! What is SEO? It is simple the act of altering a web site so that it does well in the organic, crawler-based listings of search engines such as google.com. How does this template accomplish this? It's simple, the majority of your most valuable content is found in the main body of your site, through css we are able to alter the layout of the site and call the main content before the left and right columns are called. This allows for your content to be found first by search engines before it reaches your other content, which is vital in search engine optimization. This is a common feature this can be done with almost all of Shape 5 templates as well.
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So what are Site Shapers? They are quick installs of Joomla combined with all the modules, content, etc used on our demo, excluding stock photography. Within a few minutes you can have your site up, running and looking just like our demo. No more importing SQL dumps and installing modules. Just head on over to the download section of this template and grab a Site Shaper. Simply install the Site Shaper like any other Joomla installation, it's that easy!
How to setup a Site Shaper
- 01Login to your cpanel or your server admin panel.
- 02Locate the area where your databases are (usually labeled Mysql Databases)
- 03Create a new database
- 04Next create a new database user and assign it to this newly created database in the previous step
- 05You will then need to extract the site shaper to either a folder on your server or the root directory such as WWW. NOTE: if you already have a website in the root of your WWW folder, we suggest creating a new folder and extract the site shaper there. If your cpanel does not have an extract option or you cannot find it, you may also extract the contents of your site shaper in to a folder on your desktop and upload all the files via an ftp client to your server.
- 06Next, navigate to the url where you extracted the site shaper via your web browser.
- 07Continue through each screen until you reach the below screenshot:
- 08At the above screen be sure to enter localhost as shown, continue to fill in the following text fields with your newly created database and username information
- 09Follow through the rest of the site shaper setup and click the install sample data at the last screen and the installation is complete! (be sure to rename/remove the installation directory after finishing the install)
The S5 Tab Show can be demo'd on this page. This version of the module is customized specifically for this template and cannot be used with any other templates. We do have another version that can be used on any Joomla template.
The module holds up to 10 actual module positions so you can publish any of your favorite modules to one of the slides and keep your site clean and consolidated while giving it a nice effect. Simply publish the s5 tab show module to your desired module position and pages. Then start publishing modules to the positions in the tab show (s5_tab1, s5_tab2, etc); these modules will become the slides. There is also an automatic advance feature that allows you to automatically advance through the slides are your own specified interval.
The module holds up to 10 actual module positions so you can publish any of your favorite modules to one of the slides and keep your site clean and consolidated while giving it a nice effect. Simply publish the s5 tab show module to your desired module position and pages. Then start publishing modules to the positions in the tab show (s5_tab1, s5_tab2, etc); these modules will become the slides. There is also an automatic advance feature that allows you to automatically advance through the slides are your own specified interval.
