So what are Site Shapers? They are quick installs of Joomla combined with all the modules, images, etc used on our demo. 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

• Login to your cpanel or your server admin panel.
• Locate the area where your databases are (usually labeled Mysql Databases)
• Create a new database
• Next create a new database user and assign it to this newly created database in the previous step
• You 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.
• Next, navigate to the url where you extracted the site shaper via your web browser.
• Continue through each screen until you reach the below screenshot:




• At 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
• Follow 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)

Demo 1:




Demo 2:

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Demo 3:
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1. Search Setup

• Simply publish the default Joomla search module to any position (shown in the right position on this demo) and apply the class suffix -highlight.

2. Column Menu Setup

• Publish any menu module to the main body module positions on your site.
• There should be no menu style suffixes applied under advanced parameters.
• The menu style should be set to list.

3. Top and Bottom Menu Setup

• Publish any menu to the 'bottom_menu' or 'top_menu' position.
• There are no menu style suffixes applied under advanced parameters.
• The menu style should be set to list

This module can be viewed at the top of this page. This specific style of the module can only be used with this template. Publish your own content into each slide transition and for multiple slide transition effects, navigation arrows and also a drop down gallery tab that allows you to select a slide via a thumbnail. The S5 Image and Content Fader v2.5 is powered by Mootools by default but still includes the S5 Effects library and allows you to use it in a "legacy module" if you are experiencing script conflicts. Best of all it's free!

NOTE: Legacy mode will display all your images, titles and slide text but includes limited functionality thus it does not include navigation arrows or the new drop down gallery tab.

Features at a glance:

• NEW horizontal sliding transition
• Choose between 4 slide transitions: Fade, Contiuous Horiztonal, Fade Slide Left, Continuous Vertical
• Specify height and width of module
• Includes a gallery tab drop down to show all images
• Each image slide can have its own hyperlink
• Show up to 10 images at once
• Publish your own content to each picture slide
• Navigation arrows
• Not all slides require titles
• Change delay time
• Hide or show: Navigation arrows, thumbnail carousel and popup text

Admin side of the module:

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 some eye candy. So 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.

Fixed or Fluid Width

This template has the ability to set the entire width of your set to either a fixed pixel width or a fluid percentage width. You can set the width to any size you want.

Column Widths

You may also set the widths of the following positions to any width that you need to: left, left_inset, right, and right_inset. You may set them to any width you need to.

Row Widths

This template comes loaded with module positions, many of which appear in rows of 6 module positions. Any row that contains 6 module positions can have it's row columns set to automatic widths or manual. For example, in the picture below the first row shows 4 modules published and since it's set to automatic each is set to 25% width. The second row shows a manual calculation for each module in the row. Again, you may do this for any row that contains 6 modules. If you setup a manual calculation they must total to 100%. Not all 6 modules need to be used, as shown below.

All of this is done very easily in the template configuration.