JSN Epic Configuration Manual

Joomla! template JSN Epic
Configuration Manual
(for JSN Epic 4.x)

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Table of Contents
Joomla! template JSN Epic Configuration Manual ........................................................................................ 1
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................................................2
Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................................................3
Hot Features Overview .......................................................................................................................................................4
Getting Started....................................................................................................................................................................15
Favicon configuration .......................................................................................................................................................25
Logo.......................................................................................................................................................................................27
Layout....................................................................................................................................................................................28
Colors Variation..................................................................................................................................................................35
Menu Styles .........................................................................................................................................................................39
Font Styles ...........................................................................................................................................................................60
Module Styles......................................................................................................................................................................67
Typography..........................................................................................................................................................................69
Site Tools..............................................................................................................................................................................90
SEO & System.....................................................................................................................................................................92
Mobile Edition ...................................................................................................................................................................104
Multilingual support.........................................................................................................................................................112
What’s next?......................................................................................................................................................................119

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Introduction

Thank you for your interest in JSN Epic template. We really appreciate your choice and truly hope our product
will bring more value to your website and business.
To have the best template understanding, we recommend you read the documentation in the following order:
1. JSN Epic Quick Start Video – a short video tutorial about the fast way to learn JSN Epic template. Click
here to see the video tutorial.
2. JSN Epic Configuration Manual - This document will give detailed information about each template
feature and how to apply it to your real website.
3. JSN Epic Customization Manual - This document will show you how to customize the template to make
it suit your needs.
4. JSN Epic Konfigurations handbuch (German) - This document will give detailed information about each
template feature and how to apply it to your real website on German language. Click here to download the
manual.
You can print all documents for convenient reading.

Attention!
Features marked with are available only in JSN Epic PRO Edition and are NOT available in Free Edition.
Let’s roll!

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Hot Features Overview

Separated product versions for Joomla! 1.7/2.5 and 1.5

All JoomlaShine products are delivered in two separate versions compatible with Joomla! 1.7/2.5 and 1.5.

In Customer Area, you can choose to download appropriate installation file for the Joomla! version you are using.

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Mobile Edition
All JoomlaShine.com templates have a built-in edition specifically designed for modern mobile devices such as
iPhone, Android and Windows mobile-based. Unlike other template providers, we do not develop something that
looks like a mobile app with heavy menu animation. We built a compact and lightweight version of the template
preserving the whole original look-and-feel.

Header and top content Main body

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Bottom content Mobile menu and footer
Both of the above screenshots are taken from iPhone 3GS, but the mobile edition works well in all modern large
screen devices based on Android and Windows mobile as well.

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CSS/JS Compression
At JoomlaShine.com, we put great effort into optimizing our templates performance with multiple techniques like
image sprites application, clean html code output and now one new step – CSS/JS Compression.
What it does is combine all CSS/JS files into a single file and deliver it in GZIP compressed state to browser.

Before enabling CSS/JS compression

After enabling CSS/JS compression
This feature significantly reduces http request number to server as well as overall loading size, which results in
35% performance boost.

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For more information, please read the section Compress CSS/JS in this document.

UniIcons
JSN Epic is shipped with 20 carefully selected icons which can be used for multiple purposes. We call this
concept UniIcons.

- “article” - “download” - “info” - “selection”

- “calendar” - “folder” - “mail” - “settings”

- “cart” - “help” - “online” - “star”

- “comment” - “home” - “rss” - “statistics”
- “display” - “image” - “search” - “user”
Here you can see quick examples of how these beautiful icons can be utilized.

UniIcons attached to menu items

UniIcons attached to links

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UniIcons attached to module header UniIcons attached to list items

Multiple icons, single image
JSN Epic utilizes the image sprite CSS technique to reduce the number of HTTP requests to the server.
Technically, all icons are merged in one single image file and visitors will need to make just one single
request/download to the server to get all icons. If you have some extra time, please read more about CSS sprites.

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Native RTL support

Right To Left JSN Epic layout
All JoomlaShine templates are equipped with native RTL support. We spent a huge amount of time tweaking
every tiny detail of the template to make it look absolutely awesome in the RTL mode. Everything is horizontally-
flipped including the dropdown main menu and side menu.
You don’t have to do any additional template configuration to enable the RTL mode. Just set some RTL language
in Joomla! administration and our template will automatically detect and enable the RTL mode.

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Multilingual support
In JoomlaShine.com templates, all the wording of both back-end and front-end are moved to separate language
files, so you can easily translate them into any language you want. Currently our templates support 12 primary
languages with more to come in the future.

English language

German language
For more information about supported languages, please read section Multilingual support in this document.

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Flash Gallery
The flash gallery you see on our demo website is another cool product JSN ImageShow from JoomlaShine.com.
This product is shipped with component, module and content plug-in so that you can present a gallery anywhere on
every website. With flash technology applied, you can be sure that the gallery will work consistently in all
browsers.
JSN ImageShow is NOT included in the template package, but you can download it separately for free.
Learn more about JSN ImageShow.

Presentation as module
Here you can see how JSN ImageShow is presented as a slideshow module in position promo.

JSN ImageShow presented as slideshow module

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Presentation as plugin
Here you can see how JSN ImageShow is presented as full featured gallery with thumbnails inside the article.

JSN ImageShow presented as gallery in main body content

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Mobile optimized
For mobile device, we have built special lightweight Javascript version, so you can be absolutely sure about images
presentation.

Mobile optimized presentation (screenshot made by iPhone 3GS)

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Getting Started

Template installation
After downloading, you should have a template installation file called jsn_epic_XXX_jY.Y_Z.Z.Z.zip, where:

 XXX is the template edition. It can be free or pro.

 Y.Y is the Joomla version supported by the template. It can be 1.5 or 1.7/2.5.

 Z.Z.Z is the template version.
This is a standard Joomla! template installation file which can be installed in Joomla! administration as usual. Here
are quick instructions to remind you:
For Joomla! 1.7/2.5:
1. In Joomla! administration, go to menu Extensions -> Extension Manager
2. Once you are on Extension Manager, click Browse button and select template installation file
jsn_epic_XXX_jY.Y_4.Z.Z.zip. After that, click on button Upload & Install.
3. Installation file will be uploaded to your server and installed in Joomla!
4. Set the templates as default, go to menu Extensions -> Template Manager
For Joomla! 1.5:
1. In Joomla! administration, go to menu Extensions -> Install/Uninstall
2. Once you are on Extension Manager, click Browse button and select template installation file
jsn_epic_XXX_jY.Y_4.Z.Z.zip. After that, click on button Upload File & Install.
3. Installation file will be uploaded to your server and installed in Joomla!
4. Set the templates as default, go to menu Extensions -> Template Manager

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Template Parameters

Template parameters logically grouped in panels
All JoomlaShine templates can be effortlessly configured by template parameters. In template setting page, there
are 55 template parameters arranged into logical groups for convenient operation.
To access template setting page, please take the following steps:
1. Go to the template manager by menu Extensions -> Template Manager.
2. Click on template name JSN_Epic_XXX, where XXX is the template edition you have.
3. Here in the Template Edit page, you will see the list of template parameters in section Parameters.
4. Click button Save or Apply to save all changes you’ve made.

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Template Information & Auto Update notification

The first parameters section is ABOUT, where you can find important information about the latest template
version. We really do treat our templates as a piece of software, which needs to be continuously improved. So
always make sure you are using the latest version.
Also, in this section you can find some other relevant information such as Author and Copyright.

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Since JSN Epic version 4.3.0 the template automatically checks the latest version available to download. You have
to click on the link Update now. After that a new modal window appears on your web browser.
In the step 1 you fill the login details of JoomlaShine customer account. For the step 2 you use the login details of
Super Administrator account of your website. Then, click on the button Update template. Your template would
automatically up to date to the latest version.

The upgrade process should takes about a minute. After that the window about successful upgrade appears in your
web browser.
Please note, if you customized the CSS files of original template, the changes would be lost. The best if you do
backup the customized CSS files before the upgrade process.

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Sample Data Installation

All JoomlaShine templates have unique feature of installing sample data which makes your testing website look the
same as on the template demo website. Unlike other template providers who provide a heavy package with all files
and database of the demo website, we just give you one single link to install sample data right on your current
website.
To install sample data, please take the following steps:
1. First, go to the template settings page, open section SAMPLE DATA and click Install sample data
button.
2. Next, on page JSN Epic Sample Data Installation follow on-screen instruction to start the process.

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3. After that, the Install Sample Data process will work automatically that through two steps :
1. Download sample data package of the demo website data such as: demo articles, demo menus,
demo template settings, etc.
2. Install sample data: this step will check the template version before installing the sample data.
4. Finally, you should click the Finish button to Return to template settings page for further configuration.

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In the Install Sample Data process, you maybe get some report as below:
1. Unable to download file: The Download sample data function requires an internet connection. If there is
no internet connection, you should try manual installation:

2. If your template version is out of date please upgrade it then try to Install sample data again.

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Original data restoration
Before the sample data installation process, all original data of your website is automatically backed up into a
backup file located in folder /backup inside the joomla_root_folder/templates/jsn_epic_XXX/, where XXX is
the template edition on your server. Technically, this is the zip file which contains a plain text file with SQL
instructions that need to be executed on your Joomla! database.
Below are the instructions on how to do that by using software phpMyAdmin 3.2.1.
1. First, login to phpMyAdmin and select your Joomla! database on the left column

2. Next, select tab Import on the horizontal menu bar

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3. Next, click button Browse.., then select the backup zip file and click button Go at the right corner of the
page.

After script execution, you can get back to your website to check how the original data was restored.
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Favicon configuration
Favicon is a small icon positioned on the left of the address bar of your browser. By default, Joomla! has an icon as
shown on the screenshot below.

Default Joomla! favicon
On your website, you might want to use your own icon, like the one we are using on our site joomlashine.com.

JoomlaShine favicon
Here are instructions on how to do that:

Step 1: Create your own favicon file
Technically, favicon is a regular 16px * 16px icon file with exact name favicon.ico. In most cases, favicon is the
sized-down version of the company logo saved in the icon format. In some cases, the logo is too specific and
favicon needs to be built from scratch.
You can use some professional icon editor software like Axialis IconWorkshop and Iconcool Editor or to use online
favicon generators. The first method gives you better quality, but takes more effort. The second method is easier,
but the quality is not the best.

Step 2: Upload favicon file to your server
After you’ve got the favicon file, it’s time to upload it to your server. You need to upload the icon file to template
folder overwriting the default file. This is the folder joomla_root_folder/templates/jsn_epic_XXX/, where XXX
is the template edition.
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If you have permission problems while using FTP, then we strongly recommend you use a great Joomla! extension
called JoomlaXplorer. And you don’t need to declare logo width/height anywhere. Template will automatically
present it as it is.
If you don’t see your new icon, that doesn't necessarily mean you did anything wrong. Browsers are designed to
minimize data traffic, so they don't refresh the favicon every time they show a page. Even refreshing the page (F5)
won’t help. So you need to refresh more thoroughly:

 Mozilla / Firefox / Safari: hold down Shift while clicking Reload, or press Ctrl-Shift-R (Cmd-Shift-R on
Apple Mac)

 Internet Explorer: hold Ctrl while clicking Refresh, or press Ctrl-F5

 Konqueror: simply click the Reload button, or press F5

 Opera: users may need to completely clear their cache in Tools -> Preferences

 Chrome: Shift-F5
If this doesn't work, you will need to delete the temporary internet files and history and then open your page again.

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Logo

The logo JSN Epic is the default sample logo and you should replace it with your own. Technically, logo is an
image file called logo.png located in folder joomla_root_folder/templates/jsn_epic_XXX/images/, where XXX
the template edition you have.
You can manually choose your own logo file via template parameter Logo File. Additionally, you don’t need to
declare logo width/height anywhere. Template will automatically present it as it is.
When the logo file is ready, you can set up the following parameters:

 Logo Link – Set URL where the logo image should link to. You can set here:
1. Absolute link like http://www.joomlashine.com
2. Relative link starting from Joomla! root folder like index.php
Leave this parameter empty if you do NOT want your logo to be clickable at all.

 Logo Slogan – Set the slogan text to be inserted to the logo image attribute alt. Text in alt attribute is
visible to screen readers (good for accessibility) and search engines (good for SEO).

 Enable Colored Logo – Define if you want to use special colored logo for each template color. Colored
logo file is located under folder images/colors/{color_name}/ inside the template folder.

Set up rich-media logo via module in position “logo”
JSN Epic provides a module position called logo, where you can put any Custom HTML module with rich-media
logo. Another advantage is that you can create multiple modules with different logos and display them in various
pages using the menu-module assignment feature in Joomla!.

Attention!
If template detects that there are some module presented in position logo, then it will disable default logo with all
logo parameters: Enable Colored Logo, Logo Link and Logo Slogan.

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Layout

Module positions
JSN Epic provides 40 module positions allowing you to have multiple layout configurations. All module positions
are collapsible which means if you don’t use all the positions they will be left as blank for neighboring modules.

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Layout dimensions

JSN Epic allows you to change the width size of several critical layout elements. All settings can be done via
template parameters in the section LAYOUT SETTINGS.

Template Width
Template width can be configured in three different ways.

Configuration by template parameter (lowest priority)
Template width can be set by template parameter Template Width. There are
three options for you to choose:

 Narrow – Template width is fixed in pixels defined in parameter
'Narrow' Definition (px).

 Wide - Template width is fixed in pixels defined in parameter 'Wide'
Definition (px).

 Float - Template width is floated with percentage defined in
parameter 'Float' Definition (%).
This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.

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Configuration by "Page Class" (higher priority)
Template width can be set by Page Class of a menu item with syntax
custom-width-xxx, where xxx is the width value you choose.
There are the following possible values: narrow, wide and float.
For example:

 custom-width-float
This setting will override the default settings by template parameter Template
Width.

Configuration by Site tools panel (top priority)
Template color can be selected by Width Selector from Site tools.
This setting is considered as the visitor’s preference and has top priority. It
will overwrite both Page Class and default settings of parameter Template
Width.

Promo Left Width
You can configure the width of module position promo-left in the two following ways:
1. By template parameter Promo Left Width. This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.
2. By Page Class of menu item with syntax custom-promoleftwidth-xx, where xx is the width value you
want to have. For example: custom-promoleftwidth-30

Parameter value can be specified only in integer, for example 25% is correct, but 25.5% is incorrect.

Promo Right Width
You can configure the width of module position promo-right in the two following ways:
1. By template parameter Promo Right Width. This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.
2. By Page Class of menu item with syntax custom-promorightwidth-xx, where xx is the width value you
want to have. For example: custom-promorightwidth-30


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Left Column Width
You can configure the left column width in the following two ways:
1. By template parameter Left Column Width. This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.
2. By Page Class of a menu item with syntax custom-leftwidth-xx, where xx is the width value you want to
have. For example: custom-leftwidth-30


Right Column Width
You can configure the left column width in the following two ways:
1. By template parameter Right Column Width. This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.
2. By Page Class of a menu item with syntax custom-rightwidth-xx, where xx is the width value you want to
have. For example: custom-rightwidth-30


Inner Left Column Width
You can configure the inner left column width in the following two ways:
1. By template parameter Inner Left Column Width. This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.
2. By Page Class of a menu item with syntax custom-innerleftwidth-xx, where xx is the width value you
want to have. For example: custom-innerleftwidth-30


Inner Right Column Width
You can configure the inner right column width by 2 following ways:
1. By template parameter Inner Right Column Width. This is the default setting and has the lowest priority.
2. By Page Class of a menu item with syntax custom-innerrightwidth-xx, where xx is the width value you
want to have. For example: custom-innerrightwidth-30


Main Body on Frontpage
Some websites do not use the main body content area in the Frontpage, just modules. So JSN Epic creates this
parameter for you can control the display of main body flexibly.

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Select No if you want to hide the main body only in home page. And select Yes to show it in all pages normally.

Equal Height
JSN Epic builds this feature to make all modules within the horizontal layout that have the equal height. This is
a creative improvement for template layout however this technique does not support for the dynamic content
modules.

Before enabling equal height feature in content- bottom position

After enabling equal height feature in content-bottom position

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Stick Positions
The template layout includes 6 stick positions: stick-lefttop, stick-leftmiddle, stick-leftbottom, stick-righttop,
stick-rightmiddle, and stick-rightbottom. You can assign any modules or create custom HTML module into
mentioned positions for better website presentation. The module “sticks” into your layout, so when you scroll
mouse up and down, the assigned module is moved in appropriate direction.
Let’s see how we can create a custom HTML module then place it in the stick-lefttop position.
1. In Joomla Administration you go to Extensions -> Module Manager
2. Click on a button New then choose Custom HTML
3. Fill the settings:
3. Title: My stick module
4. Show Title: No
5. Published: Published
6. Position: stick-lefttop
7. Customer Output: Type HTML code into this field
Above, we created a new module then assigned to the position stick-lefttop. You can assign a module to the rest 5
stick positions: stick-leftmiddle, stick-leftbottom, stick-righttop, stick-rightmiddle, stick-rightbottom.

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Colors Variation

Template Color
JSN Epic provides six major color variations for you to choose from. Each color variation covers not only the
main background, but also fills drop-down menu, links, table’s header and some others.
All available colors are described below.

Blue

Red
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Green

Violet

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Orange

Grey
Template color can be configured in three different ways.

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Template color can be set by template parameter Template Color.

Template color can be set by Page Class of a menu item with syntax custom-
color-xxx, where xxx is the color you want to have.
There are the following possible values: blue, red, green, violet, orange and
grey.
For example:

 custom-color-red
Color.

Template color can be selected by Color Selector from Site tools.
This setting is considered as the visitor’s preference and has top priority. It
will overwrite both Page Class and default settings of parameter Template
Color.

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Menu Styles
JSN Epic provides five menu styles to present your website navigation. The default Joomla! built-in menu module
(mod_mainmenu) is utilized, so you don’t need to install any external menu modules.

Top Menu

Top Menu allows you to arrange menu items in horizontal lines and assign icons to them. All icons are configured
directly in the menu item settings page which is very convenient.
To set up Top Menu please select the menu module you want to use and set up parameters as follows:

 Title: Top Menu (or any other you like)

 Show title: Hide

 Position: top

 Access: public

 Language: All

 Select Menu: Top Menu (you might want to use another sources here)

 Start Level: 1

 End Level: 2

 Show sub-menu items: No

 Menu Class Suffix: menu-topmenu menu-iconmenu

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For Joomla! 1.5:

 Title: Top Menu (or any other you like)

 Show title: No

 Position: top

 Menus: All

 Menu Name: topmenu (you might want to use another menu source here)

 Menu Style: List

 Start Level: 0

 End Level: 1

 Always show sub-menu items: No

 Menu Class Suffix: menu-topmenu menu-iconmenu

Attention!
There is a common misconception about Menu Class Suffix and Module Class Suffix. They are absolutely
different parameters, so please pay attention to their settings.

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Top Menu icons
You can attach any of the UniIcons to top menu items to make them more appealing. UniIcons is the set of 20
predefined icons that can be used for multiple purposes. For more information about the available icons and their
names, please read section UniIcons of this document.
To set up icons, you need to go to menu item settings and take the following steps:
For Joomla! 1.7/2.5
Add symbol combination icon-xxx to menu item’s parameter Link CSS Style, where xxx is the icon name.

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For Joomla! 1.5
Add symbol combination (icon-xxx) to menu item’s title where xxx is the icon name.

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Main Menu

Main Menu is a powerful menu built with clean accessible XHTML code structure and effective drop-down
submenu panels.
To set up Main Menu please select the menu module you want to use and set up parameters as follows:
 Title: Main Menu (or any other you like)


 Position: mainmenu

 Access: public

 Language: All

 Select Menu: Main Menu (you might want to use another menu source here)

 Start Level: 1

 End Level: All

 Show Sub-menu Items: Yes

 Menu Class Suffix: menu-mainmenu menu-iconmenu menu-richmenu

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For Joomla! 1.5:

 Title: Main Menu (or any other you like)

 Show title: No

 Position: mainmenu

 Menus: All

 Menu Name: mainmenu (you might want to use another menu source here)


 Start Level: 0

 End Level: 0

 Always show sub-menu items: Yes

 Menu Class Suffix: menu-mainmenu menu-iconmenu menu-richmenu

Attention!

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Special visual effects

Main Menu Effect
JSN Epic provides smooth drop down animation for submenu panels. It utilizes built-in Joomla! MooTools
Javascript library so there is no need to integrate any other Javascript framework. To enable the effect, go to the
template configuration page and set template parameter Main Menu Effect to Yes.

Main Menu Transparency
Another visual effect is transparency for submenu panels (about 90%). To enable submenu transparency, you need
to set template parameter Main Menu Transparency to Yes.

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Main Menu Icons

You can attach any of the UniIcons to menu items to make them more appealing.
To set up icons, you need to go to menu item settings and take the following steps:
For Joomla! 1.7/2.5
Add symbol combination icon-xxx to menu item’s parameter Link CSS Style, where xxx is the icon name.

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For Joomla! 1.5
Add symbol combination (icon-xxx) to menu item’s title where xxx is the icon name.

UniIcons is the set of 20 predefined icons that can be used for multiple purposes. For more information about
available icons and their names, please read section UniIcons of this document.

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Main Menu Rich Text

You can add descriptive text to menu items to make them much clearer.
To set up descriptive text, you need to go to menu item settings and take the following steps:
For Joomla! 1.7/2.5
Add descriptive text to menu item’s parameter Link Title Attribute.

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For Joomla! 1.5
Add the symbol combination (=) as a separator between main and descriptive text in menu item’s title.

In the example above text Home is the main text and Lorem ipsum dolor sit... is the descriptive text. The
separator between them is the symbol combination (=).

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Main Menu Icons and Rich Text in combination

You can set up menu items to utilize both icons and rich text in combination.
For Joomla! 1.7/2.5

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For Joomla! 1.5

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Side Menu

Side Menu is a unique vertical menu with slide-out panels. This menu is extremely efficient when you have
complex navigation with a lot of menu items.
To set up Side Menu please select the menu module you want to use and set up parameters as following:
 Title: Side Menu (or any other you like)

 Show Title: Show

 Position: left

 Access: Public

 Language: All


 Start Level: 1

 End Level: All

 Show sub-menu items: Yes

 Menu Class Suffix: menu-sidemenu menu-iconmenu menu-richmenu

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For Joomla! 1.5:

 Title: Side Menu (or any other you like)

 Position: left

 Menus: All (or at least Home)



 Start Level: 0

 End Level: 0

 Always show sub-menu items: Yes

 Menu Class Suffix: menu-sidemenu menu-iconmenu menu-richmenu

Attention!

Special visual effects

Side Menu Effect
Similar to Main Menu, JSN Epic provides smooth slide out animation for submenu panels of Side Menu. This
feature also utilizes built-in Joomla! MooTools Javascript so there is no need to integrate any other Javascript
framework. To enable the effect, go to the template configuration page and set template parameter Side Menu
Effect to Yes.

Side Menu Transparency
Submenu panels of Side Menu can be semi-transparent as well. To enable sub-menu transparency, you need to set
template parameter Side Menu Transparency to Yes.

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Side Menu Icons and Rich Text

You can set up menu items to utilize both icons and rich text just as you can with Main Menu.

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Tree Menu

Tree Menu represents menu items in a clear tree-like hierarchy which is very appropriate for indexing menu. By
default all sub-menu items are collapsed until you select the parent menu item.
To set up Tree Menu please select the menu module you want to use and set up parameters as following:
 Title: Tree Menu (or any other you like)

 Show Title: Show

 Position: right

 Access: Public

 Language: All


 Start Level: 1

 End Level: All


 Menu Class Suffix: menu-treemenu menu-iconmenu menu-richmenu

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For Joomla! 1.5:

 Title: Tree Menu (or any other you like)

 Position: left

 Menu Assignment: All (or at least Home)



 Start Level: 0

 End Level: 0


 Menu Class Suffix: menu-treemenu menu-iconmenu menu-richmenu

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Tree Menu Icons and Rich Text

You can set up menu items to utilize both icons and rich text just as you can with Main Menu.

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Div Menu

Div Menu is a simple yet nice menu bar with items separated by barely visible dashes. This menu is very suitable
for footer navigation presentation.
To set up Div Menu please select the menu module you want to use and set up parameters as following:

 Title: Div Menu (or any other you like)


 Position: footer

 Access: Public

 Language: All

 Menu Name: othermenu (you might want to use another menu source here)

 Start Level: 1

 End Level: 1


 Menu Class Suffix: menu-divmenu

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For Joomla! 1.5:

 Title: Div Menu (or any other you like)

 Show title: No

 Position: bottom

 Menu Assignment: All

 Menu Name: othermenu (you might want to use another menu source here)


 Start Level: 0

 End Level: 1


 Menu Class Suffix: menu-divmenu

Attention!

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Font Styles

Font Face
JSN Epic provides three font face options for major website types. Each font face option is actually a combination
of two font types: one for content text, another for heading text and main navigation text. Additionally, for each
font face, JSN Epic provides special font powered by Google Font Directory.

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Business / Corporation Website (default)

Normal font face

Special font face
This compact neat text style is an excellent choice for business oriented websites as well as corporate websites. The
combination of Verdana and Arial font type looks very natural and common for most of users since they are most
popular font types used on the Internet.
Below is the description of each font face:

Normal font for PC Normal font for Mac Special font

Heading/menu text Verdana Geneva Nobile

Content text Arial Helvetica N/A

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Personal / Blog Website

Normal font face

Special font face
This text style is a little bigger than normal, which makes it a perfect choice for small websites like personal or
blog websites. The combination of Georgia and Trebuchet MS makes content very easy to read and the looks
impressive.


Heading/menu text Georgia serif Lobster

Content text Trebuchet MS Helvetica N/A

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Online News / Magazines

Normal font face

Special font face
This text style utilizes another very popular font called Times New Roman. This font is widely used in the printing
industry and in some of the extremely popular online news websites like The New York Times. If you want to run
an online news / magazine website, it’s worth trying this font combination.


Heading/menu text Palatino Linotype Palatino Droid Serif

Content text Times New Romam Times N/A

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Text style configuration
You can configure template text style in the two following ways:

Template text style can be set by template parameter Template Text Style.

Template text style can be set by Page Class of a menu item with syntax
custom-textstyle-xxx, where xxx is the style you want to have.
There are the following possible values: business, personal and news.
For example:

 custom-textstyle-personal
Text Style.

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Font Size
JSN Epic provides 3 text size options for major website audience types.

Small font size

Medium font size

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Large font size
You can configure template text size by 3 following ways:

Template text size can be set by template parameter Template Text Size.

Template text size can be set by Page Class of a menu item with syntax
custom-textsize-xxx, where xxx is the size you want to have.
There are following possible values: small, medium and big.
For example:

 custom-textsize- big
Text Size.

Template text size can be selected by Text Size Selector from Site tools.
This setting is considered as visitor’s preference and has top priority. It will
overwrite both Page Class and default settings of parameter Template Text
Size.

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Module Styles
JSN Epic provides four box designs for module background styling which can be combined with UniIcons for
module title styling.
Module styles are configured by module’s parameter Module Class Suffix. All available values are described
below and need to be applied without double quotes.

Module Box Designs
Box designs to be applied to modules.

“box-yellow” “box-grey”

Box designs available in PRO edition only

“box-blue” “box-green”

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Module Icon Designs
You can attach any of the UniIcons to the module’s title. To set up icons, you need to add the string icon-xxx to
the module class suffix, where xxx is the icon name.

“icon-star” “icon-online”
All icon designs can be used in combination with a module box design like examples below:

“box-green icon-user” “box-yellow icon-comment”
For more information about available icons and their names, please read section UniIcons of this document.

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Typography
JSN Epic was created with a strong focus on typography and we believe it contains the most comprehensive
content presentation capability. Headings, text, links, tables, images, everything was designed with high level of
refinement. Let’s take a look.

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Content columns
It’s a pretty common situation when you need to arrange your content in multiple columns. JSN Epic offers you
very a convenient and accessible method to create multiple column content. This is a real step forward removing
table tags from your content and leaving them only for showing tabular data.
You can arrange your content in as many columns as you like. JSN Epic will detect the number of columns you
have and automatically arrange them. The only thing you need to do is to set class grid-layout to parent DIV tag.
Below are screenshots of how this feature looks and example how to use it.

Content arranged in 2 columns

Usage:
<div class=”grid-layout”>
<div>Text in column 1</div>
<div> Text in column 2</div>
</div>

Content arranged in 3 columns

Usage:
<div class=”grid-layout”>
<div> Text in column 3</div>
</div>

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Heading styles

As we all know, headings are “title” of undergoing text blocks, so it must have a distinguish look. JSN Epic
provides styling for five main headings. To apply them you just need to wrap your heading text in regular heading
tags like <h1>…</h1>, <h2>…</h2>, <h3>…</h3>, etc.

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Text styles
JSN Epic provides 12 text styles for making your content easier to scan and read. Below are screenshots of text
styles and usage examples.

Preformatted text
You can use this style to present text with preserved spaces like text block of CSS code or other programming
language.

Usage:
<pre>Your preformatted text</pre>

Quote text
You can use this style to quote somebody’s speech, idea or a fragment from books, articles, etc.

Usage:
<blockquote>Your quote text</blockquote>

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Drop cap symbol
You can use this special drop cap symbol style for magazine / newspaper text paragraph.

Usage:
<p class=”text-dropcap”>Your magazine text paragraph.</p>

Highlighted text
You can use this style to highlight important words and / or keyword expression in search result page.

Usage:
<span class=”text-highlight”>Text to be highlighted.</span>

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Alert text
You can use this style for alert or warning text paragraphs which require user’s attention.

Usage:
<p class="text-alert">Your alert text that requires user’s attentions.</p>.
<div class="text-alert">Your alert text that requires user’s attentions.</div>.

Info text
You can use this style for regular information text paragraphs that do not require much user’s attention.

Usage:
<p class="text-info">Your information text.</p>.
<div class="text-info">Your information text.</div>.

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Download text
You can use this style for information text paragraph related to the download process.

Usage:
<p class="text-download">Your download text.</p>.
<div class="text-download">Your download text.</div>.

Tip text
You can use this style for useful information like tips, hints or help text.

Usage:
<p class="text-tip">Your tip, hint or help text.</p>
<div class="text-tip">Your tip, hint or help text.</div>

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Comment text
You can use this style for comment text paragraphs.

Usage:
<p class="text-comment">Your comment text.</p>
<div class="text-comment">Your comment text.</div>

Attachment text
You can use this style for information text paragraphs related to attachment file.

Usage:
<p class="text-attachment">Your attachment text.</p>.

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Video text
You can use this style for description text paragraphs that related to video file.

Usage:
<p class="text-video">Your video text.</p>
<div class="text-video">Your video text.</div>.

Audio text
You can use this style for description text paragraph related to audio file.

Usage:
<p class="text-audio">Your attachment text.</p>
<div class="text-audio">Your attachment text.</div>.

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Link styles

Icon link styles
You can attach any of UniIcons to the front of any link by adding simple class to it.

Usage:
<a class="link-icon icon-xxx">This is link text.</a>, where xxx is the name of icon to be applied.
Example:
<a class="link-icon icon-download">This is link to download something.</a>

Button link styles
JSN Epic offers 6 button styles to decorate any call-to-action links you have in the content.

Usage:
<a class="link-button button-xxx">This is link text.</a>
where xxx is the button color name selected from: light, dark, green, orange, blue and red.
Example:

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<a class="link-button button-orange">See plans & pricing.</a>

Button and Icon link styles combined
You can use both button and icon link style combined.

Usage:
<a class="link-button button-xxx"><span class="link-icon icon-yyy">This is link text.</span></a>
where xxx and yyy are button color and icon names respectively.
Example:
<span class="link-button button-green"><a class="link-icon icon-cart">Add to cart.</a></span>

Extension link styles
JSN Epic is able to attach not only descriptive icon to the front of link as described in the above section, but also 24
extension icons to the end of the link.

There are 2 ways of utilization extension icons.
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Automatic assignment
JSN Epic is able to detect links to various popular file extensions and assign icons accordingly. This feature utilizes
the modern CSS2 specification allowing you to have links with meaningful icons assigned without any
modification in XHTML code. Moreover, it can detect the protocol type to assign icons to links to instant
messengers, email, etc.

Manual assignment
As stated before, most browsers icons will be automatically assigned thanks to the modern CSS2 specification.
Unfortunately IE6 does not support this specification and you have manually set an appropriate class for links.
Also, this can help if, for some reason, you turned off the auto icon link template parameter but still want to
manually apply icons to links.
Usage: <a class="link-icon-ext icon-ext-xxx">This is link text.</a>, where xxx is the icon name described
below.

- “aim” - “excel” - “movie” - “skype”

- “application” - “feed” - “msn” - “text”

- “archive” - “flash” - “music” - “torrent”

- “calendar” - “font” - “pdf” - “vcard”

- “css” - “mail” - “powerpoint” - “yahoo”

- “doc” - “mobile” - “quicktime” - “windowsmedia”
JSN Epic utilizes the CSS sprite technique to reduce the number of HTTP requests to server in order to get icons.
Technically, all icons are merged in one single image file and visitors will need to make one single
request/download to get that file with all icons. If you have extra time, please read more about CSS sprites.

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Table styles
Tabular data is a very common type of information to be presented on the web. By default, tables look ugly and not
much readable. With JSN Epic you have 3 table styles to present virtually any kind of tabular data you have.

Color Header table style

Usage:
<table class="table-style style-colorheader">...</table>

Color Stripes table style

Usage:
<table class="table-style style-colorstripes">...</table>

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Grey Stripes table style

Usage:
<table class="table-style style-greystripes">...</table>

Attention!
In order to get table styles shown correctly, you need to create solid XHTML code as show bellow.
<table width="100%" class="table-style style-colorheader">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Table header</th>
<th>Column header 1</th>
<th class=”highlight”>Column header 2</th>
<th>Column header 3</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Table footer</th>
<td colspan="3">Footer data</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<th>Row header 1</th>
<td>Lorem ipsum</td>
<td class=”highlight”>Dolor sit amet</td>
<td>Lorem ipsum</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

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List styles
List is the crucial element in every content, not only online websites. List can really help readers to scan the
content and catch important pieces by just a glance.

Standard list styles

Unordered list Ordered list

Usage: <ul><li>…</li></ul> Usage: <ol><li>…</li></ol>

Nobullet list Horizontal list

Usage: <ul class="list-nobullet"><li>…</li></ul> Usage: < ul class="list-horizontal"><li>…</li></ul>

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Arrow list styles

Red arrow Blue arrow

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-arrow arrow-red"><li>…</li></ul> <ul class="list-arrow arrow-blue"><li>…</li></ul>

Green arrow

Usage:
<ul class="list-arrow arrow-green"><li>…</li></ul>

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Icon list styles
You can attach any of UniIcons to items in the list. To set up icons, you need to add string icon-xxx to <ul> class,
where xxx is the icon name.

Article icon list Folder icon list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-icon icon-article"><li>…</li></ul> <ul class="list-icon icon-folder"><li>…</li></ul>
For more information about available icons and their names, please read section UniIcons of this document.

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Number list style

Blue Bullet number list Green Bullet number list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-number-bullet bullet-blue"><li>… <ul class="list-number-bullet bullet-green"><li>…

Grey Bullet number list Orange Bullet number list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-number-bullet bullet-grey"><li>… <ul class="list-number-bullet bullet-orange"><li>…

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Red Bullet number list Violet Bullet number list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-number-bullet bullet-red"><li>… <ul class="list-number-bullet bullet-violet"><li>…

Blue Digit number list Green Digit number list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-number-digit digit-blue"><li>… <ul class="list-number-digit digit-green"><li>…

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Grey Digit number list Orange Digit number list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-number-digit digit-grey"><li>… <ul class="list-number-digit digit-orange"><li>…

Red Digit number list Violet Digit number list

Usage: Usage:
<ul class="list-number-digit digit-red"><li>… <ul class="list-number-digit digit-violet"><li>…

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Site Tools
JSN Epic provides three brand new features to enhance website user experience: Width Selector, Text Size
Selector and Color Selector. By enabling these selectors, you will certainly be giving visitors the best user
experience on your website. All settings from Site tools will be stored as visitor’s browser cookies for further
usage. If all selectors are disabled, nothing from Site Tools will be shown.

Site tools Presentation
You have two options to present Site tools.

Dropdown Menu

With this option, all selectors are elegantly arranged in the submenu panel. The drop-down animation, transparency
and background color settings will be inherited from the Main Menu settings.

Inline Row

With this option, all selectors are located directly on the main menu bar. If you want to enable only some selectors,
this option is the best.

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Width Selector
Width Selector allows your website visitors to select the optimal template
width for them. More information about template width can be found in
section Layout Dimensions in this document.
You can disable this selector by setting template parameter Enable Width
Selector to No.

Text Size Selector
Text Size Selector allows your website visitors to select the optimal text size
for them. For example, poor vision people can select a big text size. More
information about template width can be found in section Font Size in this
document.
You can disable this selector by setting template parameter Enable Text Size
Selector to No.

Color Selector
Color Selector allows your website visitors to choose the color theme they
like. This is a very cool feature for social websites where visitors’ preferences
are the most important. You can set up what color to include in the selector by
defining them in template parameter Colors in Selector. For example:
blue,red,green.

If your website has a strong identity color and you don’t want visitors to select any other color, just turn this
selector off by setting template parameter Enable Color Selector to No.

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SEO & System

Source ordering

One of the most important SEO techniques is to make sure that search engines can find your critical content before
others. To make this possible, in our template code structure we generate the “center” part first and only after that
“left” and “right” columns.
In this way, you can be sure that search engines will see your critical content first. You can use Lynx browser both
online or offline to make sure of that.

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Website Title

This feature allows you to use the value defined in parameter Site Name from Joomla! Global Configuration and
show it in tag <title> on every page. By default, Joomla! presents Site Name only at back-end and offline page.
Now, with parameter Website Title you can utilize Site Name at front-end on every page. This is a great feature to
improve your website SEO, since you can define your website title with some important keywords and show it on
every page. Please note that the parameter is available only in Joomla 1.5.x. Since Joomla 1.7.x the parameter by
default is included in the Global Configuration of Joomla CMS.

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Top H1 tag

This feature allows you to wrap the website slogan to <h1> tag, which is good for both SEO and accessibility. As
we all know, <h1> is the most important content tag and search engines normally pay special attention to the
content in that tag. Once you’ve configured your keyword-powered website title and slogan, you can include them
in the first h1 tag to increase SEO ranking.

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“Go to top” Link

This feature allows you to put 'Go to top' link at the bottom of page. It will smoothly scroll your page to the top,
which is nice and good for website usability.

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Printing Optimization
This feature will give your website visitors a totally optimized page for a printer with only the important content
included. This is very useful when you want your website visitors to be able to print only the main content of the
page and nothing else like the side-column content, etc.

Before printing optimization

After printing optimization
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As you can see on screenshots, not only the content is simplified, but also the styling is optimized to get pure black
on white ready for printing page.
At anytime, you can turn this feature off so the whole page will be output to a printer.

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Analytics Code

This feature allows you to present any analytical code on your website HTML code by template parameter without
having to edit index.php file.

Analytics Code Position
You can define where to insert the code by template parameter Analytics Code Position. There are two options to
choose from:

 Before ending …</head> tag

 Before ending …</body> tag

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Custom 404 Error Page
The default error page comes from Joomla! is super ugly and sure to scare people away from your site at first
glance, so begin from JSN Epic 4.2.x we provide a clean and good looking Custom 404 Error page for your need.

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Custom Offline Page
The default Joomla! offline page hasn’t changed much since the old days and doesn’t really look good. Therefore,
we provide a Custom Offline page with professional and easy to customize your own way.

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Custom CSS File(s)
This feature allows you to load multiple custom CSS files among with template default files. If you enable CSS/JS
Compression feature, all custom CSS files will be compressed as well. This feature is very useful, when you have
special dedicated CSS file for content styling.

Custom CSS files are loaded with other template CSS files
Just put custom CSS files to template’s CSS folder and define them in template parameter Custom CSS File(s)
each file name at a line.

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CSS/JS Compression
This feature combines all CSS/JS files into a single file and delivers it in a compressed state to the browser.

Before enabling CSS/JS compression

After enabling CSS/JS compression
By enabling CSS/JS compression feature, you can increase your website performance by about 35%.

Cache Folder
Compressed files will be stored in cache folder defined by template parameter Cache Folder. You can define any
folder starting from Joomla root folder.
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Mobile Edition

Mobile Support
All JoomlaShine.com templates have a special built-in design optimized for modern mobile devices iPhone,
Android and Windows Mobile-based. Unlike other template providers, we do not develop something that looks
like a mobile app with heavy menu and animation. We built compact and lightweight versions of the template
preserving the whole original look-and-feel.

Mobile layout overview

Mobile layout overview Module positions in mobile layout
Mobile layout has eight dedicated module positions, where you can show modules specifically designed for
mobile edition.
Additionally, you can utilize Position Mapping template parameter to map modules in regular positions to mobile
positions.
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Optimized HTML overrides for mobile

Article (com_content) News feeds (com_newsfeeds)
We optimized HTML overrides for all default Joomla! extensions to make them looks neat in mobile edition. The
work is mainly focused on rearrangement content from columns to rows.

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Optimized menu for mobile
For mobile edition, we have built a very simple, yet effective menu system, where all children menu items are
presented as a tree in a collapsible panel. This menu system utilizes only little Javascript (MooTool) for
expanding/collapsing submenu panels and is very fast and lightweight.

Special designed mobile menu system Children menu items are presented as tree
You just need to put the menu module to mobile position mainmenu-m and it will automatically obtain
appropriate look-n-feel. All module settings are the same as for the regular main menu.
Additionally, you can configure Position Mapping template parameter to map menu module in regular position
mainmenu to mobile position mainmenu-m.

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Mobile menu with icons applied Mobile menu with rich text
The most amazing thing is that mobile menu inherits all the goodies of the regular menu like icons and rich text.

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Viewing mobile layout on desktop browser
For testing purposes, you can configure to show mobile layout on normal desktop browser. There are two ways to
do this.

Using “User Agent Switcher” Firefox add-on (Recommended)
You can use a Firefox add-ons called User Agent Switcher which allows you to switch the user agent of your
browser. This is very convenient method and we strongly recommend it.

Using “User Agent Switcher” Firefox add-on.
This add-on can be downloaded for free from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

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Using custom URL attribute
Another way is to force the browser to enable mobile view by defining custom URL attribute ?jsn_setmobile=yes.

Using custom URL attribute
After viewing, you can revert back to normal mode by defining ?jsn_setmobile=no. This method is nor preferable,
since it requires you to input custom attribute all the time.

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Mobile Configuration

Template parameters to control mobile edition
To enable mobile edition, just turn on template parameter Enable Mobile Support. Now, when a user is visiting
your website via a mobile device like iPhone, the mobile layout will be automatically activated.

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Desktop/Mobile Switcher

Buttons to switch from mobile edition to desktop and vice versa
This feature allows you to show the button to switch from mobile layout to desktop and vice versa. To enable
switcher, just turn template parameter Show Desktop Switcher to Yes.

Position Mapping

An example of mapping module position “user-top-m” to “user-top”
This feature allows you to show all modules from a desktop position in mobile position. This is very useful, when
you want to utilize existing modules in mobile edition.
In template setting page, there are parameters to setup mapping for all mobile positions.

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Multilingual support
In our templates, all wordings of both back-end and front-end are moved to separated language files, so you can
easily translate them into any language you want. More information about how to make your own translation can
be found in JSN Epic Customization Manual.
Currently our templates support 14 primary languages with more to come in the future.

English

German

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Dutch

Italian

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Spanish

French

Japanese

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Danish

Russian

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Polish

Bulgarian

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Croatian

Greece

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Portuguese
If you want to contribute and add a translation into your own language, please feel free to contact us at:
http://www.joomlashine.com/contact-us/general-inquiries.html.

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What’s next?
Now as you have learnt every feature of the template, it’s time to move on and customize it to your needs. Go
ahead and open the next documentation coming with the JSN Epic package called JSN Epic v4 Customization
Manual. In this manual, you will find a detailed description about how to customize every bit of the template to
make it suit your needs.
You can download the full documentation package and print for convenient reading.
http://www.joomlashine.com/joomla-templates/jsn-epic-docs.zip

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