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The incredible new Color Chooser, offers
an Infinite number of stylistic possibilities.

The most noticeable feature of Crystalline is its Color Chooser, an interactive popup that controls all style elements in the theme, such as the link color or the overlay style. Simply activate the Color Chooser and experiment!

Color Chooser Admin Controls

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Activate the Color Chooser by selecting the button displayed in the header above.

The Color Chooser allows you to edit background, text and link colors, as well as overlay/graphic patterns on the fly from a sophisticated popup. These can then be saved and used in the Gantry Administrative Interface.

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A series of descriptive tutorials and guides
on using and configuring the March template.

Learn about various aspects of the theme such as Installation instructions, or guides on how to edit and customize the logo from the Tutorials area of the demo. Reading the information is recommended before use.

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The Gantry Framework v2 rests at the
theme's core, adding versatility and flexibility.

An extensive and intuitive administrative interface, as well as the 960 grid layout system, on top of a plethora of other powerful and useful features, make the Gantry Framework a truly flexible foundation for any theme.

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Includes stylistically integrated extensions such as RokTabs and RokAjaxSearch

The use of extensions with Joomla is as instinctual as using a template, therefore, Crystalline offers prebuilt styling for some of our popular RocketTheme extensions such as RokTabs.

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Style Module Variations tied into the Color Chooser, as well as structural suffixes.

Included are 14 module class suffixes / variations which provide independent modular styling, ranging from styled suffixes such as bg1-5 and title1-5, to structural suffixes such as basic and flush.

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Mar10 Demo Image Splitmenu, a Versatile and Functional menu.
A traditional, separated 1st and 2nd tier menu system.

Logo Editing

The template automatically changes the size of the logo based on what image is present. Therefore, there is no need to manually change the dimensions in the CSS.

The following tutorial outlines how to edit the logo with Adobe Fireworks CS4. Fireworks is required for logo editing. CS3 can be used for image source editing.

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Learn how to customise your Crystalline logo using Adobe Fireworks with this detailed video tutorial.

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You will want to install the provided fonts before proceeding to edit in Fireworks, if you wish to use the same font for your logo editing.

Editing in Adobe Fireworks CS4

Step 1

Open the crystalline-logo-source.png file in Adobe Fireworks.

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Focus on the right column, titled Layers. Select the Web layers directory and click the eye icon to the left of the logo slice (the green object). This will make the slice invisible so you can edit the file.

Step 2

Double click on the logo text. Now you can edit the text of logo to your choosing.

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Next, double click on the slogan logo text. Now you can edit the text of logo to your choosing.

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Now, select the icon and disable it, if you so wish.

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Step 3

Reactivate the Slice in the Web Layers column, this will place a green rectangle over the logo image. Change the size of the slice (or move it) to match the new size if applicable.

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Step 4

Now you will want to export the logo. Right click on the image slice and select Exported Selected Slices... from the contextual menu. Proceed to export it to your computer for uploading.

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Step 5

If you are new to Fireworks, you may be wondering why it appears that there is only one style variation in the source. This is not the case as we take advantage of the Frame features of Fireworks. You need to simply switch frames to see all the other style variation sources.

There are a few ways to change frames and we will show 2 methods that you can use.

In the right column where you find the Layers toolbar including the Web Layers area, you should see another tab/toolbar named Frames. Just left click on the title Frames to enter the frames area. Then you can click on either of the frames which are named to show which style variant is on that particular frame.

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The second method is the easiest and simplist. At the bottom of the Fireworks canvas is a row of buttons and arrows. Select the arrows to switch between frames.

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Uploading the changed files

Step 1

Once you have successfully edited then exported your new logo, you will need to upload it to your server. This process is best done via a FTP client such as Filezilla

  1. Open your FTP client on your local computer.
  2. Login to your web server where Crystalline is installed.
  3. Navigate to the /templates/rt_crystalline_j15/images/logo/ directory.
  4. Upload logo.png (and any other logo related images) to this directory (You may need to browse on the local panel in the FTP client to find where you have exported your logo).
  5. Clear your browser cache before viewing such as using the keyboard commands on Windows, Ctrl+F5.
Ensure that you are uploading the correct logo to avoid confusion if it does not change. Also take into account hosting permissions. Sometimes, hosts which are not designed for Joomla may have permissions not suited for the setup, thus, the upload will not be complete. In this case, contact your hosting provider.

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The template is fully compliant with the XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS3 standards, as set by the World Wide Web Consortium.

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