Ascent2 Joomla Template Documentation

Recent Work

What is this?

The carousel that sits at the bottom of the main content area on the front page. When the user hovers over the item the title is displayed with a transparent overlay.

Zentools2 Carousel

Steps to recreate this module

Module Manager

  1. Navigate to the module manager in your Joomla administrator via extensions > Module Manager
  2. Click new
  3. Select the zentools2 type module
  4. Give the module a name that you will remember eg Recent Work
  5. Assign the module to a module position (grid13).
  6. Ensure the module is published

Module settings

Options

  1. Select the backstretch slideshow layout
  2. Select your content source eg Joomla
  3. Set your layout tags eg image, title, introtext, readmore

Layout settings

Image settings. Image settings Title Settings title settings

  1. Set your desired module settings eg slide duration etc

Module Options

Content

  1. Go to the content panel
  2. Adjust the content settings so that the module shows the correct content

Module Content

Save the module

  1. Click the save button in the top left of the page.