Adding a module position to a Zen Grid Framework Template

Even though the Zen Grid Framework comes with a plethora of module positions you may at times want to add your own module position to your customised layout. The process for doing this is relatively straight forward and for the most part doing so follows the standard Joomla 1.5 conventions. To do this you need to take advantage of the Zen Grid Framework override system. For this example lets assu...

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Create your own Zen Grid framework compatible template

The template contents document will give you a good idea of whats required to create a zen grid framework compatible template and as an example template we have two blank templates available for you to use as a base template. The Zen Blank and Zen Default are the perfect starter template to use with the framework as they contain all of the files required to use the Zen Grid Framework but come wit...

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Creating frontpage conditionals in Zen Grid compatible templates

There are times where you may only want to display some of the elements of your website on the front page and hide it on all others - this tutorial will help you walk through creating frontpage conditionals for Zen Grid Framework compatible templates. There are a few ways to do this within Joomla itself but this trick involves two lines of code and is set at the template level which avoids any co...

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Customising Zen Grid Framework CSS, Javascript and PHP

The Zen Grid framework has a number of automated features built in that enable the loading of custom code into the template. For instance the framework looks for browser specific stylesheets, a custom javascript file and a custom php file to load into your site if it exists.   Browser specific style sheets. In some cases our pre built templates come with overrides for internet explorer6 and int...

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What is the zengrid.js file?

If you are using the in built javascript compression for your Zen Grid Framework file you will notice that all of the javascript that is rendered from the framework is compiled into a file called zengrid.js. This file is rendered dynamically and depending on the settings for your template it may contain compressed versions of the following files: templates/zengridframework/js/effects/slide.js ...

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