Firstly you may wish to visit these links to learn how to adapt your 1.5 version template to 1.6,1.7 versions. Visit Joomla Documentation and then here also. These would help you with ideas on what to do , there are not much documentations available for 1.6, 1.7 templates as at the time of this writing and the 1.5 versions of joomla would not be supported anymore in some months time.

One of the major problems is not  being able to find the 1.5 converted template when it has been installed on a 1.7 Joomla version.  It appears automatically on 1.5 version but not the same in 1.7 version. if you experience these problems please visit your admin and then follow Extensions manager > click on Discover > then  Discover on top close to purge cache.  If you have done everything right, your template should appear .

Have fun.

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I actually found this a bit challenging since i hadn’t used it for a while but lets get down to details.;

To remove the rounded images on the infoboxes  please find the file in your includes/classes/boxes.php and do the modifications there. One of the major problems is finding where the named images are embedded in the codes , you would find it in the above file. All you have to do is comment out the statement or remove the image link itself inside the quotes and leave the quotes there .

Example =

if ($left_corner == true) {
// $left_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘infobox/corner_left.gif’);
} else {
// $left_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘infobox/corner_right_left.gif’);
}

You can see from the above that it has been commented out.

Also find this line in the same file

$info_box_contents[] = array(array(‘params’ => ‘height=”14″‘,
‘text’ => tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘I removed the image here ‘)),
array(‘params’ => ‘height=”14″ width=”100%”‘,
‘text’ => $contents[0]['text']),
array(‘params’ => ‘height=”14″‘,
‘text’ => tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘I removed the image here‘)));

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One other thing is that after you have done this, you will see the number “1″ appearing in the info boxes, please  remove this by visiting includes/boxes/categories.php and  edit this line by changing all to “false”

$info_box_contents = array();
$info_box_contents[] = array(‘text’ => BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES);

new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);

Also visit includes/boxes/shopping_cart.php edit this line and make it false.

new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false, tep_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART));

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It’s me again, i just want to quickly call your attention to issue in drupal custom template where the new custom templates does not load javascripts. One little mistake to make when creating a new drupal custom template is to forget some little codes that call things up on your template. i would advice most people to look at the structure and codes in the original default templates that ships with drupal and take examples from there.

Recently i worked on a new template and found that when i installed a code editor module to my client’s site , it refused to load but after some few research i found that i forgot to include ” <?php print $scripts ?>" in the head section of the template, once this was done, i was able to view it, now there may be some complex problems that would arise with this even if the code is visible in the header, please refer to this thread in the drupal forum and see if it will solve your problem.

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I know many people who run their sites on joomla would like to have a separate login page set up as a menu link as opposed to the normal login form appearing as a module, especially when you are using virtuemart. Well to do this is very simple.

Just login into your joomla admin > click on menu manager and try to set up a menu under the menu section you want > then afterwards choose type to link the menu to a type > choose “user” in the list and then choose “default login layout”  > Just publish your menu and you should be done by now.

Normally this works with virtuemart because by default, virtuemart is linked to joomla user database if you opted to make it the same.

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