Joomla! is a content management system and framework with a proven flexibility and easy of use both from design as well as implementation point of view. Due to the fact that the templates structure has a relative high degree of complexity, the creation of a Joomla! template from the ground could be a time consuming task and even an impossible one for beginners.

On the other hand, there are available for free download thousands of Joomla! templates that could be customized, but in certain situations the customization process involves the execution of supplementary steps. Fortunately, rapid solutions exist to edit an existing Joomla! template or create a new one.

The free or commerial Joomla! templates builders extensions for Dreamweaver will allow designers or programmers to manage Joomla! templates inside a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment.

A working installation of Joomla! is required for templates testing. Joomla! content management system can be rapidly installed on Windows with the help of standalone servers available for download on Joomla.org website.

After the downloading and installation of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, the Joomla! templates builder extensions must also be installed. From Joomla.org website there are available many free Dreamweaver extensions that permits the manipulation of Joomla! templates by using WYSIWYG tools. In order to install the Dreamweaver extensions, the .mxp files must be double-clicked and the Adobe Extension Manager will install them automatically.

Every Joomla! template builder extension for Dreamweaver comes with a set of objects that allows the insertion or the automatic generation of the necessary PHP code into documents to create new templates for Joomla!. The basic structure of a Joomla! template must be known or a blank template could also be used. The Dreamweaver extension is able to generate the code corresponding to the header, various modules positions, banners and more. Joomla! content management system, as well as Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 are available for download from Downloadtube website.

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