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In the previous video, I showed you how we could take the protostar template and

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its style, and we could customize it, and we took that one copy of the style,

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and we customized it, and it's applied to all of the pages of the Web site.

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But it's possible to take that same style, and make a copy of it, and then make

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tweaks to the copy of it, so that you can have a slightly different style on some

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pages of the Web site.

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So I'm going to go ahead and show you how to do that now.

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It's a nice way to make little variations in your templates. Again, you might

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have something different for the homepage, something different for the inside

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pages of the Web site, so I'll go ahead and show you how to do that now.

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Here in the back-end of Joomla,

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I'm going to start by going to Extensions > Template Manager.

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And right now we have just the copy of the protostar template.

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But if we put a checkmark next to this, and I say Duplicate up here on the top, I

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can make a copy of that template.

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So then I could click on this, and rather than calling it protostar-Default (2),

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maybe I'll call it protostar-Home, and then I can make a modification just for the homepage.

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Let's say, for example, that for the homepage of the Web site, I would like that to

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have a different background color; maybe the same template color I'd like to

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have as the background color for the Web page, so I've got that in both places.

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I only want this style to apply to the Home page of the Web site, so I'll go

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ahead and check off the Home page of the Web site, and then I'll say Save.

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So now what will happen is when I come to the homepage of the Web site, and I

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refresh, this particular page has one color for the background of the Web page,

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and when I go to other parts of the Web site, it's got the original orange

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background color that I chose. But the Home page now has a different color for

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the background of the homepage.

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I could have changed the header graphic, maybe I would want a really big header

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graphic on the homepage, and a much smaller, or maybe a narrower header graphic

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on the inside pages.

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That would be something that is very typical, people will often do; varying a

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homepage, versus an inside page.

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And you could certainly do that with the interface that protostar comes with.

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So the nice thing about Joomla

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template styles is that they allow you to take the same template, make minor

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tweaks to the way it appears, or text that appears on the pages, and you can

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display your page in a number of different ways, all closely related, all still

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controlled by the same style sheets, and the same HTML files, but you can still


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make minor variations in the way the Web site appears.