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	If you just watched my video on Hathor, you saw that there were a few little

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customizations that you could make to the Hathor template, and maybe you

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were feeling jealous.

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You want to use isis, but you'd like to customize the look of isis as well.

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What kind of customizations are available for that?

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Well, that's what I am going to cover now.

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If we go to Extensions, and we go to our Template Manager, let's take a look at

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the isis template by clicking on it here, inside of our Styles.

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And the first screen just gives us the style name, and the template that it's

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associated with, but under Options, we do have some things that we can change

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here, which is incredibly helpful.

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So first of all, one of the things that we can change is the color of the

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navigation bar, or the color of the header.

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So we can change the colors that are associated with these two bars up here at

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the top of the screen.

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By default, these are various shades of blue;

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you could make them shades of red, shades of green, whatever you want to do.

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The logo is available here as well.

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By default, you see a Joomla! logo.

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It brands this back-end as Joomla! running here.

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But in many cases, there are Web site development agencies that might wish to

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brand their copy of Joomla as their own.

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So perhaps they want to use their own company colors, and they want to use their

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own company logo in the back-end here, so that this does not say that this is

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Joomla!, it looks more like a custom content management system.

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And that's possible; we can change the logo assignment here by changing

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this particular item.

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The next item about collapsing the Administrator Menu solves this

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particular problem.

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Sometimes when I am working at home on my super large monitor, I have one

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browser window open, and maybe I've made it a little bit smaller, and then on the

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other side of the screen, I've got a Word document open, or my e-mail, or something,

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and I want to be going back and forth between those.

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When I minimize the size of my browser by pulling in the corner here, what

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happens, of course, in isis that's a feature, not a bug, is that at some point

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right here, the menu collapses, and now I don't have the ability to roll my

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mouse over the menu options up here on the top anymore. Now I have to click on

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this icon to get to these options here underneath, and then click on each of

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these to go even further.

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I don't have the ability to click on these right now, because I have this

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open down here on the bottom, and the menu is normally grayed out at this point in time.

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If you don't want this change to happen; if you would like to have the menu to

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stay constant here across the top, what you're going to need to do is, down

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here where it says Collapse Administrator Menu, right now that's set to Yes, change that to No,

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and if I just say Save, what will happen now is, as my window is wide, I have my

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menu, but as I make my browser window smaller, the menu does not collapse.

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I still have it up here, and it's still available to me.

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So that's helpful if you're working on a desktop computer, and maybe you have no

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intention of working on this site ever on a tablet, or a mobile phone, so that's

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a feature you can turn on and off.

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So I am going to go ahead and put that back to Yes, because I actually like that there.

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We can choose to display the header on the top of the page, or not;

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if I say No, and say Save, that header bar that tells me where I am in the

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Web site, and has the Joomla!

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logo on it goes away entirely.

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I kind of like it there, because I like the fact that it tells me what page I am on.

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Although it tells me twice;

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it tells me up here, and it will replace that down here if you decide to turn

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off the header. I like it better up here in the blue bar. It just works better for me.

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And down here on the bottom of the screen, there is this module, which says View

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Site, and has the Log out button, and so forth on it, right now that is set to be

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Fixed at the bottom of the page.

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We can move that around as well.

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If I said put it at the Top of the screen,

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that is going to bump that up here to the top, so I don't have it down here in the bottom.

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Some people may like that better here in the workflow.

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So I am going to go ahead and put that back down to the bottom.

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And the last thing that we can customize here inside of isis, down here at the

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bottom, is the Sticky Toolbar.

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And this refers to the buttons for Save, Save & Close, and so forth, are always

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available to us, no matter how long the page is.

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So if I set my Sticky Toolbar to No, and say Save, what will happen now is, as I

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go into a page that's a bit longer, like this, those buttons will scroll off the screen.

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The dark blue bar here that has your navigation on it will always stay in place,

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but the bar with the buttons to save will scroll off.

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I actually think that this is not a good thing; I love having those

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buttons there on the top.

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So if I've scrolled all the way down many screens of information, I can still

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just click on the Save button at the top, rather than having to scroll back up to

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the top, and then click save.

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So I am going to turn that back on, and I am going to say Save & Close.

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So you have many options to you for customizing the isis template.

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You can brand it with your own colors, and your own logo very easily, without

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having to edit the HTML and the CSS.

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You can move some of the elements around to optimize your personal workflow,

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and you can optimize isis for your particular workflow, and to maximize your

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productivity.