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     To this point, we've done all of our work here in the back-end of Joomla

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with the default template that Joomla ships with.

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This is the isis template in Joomla! 3,

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and this is the sort of the blue on the top, and the white in the layouts that you see here.

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But just like all Joomla

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Web sites, you can change the template on the front-end. You can also change the

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template on the Administrator side of things here in the back-end.

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And you can go to third-party providers, and you can download different admin

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templates for Joomla! 3, but Joomla! 3

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itself also ships with two admin templates:

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isis, this one by default, and there is a second one called Hathor.

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You may have heard of Hathor before, because it was available also in Joomla! 1.6, 1.7, and 2.5.

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So I would like to give you a little tour of the Hathor template now.

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If we go to Extensions > Template Manager, right now we have available to us two

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admin templates: that's isis, and Hathor here.

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What I'm going to do is I'm just going to click on the star here for Hathor, and

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set this as the default template.

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This completely changes the look of the back-end here.

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So why does Joomla

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have two admin templates?

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Well, this particular template, Hathor, was built by my good friend Andy Tarr, who

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was a Google Summer of Code intern and the summer of 2009, and she wound up

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working on Hathor as her project, and what she wanted to create was a fully

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accessible administrator template.

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And this template is WCAG level 2 compliant template, meaning that it's great

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for people who have various kinds of disabilities, both visual disabilities, and

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motor disabilities. You can navigate this entire admin template using a keyboard only.

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So as you see, it looks fairly different, but you still have many of the things

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you have come to know and love.

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Here is your control panel.

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You still have dropdowns here, and the location of all of the items that we've

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been working with here in Joomla

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are all still in the same places.

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If you take a look at something like the Article Manager, which we've looked at

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lot, this stretches all the way across the screen, and actually this display is

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much more similar to what we saw in Joomla! 2.5

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than it is to the 3.0 layouts.

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We have our Filters that were on the left side of the screen in the isis

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template are going across the top here in the Hathor template, and here are the

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buttons for creating new items.

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There's no big green New button. The New button is still here,

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it's still on the left, but it looks very much like the other buttons.

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There are a few ways you can customize the Hathor template.

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Again, these customizations are targeted to people who have various kinds of disabilities.

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So if I click on the style for the Hathor template, I can notably change things,

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like the color for this template.

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Some people with various kinds of visual disabilities see better with a dark

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background with light text on top of it.

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So the high contrast template, if I just choose that, and say Save, will give you

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that bright contrast that some people with various types of disabilities require

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in order to be able to read the screen more easily.

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There's also some other color combinations here.

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There's a brown that's available, and there is also a blue that's available,

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and these are tailored to various types of disabilities.

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You can make all of the text bold; that may be helpful, again, for some types of

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disabilities, or you can leave it all just at normal font weight as well.

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You also the ability to change the Site name and the logo if you wish using that

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particular interface.

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So that's a real quick overview of what Hathor is, and why it's here.

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And the last thing that I'd like to tell you is, Hathor might be useful if you're

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working with a team of people who are working on a Joomla

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Web site, and maybe somebody needs the Hathor template in order to get around in the back-end.

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But you don't have to require everyone to use the Hathor template.

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So what you can do is you can assign administrator templates on a user by user

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basis, which is incredibly helpful.

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I'm speaking specifically here to the case of disabilities, but even if you want

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to work with a certain admin template yourself as a site developer, and you want

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to have a different template available for your clients, that's completely

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possible inside of Joomla! 3.

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So let me just show you that really quickly.

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I'm going to hit Close here to get out of that particular screen.

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I'm going to reset isis as my default template by clicking on the star here.

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Under Users, under User Manager, and if you click on Super User, which is our only

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user at this point in time, we do have the ability to assign administrator

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templates here within these particular settings.

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So under the Basic Settings tab, here with the back-end template style, I can

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override the default for the entire Web site.

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So by default, as I make new users, everybody is using the isis template, but I

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could make exceptions for certain users, and through this interface, if I set

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Hathor, then just for this particular login, they would see Hathor, while everybody

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else is seeing the isis template.

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So that's a very helpful addition to Joomla! 3,

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and it means that everybody can work with the administrator template that they

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are most comfortable, and most productive using.