Jure Stern
Graphic designer
Sometimes we need to change the display of Joomla articles and categories. Creating different layouts for articles and categories is almost identical to creating alternative module layouts. The use of layouts is more practical from the use of template overrides if we need to have more than one different layout presentation of our content.
In Joomla 1.6 and 1.7 we have the option to use several different alternative layouts for individual styling. Alternative layouts differ from standard Joomla overrides in that, you can have unlimited alternative layout files. We also use different naming conventions and we must enable the layout in the Alternative Layout option field.
When we strive to create different user experiences on our Joomla! websites we can take advantage of some of the options, that are available with the Joomla! overrides. One of those options is overriding the output of every Joomla! module that we install on our site. If we change the files in the original module directory we can loose all our work when we update the module or the joomla system. Template overrides work with copying a file from the original module folder to our template folder.
In Joomla 1.6 and 1.7 we now have the option to make our site multilingual. If we have experience with some of the existing components for multilanguage, the implementation is different.
