JV Dance & Downloading
Go to JV Dance download page, where you will see multile files available for you site development
If you are setting up a new site, the Quick-Start version is the best choice, because it will install an entire new site with all associated extensions and styled to look like the template’s live demo.
If you already have a site and don’t want to replace it, or you only want the template without extensions and styling, the Theme version will be your choice. Installing a theme will give you only a new template/theme without any extra extension or data loss.
After you have confirm the file(s) you need, select them by ticking the box(es) in front of said file(s), then click download.
If the file you downloaded has ‘unzip_first’ in its name, please extract it before continuing with the installation.
Installation
1. Installation with Quick-start version
2. Installation with template/ theme version
You will need to install a theme managing component called JV Framework before you can install JV Dance as a theme.
To install JV Framework:
Click on JV Frame Work download on the upper right corner, just under user menu.
Log into your joomla! back end, select extension manager.
On install tab, type the path to your file into the blank field of ‘install from package’ section or click on ‘browse’ to find it manually
Click on ‘Upload & Install’.
Now you can find ‘JV Framework” from the component menu.
Installing JV Dance theme
Using upload theme:
Rename your install file and remove the number at the end, leaving only the theme’s name.
From back end, access JV Framework from component menu.
Inside JV Framework theme manager page, click on the upload theme ( ) button.
Type the path to your file into the blank field or click on browse to find the theme manually.
Click on install to finish uploading the new theme.
Installing manually:
Extract the theme’s zip file.
Copy the resulting folder to <templates\jv-framework\themes> within your site’s source folder.
Return to JV Framework’s theme manager in your site’s back end and check your theme list
Managing JV Dance ( with JV framework)
For the basic functions of JV Framework, please refer to JV Framework User guides
The main difference between themes when using JV Framework is the position layout. The following image will show the default layout of JV Dance:
Extensions
If you used the Quick-start version of JV Dance template, the following extensions will be included. For a JV Dance theme user, you would have to download and install these extensions manually:
JV Slider
To replicate the Demo site, this module should be assigned to the position ‘left’ on on Home page.
Prepare a folder where you store the images you wanted to use. If you want the slider to displays thumbnails instead of large images, create a ‘thumbnails’ folder within the aforementioned directory and store the resized images there.
Within your site back end, go to Module Manager and click on the module’s name.
Inside Module mod, set the location to your image folders, select your source and set the parameters.
Set the module to published/enable and select the pages where you want to display it.
Save the setting and click on review.
For the parameters’ effects, please read the JV Slider User Guide
JV Slideshow(Module)
To replicate the Demo site, this module should be assigned to the position ‘Slide’ on Home page.
Prepare a folder where you store the images you wanted to use. If you wanted to display thumbnails for your slides, create a “thumbnails” folder within the image folder and store the resized images you want to use as thumbnails there.
Within your site back end, go to Module Manager and click on the module’s name.
Inside Module mod, set the location to your image folders, select your source and set the parameters.
Set the module to published/enable and select the pages where you want to display it.
Save the setting and click on review.
For the parameters’ effects, please read the JV Slideshow User Guide
JV Photos(Module)
To replicate the Demo site:
Prepare a folder where you store the images you wanted to use. If you wanted to display thumbnails for your photos, create a “thumbnails” folder within the image folder and store the resized photos you want to use as thumbnails there .
Make a module named ‘Photo galleries’ base on this module and assign it to the position ‘photo’on all page
Create a ‘galleries’ category, in which you create articles using the following code
<p><img src=<”imagelink “> border=”0” alt=”img” /><br />7 images</p>
<hr id=”system-readmore” />
<p></p>
Create a ‘category blog’ type menu item linked to the ‘galleries’ category.
Within your site back end, go to Module Manager and click on the module’s name.
Inside Module mod, set the location to your image folders, select your source and set the parameters.
Save the setting and click on review. Then click on the ‘Galleries’ menu item.
For the parameters’ effects, please read the JV Photos User Guide
JV News(Module)
To replicate the Demo site, make 2 modules named ‘upcoming events’ and ‘spot light’ base on this module, then assign them to the position ‘right’ on all page.
In ‘upcoming events’, set the parameters similar to the following images:
In ‘spot light’, set the parameters similar to the following images:
For the parameters’ effects, please read the JV News User Guide
JV Contact(Module)
To replicate the Demo site, create a ‘footer menu’ menu (which contain the same items as main menu with the exception of the ‘Submenu’).
Create a menu type module linked to ‘footer menu’ Menu and assign it to the position ‘Footer’ on all pages
Afterwar create 2 menu items in the main menu and footer menu using menu item type ‘JV Contact-Default Template’.
In the component, set the contact, fields and global config according to these screenshots:
Fields:
Global config:
For more detail about JV Contact, please read the JV Contact Userguide.
Save your settings and click on View site to see the result. Your contact can be found by clicking on the ‘Contact us’ item from the Main menu or Footer menu