JV Dorothy

A simple, clean and modern look with an emphasis on visual especially nature theme images; JV Dorothy is a good template choice for photographers, travel agencies and non-profit organizations.

It comes with 4 color variants and various tools to make customization much easier.

Try it out to see why sometime simple is better.

Downloading

You should take a look at JV Dorothy overview to have an overall understanding of the template. From there, you can see Joomla version supported, main features, included complimentary extensions. You can also link to Live Demo, download area and documentation.

Click download to go to download area

Download the Quickstart package if you planning to make an entire new site with all included extension. The new site will be identical to demo site. All you need to do is to replace the demo content with your.

Download JV Dorothy template and complimentary extensions if you’ve already had an existing site and do not want to replace it or you only want to install the template without extensions or style. Installing with theme version will give you template with any extra extensions or data loss.

InstallATION

1. INSTALLATION WITH QUICK-START VERSION

view quickstart installation details

2. INSTALLATION ON YOUR JOOMLA

This installation procedure allows JV Dorothy to be installed on an existing site (instead of creating entire new site).

To install a Template version of JV Dorothy take the following steps:

✔ Step 1: The first thing you need to do is to download JV Framework and JV Dorothy Theme zip files.

✔ Step 2: Once you have JV Framework and JV Dorothy theme zip file downloaded on your computer, login to the administrative area of your Joomla website and upload & Install JV Framework the through the Extension Manager (Extensions -> Extension Manager). The process is the same for templates, modules, plugins and components.

If you are not familiar with Extensions (templates, modules, plugins and components) Installation, please check the following guide:

View Extension Installation Details

install jv framework

✔ Step 3: Once you have JV Framework installed, you need to install theme: Go to Component -> JV Framework -> Tab Themes-> Click Install theme -> Browse JV Dorothy Theme Zip file to install

install theme through JV Framework

✔ Step 4: Once you have JV Dorothy Theme installed in JV Framework, Go to Tab Styles -> Click New to add JV Dorothy Theme to JV Framework Style

✔ Step 5Set default for JV Framework: In Tab Style, tick JV Dorothy, then Click “Default”

MANAGING JV DOROTHY

1. THEME EDIT

With JV Framework, you can edit the theme’s files (.css, .xml, etc) via “Edit Theme”

Go to Themes Tab => Click JV Dorothy to enter theme edit page

2. STYLE EDIT

Go to Style Tab => Click JV Dorothy to enter Style Edit Page

In "Edit Style" page, you will see a list of following tabs: GLOBAL SETTING, LAYOUT MANAGER, MENU SYSTEM, COLOR, GOOGLE FRONT API, MOBILES, PERFORMANCE, USER TOOLS

Go to each tab to edit the parameters

Edit Style through JV Framework

EXTENSION CONFIGURATION

In this part we will show you how to configure main installed Extensions. As mentioned in part I:

If you use quickstart package to install template you will have extensions installed.

If you install template on your Joomla, you have to install new extensions before you configure them

If you are new, please check the following guide to know how to install extensions

View Extension Installation Details

Go to Extensions => Module manager, select the module you want to assign and edit it. You can also use filter to find them easily.

1. JV SlideShow

You should take a look at JV Slideshow overview first to have an overall view of the extension.

Click JV SlideShow in the list to manage JV SlideShow Module

Back-end settings:

Front-end appearance:

2. JV CONTACT

You should take a look at JV Contact first to have a general understanding of the extension.

In JV Dorothy, JV News is used for following modules: Latest News, Welcome, Announcement, University Entry, The Pastoral Programme. You can edit the titles with yours in Back-end Settings

Back-end settings:

Front-end appearance: