Documentation

JSN Epic PRO comes with 3 comprehensive documentation providing you all information about how to use and customize the template. All manuals are delivered in Adobe PDF format and available only in the JSN Epic PRO package. For more information about the difference between the PRO and free edition please visit page Features.

Quick Start Guide

Quick Start Guide will provide you detailed information about each step you need to take in order to get your site look like JSN Epic demo site. The online version of this document is available for public view but since it is initially designed for JSN Epic PRO edition and many features discussed here are NOT available in free edition.

Configuration Manual

Configuration Manual will provide you detailed information about how to configure each template feature. This document is available only in PDF version and only in JSN Epic PRO package. You can download the sample version by the link bellow.

Download Configuration Manual (sample version)

Customization Manual

Customization Manual will provide you detailed information about how to customize template graphic and code. JSN Epic PRO comes with series of Photoshop graphic source files and this document will tell you how to handle them. This document is available only in PDF version and only in JSN Epic PRO package. You can download the sample version by the link bellow.

Download Customization Manual (sample version)

Extended Styles

One of hottest features in JSN Epic PRO is extended styles adapted for 5 most popular Joomla! extension: K2, Community Builder, VirtueMart, JEvents and JoomGallery2.

Technically extended styles are overrides of default extension’s style. Some of these extensions has their own template system and you are free to use them. In that case, you need to turn off extended style by tweaking template parameter and use the native extension’s template you want.

Extended styles for most popular Joomla! extensions

Extended styles for most popular Joomla! extensions

JSN Epic Free does NOT support any extended styles. JSN Epic PRO supports all 5 extended styles.

Font Styles

JSN Epic PRO provides 3 font styles for major website types. Each font style is actually a combination of 2 font types: one for content text, another for heading text and main navigation text. Font style is configured by template parameter Template Font.

JSN Epic Free supports only 1 default font style. JSN Epic PRO supports all 3 font styles.

Business / Corporation Website font style (default)

Business / Corporation Website font style

Combination of Verdana and Arial

This is the combination of Verdana (for heading text) and Arial (for content text). The alternative fonts for Mac OS users are Geneva and Helvetica respectively.

This compact neat font style is excellent choice for business oriented websites as well as corporate websites. The combination of Verdana and Arial font type looks very natural and common for most of users since they are most popular font types used on the Internet.

Personal / Blog Website font style

Personal / Blog Website font style

Combination of Georgia and Trebuchet MS

This is the combination of Georgia (for heading text) and Trebuchet MS (for content text). The alternative fonts for Mac OS users are serif and Helvetica respectively.

This font style is little bigger then normal which make it perfect choice for small websites like personal or blog websites. The combination of Georgia and Trebuchet MS makes content very easy to read and the looks impressive.

Online News / Magazines font style

Personal / Blog Website font style

Combination of Palatino Linotype and Times New Roman

This is the combination of Palatino Linotype (for heading text) and Times New Roman (for content text). The alternative fonts for Mac OS users are Palatino and Times respectively.

This font style utilizes another very popular font called Times New Roman. This font is widely used in printing industry and in some of extremely popular online news website like The New York Times. If you want to run online news / magazine website, it’s worth to try this font combination.

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Installation

Extended menu module in Joomla! 1.5.x

In Joomla! 1.5.x JSN Epic does NOT utilize any 3rd party menu’s extensions menu to display menus. It uses Joomla! 1.5 built-in menu system and you do NOT need to install Extended Menu as you should in the case of Joomla! 1.0.x

JSN Epic PRO template installation

In the download package you can find template installation file called jsn_epic_pro_2.0_j15.zip under the folder for_joomla_15. This is standard Joomla! 1.5.x template installation file which can be installed in Joomla! administration normally as following:

  1. In Joomla! administration go to menu Extensions -> Install/Uninstall
  2. Once you are on Extension Manager click Browse button and select template installation file jsn_epic_pro_2.0_j15.zip. After that click on button Upload File & Install.
  3. Installation file will be uploaded to your server and installed in Joomla! CMS. When it’s done click Continue link to finish module installation process.

Get ready

After installation what you got does not really look like the demo website. Please don’t worry, in next 10 – 20 minutes everything will line up as they should. Basically we need to configure 6 blocks of elements to get desired look. Let’s take a look at screenshot below.

JSN Epic PRO

JSN Epic PRO

Let’s start with the Header area. But before that, let’s discuss one little yet important thing called Favicon.

Image Slideshow

JSN ImageShow

JSN ImageShow

The header image slideshow you see on this demo website is another cool Joomla! extension from JoomlaShine.com called JSN ImageShow. This is independent extension and NOT included in the template package. Much like JSN Epic template JSN ImageShow is distributed in Free and PRO edition.

Please visit JSN ImageShow product page to get more information and download the free edition.

All stock photos used in header image slideshow on this demo site are only for demo purposes and NOT included in the template package.