Make your site pop with a new and innovative look. Everybody has a shiny website, make yourself standout from the crowd by being a little dirty. One of the newest design trends on the web is the grunge look. We added a little dirt to Joomla to make you look good.
An introduction to Snappa
60% Faster with CSS Compression and file Include
With modern websites, load times are going up respectively as the size, complexity and number of javascript and css files loaded into a page increase.
With Snappa we have implemented a method built into the template to do 2 very important things in order to help reduce the load speeds.
Compress (gzip) CSS and Javascript
We include a php script that first checks the server accepts this method, then it uses one of the php compression methods to reduce the size of the file for loading as well as revalidate the cache header.
Using php includes to minimize "http" requests to the server
The main focus here is to merge (on the fly) the css and javascript into single files in order to reduce the http requests. So instead of loading 6 css files, only one is loaded.
These 2 methods have shown us and increase of nearly 60% and we think it makes this an exceptionally fast loading template. This feature is built into the template and requires no setup, directly after install your visitors will enjoy enhanced browse speeds.
New super logo configuration - add your own text and font in no time!
After a few requests about making it easy to change the logo on Snappa we have in this release included a great feature that allows you to easily change the standard Snappa logo. You can actually replace the logo with any text of your choice as well as any font of your choice and of course in whatever colour you choose.
Your site name will, by default, be automatically pulled in from the Joomla configuration, but with Snappa you can set this to use any text you like in the templates configuration. As with all our templates, we try our best to keep things configurable for our users, which means less digging in the code for you.
Replace css based text with an image on the fly
To achieve the image replacement with the logo we are using a script called facelift by Cory Mawhorter. Facelift is a very clever little script that replaces the normal css based text with an image that is generated on the fly using a font of your choice.
New accordion menu
You will notice a new addition to the Snappa demo: we have included a nifty accordion menu. This is not a module or a mambot and nothing needs to be installed. To implement it, we are using jQuery to apply the hooks we need and the effects to the standard Joomla menu. This is only available for Joomla 1.5 due to the improvements in the menu output in 1.5 which we are using as the base of this feature.
Retro meets grunge in Snappa
The full source files used to create the header are available in our template club for free download to all club members. If you are feeling a little creative then play a with the source files to modify the effect or make your own.
Superfish menus
We installed our newest Superfish menu into Snappa.
Superfish is great because it degrades gracefully when Javascript is switched off, allowing users who have older system to still be able to navigate your site. It also has a cool time-delay on mouse-out which means your users won’t lose the menu because they weren't quick enough or accurate enough in pointing.
Module versatility at your fingertips
Intelli Modules Built in
This template comes with Intelli-modules which calculate how much space they can take up depending on how many of them you publish. It can handle a maximum of 2 rows of three modules. With this template there are over 10 module positions for you and 6 of those are Intelli. Talk about options!
Module FX - Mix and match module styles!
One thing we have learn over the years is that our users want control and the means to easily customize the template to their needs. That is why we have come up with this clever system allowing you mix and match your different module styles.
Express yourself through layout versatility
Snappa brings a new dimension to layout flexibility using its flexible layout configurations that are available on a per component basis. This allows you to set a 1, 2 column layout for any component, not only that, you can even specify the ordering of the columns!
This allows you to change your sites layout, depending on the content that your users are viewing. For example, if you wanted your site to have a forum, but did not want the sidebar to be loaded when viewing the forum, you would simple set the configuration to com_fireboard = content. It really is that simple!
