RokMicroNews is a new module, perfect for displaying your content. Your content (plus auto loaded image) are displayed adjacent to your article titles and the hover or click of these titles triggers a javascript transition to another article. Perfect for showcasing news items in a small, but structured spaced.

How do I configure RokMicroNews?

We will take a quick look at the parameters you will find when you install this module. There are 4 columns, parameters, options, demo and description. The parameter column lists each available setting for the module; options lists the available options to choose from; demo lists the options chosen on the demo and description outlines what the module does. [span class=attention]In order to stack multiple modules on top of one another, you must create new modules: Admin → Extensions → Module Manager → New → rokmicronews and fill out the relevant details.[/span] [clear][/clear]

The popular return of the color chooser in SolarSentinel makes a third appearance, in a more conservative and complimentary format. There are several options to choose from to supplement the elegance and ease of use with the template. Simply go to the template manager to change a variety of styles and colours.



The options are as follows, and the areas that they control are indicative in their name:-

• Header Style
• Body Style
• Background Style
• Footer Style
• Primary Colour

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Creating your own presets

With SolarSentinel, we provide a series of preset configurations for the color chooser which you and your visitors can select from. However, if you wish to set or change these yourself, the process is extremely simple.

1. Login into the Joomla Administrator
2. Go to Extensions > Template Manager > rt_solarsentinel_j15
3. Set Preset Styles to Custom
4. Now, choose all the options you wish from the several options available
5. Hit the Custom Styles button in the Button menu, located in the upper right of the template manager
6. This will output all the values into the Custom Style Output box, situated below the options. Copy the outputted code from this box
7. Open the file styles.php which is located within the /templates/rt_solarsentinel_j15/ directory
8. Locate the following code block.
   

   $stylesList = array(
   	'style1'  => array('black', 'white', 'bg-red', 'black', "#cf0404"),
   	'style2'  => array('blue', 'beige', 'bg-black', 'grey', "#2986d0"),
   	'style3'  => array('grey', 'white', 'bg-blue', 'blue', "#035b99"),
   	'style4'  => array('orange', 'beige', 'bg-grey', 'orange', "#de510b"),
   	'style5'  => array('red', 'white', 'bg-red', 'blue', "#cf230b"),
   	'style6'  => array('green', 'beige', 'bg-white', 'blue', "#4e7805"),
   	'style7'  => array('blue', 'white', 'bg-grey', 'black', "#0269b3"),
   	'style8'  => array('orange', 'beige', 'bg-black', 'black', "#de510b"),
   	'style9'  => array('black', 'white', 'bg-white', 'red', "#cc0000"),
   	'style10' => array('red', 'beige', 'bg-grey', 'grey', "#cc0000")
   );
   

9. Edit that block to meet your needs, either by remove the code between $stylesList = array( and ); and copying in the code directly, or adding the new style code to the list of current styles or whatever method you prefer.
   [span class=alert]Ensure that you only edit the code in between $stylesList = array( and ); and ensure it is the right format otherwise you will receive errors[/span]
10. Save, and upload the file to your site.

What is the PNGfix?

If you have ever opened a webpage with a transparent PNG in Internet Explorer 6, you will see an obvious problem. The images do not appear transparent but adopt a light blue background, which is unsightly to say the least. This is the purpose of the PNGfix, to allow transparent PNG images to work correctly in the web browser Internet Explorer 6. A common way around this is to use a range of different Joomla! extensions which can be applied to your site. However, this is already built in to new RocketTheme templates (the fix already provides other solutions to various other IE6 issues). The author of this new PNGfix is Drew Diller.

[readon url="http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/"]Learn More[/readon]

Below is a list of all the Rocket Theme Templates which have the PNGfix described above, incorporated into it. Also, all new templates releases will contain this as it has become an recurrent feature.

1. SolarSentinel
2. Mynxx
3. Meridian
4. Akiraka
5. Mixxmag

How do I use the PNGfix?

To apply the PNGfix to a particular image, all you need to do is add a class, png. We have an example of image HTML code below:-

<img src="image.png" alt="Image" />

Now add class="png" to the code such as:-

<img src="image.png" alt="Image" class="png" />

[span class=alert]Uninstall all other PNGfixes before using the template version, that includes plugins you may have installed into Joomla as they will conflict with the template fix[/span]

How to remove the PNGfix

If you wish to remove the PNGfix from the template, you have to remove the file and remove the reference from the rt_head_includes.php file. The file is called DD_belatedPNG.js and is located in the /templates/rt_solarsentinel_j15/js directory. You would then remove the following from the rt_head_includes.php file:-

<script src="<?php echo $this->baseurl; ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template?>/js/DD_belatedPNG.js"></script>
<script>
    DD_belatedPNG.fix('.png');
</script>

RokWeather, as the name suggests, is an Ajax-powered weather module, using the Google API, you can easily display weather data from regions across the globe. This includes temperature, climate, wind speed as well as allowing the location to be configured from the frontend via the user. Perfect for any news site. [span class=note]Remember, you can change the location displayed in RokWeather by double clicking on the current location, then type your own (as seen in the Minimal block in the screenshot below.[/span] [span class=alert]In order for the new SolarSentinel modules to function, you must install com_rokmodules. This component facilitates the modules, as Roknavmenu does for the integrated menu. Follow the instructions below:-

1. Download solarsentinel-extensions-j15.zip from RokDownloads. 2. Extract the zip onto your computer. 3. Go to Extensions then select the Upload File & Install button. 4. Find com_rokmodules.zip and in install.
Now all the new modules are functional[/span]

How do I configure RokWeather?

We will take a quick look at the parameters you will find when you install this module. There are 4 columns, parameters, options, demo and description. The parameter column lists each available setting for the module; options lists the available options to choose from; demo lists the options chosen on the demo and description outlines what the module does. [clear][/clear]