Hi there,
I have been trying to edit the style1.css file in the default theme to change the color of the text input fields and the look of the buttons, but it seems I cannot edit those files. How do you go about installing a new theme?
Thanks,
Steven
Hi green_eye_boy_121,
You must edit the versions in the front end (not the files in the administrator folders). I have no idea why there are two copies.
Bob
I have found the following about installing new themes:-
In many Joomla installations, the /components/com_chronocontact/themes directory and it's equivalent in the /administrator directory are owned by the web server user (often apache:apache) so your FTP program will not be able to upload another theme directory due to permission problems. Nor will it be able to overwrite existing theme files.
To overcome this, install a file manager component like eXtplorer and change permissions on the theme directory to 777 so you can upload the files, OR else upload the files in eXtplorer and you will not need the permissions change.
The files in /administrator/components/com_chronocontact/themes directory are used by the "transform form" function to place the markup (from elements.php) into the "Form Code".
The code accesses the style sheets from the /components/com_chronocontact/themes/css directory. It may also get email templates from there too, but I have not confirmed that.
So I found that if I uploaded the same files to both the administrator and front end directories, then I could do the transform in the backend, and the stylesheets would be included and work nocely on the frontend.
So both administrator and frontend versions seemed to be needed.
Have fun.