This template is built on the very powerful S5 Vertex Framework, which comes packed with amazing features! Learn More About Vertex...

Every template built on Vertex also comes with its own unique template specific options applicable to that particular template such as highlight colors, social icons, and much more. These features are in addition to the standard functions of Vertex, and are still controlled through the very user friendly interface of Vertex. This page will document the features specific to this template.

Theme Specific Configuration Interface of Vertex

Below is a screenshot that shows all the template specific features available in the user friendly Vertex admin:

Content or S5 Masonry Layout

This feature is not a setting in the template configuration, but it is a feature unique to this template. Under the "Styles" menu of this demo you will see an option for an Article homepage, which uses the default article method, or you can use our S5 Masonry Module published to the top_row3 area for display articles in multiples columns. The article method also uses the "Article Negative Margins?" setting mentioned below. Although the article method is designed to use full width articles, the standard columns features of Joomla will work as well.

Demo The S5 Masonry Method
Demo The Article Method

The image on the left shows the default article method, and the image on the right shows the S5 Masonry method.

Custom Highlight Color

Stylize your site with any color you want. Set your own custom color scheme with the built in highlight color. Control menu items, titles, buttons, hover over effects, backgrounds, and more. You can set this color to any color that you want. Below is an example so you can see how this works. In addition to these color options, Vertex itself is loaded with background color and images options under the Main / Layout page in the template configuration.

Custom Highlight Font

Choose a custom highlight font powered by Google fonts. This font is used mostly on titles, which you can see below in the S5 Image and Content Fader and article titles. This is used in conjunction with the default site font which is controlled under the Main / Styling tab in the Vertex template configuration, and controls many other elements as well.

Light or Dark Background

Set the main background of the site to either a dark or light repeating background image. You can also override this feature entirely under the Main / Layout tab.

Demo The Dark Background
Demo The Light Background

Uppercase Letters

Choose to enable or disable uppercase letters on menu items, buttons, titles and more.

Hide Menu Arrows

With this option you can disable the menu item sub menu arrows on first level parent items.

Article Negative Margins

This option will apply a negative margin to articles published to the Featured area or a category blog setup. This will only apply if the articles are set to 1 column, once there is more than one column the standard margins will apply. By default you can see the negative margin applied on the homepage of this demo, the image below shows the articles with this feature turned off. The areas in red indicate the margin areas.

Custom_1 and Custom_2 Settings

This design has a unique column that extends most of the way down the site and next to the core row positions. On top is the custom_1 position, which has unique paddings and a background image that you can set to your own image with the "Custom 1 Background Image" setting. In addition to this you can also pick which side you would like the column to show on.

Demo The Column On The Left Side
Demo The Column On The Right Side

All content and images shown on this site is for demo, presentation purposes only. This site is intended to exemplify a live website and does not make any claim of any kind to the validity of non-Shape5 content, images or posts published. Stock photography and icons are often purchased from shutterstock.com for this demo only, and is not included with this template. Occasionally open source images are used as well, but are also not included, eg: unsplash.com. You may not use these items for your own use without first purchasing them from their copyright owner. Links will be provided for some of these items if you wish to purchase them from their copyright owners or download them from their sources.

So what are Site Shapers? They are quick installs of Joomla combined with all the modules, content, etc used on our demo, excluding stock photography. Within a few minutes you can have your site up, running and looking just like our demo. No more importing SQL dumps and installing modules. Just head on over to the download section of this template and grab a Site Shaper. Simply install the Site Shaper like any other Joomla installation, it's that easy!

Note - This site is intended to imitate a live and published website and does not make any claim of any kind to the validity of non-Shape5 content, articles, images or posts published to this site.

How to setup a Site Shaper

• 01Login to your cpanel or your server admin panel.
• 02Locate the area where your databases are (usually labeled Mysql Databases)
• 03Create a new database
• 04Next create a new database user and assign it to this newly created database in the previous step
• 05You will then need to extract the site shaper to either a folder on your server or the root directory such as WWW. NOTE: if you already have a website in the root of your WWW folder, we suggest creating a new folder and extract the site shaper there. If your cpanel does not have an extract option or you cannot find it, you may also extract the contents of your site shaper in to a folder on your desktop and upload all the files via an ftp client to your server.
• 06Next, navigate to the url where you extracted the site shaper via your web browser.
• 07Continue through each screen until you reach the below screenshot:
  
  
• 08At the above screen be sure to enter localhost as shown, continue to fill in the following text fields with your newly created database and username information
• 09Follow through the rest of the site shaper setup and click the install sample data at the last screen and the installation is complete! (be sure to rename/remove the installation directory after finishing the install)

SEO - Get your site noticed!

Not only is this template beautifully designed but it is great for search engine optimization as well! What is SEO? It is simple the act of altering a web site so that it does well in the organic, crawler-based listings of search engines such as google.com. How does this template accomplish this? It's simple, the majority of your most valuable content is found in the main body of your site, through css we are able to alter the layout of the site and call the main content before the left and right columns are called. This allows for your content to be found first by search engines before it reaches your other content, which is vital in search engine optimization. This is a common feature this can be done with almost all of Shape 5 templates as well.

The S5 Tab Show can be demo'd on this page. The styling of the module shown here is customized specifically for this template with css overrides, and cannot be used with any other template. The same module can be used on any template, but with default or other styling in its place.

The S5 Tab Show will display up to 20 modules in various styles within sliding tabs, and is compatible with responsive sites. Simply publish the S5 Tab Show module to your desired module position and pages. Then start publishing modules to the positions in the Tab Show (s5_tab1, s5_tab2, etc); these modules will become the slides. This is a great way to organize and showcase your site's content or images. Version 3 of this module is incredibly powerful, below is a list of all of its features.

• Transitions are powered by CSS3, so no javascript conflicts
• Optional custom classes
• Up to 10 copies of the module on the same pages; each individually controlled
• Use up to 20 slides
• Select on mouseover or on click for activation
• Set the loation of the tabs or arrows
• Center the tabs or arrows
• Hide the tabs or arrows until mouseover
• Force the tabs or arrows to be shown for tablets and mobile devices
• Select your transition effect
• Set your duration speed
• Add extra padding in between slides or no padding at all
• Optional button text for tabs
• Optional images for tab buttons
• Set a background color or image for each slide or the entire module
• Enter pre-text and post-text