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Mobius is a stunning new template that is released as part of the RocketTheme Joomla Template Club as the September 2006 design. This months design comes with 6 unique color styles to demonstrate the limitless possibilities when you implement Mobius. Other great features include 10 fully collapsible modules positions to provide the most options in laying out your content. Also there’s the RocketTheme persistent accessibility functions for flexible layout options; Exclusive RTSuckerfish menu system for optimal site navigation and browsing experience.

Overview

An overview of the key features of this template are as follows:

• Joomla 1.0+ compatible
• Joomla 1.5 Native version available
• Mambo 4.5.2.X compatible
• Exclusive RTSuckerfish menu system with path tracking
• New instant & persistent CSS style changer for Accessibility
• 800×600, 1024×768 widths supported
• 6 unique style configurations
• 10 module positions!
• All module positions are fully collapsible
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• CSS Validates
• Very Lightweight and fast loading
• Mozilla/Firefox 1.0+/IE 6/IE 7/Safari/Camino/Opera Friendly
• Source Fireworks MX PNG files included
• Logo TTF Fonts included

Some screenshots showing these capabilities can be seen below:

Demo

Please check out the Mobius Demo on our demo server

RTSuckerfish Menu Information

This exclusive RocketTheme menu system in this template use the mainmenu by default and this menu is configured in the admin administator. For these to function correctly, understand that the ‘top level’ menu items will show up as the horizontal buttons across the top of the template. For sub menu items, assign Parent Item to these top menus to the top-level item. These will then show up below in a drop-down menu when you hover over a top-level item. For an example of this check out the demo server

Instructions

1. Install as normal using the Site Templates Installer
2. to have a side module show with a colored background, put -color in the module class suffix. This is done by click on the module in question in the “Site Module Manager”
3. for a menu to display correctly as in the demo, create a “Vertical” menu module, and set the module class suffix to -menu
4. The primary navigation for this template uses the exclusive RTSuckerfish Menu System by default. You can change this by editing the $menu_type variable in index.php (see below for example). You will need to keep the number of top-level menu items to 5 or 6 to ensure the menu does not wrap and cause undesirable effects. Refer to the menu instructions above to find out how to create the menu properly.
5. Follow the Module Position guide below to see the available module positions and place your modules accordingly. The sample content Joomla/Mambo modules should give you a good place to start
6. This template can be set to thin, wide configuration. Please note that in thin mode you do not have much room for content, so please watch for any content that is to large for the mainbody area as this will break the layout.

NOTES:

1. This template fully supports full width configurations for use with galleries or forums, make sure you do not publish any modules in left or right and the ‘mainbody’ will fill the entire width.

Configuration

There are a couple of configuration options for this template. This month we’ve put the configuration variables in the template’s own index.php file. This way you can use the Edit HTML button in the Template Manager to quickly and easily make changes to these options. This is how you can choose the color variations and also configure some default variables. Also you can select which menu the RTSuckerfish system should use.

// ***************************************************
// Change this variable blow to configure the template
//
// If you have any issues, check out the forum at
// http://www.rockettheme.com
//
// ***************************************************

$menu_type = "suckerfish";      // suckerfish  | module
$menu_name = "mainmenu";        // mainmenu by default, can be any Joomla menu name
$sidebar = "right";             // left | right - splitmenu only
$default_width = "thin";        // wide | thin
$default_font = "default";      // smaller | default | larger
$default_style = "style1";      // style1-6
$collapse_inset = "false";      // true | false
$show_pathway = "true";         // true | false
$show_validators = "true";      // true | false

// *************************************************