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Antares: Recreating the Demo - Coming Soon Page

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Antares Demo for Joomla


Introduction

The Coming Soon example page demonstrates how you can create and assign a useful Coming Soon page for your template.

In this guide, we will go over how to create a new theme outline for the Coming Soon page, configure the Simple Counter particle, and assign the coming soon outline to your home page.

Coming Soon Theme Outline

Coming Soon

The first step to utilizing the Coming Soon page for your site is to create a Coming Soon theme outline. This outline is very easy to make, just create a new override via the Outlines administration panel, and navigate to the Layout Manager.

Coming Soon

From here, you will want to load the Coming Soon layout preset which is included in the User column. This preset includes everything you need to get started with the Coming Soon page.

Make sure that the Keep the Current Particles While Changing Preset option is unchecked.

Simple Counter Particle

Simple Counter

Along with everything in this preset layout, the most noticeable one in our demo that you will want to work with is the countdown timer. The Simple Counter particle should appear in the Mainbar section upon loading the Coming Soon preset layout.

Simple Counter

Here is a breakdown of the settings you can configure in this particle:

Setting Description
CSS Classes Enables you to set a CSS class to the particle itself. This is a great way to customize its appearance.
Title This is the title you wish to have displayed on the front end. For example: Stay Tuned.
Description This description appears on the front end with your particle. It is where you would place any text (or custom HTML) that you want to have appear.
Date The day of the month you want to have the timer expire.
Month The month you would like to have the timer expire.
Year The year you would like to have the timer expire.
Day Text Sets the text that appears describing a single day
Days Text Sets the text that appears describing multiple days
Hour Text Sets the text that appears describing a single hour
Hours Text Sets the text that appears describing multiple hours
Minute Text Sets the text that appears describing a single minute
Minutes Text Sets the text that appears describing multiple minutes
Second Text Sets the text that appears describing a single second
Seconds Text Sets the text that appears describing multiple seconds

Once you have configured your countdown timer, everything else on the page is pretty straightforward. Arrange modules and/or particles as you see fit. You will also want to configure your Joomla permissions settings to ensure that only logged-in folks have access to the rest of the site.

Assign the Coming Soon Outline to Your Desired Pages

Simple Counter

The next step is pretty simple. You want your coming soon page to be assigned to the home page, or any other specific page you wish you have the Coming Soon message appear. To do this, navigate to the Assignments administration panel within the Gantry 5 administrator, locate the desired pages you wish you have the Coming Soon page appear, and turn their toggles on.

Once you have saved your changes, you can navigate to the front end of your site to check the results.


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