Organica comes with two different page layouts that are controlled according to the modules you have published on your site. The front page layout that you see on the demo is what we refer to in the documentation as the frontpage layout and contains the slider and horizontal accordion. The Subpage layout is a light weight multi module grid layout. Please view the descriptions and instructions below for more information.

Front Page module layout

Here is an overview of the module position available in front page layout:

The Top Area:

The area above the slider and horizontal accordion contains two module positions plus the logo. 

The Logo - The logo is hardcoded into the template  with a link to the mainpage of your site by default. You can change this link in the template administrator in Joomla 1.5 and the index.php file in Joomla 1.0.

The logo itself can be found in the images folder of the template eg mysite.com/templates/organica/images/themes/{your theme}/log.png. The source file for the logo can be found in the source folder in the main template zip.

In order to change the logo, you will need to open the source file, make the changes required to personalise the logo for your site and then upload the logo.png to the images/{your theme}/ folder and overwrite the png file that is positioned there. Be careful that when you edit the png file you optimise it for the web. In fireworks or photoshop its possible to optimise the file which essentially condenses the layers into a single layer image file.

The Top Menu - Organica makes use of the combination of the amazing extended menu module and the  beautiful superfish men.u The menu is positioned at the top menu module area. Please see the item on the superfish menu for specific help in setting the menu up.

The Horizontal Accordion - The folding bars on the left side of the sliding area contain three user positiions plus the main content area. The folds, as we like to call them, contain the user1 module position, the user2 module position and the user3 module positio. The fold that is open by default as the page loads is the main content area. See the item on controllng the folds for more info on how to style and use them.

The Slider - The slider is basically the entire area of the site that is covered by the transparent overlay and the background image. The module positions that are contained within the sliding area are slide2, slide3, slide4, slide5, slide6, slide7, slide8 and slide9. There is no slide1 because the first slide in the series contains the horizontal accordion.

Positions below the slider -  The modules that are published directly below the slider are the user6, user7 and user8 positions. They do not appear on the sub page layout.

Positions in the black textured area below the user6, user7 and user8 modules -  The module positions that appear here are the bottom1, bottom2 and bottom3 module positions. In Joomla 1.0 you need to run through the steps of adding new module positions to your template, however for Joomla 1.5 users these positions will automatically appear in the drop down list in the module administrator.

Footer modules - The two positions at the very bottom of the site are the bottom position on the left and the footer position on the right.

Sub Page module layout

The sub page  layout is delivered when there are no modules published to the positions above ie if there are no modules published to the user1, user , user3 (for the accordion) and slide2, slide3, slide4, slide5, slide6, slide7, slide8, slide9, slide10 module positions then the horizontal accordion wont be displayed and you will be in the sub page layout.

Once this layout is triggered there are a few other module positions that come into play. The sub page layout  contains the left and right module positions as well as advert1, advert2 and advert3. These modules will not appear on the page when the template is in front page layout.