Joomla custom template

Converting html to joomla template

http://www.tobacamp.com/tutorial/5-easy-steps-converting-html-template-to-joomla-template/

overwriting default output of joomla 1.5

http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_the_output_from_the_Joomla!_core

joomla main menu

// Get default menu - JMenu object, look at JMenu api docs
$menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();

// Get menu items - array with menu items
$items = $menu->getMenu();

// Look through the menu structure, once you understand it
// do a loop and find the link that you need.
var_dump($items);

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787669/how-to-get-specific-menu-items-from-joomla

Joomal module

To get module title and content
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="top" style="xhtml" />

To get module title alone
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="home_1" />

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