Displaying items by tag: Designers
Friday, 01 July 2011 00:00
Free Joomla! 1.6 Templates for Joomla! Community
Since the release of Joomla! 1.6, Joomla! providers have received a number of requests on Joomla! 1.6 Free Templates from Joomla! users. In this article, I would like to introduce some Joomla! 1.6 free templates on several themes from different Joomla! experts. By choosing templates based on certain themes, I hope to meet your first requests on building websites with Joomla!
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2011 July
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 00:00
Mission Control: Taking the Joomla! admin to new heights
At the end of April Rocket Theme announced the arrival of their long awaited and much anticipated admin theme for Joomla! 1.5 and Joomla! 1.6. Rocket Theme club members have had access to the beta version during the development process and I'm sure to the delight of many a Joomla! user, when the theme was ready for release it was made freely available for all Joomla! users to download.
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2011 June
Sunday, 01 May 2011 00:00
How to put more love into your Joomla! dates...
One of the things that tends to grab my attention browsing sites is the creative use of dates. It's not always appropriate, or even necessary, to get creative with date styling and in most cases, it is only relevant for blogs and perhaps even then, blogs written by creative people. But nonetheless, I love it when a designer puts an elegant or flamboyant touch into the design of their date elements.
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2011 May
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00
How to become a css detective with CSS Edit
Being given the challenge of styling or restyling a Joomla! site can quickly mean that the erstwhile designer has to don a virtual trenchcoat and fedora to miraculously transform into a code detective. One of the most confusing things for new Joomla! users when it comes to changing a design element on a Joomla! website is trying to figure out where the code for any given style is coming from, and then of course it's another thing to then go and change the style.
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2011 April
Tuesday, 01 March 2011 00:00
February Template Club Roundup
Someone must have said something bad about Joomla! template clubs last month, because they certainly stepped it up a notch in February.
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2011 March
Saturday, 01 January 2011 00:00
Top 10 Joomla! Template Picks for 2010
A few weeks ago Kyle and I set about the task of choosing our top 5 templates for 2010. To say it was a difficult task is an understatement.
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2011 January
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 00:00
Fourteen secrets of Joomla! templating
Over the past few months, Kyle and I have been compiling a killer list of Joomla! templating snippets that has the potential to change the way that you approach templating in Joomla!.
We had planned to publish this article well before the release of Joomla! 1.6, and to release the 1.6 version of this post to coincide with it going stable ... but alas, that is not to be. Given that the Joomla! 1.5 end life is still a long way off, I'm pretty sure you will find this list useful for your upcoming projects.
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2011 February
Wednesday, 01 December 2010 11:54
12 Usability Guidelines Every Joomla! Template Should Follow
Over the years I've been involved in Joomla!, I’ve seen some great improvements in templates. Many templates are now very sophisticated, slick and beautiful. Just compare the early work of any of the veteran template providers with their recent efforts to see the quantum leaps they’ve all made.
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2010 December
Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00
Blackbelt Forum Design with Ninjaboard
This month we interview Stian Didriksen, lead developer of Ninjaboard, the latest Joomla! forum component from Ninjaforge. Ninjaboard is of particular interest here in the Designer's Studio as it has been constructed with design and Joomla! templates in mind.
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2010 October
Monday, 01 November 2010 18:37
Planning and Doing a Site Redesign
Most any site that sees longevity on the internet will at some point need a redesign. Recently, I did this with one of my sites, and now I'd like to share my thoughts and planning going through this process.
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2010 November
