..being great for news layouts, I have yet to see a template tailored to truly take advantage of them.
Would someone PLEASE create a legitimate news portal template in the vein of FoxNews.com or USAToday.com so we can maximize the potential offered K2/CCK?
Joomlart's Teline II was a highly popular pre-CCK attempt at this and I still see people in my industry trying to make this theme work. Surely with the advent of K2/CCK, one of you template clubs can finally make this happen?
I'd love something like this too, but if you take a look at what is coming up in Joomla 1.6 you can see why people are reticent about committing to things like K2 - in 1.6 Joomla will have nested categories meaning limitless category depth and PERHAPS a tagging system so that articles can be in more than one place at once. There will also be a more flexible ACL, so as you can imagine committing time to go off on a K2 tangent for the sake of 4 months would seem a bit of a wild goose chase.
Unless 1.5 templates/extensions work out of the box on Joomla 1.6, the masses won't be using J1.6 in 4 months. 14 months might be more accurate. We've been down this road before.
C'mon James. You know know I would have already done it if I could do it.
So you're saying that by using nothing but the K2 component I can change my Versatility 4 theme homepage layout to be a replica of FoxNews, USAToday or Joomlart's Teline II? Is that what I'm hearing?
Am I right that you would like to use Versatility 4 in combination with K2 and are stuck with K2 not using the style sheet of Versatility? If yes, I have the same problem. I just wanted to setup our new company site and thought I can use K2 for managing all content, however the content has a complete different look. Would be glad to see the guys from RocketTheme to implement the Versatility Stylesheet in for K2.