Re: Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
Posted 13 years 11 months ago
Most of the templates this year have been unusable for me. What I need are more templates that I can use for businesses and churches.
How about two templates a month. One that can be used in a more professional manner, and the other for the gamers or people that like flowers and explosions in the background.
Re: Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
Posted 13 years 11 months ago
Actually, you'd be amazed how flexible most of the recent templates are if you simply remove bits or use your own backgrounds. Take Hybrid for instance...for some reason I missed that one of the preset headers was a nice wood flooring. Remove a few unneeded bits of eye candy and you've got the start of a nice church site. Same with this month, I can see going back to the standard drop menus and removing some of the extra visual patterns and then putting my own background in the header.
Re: Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
Posted 13 years 11 months ago
Brian Peat wrote:
Actually, you'd be amazed how flexible most of the recent templates are if you simply remove bits or use your own backgrounds. Take Hybrid for instance...for some reason I missed that one of the preset headers was a nice wood flooring. Remove a few unneeded bits of eye candy and you've got the start of a nice church site. Same with this month, I can see going back to the standard drop menus and removing some of the extra visual patterns and then putting my own background in the header.
I do dig everything below the fold in hybrid, so perhaps we can talk Boy Wonder into taking Hybrid to the RT labs and releasing a bonus one month like he used to from time to time!
Re: Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
Posted 13 years 11 months ago
Andy Miller wrote:
It really only takes about 2 seconds to tweak this. See screenshot
The complaining about designs ready to eat fascinates me, given that RT includes back-end controls that expand the notion of off the shelf.
On the other hand, there is room for reasonable complaints about the existing configuration options. Three of my dissatisfactions:
(1) restriction to 960px - which ignores a variety of important business applications,
(2) no toggle for switching between 12- and 16-column formats, and
(3) the inability to easily calculate column widths off a fixed point of reference - as in a sidebar of fixed width.
However, the larger point remains. The new templates are highly configurable even with some severe limitations. All one needs is imagination and some sweat equity.
Sharon Sinéad Gaughan
Fairfax, VA USA
Apache / MySQL 5.0.95 / PHP 5.3.24 / Joomla! 2.5.20 / Gantry 4.1.20
Custom: rt_hexeris-custom.css and rt_hexeris-custom.less
Re: Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
Posted 13 years 11 months ago
Rockettheme, to me, remains the best template provider for Joomla. There were some promising templates offered by other companies, however, I have always returned to Rockettheme for my templates.
Re: Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
Posted 13 years 11 months ago
WOW!!!! I LOVE the new template!!!! I have to go back and look some more but at first glance it looks terrific for the kinds of sites I'm called upon to build.
A great big thank you!
Kathy
KT Web Design
developing Joomla websites in the sweet, sunny South