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- Adrian Cooper
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While I like the thought that has gone in to the latest templates and flexibility, for me the recent couple are drifting back towards the heavy graphical header approach.
I realise some sites may appreciate that, but generally, as a generically powerful template, the emphasis on the header, with the new "effects" etc are at the expense of flexibility.
I am not being critical - I think all RT templates are way above anything else out there, but at the final analysis templates are designed for real sites.
The last three templates, beautiful and powerful though they surely are, need a lot of graphics work for header and backgrounds within the context of the fixed styles.
It is great to include this sort of template from time to time, but for me Versatility 4 is the pinnacle of RT templates so far and the benchmark for future templates.
I have often wondered whether headers, banners, big header graphics could be implemented as modules, so that different header styles etc can be implemented by publishing a "header module".
Actually I have also been considering the possibility of a template designed exclusively around modules, so basically designing a site would be by publishing graphics and design elements as modules that could be "mixed" and "matched" around the basic framework, with no hard coded design or graphics at all, RT producing new "building blocks" as modules.
So there would be just one basic theme, which would appear as a "blank canvas", of say 100 module positions, to which could be published, as modules, all of the elements for designing the site as well as the extensions etc.
So there would be a "header graphic module", background module and so on. Design would then focus on "site design modules" so a site could be literally built from a large number of elements. - www.ourultimatereality.com
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- John Hodgkinson
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- Retired, but build and run websites for organisations of school leaders and others - e.g. http://www.icponline.org, http://www.aspa.asn.au, http://www.appa.asn.au
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That sounds really interesting. I'd be very keen to see something like that, as I am almost totally useless with changing graphics.
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- Adrian Cooper
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John Hodgkinson wrote:
That sounds really interesting. I'd be very keen to see something like that, as I am almost totally useless with changing graphics.
Like me then. I have 33 years of hard core technology experience, but "arty", graphics type stuff has never been my thing. Good job there are thousands in India, Romania and other places that can do it
If you think about it though, there is no reason why header graphics etc can't be implemented as a module to publish in the header position, and just have a load of "header graphics modules" to select from. Much more convenient than hacking around in Fireworks, even if you are in to that sort of thing.
I am fairly sure that a "blank canvass" template, loaded with module positions where "graphic element modules" could be published to would work well. I am not sure whether the background could be published as a module, but if it could that really would be useful. - www.ourultimatereality.com
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- Henning
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In all RT-Templates you can disable the showcase area.
The design of this area comes with the rockerlauncher-package.
If you install the template on a clean J-install you have your blank, pure template.
Templates like Versatality 4 write a lot of CSS-stuff inline the index.php.
This makes it very hard to work on if you want to go beyond what is possible in the templates-settings.
Leraning some css and xhtml from looking at the demo's source is just a great thing.
In Combination with the new RokCandy-Component the new templates make nice and otherwise complex code-parts easy to use for everyone.
I like the "trend" with nice and clear designed headers and content.
Just the right step way from the portal-styled sites you see everywhere ...
Excuse my poor english - but thats my opion.
The new 3 templates this year are for me Joomla-"unleashed" ...
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