I have refreshed this site several times using different RT themes (you can see last year's Crystalline version here -
www.dws.org/dwsold
). This year's version is based on Reflex - we really needed an improved interface for iPhone & Android and this template does an excellent job. I only wish there was a way to turn caching on and not lose the smartphone flexibility.
Other extensions include Breezing Forms (Events/AllState) and Easy PayPal.
Very nice! Can you tell me about the Facebook sidebar thing. I am doing a site for our volunteer fire department using reflex and this is something that was mentioned we would like to have.
Pretty easy, just cut and paste their code into a RokCandy macro.
You made that sound so easy! I am brand new to using a Rocket Theme. I came here from "the other guys" because they are not keeping up so well with new releases of Joomla.
Anyway, I have no idea what Rokcandy is or how to use it. Can you point me in the right direction? I looked at the Extension area and there is a description of it, but I have to admit it was Greek to me.
RokCandy is one the components that's included with all RT templates (you'll find it in the Components menu). It lets you create macros so you can paste complicated code in with just a little "tag". So you can create a new macro called "likebox" and paste in all that code you got from the Facebook page, then paste it anywhere on your site (article or module) by saying "[likebox][/likebox]". Saves a lot of time fighting Joomla and its editors, who always want to strip out code pasted from other sites.
There is one little nidge though. As a courtesy to our customers, we shouldn't be taking people away from their site to follow a link to our site. In the bottom of the page where you have your designer logo, you should target="_blank". Like I said, just a little nidge but lots of people don't think about this.