Joomla! VirtueMart 1.1 Theme and Template Design is a new book from Packt that will allow users to customize their Joomla! VirtueMart templates and themes with the help of necessary screenshots and explained code. Written by Joseph Kwan, this book is a comprehensive reference to all the templates in the VirtueMart default theme including usage of each template and all available fields.
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Implement Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements in your WordPress Theme
In this tutorial you will learn to implement the custom, dynamic drop-down Suckerfish menus directly into your theme. You will also learn how to place Flash content into your theme as part of your theme's design, as well as getting it quickly and painlessly into your WordPress content using a variety of embed methods, most notably the jQuery Flash plugin.
DotNetNuke Corp. Acquires Snowcovered
SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 27, 2009 – DotNetNuke Corp. (http://bit.ly/8G1w) the most widely adopted framework for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET., today announced the acquisition of Snowcovered, the premier online market for DotNetNuke modules, skins, services and related products. The union will create closer ties between the DotNetNuke platform and the Snowcovered online library of third party extensions which will enrich the DotNetNuke ecosystem and provide substantial business opportunities for independent software vendors and the users they serve.
News Highlights
- The union between Snowcovered and DotNetNuke Corp. benefits the DotNetNuke commercial ecosystem by increasing access to a robust marketplace where users can access over 6,000 DotNetNuke framework extensions available for success. Snowcovered has successfully established substantial monthly web traffic to its site, driving demand for DotNetNuke modules and skins and providing DotNetNuke software ISVs with visibility and business opportunities.
- As a subsidiary of DotNetNuke Corp., the Snowcovered business model will remain the same, allowing independent software vendors to post, sell, and support their software extensions online.
A New BuddyPress Theme Architecture
BuddyPress.org: "For the next version of BuddyPress there has been a fair amount of re-factoring work done. We’ve listened to your feedback from version 1.0 and made a number of internal changes that are going to make your lives as plugin developers and theme designers easier.
One of the biggest changes in BuddyPress 1.1 will be the way themes are built."
Create Professional Themes with New Plone Book
Packt is pleased to announce Plone 3 Theming, a new book, which helps web designers build new templates as well as refactor their existing ones using Plone's templating system. Written by Veda Williams, the editor of the documentation section of Plone.org, this book is a step-by-step guide which will help create a customized Plone website and ensure that the concepts are well understood.
Plone is a free open source Content Management System (CMS) that’s built on top of the Zope application server. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information for a public website or an intranet using only a web browser. It is because of its superior security and advanced back-end, that it holds a technological edge over many major CMSes.
Plone 3 Theming provides designers with handy tips and tricks, thereby simplifying the theming process. This book provides a sneak peek into the future of Plone's theming system as well as provides useful information which will help designers create a robust and flexible Plone theme. Designers can then set up a productive development environment which will help them build a quality theme product.
Create Professional Quality Joomla! 1.5 Templates for your Website
Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Joomla! 1.5 , which aims to help users debug, validate, and package templates. Written by Tessa Blakely Silver, Joomla! 1.5 Template Design is a complete guide for web designers to create unique website templates for Joomla! 1.5.
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS), which enables users to build websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla one of the most popular CMSes available. Joomla! 1.5 has a radically enhanced template system that is very different from that of Joomla! 1.0, and comes complete with the ability to create template overrides and customize "module chrome".
Joomla! 1.5 Template Design focuses squarely on the new enhancements to the Joomla! 1.5 templating process and walks web designers through the process of turning a working XHTML and CSS "mockup" into a fully functional Joomla! 1.5 template. It is designed to help users create effective and flexible templates and help them tweak their existing templates with Flash, extensions and JavaScript libraries.
Users will learn to set up a basic workflow for Joomla! template design and create Suckerfish drop-down menus and dynamic forms for their website. They will also learn how to package finished templates in a ZIP file and use the W3C's XHTML and CSS validation tools. Additionally, they will also learn how to use the wrapper (Wrapper Menu Item) for fully working AJAX applications.
Using the Extreme Updates theme for Drupal
If you've visited CMS Report lately, you likely noticed that we're sporting a new look and feel. Over the years, I've used various Drupal themes and many of those themes were made available for free at Drupal.org. For the past couple years, I used RoopleTheme's LiteJazz. LiteJazz spoiled me. The theme was so well designed that I don't recall having to do the usual hacks to the templates or CSS styles to make it a good fit for CMSReport.com. Thanks RoopleTheme!
Today, I'm using the Extreme Updates. The free theme is designed by Template World and ported to Drupal by 3rdWorld. In my opinion, the Extreme Updates theme has a few flaws in its design that I'm needing to fix. You'll have to be patient with me because I'm not much of a designer. Luckily, the theme utilizes the impressive Genesis package, a start theme for Drupal 6. This is the very first time I've used a Genesis theme but I'm just as impressed with Genesis as I was when I first used Zen, another starter theme for Drupal.
This time around when considering a new theme, I also did something I've never done before. I considered spending money for a theme. In the past, CMSReport.com has never generated the revenue I needed to justify hiring a Drupal service company to design a theme for my site. However, something interesting has happened in the Drupal community, a number of design companies have started to design and sell themes geared toward the smaller Drupal sites like mine.
The availability of quality themes by such companies as community favorite TopNotchThemes shows just how much the Drupal ecosystem has matured over the years. Doesn't it seem just like yesterday when the biggest complaint about Drupal was that there were no good themes available? The future for Drupal theme development looks very bright. My understanding is that there are a number of changes in Drupal 7 that will make the web designers very happy. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see in 2010 the quantity of available Drupal themes reach toward the same numbers that we've seen for Wordpress and Joomla!.
Changing to a new theme also marks the beginning of my desire to move CMSReport.com into some new directions. I want this site to have a more professional and community feel to it. I'm personally tired of reading mostly my own posts here and I think it's time to get a lot more author's involved. These changes will be progressive over the coming months, but won't be settled until the arrival of Drupal 7. As has been since Drupal 4.6, I've always geared the features in my sites to allow for a quick upgrade to the latest version of Drupal. Similar to the past, you just might see this site running a beta or release candiate of Drupal 7 by the end of the year.
New Joomla 1.5 and Drupal templates at SiteGround.com
SiteGround web hosting is happy to announce the newest additions to its Drupal and Joomla 1.5 Templates Galleries. They have been created by great third-party Joomla 1.5 and Drupal designers and are free for download by anyone who would like to add a new look to his/her website.
The Joomla 1.5 users can now benefit from 8 new templates that could be reviewed and downloaded from the SiteGround Joomla 1.5 Templates Gallery. They have simple but stylish design and are excellent choice for web pages with 2 and 3 columns. Most of the newest additions have been inspired by the spring season and are based on the green color scale. In addition to the Joomla 1.5 templates, SiteGround recently added its first 3 Drupal 6.x themes. The themes are suitable for 2-column sites and can be downloaded for free from the SiteGround Drupal Themes Gallery.
SiteGround is a web hosting company founded in 2004 by an enthusiastic team of IT professionals. Since then, the company has been constantly growing both in number of offices and clients. Now, it has become one of the most preferred hosting providers, accommodating more than 150,000 domains. It offers shared, reseller, vps, and dedicated hosting services.
Voting site for Morph themelets launched
The themelets voting site for Morph framework is filling up with new, fresh designs - and it’s now ready for you to go wild on! More designs are in the works, so this is just the beginning…
YOU HAVE THE SUPER POWERS WE NEED!
Here’s the deal: You vote for you favorite designs to be coded for Morph (including all our old “1st generation” commercial Joomla templates)!
By you voting up or down on the themelet designs we know in which order to code and release the themelets for Morph. You choose - we code!
HOW TO VOTE - THE BASICS
- Browse around on the themelet voting site.
- Vote up or down.
- Choose which (other) CMS and style you want us to code your favorite design for.
- Comment. We love constructive feedback and ideas!
Now go wild on the Themelet showcase & voting site and make your favorite design our next release! ;)
Generating themes for Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla via Artisteer
Artisteer: "We are happy to announce that Artisteer 2.0 has arrived!
The new version of our Automated Web Designer adds support for the most popular open source content management systems: Joomla and Drupal, in addition to previously supported Wordpress themes and generic web templates."
New cool design project - CoolBrushDesign!
It is an excellent opportunity to make your dreams into reality! The site is rich in variety of styles and impressive design ideas. So every client can order a design for its own taste, from Techno style to Gamour style. Creative ideas and compliance with clients' wishes are guaranteed. Come and see it with your own eyes!
Create Striking Themes for Drupal Websites using New Book
A
new book that teaches users how to create themes for Drupal websites has been
announced today by Packt Publishing. Written by prominent open source and Content
Management expert Ric Shreves, ‘Drupal 5 Themes’ helps
readers create striking new looks for their Drupal websites.
Drupal is an award winning open source Content
Management System, finishing as the overall winner in the 2007
Open Source Content Management System Award. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power
and flexibility combined with exceptional design, means it is already on the
way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS websites. Drupal’s modular design
and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and
modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple
personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional
web presence.
XOOPS announces First Theme Contest 2008
"XOOPS is changing its look, thus, with the support of the Design Team, we decided to launch a Theme Contest to choose 3 new designs to be released with the next major XOOPS release and beyond. The contest is open to all : individual, group, or web agency (professional or not).
Now is your opportunity to take mouse and keyboard in hand and create the new XOOPS look"
Dimensions - RocketTheme's Stunning New Design
"The incredible new RocketTheme Dimensions template [for Joomla!] features a beautiful new look and feel designed to allow for the quickest and easiest customization of any RocketTheme template to date. Change your background and customize your colors in minutes without ever setting foot in an image editor.
Dimensions also introduces a sleek new integrated tabbed module system that harnesses the power of RokSlide, providing you with a powerful new way to display your content. The features don't stop there. Dimensions has many more powerful features under the hood, including the exclusive RokMooMenu, 15 versatile module positions with subtle module variations, RokZoom integration, and so much more!"
Press Release: RoopleTheme.com launched
RoopleTheme proudly announces the launch of our website, roopletheme.com. RoopleTheme wants to provide the best Drupal themes and modules available anywhere. Along with the launch of our site, we're releasing the first alpha version of our new LiteJazz theme.
LiteJazz is a beautiful theme that features 12 fully collapsible regions, fluid or fixed widths, easy configuration, and more. To take a look at LiteJazz in action, visit our demo site. LiteJazz is free to download and use on your own Drupal site. Visit our download page to get the latest version.
RoopleTheme.com also features a new visual tutorial titled Installing Drupal With CPanel. We think it's one of the better Drupal tutorials on the web. We would enjoy hearing what you think.
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