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Joomla! 1.5 Templates

Submitted by admin on 6 April, 2008 - 17:07

These templates are versions of the popular rhuk Solarflare II template that was initially developed for the Mambo CMS and subsequently modified for use with the Joomla! CMS 1.0.x releases. A number of the Mambo and Joomla! based sites out there today still use this template or a variation thereof.

The templates have been tested in the following environments:

IE7, IE8 and Firefox 2.x.x, 3.x.x on Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista Ultimate-64, and Windows 7 Ultimate-64
Firefox 2.x.x, 3.x.x and Chrome 6.0.427.0 dev on Ubuntu Linux 9.10.

A demo of the templates is available here.

The following templates are for use with Joomla! 1.5.x running in native mode. They will not work on Joomla! 1.0.x or Mambo sites.

Red/Orange theme, 800px, top menu right (Download)
Solarflare II Red/Orange theme, 800px, top menu right

Red/Gray theme, 800px, top menu on right (Download)
Solarflare II Gray/Red theme, 800px, top menu right

Red/Gray theme, 800px, top menu on left (Download)
Solarflare II Gray/Red template, 800px, top menu left

Red/Gray theme, 1024px, top menu on right (Download)
Solarflare II Gray/Red template, 1024px, top menu right

Red/Gray theme, 1024px, top menu on left (Download)
Solarflare II Gray/Red template, 1024px, top menu left

This page and the download files were last updated on 24 June 2010.

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Drupal 6 RC2

Submitted by prophead on 11 January, 2008 - 12:20

Drupal 6 RC2 was released yesterday. And, I must also say that the more familiar I have become with Drupal 6, my previous opinion that building Drupal themes is not as straightforward as building Joomla! templates has mellowed quite a bit.

Why the change of heart, you ask? Read on to find out...

I decided to take my tried and true (but somewhat dated) Joomla! template and create a theme for Drupal 6 that more or less has the same layout. And I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was not nearly as difficult and time-consuming as I had anticipated. Much more straightforward than Drupal 5.

For a comparison of the two, take a look at my messy and disorganized Drupal 6 RC test site...and my equally messy and disorganized e Joomla! 1.5 RC test site.

Disclaimer: This is not saying that Drupal is better than Joomla! or vice versa. I use both of them and think they are both outstanding examples of the goodness that open source brings...as is my old friend Wordpress and many other open source software packages I use or have used in the past

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Drupal 6 RC1

Submitted by prophead on 22 December, 2007 - 21:45

Drupal 6 RC1 was released on 21 December. The last Beta (4) was fairly stable so maybe it won't be too long until a Drupal 6 stable release hits the streets. I think there's a good chance that the Drupal 6 and Joomla! 1.5 stable releases might occur within weeks (or maybe days) of each other.

I've been fooling with both Joomla! 1.5 and Drupal 6 for quite a while now. Both are significant improvements over their predecessors. For example, Joomla! 1.5 has made significant improvements in their SEF implementation and intoduced template overrides; Drupal has made significant improvements in caching and has also simplified theming. Buildng Drupal themes is still not as straight forward as templating in Joomla!, but this lastest release takes a big step in the right direction.

Congrats to both the Drupal and Joomla! core teams for making my two favorite CMS's even better!

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1,000,000 Posts

Submitted by prophead on 20 September, 2007 - 08:32

The Joomla! Forum hit a milestone today. It now has over 1,000,000 posts. Not bad for a project that has only been around since the Fall of 2005.

If you are not familiar with Joomla!, you might want to take the time to check it out. It is a really good CMS, especially the new 1.5 version, which is now in the release candidate state.

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