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[niallmckenna]

Hi Guys,

I'm about to take the first steps into designing and developing for Joomla. The website I intend to build is going to be medium sized, around 30 pages in total. I was thinking that best idea would be to buy a joomla template from a premium template site and then configure it to work with Joomla as this would be acceptable. The problem is that the client would also like some little tweaking done, such as maybe removing certain graphical features of the template design and maybe adding some personal graphics.

As I'm new to Joomla and its templates, can anyone tell me how easy this is likely to be? If I buy a premium template from say templatemonstor.com can I then just edit to a certain extent and have it configured easily with Joomla?

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

[Andy]

One thread wasn't enough for you?

[niallmckenna]

apologies I wasn't sure where it would be seen more, some people only read some sections. If it annoys you that much I can remove one. There was me thinking smashing mag was a friendly place where people like to help each other not snipe.

[Andy]

There was me thinking smashing mag was a friendly place where people like to help each other not snipe.

Well, you're definitely not contributing to that cause, I can tell you that.

[Dread]

You don't have to buy a template. There are plenty of free ones out there. The free ones are mostly easier to understand and to learn how the template system of Joomla works. Usually the standard theme offers a lot because its well commented. Open the template files, look your way around, its not that hard.

[derekdorian]

I am a long timer user of joomla. I can easliy tell that joomla template design framework is the best one out there. So if the designer makes a proper template than it will be great. Cause in Joomla you can override everything. It is not like wordpress where u need to use lots lots of hacks. And all the module positions are so much flexible. If you are serious about joomla i strongly advice you going for a commercial template. Prices are really affordable
rockettheme.com
joomlart.com
yootheme.com
try these

[Mackelito]

Editing joomla templates is easy!

Also take a look at gavick.com and templateplazza.com