JoomStew Radio – August 11, 2010 – Custom vs. Commercial Templates
The first two shows of our 4 Week Template Series focused on User Experience Design and Design Trends with template developers, both commercial and freelance. Today, we discuss how Joomla! site builders use templates in the sites they build.
Our Guests
Joe Sonne of JoeJoomla.com
Dianne Henning of Hosting Paris
Sully Sullivan of Terrace Media Group
Joe "JoeJoomla" Sonne
Dianne Henning
Sully Sullivan
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More Than One Way to Skin a Template
Joomla! is widely recognized as a CMS solution with templates in plentiful supply: template clubs, free templates, template frameworks, tools and generators*. The last two JoomStew shows have focused on what is under the hood of some commercial templates, and how to make templates usable. In our upcoming August 11 podcast, JoomStew Radio talks with freelancers Joe Sonne (JoeJoomla) , Dianne Henning, and Brian Sullivan, about how they approach adding a template to a new site. Do they custom build their own, or use a commercial template either out of the box or tweaked?
Homemade or instant?
JoomStew Radio – August 4, 2010 – Design Trends
This week's JoomStew Radio is the first broadcast that was pre-recorded due to the time differences of our guests. We thought it was the perfect opportunity to move the show away from Blog Talk Radio and keep the show hosted right here on the JoomStew Blog so you don't have to go anywhere else!
What sparked the idea for this week's topic on Design Trends was an article that Anthony Olsen published in the July issue of the Joomla Community Magazine entitled Joomla Template Design Trends in 2010.
Our Guests:
Anthony Olsen of Joomla Bamboo
Jon Lackey of Zuno Studios
Matt Lipscomb of USA Freelancers
Anthony Olsen
Jonathan Lackey
Matt Lipscomb
JoomStew Radio August 4, 2010 Podcast
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Now Hear This! JoomStew Moving to iTunes Podcast
Look for the new JoomStew Podcast section right here on the site! We will be uploading all of our podcast episodes before Wednesday so you can subscrbe with iTunes, listen here on the site, or download an MP3 to go!
After our inspiring lineup of JoomStew radio guests last week discussing J!UX 1.7 and admin templates, we continue our four part series on templates with this week's topic, Design Trends. Join us with guests Anthony Olsen of JoomlaBamboo, Jonathan Lackey of Zuno Studios, and USAFreelancer's own Matt Lipscomb. Freelancers and developers alike are sure to find it informative and visionary!
JoomStew goes takeout
This week for the first time JoomStew Radio will be pre-recorded, and made available for download at our normal show time, Wednesday August 4. The program format will include the same ingredients as usual: news, our panel of guests, contributor of the week, bad boy of the week, and how to get involved. The same JoomStew you know and love, served up in a sesame seed podcast!
There is a Lot More to Web Design Than a Pretty Face
When I started building websites for a living using the Joomla CMS, we were using Joomla 1.0 and converting HTML sites to this newfangled Content Management System. Life was pretty cool back then.
We simply took a basic template and modified it with a new header graphic, made a few color changes and added the content. Easy Peasy. Most sites only needed a single category for content, set up a few menu links and life was simple.
Fast forward 5 years and we have close to 5000 extensions available for Joomla 1.5.
The Explosive Growth of the Joomla CMS
You can find just about any extension to fit your needs; whether your building an online community for your local little league team or selling products through a fully secure shopping cart. I'm not even going to mention the Social revolution.
But with all this new found software comes challenges that we never faced before. The average boot-strap entrepreneur has technology available today that was only a dream to the average joe just a few short years ago.
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