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| Part 11: Adding a Theme to Your Joomla Website |
| Written by Ray Shore | |
| Wednesday, 01 October 2008 02:15 | |
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N ow I would like to introduce you to one of the really exciting parts of building your website- adding a theme! There are a couple of themes that came with your website when you installed Joomla. However, you will want to look at a variety of different themes to find one that suits your needs.RocketThemesI highly recommend using a RocketTheme template for your Joomla website. RocketTheme is a developer of gorgeous website templates exclusively for Joomla. As of this writing, there are 78 professional templates available to club members. Furthermore, there is a new template available each month. You can register for a 3 month membership or a 12 month membership for a very reasonable price. Click the link below to see their pricing for each plan. While you're there, click on the "Demos" tab at the top of the page to see what I'm talking about. You can check out all of the templates available to club members to date.Note that with each template, there are numerous ways to customize it for a unique website appearance. For instance, the template that was just released (as of this writing) called Replicant V2, has 10 preset styles. Each incorporates a different color scheme and design. See screenshot below of 6 out of the 10 preset styles for Replicant V2:  I have used RocketTheme templates for most of my Joomla websites. In fact, this website was built with the template called TerranTribune. At any point, I can easily convert my site to a different template. RegistrationBecoming a member of the RocketThemes club is easy. Just click here to access their registration page. Be sure to read over their terms & conditions which specify how many websites you can use their templates on. Then, select a plan from their options (i.e., 3 month or 6 month membership). Once you are a member, you can go to their downloads section and start downloading templates to your computer hard drive.Next, I'll show you how to upload the template to your Joomla website. It won't be long and we'll be adding content! Part 12: Upload RocketTheme Template to Your Joomla Website Table of Contents for this Series |