Joomla Documentation Template Tutorial – There may be no better way to learn something than by checking the developer website. Thankfully Joomla has quite a good documentation website and this page will give the designer all the information he or she needs to create a new Joomla template.

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Compass Design Joomla Template Tutorial – This 12 page tutorial gives out extensive information about the Joomla template as well as the ways of creating it. It is a highly recommended read for beginners and experienced designers alike.

NetTuts+ Creating Your First Joomla Template – Wanting a short read on how to create a new Joomla template or want a tutorial that is filled with pictures and guides? Then look no further and check out this link. It is short and is filled with a lot of graphic contents that will surely help those that are in need.

Lonnbarda is a template suitable for a news or a magazine website as the layout of it suits these two type of sites mentioned. The template incorporates a clean look that is popular amongst news and magazine websites.

There is a lot of black, white as well as orange used in the template. This isn’t a bizarre combination and frankly, it does make the site looks fashionable in a way as well. A slideshow located at the upper part of the website makes it not only elegant, but also informative. Visitors can check out the featured articles or products in the website with ease through the help of the slideshow.

A lot of information can be shown at the home page. The template allows for five different tab items which can place different information in each tab. In addition to that, up to five articles or excerpt of articles can be shown at the front page as well.

All in all, Lonnbarda is a great template for any magazine or news website. In fact, with the template being free, there is no reason not to get it as well. So search for Lonnbarda in any of the preferred search engines.

JA Lime incorporates three main colors which is the shade of blacks, red and white. In a first glance, users would see that the theme looks extremely simple but yet it has that hint of professionalism as well. However, due to the usage of white, it does make the website seems empty in a way.

The overall layout of the website isn’t centered by default like most websites on the Internet. Instead, it is aligned to the left. This difference would be very noticeable to people that are using high resolution screens as it makes the eye look at the left side instead of the center.

The usage of slideshow gives the template the magazine aura that it deserves to get. Currently there are three different slideshows at its demo page. However, users can add more slideshows should they wish to once they have purchased this theme.

All in all, the JA Lime looks very fashionable and with a little tweaking, it would make a good template for any website. Its simplicity may be its best trait as well.

The third month of the year 2010 saw another new theme by RocketTheme and it is called Crystaline. In a sentence, the theme looks very professional and is immersing.

Why the template is immersing is that it features a color chooser. It allows an infinite possibility on the overall layout of the website. Comes with the color chooser is 12 different templates preset by RocketTheme and all of them looks more than decent.

In addition to that, there is also an update with a famous module made by RocketTheme which is the RokTabs. The new update allows RokTabs to have inline icons in each tab. There is also a dynamic control that simplifies icon arrangements.

Crystalline is also built on the Gantry Framework version 2.5. This is a new admin structure made especially for users of RocketTheme templates.

Those wanting to check out the template can head on to rockettheme.com. Membership starts at $50 for 2 months so head on to RocketTheme and check them out.

In order to change your default Joomla template, first log in your Joomla and get on the admin page. From administration page, go straight to the administration panel and choose the extensions and different options will be displayed; you need to tick on the template manager from the menu of extensions. If you have installed an advanced Joomla then you will template manager right under the extensions and normally the template manger gets installed with Joomla in (in built Joomla template), you may also search for your administration page by browsing the URL of your website. Once you click on the template manger it will display all the templates which were installed with Joomla, you may go through the best templates and select the template in which you are interested and check the radio button next to the selected template and click on the default icon, if you want to make your selected template default Joomla template of your website, thus in the result, the template will be applied to all webpage(s) of your website.

To star-off always try to install the latest version of Joomla and core Joomla package (1.10) is the most recommend for your website because the packages comes up with tremendous features that are easy to be used and installed. Various valuable features are added in this package which is site module, component output, the most HTML selectList and most HTML radioList, these components provide a correct label tag to your website. Another tip is to install the Joomla SFF parch into good search engine optimization code; it is prior to assign META data to Joomla related URL’s. The best thing about Joomla patches is that they display a lot of suitable keywords and make it uncomplicated to select out multi-phrase keywords by suggesting the best optimized keywords of the internet. In order to make your Joomla website SEO friendly, you can also utilize the link building component one like Linx, it helps in assessing whether or not your website is linked with your partner and still getting back links from the site of the partner. This software is a comfortable approach to be sure of linked up with multiple partners at the same time and a fly can be created by putting in the information (cutting and pasting the information of partners’ website), once you have entered the data, Linux will update you daily about the status of back links to your website and off-course the more back links will drive more traffic and in return your Joomla website is SEO friendly.