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[Robert Rynkiewicz]

I concur with Dan Horning on this topic. "Springboard" is right on target.

For the money, the template clubs such as RocketTheme, YooTheme, Joomlart,
Shape5, etc...
can give you very good design elements and flexibility to create very
professional websites.

Bob Rynkiewicz
 

"Dan Horning" <dan.horning at planetnoc.com> wrote:
> the rocketheme templates actually do have some of the extras you talked
about
> but sometimes hard coding is needed - I've been using the templates with
great
> success for quite some time. though in this one case yes you are correct
- but
> do you really want intro's generated automatically - i know that for
anything
> i've done my client and I both want full control over the wordings. I
think you
> are looking for a theme that instantly makes your sites look perfect
without any
> work. be cautious about this - you use any template as a starting point
and
> adapt it to your needs - if you wanted a theme to do all of that
instantly i
> feel like you'd pay a LOT more than 90 bucks a year for 4 years of 1.5x
> templates.
> 
> I'm not trying to be mean here - but lets put some valuation to the money
you
> spent on the theme. if you made a theme like they make, and wanted all
the
> perfection you're asking for - i think you'd be paying more like 500 a
theme. 
> 
> so in seriousness - have we forgotten the valuation factor? what do you
value
> the bump in progress that a less than a 100 bucks a year theme
subscription
> gives you? knowning that the theme bases aren't for everyone - but for a
small
> church or organization to get the look that a theme (from any of the
vendors
> like rockettheme) gives you it's priceless.
> 
> oh and one more thing - in the demo site and all the PDF's and source
files - it
> says how to do everything, quite simply too.
> 
> personally i view any template as a springboard ... not an end product -
what do
> you think?
> 
> --
> Dan Horning
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Donna Marie Vincent" <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com>
>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:40:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [joomla] RocketTheme: use it with moderation
>> Laura presented the AiDa news module at the last Joomla meeting:
>> http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-display/latest-news/11652
>> , which has all the features you could possibly want.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Herb Tucker <htucker at covenanttek.com>
>> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
>> Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 5:04:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [joomla] RocketTheme: use it with moderation
>> 
>> Hi Helvecio,
>> Check out JoomlaWorks UCD module, its free, as in beer, and I've used
>> to
>> dynamically display content for news and Latest Happenings. It may
>> just be
>> what you are looking for.
>> You can display content from a section(s) or category(ies) as Lists,
>> Slider
>> or Fader. It's a great tool.
>> Ciao`,
>> Herb
>> 
>> Herbert M. Tucker
>> Principal
>> Covenant Technical Services, Inc.
>> P: 732-497-0326
>> C: 848-218-9172
>> F: 732-497-0326
>> E: htucker at covenanttek.com
>> W: www.covenanttek.com
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