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[Donna Marie Vincent]

I find that YooTheme templates are easy to use, clean, and more suitable for 
business sites.  





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From: Dan Horning <dan.horning at planetnoc.com>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 12:58:59 PM
Subject: Re: [joomla] RocketTheme: use it with moderation

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?

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Dan Horning

American Digital Services - Where you are only limited by imagination.
dan.horning at planetnoc.com:: http://www.americandigitalservices.com
1-518-444-0213 x502 . toll free 1-800-863-3854 . fax 1-888-474-6133
PO Box 746, Troy, NY 12181

----- 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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