After going through many sites over the past couple weeks I think I have finally settled on a template which I will be building off of. I have looked through tons and tons of template sites to find something that had eye appeal and also had a layout that worked with my concept site. Most template sites for Joomla have e-zine type layouts, so it became a very involved search for me. After many close calls and brainstorming through some whether or not I could make work for me, I have found what may be… sacrilegious… but sincerely awesome.
http://www.shape5.com/demo/touch_of_soul/index.php
After running into this template I had a battalion of ideas fire off, and that is what made me choose this template. As you can see in the background of the template I believe it is supposed to be a church wall, but what I will be doing is changing this template into a Pub atmosphere with beer signs on the back and different beer referenced gimmicks. Maybe have some brewing equipment sitting in the background. I don’t want to make it too distracting, but I would like it to look as if you are sitting down in a micro-brewery.
I almost went with another template but I just couldn’t go with the plain boring forum look. I want people to enjoy coming to the site, and it is a bit harder to motivate people with nothing to look at.
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I like your site template! Really cool looking! Since this is totally equipped with a church layout (including downloadable sermons!) and you mentioned the pub atmosphere, … smiling at the contrast … what will your site be about? It looks cool, whatever it’s going to be!
Paul
Comment by His Woolliest October 28, 2009 @ 6:33 pmI don’t think it’s sacrilegious at all.
Comment by Elaine December 17, 2009 @ 1:31 pm