When I joined the Joomla community I was very impressed by Joomla flexibility and functionality. The core element of this functionality is the template system. You can think about the template as a container with a determined look and feel.

This container has different places, where components, modules, and bot’s inject their content. The difference between templates is the location of those places and some graphic elements which deliver a different look, functionality, and usability to your site. Besides this, Joomla allows for the use of a very flexible CSS file that is unique for each template and could apply different rules to different components (not only to different parts and positions of HTML code).

I decided to make website that would be used as a bridge between various sites with different topics. And I wanted to have reusable template, something neutral that could be applicable for different sites and topics. The problem here is that I’m not Picasso. I’m able to write something in HTML but when it comes to graphic design I’m completely puzzled and lost.

I spoke to my friend Ivan. He is a talented graphic designer. In a few hours he came up with this graphic theme.

Everything else was easy. I tried a couple of different ways to realize this graphic concept. I wanted to make variable width (liquid) layout with 3 columns. I tried to make table-less design with CSS positioning. In general this worked, but sometimes after resizing some areas were still overlapping. Since I’m not very concerned with tables, I finally chose a more traditional approach, trying to keep things simple and clean. You are looking at the results right now.

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