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[ganzuelo Friend ganzueloJoin date: January 2009Posts: 152Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 23 Thanked: 7 times in 1 posts]

#312026

Tcraw, we have paid to have JA make templates for us. I am for the most part happy with JA Sulfur but for some reason everything resembles everything else closer and closer. Maybe they need to do a bi-monthly template that is just out there. they need to get away from the comfort and shock us

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#312029

ganzuelo;137941Tcraw, we have paid to have JA make templates for us. I am for the most part happy with JA Sulfur but for some reason everything resembles everything else closer and closer. Maybe they need to do a bi-monthly template that is just out there. they need to get away from the comfort and shock us

And all I am saying is provide some constructive feedback and suggestion as to what would “shock you.”

JA makes templates for you . . . that’s what they do. If there are parts of any particular one you like, but parts of it you don’t, you have absolute control and ability to modify it as you see fit – make it special. This has always been the case.

My point is, it is of little value to simply say “I don’t like it, make something better” or “shock us” without providing some constructive direction and/or suggestion as to the kind of elements, layout, features you would like to see. Too much to ask ??

[jay973 Friend jay973Join date: October 2008Posts: 401Downloads:0Uploads:12 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 105 times in 68 posts]

#312033

There are 271 separate threads in the wishlist forum, all full of ideas and suggestions. Some are a little impossible, I grant you that, but many are good ideas which the members would like to see.

The whole point of having such a forum is for JA to gauge what the members would like, so why not use it?

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#312053

I usually keep quite on these preview posts, but i give it a boring rating, its just more of the same old

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#312092

I believe I gave a lot of suggestions in other threads. I don’t like endlessly repeating myself like some others on here do however.

There are a few nice ideas in this template but for some reason it doesn’t gel for me. It feels a bit like some good elements thrown together but don’t quite match.

[David Porré Friend David PorréJoin date: September 2014Posts: 194Downloads:44Uploads:5 Thanks: 23 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#312103

Hello,
This template is looking great !

<em>@mfcphil 137843 wrote:</em><blockquote>Do you have to have a gap at the left??? Seems like an awful lot of space going to waste….</blockquote>

That’s what makes it original I think…
And that “wasted space” can be very interesting to work on graphically speaking.

Best regards
David

[matjkd Friend matjkdJoin date: April 2008Posts: 52Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#312109

It is just a re working of previous templates, but with a div added on the left, which contains nothing! I see they are trying to try an original layout this seems a lazy way of doing so.

I’d like to see completely different layouts, instead of:

menu, then below that
slideshow, then below that
3 or 4 module positions, then below that
content with left and right (or 2 right columns) then below that
footer with 3 or 4 modules positions

Most templates follow this with just different graphics, as a developer I tend to replace the graphics anyway, using the base layout as my starting point, so to me they literally are exactly the same template re-released over and over.

I know someone will say the graphics are what makes the template, but joomla is pretty flexible, we can have modules and menus where ever we want, and there are some pretty good features that can be buit into the template with moo tools or some of the extensions around.
If I think if anything specific I want, I’ll suggest it, but we’re paying joomlart to do the thinking and designing. I have other things I need to worry about, this is why I pay to be a member of a template club.
That said I’m happy overall with the service at joomlart, I just think that unless they produce some more impressive/original templates they’ll lose customers, which will be bad for all of us. Hopefully when they go down to 1 template a month we should see improvements.

I’ll shut up now.

[wiery Friend wieryJoin date: July 2009Posts: 185Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 7 Thanked: 36 times in 30 posts]

#312125

<em>@shapes 138025 wrote:</em><blockquote>

And that “wasted space” can be very interesting to work on graphically speaking.
</blockquote>

I think that was probably what the designer was going for on this one.

[thatcomputerdude Friend thatcomputerdudeJoin date: December 2008Posts: 280Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 67 Thanked: 32 times in 1 posts]

#312149

Oh – you want constructive criticism that includes examples of what we’d like to see.

Ok.

We’d like to see something DIFFERENT than what has been given over the last three + months.
and
This doesn’t go on with the other top clubs: Rocket Theme, YOO Theme, Shape5.

The only other place I see bitching from the customers, like here, is over at JoomlaXTC and that’s because that guys constantly gives the run around about when templates will be released after he’s given a date.

tcraw1010 – You obviously don’t run a very large business because you can’t quite grasp basic business practices here in the U.S.

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#312154

I’m glad you edited that post thatcomputerdude as it was a little ott.

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#312157

thatcomputerdude;138086Oh – you want constructive criticism that includes examples of what we’d like to see.

Ok.

We’d like to see something DIFFERENT than what has been given over the last three + months.

wow … how insightful

[mayke Friend maykeJoin date: May 2008Posts: 281Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 13 times in 1 posts]

#312163

OR, JA start to work it out for all of their stand alone EXTENSIONS to be able WORKS in any JA template without hacking code for the template, just put in any position and WORKS!

[leave2 Friend leave2Join date: January 2008Posts: 40Downloads:2Uploads:9 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#312183

oh and I thought a new JA Teline was on its way 😡

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#312254

If anyone has any kind of disagreement with each other, kindly sort it out via pm and leave this post for those that want to stick to the thread.

We do not want to see arguments every month!

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#312256

Well said Phil

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