Latest Template Release: Introducing Aurora!
Posted by: Chris Rault in templates, template updates, joomla 1.0.x, aurora May 09, 2008
Our latest release is officially available! We extremely happy to introduce Aurora as the latest addition to our template family! A lot of TLC has gone into Aurora, which after a bit of looking under the hood, we are sure you will agree!
Aurora started out (much like Absolute V1) as a template with a couple of configuration options, in order to make it super easy for our users to customize the template. Well, we went a bit overboard this time! Aurora has evolved into something much much more powerful. Almost everything in the template can be customized, whether its the level of transparency, colors used, or layout. With this amount of customization options comes complication and this is something that we were accutely aware of.
After much discussion we decided that we needed a simple way for our users to set all the different options, without it being overly complicated. Our friends over at Ninjoomla answered our cry for help with one of their own secret projects callled Tatami.
Tatami started off as a simple component to manage your templates configuration options. Since we started talking, Tatami has itself evolved, through our vigurous feedback and suggestions. In its infancy it is already exactly what we had invisioned for Aurora. This is only the initial release of Tatami and already we are in hot on discussions with the talented guys at Ninjoomla about version 2. This is definitely an area you want to keep an eye on.
To celebrate the launch of Tatami, Ninjoomla has kindly agreed to allow all of our club members to enjoy the use of Tatami 100% free of change. Please note though, that support is handled on their site and is only avaliable to their club members. That being said, these guys have some seriously cool extensions in their club and are offering all JoomlaJunkie customers a 10% discount voucher, which can be redeemed on any Ninjoomla Club package. Pretty neat, eh?
This last bit is very important. Aurora is our first 100% Club exclusive template. We decided to go this route because we had initially planned on selling Aurora at $45, but realized that the source files alone were 100+ mb and way to big to deliver via eJunkie. Also, this way if we provide updates like additional backgrounds or presets, they can easily made available to club members. Plus as an added bonus, our club subscriptions start at $39 (saving you $6!).
Here are the templates features at a glance (you can view the full detailed list on the templates product page - link below):
- 100% Tatami friendly!!!
- Auto height sidebar and content
- Bottom shelf intelli mods (up to 10 modules)
- 100% Configurable Transparency
- Configurable Layouts
- 85 Different Backgrounds to choose from!
- 10 Preset Styles
- Over 100 Configuration Options
- 150mb's of Background Source Images (club members only *)
- SimpleFeed RSS Syndication Module
- Flickr4J Ready!
- Mix and Match Module Suffixes
- Fully XHTML / CSS Compliant
- Thorough Template Guide
Our main aim with Aurora was to give you as much flexibility as possible. We believe we have achieved this.. what do you think?
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