JA Erio template RTLized

Since more than one year, I discussed with Joomlart's CEO (Hung) about the necessity to do a native RTL template. Actually, I was unhappy to see all these automaticlly mirrored templates with a global code: "direction: rtl" that send the vertical scroll to the left side of the screen and cause more issues than solutions. Yes, I read from right to left but I use my right hand to scroll pages and I have the same visual logic as readers of Left-to-Right scripts.

Having a stimulating opportunity to do a portal for "Aratypo: Arabic Typography" for my team of Arabic typeface creators and graphic designers, I decided to use JA Erio in this strategic project and I started to "rtlize" the template as would be naturally read by native Arabic visitors.

Dear members & friends,

Looking to the difficulties faced by our members in upgrading to Joomla 1.7 from current joomla 1.6, we release a quick hotfix for T3 plugin (version 1.3.0 beta).  Testing is on full swing and we are committed to release the Joomla 1.7 compatible products (extensions & templates) at an earliest.

Why is the delay?

1. Based on our earlier experience (joomla 1.6), we waited for the stable release of Joomla 1.7, so that we have to release less versions in quick sucession. As quick version release for templates adds to more work on the member side as he she has to redo his / her customization.
2. Due to active development most of the templates / extensions already have already code edits (bug fixes / improvements) committed in svn, which needs to be tested apart from testing for Joomla 1.7 compatibility. So most of the releases might be bug fix plus J 1.7 compatible. This process doesn't allow us to give exact timeframe for releasing each product.
3. During last week we have released bug fix updates for 18 of our Joomla 1.6 templates making them compatible for Joomla 1.6.5, which brings them very close to Joomla 1.7 compatibility. So its just matter of time, mainly for testing.
4. Delivering high quality products is what we strive for.

If you are good at creating templates for Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal, then you skills are in hot demand. Take alone the various freelance places, where many web owners are offering front end developers tons of projects at attractive rates.

But beyond freelancing you could also start creating templates and sell them online as digital products. Big advantage vs. hard products: Relatively inexpensive production cost.

JoomlArt’s all time greatest template JA Teline III is now upgraded to run on the latest JAT3 Framework, although the design stays the same, the code structure has been totally shifted to the new engine, we decided to give it a new name JA Teline III V2.

This is one of the tasks the team is working on behind the scene right now. Besides the regular monthly template releases, we have started upgrading all templates that are released after August 2009 to the latest version for JAT3 Framework.