Hung Dinh
08-31-2006, 02:30 AM
JA Polaris - Adding usability to Joomla template design
Joomla! template design is a complex and time consuming process, and there is tension between designing for beauty and designing for function. While other Joomla! template providers tend to put most of the design effort into a graphic based job and give very slight attention to the simplicities and usability of the template, JoomlArt always keeps our goals to make the templates both pleasurable and functional, appealing and usable with a text and CSS based layout. In fact, as you can see in most of our JA joomla template club, simple and usable design is the approach of our templates and is also the gold of our templates.
JA Polaris (http://www.joomlart.com/forums/../templates_demo.php?template=ja_polaris) - September JA Joomla Club template is released under this concept.
This joomla template is built to responsd to many needs. We have 4 selections of color ('brown', 'green', 'red', 'blue') and 3 options for menus ( JA Split Menu, SuckerFish,Transmenu). Our designers always define the template concept and develope the template in a user-benefit oriented way. With an in depth look into JA Polaris as well as other JA templates, you can recognize the following:
For your site visitors
Loads faster - less waiting
Render faster - quicker responsiveness
Easier to read and scan for key information
Easier to navigate
For you - as Joomla! based web developers and companies
Quicker to install and customize your Joomla! web site.
Easier and quicker to make changes
Easier and quicker to redesign (following client or user feedback)
Require less server and bandwidth (we do not use many images)
Easier to make work on different platforms and browsers.
An overview of JA Polaris key features:
Simple layout: the default 3 columns can collapse to 1, 2 columns. All users modules are also fully collapsible.
Centered orientation
Soft, neutral background colors
Strong colors, used sparingly
Plenty of whitespace
Tableless design and 100% CSS based
Joomla 1.0.x+ compatible
JA Split Menu, SuckerFish, Transmenu - very light and adaptive
Wide selections of header images
XHTML 1.0 Transitional Check it ? (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//template.joomlart.com/ja_polaris/)
CSS Validates Check it ? (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftemplate.joomlart.com%2Fja_polari s%2F)
Valid 508 Accessibility
Well-commented template_css.css and index.php file for flexible customization
The template comes with .PSD and FONT files which can be found in JA Polaris download folder (http://www.joomlart.com/forums/../downloads/cat/joomlart_club_templates/ja_polaris.html).
Tested well with
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/browsers.gif
Template screenshots and modules guide:
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/ja_Polaris_template_guide.png
Color Variations
With JA Polaris, the Site Tools and Colors Switcher has been revamped using both PHP (server side) and Javascript (client/browser side) to enhance the accessibility and improve the performance for browsers. We will explain this technique in full details in a template tutorials which will be published in late September.
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/feature.gif http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/default-color.gif
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/brown.gif http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/green.gif
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/red.gif http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/blue.gif
Joomla! template design is a complex and time consuming process, and there is tension between designing for beauty and designing for function. While other Joomla! template providers tend to put most of the design effort into a graphic based job and give very slight attention to the simplicities and usability of the template, JoomlArt always keeps our goals to make the templates both pleasurable and functional, appealing and usable with a text and CSS based layout. In fact, as you can see in most of our JA joomla template club, simple and usable design is the approach of our templates and is also the gold of our templates.
JA Polaris (http://www.joomlart.com/forums/../templates_demo.php?template=ja_polaris) - September JA Joomla Club template is released under this concept.
This joomla template is built to responsd to many needs. We have 4 selections of color ('brown', 'green', 'red', 'blue') and 3 options for menus ( JA Split Menu, SuckerFish,Transmenu). Our designers always define the template concept and develope the template in a user-benefit oriented way. With an in depth look into JA Polaris as well as other JA templates, you can recognize the following:
For your site visitors
Loads faster - less waiting
Render faster - quicker responsiveness
Easier to read and scan for key information
Easier to navigate
For you - as Joomla! based web developers and companies
Quicker to install and customize your Joomla! web site.
Easier and quicker to make changes
Easier and quicker to redesign (following client or user feedback)
Require less server and bandwidth (we do not use many images)
Easier to make work on different platforms and browsers.
An overview of JA Polaris key features:
Simple layout: the default 3 columns can collapse to 1, 2 columns. All users modules are also fully collapsible.
Centered orientation
Soft, neutral background colors
Strong colors, used sparingly
Plenty of whitespace
Tableless design and 100% CSS based
Joomla 1.0.x+ compatible
JA Split Menu, SuckerFish, Transmenu - very light and adaptive
Wide selections of header images
XHTML 1.0 Transitional Check it ? (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//template.joomlart.com/ja_polaris/)
CSS Validates Check it ? (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftemplate.joomlart.com%2Fja_polari s%2F)
Valid 508 Accessibility
Well-commented template_css.css and index.php file for flexible customization
The template comes with .PSD and FONT files which can be found in JA Polaris download folder (http://www.joomlart.com/forums/../downloads/cat/joomlart_club_templates/ja_polaris.html).
Tested well with
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/browsers.gif
Template screenshots and modules guide:
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/ja_Polaris_template_guide.png
Color Variations
With JA Polaris, the Site Tools and Colors Switcher has been revamped using both PHP (server side) and Javascript (client/browser side) to enhance the accessibility and improve the performance for browsers. We will explain this technique in full details in a template tutorials which will be published in late September.
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/feature.gif http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/default-color.gif
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/brown.gif http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/green.gif
http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/red.gif http://www.joomlart.com/images/stories/ja_polaris/blue.gif