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[orpheus2510 Friend orpheus2510Join date: July 2007Posts: 149Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 14 times in 1 posts]

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Hello JA-Team!

The next template (2nd of April 2008) will be a 2nd version of Teline – another example for JA’s actually way of template development: it seems that you are forcing to reproduce elder templates with a little change in look and feel, just variations – but really new templates with inspired features and a visibal creative work (as i. e. in Koniga or Paritii) are missing since some time.
Why another newspaper template? And then just a reproduction? Why not templates for school-sites, sports-clubs, art-shops or others like this? There are so many unused website themes in template development of JA! But the focus actually goes to three or four themes – so it seems to me.
Please give your work more creative input, make the portfolio more variable and give your customers in this way more arguments for using new JA templates!

Hopefully

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

#246019

Why another newspaper template?

Simply because like yourself here..lots of people made lots of requests for it.

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

#246021

Orpheus . . . Can you be a little more specific with regard to what kind of creativity you are looking for.
Your comments are a little broad, don’t you think?

As mfcphil said above, there were a good number of members – especially a handful of very persistent lads – who were clammering for an updated / improved version of Teline. As such, the JA Team, in consideration of said clammering – got to work producing an updated / improved version of Teline.

This is an example of a template club listening to it’s members and endeavoring to keep them satisfied – which is a good thing.

Now, as to the issue of “creativity,” I guess my questions to you would be what kinds of things are you looking for? Also, what do the JA Templates not offer you that you cannot modify/customize/create – with a little bit of creativity – yourself? I mean, what would be preventing you from taking one of the templates and creating a school-site, sports-club or art-shop site?

Now, that being said, I do think there are some areas where JA can try to be a bit more “innovative? in terms of some functionality elements within their templates – such as, perhaps, auctions, classified ads, freelance, real estate, reservation, etc. However, as I mentioned above, there really isn’t any reason why one could not take any one of the current JA templates and modify/mold it into whatever one wanted. There are literally hundreds of extensions available for one to create as dynamic a website as one desires.

[bigrk Friend bigrkJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1425Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 45 times in 15 posts]

#246040

I am not totally convinced that the Teline II will look like the original Teline at all. We here at JA have been talking about what we wanted in a new News Portal template for quite a while. I think the name might be a little misleading. At least I hope that it doesn’t look like the original Teline.

[ndmiharu Friend ndmiharuJoin date: April 2008Posts: 18Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#246063

Hey, see all of their “II versions”: Avian II, Utahia II, Xenia II. Do you see the different? So I have no hope anymore about next template that called Teline II.

[bigrk Friend bigrkJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1425Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 45 times in 15 posts]

#246065

Those you mentioned were updated templates to include more requests and were done as the next template. Teline came out a year ago and the requests for the new version have been discussed on a regular basis in these forums for the last 6 months. I think everyone who has been discussing Teline II would be VERY disappointed if it look at all like the original Teline. And within all those discussions a site on the order of a CNN look was preferred.

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