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[Janet Sullivan]

Thanks, Matt.
I had a look around and  I'm not much of a php programmer.  It looks like the construct framework may be a better choice for my skills.
I should have more time to download and play with the framework over the weekend/early next week.....Thanks for sharing your work.
Will you be attending the NYC users group meeting tomorrow nite?  If so, I look forward to meeting you.

 Thanks!
Janet Sullivan



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 From: Matt Thomas <matt at betweenbrain.com>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [joomla] Blank Joomla template
 

Hi Janet,

I'm the creator of the Construct Template Development Framework, one of the The Blank template's "competitors" (we're very friendly with one another). The Blank template is very good, quite educational and a great starting point. Alex has also added some neat tricks to it too. You do, though, need to flush out the Blank template's index.php and CSS files. You can see an example of their index.php at https://github.com/Bloggerschmidt/Blank-Template/blob/master/index.php and their template style sheet at https://github.com/Bloggerschmidt/Blank-Template/blob/master/css/template.css

Construct is very similar in that it provides a foundation to build on. However, I have also fully developed the index.php, complete with a number of module positions (i.e. https://github.com/construct-framework/construct5/blob/master/index.php), and a core style sheet (i.e. https://github.com/construct-framework/construct5/blob/master/css/screen.css). Both of which can be overridden or customized (and I have a few tricks of my own)

I think Construct provides more of what you are looking for in comparison with "Sandbox" for WordPress. Both should be good solutions for custom template development depending on where you want to start. 

While I haven't read it, Alex is also a very smart guy, so I'd expect his eBook to be very good too.

Hope that helps.

Best,

Matt Thomas
Founder betweenbrain™
Lead Developer Construct Template Development Framework
Phone: 203.632.9322
Twitter: @betweenbrain

Github: https://github.com/betweenbrain



On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Janet Sullivan <jmsullivan50 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm new to Joomla as a CMS and was looking for a blank template, similar to
>the 'sandbox' theme in Wordpress.  Is this  "Blank" template 
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>http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/design-tools/18381
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>roughly the Joomla equivalent of what Sandbox provides for a wordpress web developer?
>Would this be a good place to start since the website I will develop is a custom design?
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>How useful  is the ebook that's available for purchase?  Is the translation pretty good so
>that the docs are easy to follow?
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>Thanks!
>Janet 
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