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Two great (web)design websites, Dezinerfolio.com and Marcofolio.net, decided to team up to bring you something beautiful. The original dfTheme 2.0 made by Dezinerfolio was first released for Wordpress. After a while, they decided to make the theme for Drupal. Jackbook.com released it later for blogger.
Now, Marcofolio.net brings you this beautiful dark web 2.0 theme to Joomla! 1.0.x. This template called Whitesquid (Named after the demo website of the Drupal version of dfTheme 2.0) will really amaze your visitors.
The template only works with Joomla! 1.5 when you have the legacy mode plugin enabled.
Of course this template can be downloaded and used for free.
 Whitesquid Download Whitesquid Demo
Functionality
Split Menu
The Split Menu makes a copy of the Joomla! Main Menu and places it on top of the page.
Toolbar
This toolbar will allow the user to change the template to their needs. From the left to the right:
- Narrow screen
- Wide screen
- Fluid screen
- Larger font
- Smaller font
- Default font size
Decoration
A random decoration is showed in the right-top corner of the page. I added it for fun, this subtile decoration is just some eye-candy.
Module positions
Modifications
Code modifications
Open up the index.php file with your favorite PHP editing program (Notepad will work too) and search for the following lines for modifications.
#support extra color themes
$mf_color_themes = array('default');
If you want to add more color themes, add them in this array. # Change the width of the template
$mf_width_default = 'wide';
Change value to 'narrow' for standard 800x600 optimalisation (not recommended), 'wide' for 1024x768 and 'auto' for fluid width. # default color
$mf_color_default = 'default';
If you added a color theme, select the name of the default theme here. #font size default
$mf_font_size_default = 3;
Set the default font size. # Enable users option
$mf_tool = 1;
When you set this value to 0, no toolbar will be displayed.
Design modifications
Although the logo is already very cool, you meight want to change it to your own logo. To do so, simply overwrite the following file:
/mf_whitesquid/images/logo.png
with your own "logo.png".
If you change the logo, you should also change the favicon. To get that to work, overwrite the following file:
/mf_whitesquid/favicon.ico
and replace it with your own "favicon.ico".
To add more (or less) decoration images to your site, just add or remove images from the following directory:
/mf_whitesquid/images/default/header-deco/
Any image in that directory will be used for decoration.
Install
To install the template, simply follow these steps:
- Log in to your back-end of the site
- Go to "Installers" > "Templates - Site"
- Click on "Browser" and navigate to the downloaded ZIP archive
- Press "Upload File & Install"
- Go to "Site" > "Template Manager" > "Site Templates"
- Select mf_whitesquid and make it your default template
Download & Demo
- Whitesquid Download
- Whitesquid Demo
Big thanks to Dezinerfolio for letting me make their theme available for Joomla 1.0.x and for the demo server. Don't forget to check out their website, I have mentioned them before.
Feel free to give some feedback about the theme. Enjoy using it. Oh, and because Joomla! released their 1.5 Stable yesterday, I'll make this template for 1.5 compatible too. Later. Maybe.
Tags: whitesquid template free joomla webdesign
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so far this is my fave joomla template above all else...
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whew... it is a good news.. thanx man!
i tried putting padding right... problem is when there's no module on the right... right margin ok..but left menu is goin down like it has not enough space...
but what if I want to give little margin at right.. with left module still there?
. When I build template, I also use a "menu-style switcher". But since this template doesn't need the menu-style switcher, I removed it from the package.
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can do that in seconds, I am not a programmer, but actually a Quality Assurance Manager, so I can find such small things quickly, trying my luck to create my personal page, but i need your guidance definitely.
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