Joomla Theme

Looking for a good web design standards checklist for your new Joomla web design or template then why not visit the Max Design site who have put together a pretty cool checklist to ensure your web design adheres to a specific set of CSS, XHTML standards.  The checklist cover a number of diffrent items which can be applied to Joomla.

For more information read web standards checklist

A new web site has just been released called the Joomla CSS Guide. The site is an excellent resoruce for people who wish to develop templates for Joomla and want to gain an understanding of how the CSS styles and class/ID names are declared in joomla template css file (template_css.css). 

Visit the Joomla CSS Guide site today.

Pixelsparadise.com released a new Mambo/Joomla template called "MP Jaden". The Theme based on a 2 to 4 colums layout (not used colums disappears) and is optimized for screenresolutions of 1024x768 or more. The template package includes four different colored (red, green, blue, orange) standalone versions of the template, the used and ready sliced .psd Photoshop source file and a collection of 75 premade content images.
The template is made without any tables and comes with XHTML 1.0/CSS 2.0 valid code.

> Visit the MP Jaden product page
> Visit the MP Jaden preview page

JoomlaJunkie have released two new joomla themes called JJ Vooloo JJ Dark Business. Both the new templates are clean professional designs which support a number of module positions and are fully CSS and XHTML compliant.

For more information visit the JoomlaJunkie site today

If you are running Joomla then you will be using a joomla template for your site which makes use of the template_css.css file to control the layout of your web site, modules, components and more. In some cases the template_css.css file can grow pretty big and have an impact on your page loading time plus hosting resources.

I found a very useful article called PHP_CSS_Compressor written by ibloomstudios who have come up with a simple but effective solutions for automatically compressing your CSS style sheet using a few lines of code which can be included in your design.

For more information read the PHP Compressor Article.