What is Joomla?

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

What Joomla! can do?

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

• Corporate Web sites or portals
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• E-commerce and online reservations
• Government applications
• Small business Web sites
• Non-profit and organizational Web sites
• Community-based portals
• School and church Web sites
• Personal or family homepages

Site and Administrator

Your site actually has two separate sites. The site (also called the front end) is what visitors to your site will see. The administrator (also called the back end) is only used by people managing your site. You can access the administrator by clicking the "Site Administrator" link on the "This Site" menu or by adding /administrator to the end of you domain name.

Log in to the administrator using the username and password created during the installation of Joomla.

Learn More

There is much more to learn about how to use Joomla! to create the web site you envision. You can learn much more at the Joomla! documentation site and on the Joomla! forums.

Top Features

1Gantry Framework v2.0: A new framework / structure, that provides a more modern, efficient and cross-platform foundation for our templates. Features range from the intuitive and dynamic administrative interface, to the 960 grid system, full RTL support, inbuilt GZip compression and much more.

2Eight Preset Styles: An array of 8 stunning, unique, and professionally designed style variations, in combinations of Low, Medium & High levels for each variant. You can customise the preset styles via the Gantry administrative control panel, editing link color, font family and other stylistic elements with ease.

3Advanced Menu: Kinetic offers a powerful assortment of menus to chose from. Select from either: the Fusion Menu, a javascript / Mootools enhanced CSS dropdown menu system, SEO compatible and user friendly; and the versatile and flexible Splitmenu, a static sublevel based menu system (3 level modes with Kinetic).

Core Template Features

Below is a list of the core template features which pertain to this release.

• RTL Support
  RTL support from Gantry in its grid system, as well as RTL support in the Fusion menu, in conjunction with the template itself such as the breadcrumbs, content typography and module styling.

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• 18 Module Hilites
  18 module hilites to provide variations, color and/or structural, in your site for your modular content, these are: box1-8, ribbon1-8, footer and flush.
• Javascript Styling: Radios and Checkboxes
  Additional styling for form elements, such as radios and checkboxes, for visual integration.
• IE6 Warning Message
  A dropdown panel will appear in IE6, alerting the visitor to update their browser. This can be disabled in the template parameters.
• Content Typography
  Customised typography, such as list styles and notices, are included with this release.
• 60+ Module Positions
  The template has over 60 module positions which are collapsible.
• Browser Compatibility
  The theme is compatible with all the major and modern browsers: FF 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 10, IE7 & IE8. There is limited support for IE6 as it is restricted in numerous ways such as the forcing of the low detail level, LTR is automatically set regardless of RTL presence, Fusion is replaced by the Suckerfish menu, and various other elements are dropped or modified for basic compatibility.

RocketTheme Extensions

Below is a list of RocketTheme Extensions that have either been styled specifically for this template release, or are showcased in this demo. For more details regarding RocketTheme Extensions as a whole, or more detailed information on an individual extension, please visit http://www.rockettheme.com/extensions

• RokNewsPager Module
  A preview content module, enhanced by ajax for dynamic pagination as well as accordion effects. Now with comment support for JComments and K2.
• RokStories Module
  Functional showcase module for displaying content items and their accompanying images in an interactive and versatile manner.
• RokCandy Component
  A component that provides BBcode style functionality for Joomla for swift and easy implementation of complex code.
• RokBox Plugin
  Javascript popup / litebox utility, can be used for images, links, videos, websites, PDFs and much more.
• RokAjaxSearch Module
  Ajax powered module, allowing for interactive search of both local Joomla pages and the web with its Google integration.
• RokTabs Module
  Tabbed content module, perfect for maximising content exposure without sacrificing on site real estate. Built-in Mootools effects.
• RokNavMenu Module
  RokNavMenu is a foundational extension which is at the core of the inbuilt menu systems and is a requirement for the template menus to operate.
• RokGzipper Plugin
  A performance plugin that compresses your CSS and JS files via GZip which results in faster page loads.
• RokPad Editor
  A code editor with syntax highlighting, ajax saving and much more. The perfect replacement for the Joomla No Editor.