Web Development Articles

Building Good Joomla Templates

Part 1, Standards and the Blank Template

Subject: Joomla

Joomla is an open source content management system that's been making a lot of noise. We've used it ourselves for several sites, but until now, we've always had to grit our collective teeth to do so, because it wasn't possible to use it and follow the industry best practice of standards-based design and development.

Now that 1.5 has shipped and Joomla has adopted the Model-View-Controller design pattern, our attitude is about to change. In this series of articles, we're going to show you how you can use Joomla and produce websites that follow the standards, and along the way we'll touch on other "best practices" of the industry.

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