Skinning Magento?

They got some huge competition from TemplateMonster.com. They must keep track with those ones, fine ones:

http://www.templatemonster.com/magento-themes.php

The bridge comes from JFusion, but is still beta as far I know. It also would only synchronise the user database, as far as I am concerned. So I do not know why to use it with Joomla. It works stand alone and a Joomlasystem is not really needed.

I have read in the Joomla.org Forums when the topic Magento and Joomla came up, that the admin (Rochen -- Rochenhost.com) reported about Magento still having some performance problems on the server side, probably when being under high demand. Also from that information I personally will wait when there is new version and some of the beginning issues have been resolved. It is always better to wait for the next release, mostly I also wait with downloading templates until the first bug fixes have been reported and fixed.

I have it running live on a few sites. JFusion is still beta, but it works well. You can also sync cookies too between the two, so you only need to ever log in the once. That’s all that matters in my opinion.

Magento, obviously uses a seperate database, which again I prefer to allow for damage limitation should either go corrupt or become unstable.

I’m happy with their choice.

They got some huge competition from TemplateMonster.com. They must keep track with those ones, fine ones:

http://www.templatemonster.com/magento-themes.php

Those are some pretty sweet looking templates alright.

Then check out their Joomla Templates, (Edit) I remembered some other ones, the Joomla ones are not as good as they should be, I once checked the ZenCart Templates that are quite better but cost like 150€ each. Those current Joomla Templates except the one with the large vertical main menu are not that good and also quite cheap with mostly only 55€ when you compare it to the other templates. The Magento themes are the best out there and honestly Joomlart.com will have to come up with something same or better. I will want to save me the time I spent on my Joomla VM when using Magento, so will most likely pick one of those unless the JM Themes will be same as good and also bring custom extensions to the Magento system.

http://www.templatemonster.com/categ…omla-templates

Are we even ALLOWED to advertise other templates from other sites??

Seems counter productive.

We’re not exactly ‘advertising’ them as such. We’re simply saying how good they look. No harm in that. It’ll keep JA on their toes.

On the subject of advertising… you may want to see rules 2 and 5 of the Signature Rules

From my experiences with Template Monster (Using Zen Cart) I found them to look amazing as long as you didn’t want to change anything. On some templates I heard that the settings in the back end admin were almost unuseable due to bad coding. The after sales support was a joke as well, I had to try and figure out all their quirks on my own.
This was a couple of years ago so things may well have changed since then but I know that I’d never go back to them.

Cheers,

Jason.

Are we even ALLOWED to advertise other templates from other sites??

Seems counter productive.

We do not live in dictatorship, do we? It is more productive to show those so when JA did not see those there already, must have seen btw, they will or have seen they must bring something more than JM Purity, which I suppose will be always a same free template as JA Purity is for Joomla.

In fact, when it would not be allowed by JA or a lot more members would want others not to mention others clubs or template developers, I definitely would avoid ever posting here anything as this is against my rights of expression.

This would be by now like a dictation not to talk about what goes up outside in the free world… that bring me new ideas and a lot more that I can also integrate in JA Templates, as some of those and even a lot are very very good.

From my experiences with Template Monster (Using Zen Cart) I found them to look amazing as long as you didn’t want to change anything. On some templates I heard that the settings in the back end admin were almost unuseable due to bad coding. The after sales support was a joke as well, I had to try and figure out all their quirks on my own.
This was a couple of years ago so things may well have changed since then but I know that I’d never go back to them.

Cheers,

Jason.

I have been purchasing a XML Flash template some months ago last year, you know, XML means to simply change some texts and paths in the xml files and the flash site ist customized, and for this they bring out the only ones that also look good, the music alone in the background is mostly perfect but as to the purchase itself, it was a hassle.

First you pay with CC and suddenly get the notice that your purchase has been delayed due fraud prevention. You may now scan in your CC and send the print to customer service, x-ing out the first four numbers. In my case, my scanner is broke, only prints and scanning did not work, due some software issue, so after a nice discussion about such bull****™, I was advised to use my cellphone to make a shot of the credit card. Some hours already later, I could send my CC shot over to them. Now, not that now I could download my template, no, first I had to chat with the customer service again. Still not enough, next was to answer a telephone call with a nicely unfriendly clerk who asked me if I really purchased a template, really sent in a cc and just chatted with him for real. Then I could download the template with the link I was sent via email. Now I had to check back with the customer service again, the zip file was as usually password protected. I went through another process of verifying my information and that I really purchased this template until I was told to use some number they provided as password to open the file. Until that, I really already lost the interest in the product I purchased.

It is also a nice thing now to know that I will not have to go through such process twice, they told me they now have my cc on file and next purchases will be simply pay and download, but first I will have to dig through all my email accounts and remember username and password again as such process made me not think about adding this info to a pile of useful information…

On the subject of advertising… you may want to see rules 2 and 5 of the Signature Rules

I can honestly say I did not see that rule. I’ll adjust my signature line to comply!

I can honestly say I did not see that rule. I’ll adjust my signature line to comply!

What have you done wrong, one is allowed to also advertise the own company with one link plus some other link. I would say to add a link to TemplateMonster.com would be against the rules as it is some other template site. But there I also would wonder why, when the people know their own products are good, why banning such links, where the majority of users already knew about TemplateMonster.com beforewards… It is surely not something hard to accept when such links would be removed but in the matter of fact…

My question would be what comes up when I list all the clubs I am also a member of, so that other users who have some issues with their extensions etc.. see I may may have some answers to the problems they have as I use those too?

In fact, when it would not be allowed by JA or a lot more members would want others not to mention others clubs or template developers, I definitely would avoid ever posting here anything as this is against my rights of expression.

On a privately owned forum you have no rights of expression.

I can honestly say I did not see that rule. I’ll adjust my signature line to comply!

My comment was tongue in cheek. If JA had a problem with these they would have said it by now. I think they would only have a problem with rival companies or OTT sigs.

As long the operator of a private forum does not give expressional rights, I would not stay in the forum. When a template club would delete messages where users talk positively about the competetion it would only come like some deficit of the operators not to allow such discussion and a bunch of people would leave the club just for seeing such acts by a club.

And obviously, this is here not the case…

http://www.team-ukfc.com/phpbb/image…s/offtopic.gif
That sounds like a dictatorship…. "You can have freedom of expression -- but only if what you express is positive"

This is NOT freedom of expression. "Freedom" works both ways positive and negative.

As an example… If I express what I think of someone on this forum or of Joomlart themselves, or a country or whatever, and that expression happens to be a negative view then my post will be deleted and I may be banned (and rightly so BTW).

There is no freedom of expression on this forum or on most properly run forums. If there were then anyone could come on and post all kinds of hate material etc. So it is best, on a private and public forum, to NOT allow freedom of expression.

OK… back on topic now. MiCCAS feel free to delete… I’m just responding to the previous post.

Why not, sounds good…head on. Animated gifs are not allowed btw.

Those are some pretty sweet looking templates alright.

I agree. Why I havent heard of magento on 2008 :O ? is it THAT new?

I have just taken a look over the "Who uses Magento" site of Magentocommerce.com and all I can say, all those stores look cheap! I do not know, some brands like Yves Rocher maybe should use Intershop.com, they can afford the +100,000$ base price for a top notch shop system and also would have gotten some good designers with it who do not only build on using CSS3 rounded corners all over the place.

I have just taken a look over the "Who uses Magento" site of Magentocommerce.com and all I can say, all those stores look cheap! I do not know, some brands like Yves Rocher maybe should use Intershop.com, they can afford the +100,000$ base price for a top notch shop system and also would have gotten some good designers with it who do not only build on using CSS3 rounded corners all over the place.

I do not know which examples you are looking at, but the ones I have seen are pretty flippin’ impressive — > http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/…ento-spotting/

Incidentally, IMHO … TemplateMonster’s offerings remain WAY TOO OVERPRICED

Techniques for skinning Magento would be a great addition to the request list for Magento Tutorials --> http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29936

I do not know which examples you are looking at, but the ones I have seen are pretty flippin’ impressive — > http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/…ento-spotting/

Incidentally, IMHO … TemplateMonster’s offerings remain WAY TOO OVERPRICED

They look better for that higher price. Basically, my opinion about Magento is neutral, as I haven’t yet purchased Magento templates, sponsor Magento or am part of Magento and I compare to what I see from other top brands. They simply have the approach of normal shops and not the top shops. And the Yves Rocher Shop is even the one professional shop there, the others look boring and still the overwhelming color of the Yves Rocher shop is blurring and not even really making people purchase. I saw a lot of VM Shops made in a hurry, not based on JA Templates and those look same as those in the framework. Okay Yves Rocher uses high gloss and some nice design parts but the frame of the shopfront is looking cheap as people should not use color so much, but with the right dosage and the right parts of the site.

Also, when you look over the same section on http://www.intershop.com/intershop/r…ess_model/all/ , some stores also look cheap, but you get the right feeling when using the stores. They have the money and work with the matching shop system, where here it comes like Yves Rocher, an international brand uses a base price free shop system and do not even look like real nice shops of other brands.

I suppose, as usual, it’s a matter of personal taste/preference