Joomla 1.5 reviews: Templates, components, modules

This template by PJO Pick Joomla is business friendly.  It's formal black and white tuxedo attire sprinkled with blue makes a speaks to it's sophistication.  Also of notice is the photo slide show at the top left hand corner as noted in image 3 of the photo gallery.  The design…

  Love is in the air with the Valentins template.  This is an ideal theme for any web page remotely connected to Valentine's Day - think of flowers, chocolates, gift packages or jewelery!  The template uses a soft white background and a brilliant red rose in foreground to catch your…

Forex template by mcF has a classic business look - straight-forward, sober and professional, if not a little dull.  However, a little color used sparingly might be a great call to action such as a box saying, "Join Now".  Although the template does not have a direct link to the…

Alpine Ski by Siteground has a great winter theme perfect for a ski resort or winter sports webpage.   The template utilizes the default Joomla positions.  After checking the template for cross browser compatibility, I found a bug  when viewing it in Firefox - a white line on the top left-hand…

The Blacky Template's decidedly dark aesthetic and cyberpunk presentation might be appropriate for a gothic website.  However, it is probably too dark for genearal use, and not just philosphically; the text is grey, orange, or dark blue against a dark background, making it difficult to read even with screen brightness…

Another gray scale static width template by Istopan.  Istopan is a German based company specializing in business and local hosting, while at the same time offering free Joomla templates. This template keeps a clean front end for the user. Again, like in their last template it's fantastic for a company…

Istoselida is a gray scale static width template. It adds no extra parameters in the back end. It sports a navigation menu at the bottom of all site pages, however it tends to blend in, creating slight confusion for users accustomed to menu's at the left, right or top of…

Easy basic template set, we found some surprising yet nice features available to the back-end user giving the admin the ability to change the color theme of the template via parameters. Colors include orange, green, teal and blue. Allowing the admin a little ease of customization for those who want…

This simple 2 column layout with a collapsing header position and right hand log in area is clean and loads fast. It has a static width of 913 pixels which is a bit small for most of today's browsers but the gutters fill nicely with a brushed steel background. We…

This templates demo on the developers site is much nicer than the result of a straight install on Joomla 1.5. There demo utilizes a number of special modules for displaying select content and menus, which we were looking forward to playing with. This is not bad, but the demo is…