Free Joomla Templates

[Owen Carlson]

Joomla templates define the layout and style of your website. They
come in two different formats: front end templates and back end
templates. Front end templates will define the layout and style of the
side of the website that your visitors will see. Back end templates
will define the layout and style of what the administrator, super
administrator, editor and the alike will see when they log in to make
upgrades and changes to the visitor side of the website.
You can acquire this programs templates in three different ways: write
your own, buy them or find free templates to use. If you can write
your own then great; however, it can be difficult if you don't know
the HTML codes or the CSS codes. Buying them is O.K.; however, why buy
them if you can get them for free?
You can find free designs all over the web for either version of the
program. Siteground web hosting company claims to have the largest
selection of free Joomla templates for 1.5 and new templates are
released every week. Samples are available for you to look at.
Free4Joomla.com also offers a wide variety of free templates and
extensions for the Joomla software. Again, you can find templates for
both the versions of this software. Samples are available for you to
look at.
Joomlafreetemplates.com offers more free templates for both versions
of the software. Again, samples are available for you to look at. At
the present time, they have 224 free templates for the 1.0.X version
and 103 free templates for the 1.5.X version. It may take you awhile
to search through the templates to find the one that you want.
As you can see, there is a wide variety of Joomla templates available
out there, on the web. All you have to do is search for them. Because
Joomla is open source software, anyone can write an extension of the
core functionality of the software. This is why there are so many
different templates available. Anyone who understands and can write in
HTML and CSS can create a template and the authors of the templates
usually offer the templates for free, by download, on their websites.
There are actually websites that are dedicated to this subject. The
designers can be different; therefore, the templates are not all
written by the same person, giving the templates a different style and
tone, as well as attitude.
If you don't want to have to pay for a design, like mentioned earlier,
you can always write your own. Because of the language of the
software, it is best if you know a little bit about it, as well as,
HTML and CSS coding, or you could get lost easily in the process.
There is software available that will assist you in writing your own
templates, whether they are back end templates or front end templates.
So, the choice is yours. I'm sure you can find the layout and style
that you are looking for; however, it may take a little time to find
it.