Joomla is a free and open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model–view–controller Web application framework that can also be used independently. Joomla is estimated to be the second most used CMS on the Internet after WordPress.
A Joomla template is a multifaceted Joomla extension which is responsible for the layout, design and structure of a Joomla powered website while the CMS itself manages the content. Joomla template contributes to the general layout and the style of the website. Content and design of a Joomla template are separate and can each be edited. Joomla template is about the major layout of a Joomla site, including several different elements such as components, modules and plug-ins, each responsible for respective parts of the entire website. Here we’ve gathered 20 Joomla templates of different styles. Is there any one you would like to use for your next website design project? Let us know.
1. Landscape
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The Landscape Joomla template comes with a flexible theme system which means you can choose to mix and match the colour schemes. It comes with15 rainbow variations, 10 tree variations, and 24 menu colour variations. By mixing and matching these two parameters and adding your own flavor via your photos and artwork, the Grid will really come to life.
2. Phoenicis
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Phoenicis gives you a lot of color styles to choose from. Among the 38 available choices, there are 20 light styles, 9 dark styles and 9 texture styles. Layout and Menu can also be customized according to your own likes. Phoenicis is also compatible over different browsers.
3. Colour Shift
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Colour Shift is a bold and beautiful Joomla Template. It is a responsive design that comes with 8 vibrant colour schemes to make your part of the web a happy place. Colour Shift is optimized to display across all browser widths and screen sizes. The same design is served up to desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones alike. The Zen grid framework offers a number of options for determining the display of menus and modules on small screens.
4. Organica
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Organica has two different types of page layouts with the sub page layout consisting of anywhere up to 4 columns. Organica comes with the option of including either the prettyPhoto or FaceBox lightbox scripts used to display your content and galleries. The prettyPhoto script also works with the prettyBox Joomla gallery.
5. Lacuna
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The Lacuna Joomla template gives you the option to combine up to three design elements with a range of palettes at your fingertips. You can select the background colour, the typography and combine it with the footer colour to create your own multi-coloured Lacuna theme. There are a range of simple background colors or gradient inspired textures to choose from and the template includes a switch to enable/disable the sunshine and clouds that lie on top of the background.
6. Canvas
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Canvas is the ideal creative solution to set your folio site. With two fresh gallery modules, nine unique themes, an extraordinary 27 module positions and a galaxy of typographical choice, there are endless possibilities to suit your style. Canvas comes with nine different colour themes – light, white, dark, black, wooden, grass, flame, clouds, dark clouds. Each of them has its own type of feeling depending on the mood of your site.
7. Inside Out
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Inside Out is a fresh Joomla template that perfectly suits your online magazine or folio sites. It comes with a unique left column setup that keeps your menu items up front and on the screen regardless of where your user is on the page. Inside Out Joomla template also has four tab modules built into the template which provides a useful tabbed interface for your front page content.
8. EKHO
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EKHO has its own framework with unique full screen functionality. As many as 70 module positions or various combinations are provided. Other features like responsive grid, 960px grid system, social media support are included. The clean yet stylish interface will surely draw your visitors’ attention.
9. Naong
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Naong is a simple, modern and impressive Joomla template. It’s responsive and optimized for tablet as well as mobile screen. 9 color theme variations are available for customization. Well CSS structured, it should work well for businesses, artists, website designers, books and more.
10. Leo Restro
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Leo Restro is a responsive Joomla template, designed to adapt to browsing devices of different screen sizes, on Smartphone such as iPhone, Android and other mobile devices like tablets. The template should work well for showcase, portfolio, blog site and the alike. Leo Restro comes with 3 amazing themes, color, clean styles and it supports background customization, text-color, font-size..etc can also be set via the template configuration.
11. Epicure
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Epicure is an elegant responsive Joomla template with subtle textures and refined typography. It features a responsive slideshow using Zentools module which means users can have a responsive and mobile-friendly website as well as a powerful slideshow module to showcase. Epicure Joomla template is optimized to display across all browser widths and screen sizes.
12. Primer
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Recently, Primer Version 1.3 has been updated to Joomla 2.5. Several shiny features have made the Joomla template stand out among the rest. Such as its unlimited skins, quickstart package, gallery plugin and video plugin. The video tutorial has also contributed a lot to guide users along the way.
13. Highline
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Highline Joomla template is a beautiful responsive Joomla template that combines a popular full screen slideshow with a flexible masonry like layout – it’s ideal for magazine, blogs and portals alike. High Line provides its users with as many as 23 hilite options.
14. Newstream
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Newstream matches simplicity with a bold colour palette to create an elegant Joomla news portal. It also comes with an incredible K2 Joomla template that can help you to create an interactive online portal being absolutely stylish and since the template is built on the Zen Grid Framework, it is almost effortless to create your own flexible interactive magazine masterpiece.
15. Superb
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Superb Joomla template has a very clear and modern look. The large slideshow area gives a platform for your future slideshow. The drop-down navigation tabs on the top is also very convenient to navigate through the whole site. Superb has 16 skin colors for users with PSD attached. Superb is compatible with Joomla 1.7.
16. Ecospirit
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Ecospirit is a responsive Joomla template, which means that it is optimized to work on your Joomla website across all screen sizes. It scales effortlessly inside the browser window regardless of screen size. It’s built for a variety of uses with mixed delicate textures, soft stained grunge elements to create a clean Joomla template.
17. Cultivate
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Cultivate is a good companion for your yoga or natural medicine Joomla site. It’s designed as a professional looking business Joomla template with a slightly create or eco-edge. It comes in 5 core colour schemes to give you 20 different variations, has an elegant K2 template and is built on the Zen Grid Framework which makes it easy to use.
18. Grid
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The Grid Joomla template brings all the myriad facets of your world into sharp focus. Earthy and colourful yet practical and clear, this Joomla template is the ultimate blog, folio or magazine organizer. Grid is a tableless CSS-based template. Its layout and theme options are quite flexible due to 22 background variations, 22 menu colour choices and 49 module positions.
19. Hub
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The Hub template is a simple design that incorporates subtle textures fused with bold colours to create a striking Joomla design. With its elegant magazine-like crafted design, the whole template gives out an nice and clean look. 9 colour highlights are available for your choices. Source PSD and PNG files are attached in the template.
20. Black Studios
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BlackStudios is a modern, clean and stylish template designed for Joomla! 2.5. Perfectly suited for web studios, creative agencies, product websites, blogs, portfolios and alike. W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional Code is valid with BlackStudios. 5 color variations for black and white version. Users are allowed to configure different grid-size layouts based on number of published modules, not having to use the dame grid layout for every page.
