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[Dan Horning]

the rocketheme templates actually do have some of the extras you talked about but sometimes hard coding is needed - I've been using the templates with great success for quite some time. though in this one case yes you are correct - but do you really want intro's generated automatically - i know that for anything i've done my client and I both want full control over the wordings. I think you are looking for a theme that instantly makes your sites look perfect without any work. be cautious about this - you use any template as a starting point and adapt it to your needs - if you wanted a theme to do all of that instantly i feel like you'd pay a LOT more than 90 bucks a year for 4 years of 1.5x templates.

I'm not trying to be mean here - but lets put some valuation to the money you spent on the theme. if you made a theme like they make, and wanted all the perfection you're asking for - i think you'd be paying more like 500 a theme. 

so in seriousness - have we forgotten the valuation factor? what do you value the bump in progress that a less than a 100 bucks a year theme subscription gives you? knowning that the theme bases aren't for everyone - but for a small church or organization to get the look that a theme (from any of the vendors like rockettheme) gives you it's priceless.

oh and one more thing - in the demo site and all the PDF's and source files - it says how to do everything, quite simply too.

personally i view any template as a springboard ... not an end product - what do you think?

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna Marie Vincent" <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com>
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:40:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [joomla] RocketTheme: use it with moderation
> Laura presented the AiDa news module at the last Joomla meeting:
> http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-display/latest-news/11652
> , which has all the features you could possibly want.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Herb Tucker <htucker at covenanttek.com>
> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
> Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 5:04:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [joomla] RocketTheme: use it with moderation
> 
> Hi Helvecio,
> Check out JoomlaWorks UCD module, its free, as in beer, and I've used
> to
> dynamically display content for news and Latest Happenings. It may
> just be
> what you are looking for.
> You can display content from a section(s) or category(ies) as Lists,
> Slider
> or Fader. It's a great tool.
> Ciao`,
> Herb
> 
> Herbert M. Tucker
> Principal
> Covenant Technical Services, Inc.
> P: 732-497-0326
> C: 848-218-9172
> F: 732-497-0326
> E: htucker at covenanttek.com
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