Themelets – the visual layer
To understand the role themelets play in the Morph toolset, take a brief look at the image below. Notice it is always the same “engine” so to speak, with multiple themelets.
Each themelet is a “child” of the master/parent framework, hence they are also known as child themes (becoming popular in wordpress)
What is a themelet?
Themelets are the second primary layer of Morph. The big difference between the two layers is that there is only ever one Morph framework, while multiple themelets can be installed at once. See screenshot here.
Themelets are to Morph, what templates are to Joomla. Everyone installs the same Joomla but can install any number of templates.
Themelets are an installable extension for Morph and are easily installed using Morph’s Configurator. They provide the character of a website, the colors and images that make it unique and set it apart from the crowd.
Each themelet is a different implementation of Morph’s core settings with a unique design. This means themelets can look vastly different and even have completely different layouts.
If you see 2 websites using Morph and they look completely different, then you can be sure they have the same core, but the themelet or child theme currently active is what makes it look different.
Where to get themelets for Morph
The first and primary reason we built Morph is to allow us as a Joomla template provider, to release our designs much faster than ever before, true to the definition of a proper framework.
This means our members will have far more design options available to them for their projects than ever before.
We have already started creating dozens of design concepts and you can decide which ones we implement for Morph first. So why not head over to the themelet voting site where you can cast your vote for your favorite themelet design concept.
You can always build your own themelets with Morph, its not that hard if you are familiar with xhtml and css. We have done as much as we can to make this as easy as possible and will be providing solid documentation for developers to build themelets using Morph in the near future.
Tags: framework, Joomla, Morph, themelets
it looks like a very powerful system, I am due to be making some themes soon so anything to help with that will be great!
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