Recommended: People.Joomla.org now open and the vibe is great!

Beside the newly released Joomla!1.6 beta, there’s another fantastic thing recently launched by the Joomla! team.

The newly opened http://people.joomla.org has quickly become an incredibly inspiring place and helps you get connected with fellow Joomla folks on a whole new level. We’ve been approved for 2 groups, so please join us on:

• Prothemer Fan Club
• Morph Fan Club

There’s a whole lot of good coming out of people.joomla.org already and it’s only been live for a few days, so get in there now to connect, create and get inspired.

Full list of features for Morph

Since we first started hinting about Morph, the most commonly asked question is “Where can I find a full list of Morph’s features?”. We held off on posting anything, mainly because so much stuff was changing on a daily basis and not all the features had been decided yet. We’re now at a point where we are getting close to doing a code-freeze. In short, this means we will no longer be developing new features (before the stable release) and will shift focus to fixing all bugs, optimizing performance and cross browser fixes. Since the current build is so close to being “feature complete”, we feel its high time we posted a full list of Morph’s features. (more…)

Tags: Joomla, Morph

What makes the Morph framework different?

As you get to know Morph, you will see how vastly different it is from your average Joomla template.

Using Morph you can develop your Joomla websites both easier and faster. You get a head start with the powerful core framework, control the flexibility with Configurator and can add out-of-the-box prettyness with the themelets of your choice. The differences from a Joomla template as you know it are plenty, so here we’ll help you by quickly highlighting the key areas we feel set Morph apart from the crowd.

Morph has an intelligent engine

Morph is all about thinking for the user, always being one step ahead and knowing what is needed when! (more…)

Tags: configurator, framework, Joomla, Morph, themelets

Configurator – method of control in the Morph framework for Joomla

Lets use the analogy of “Morph as a sports car”, for simplicity. The core framework would be the engine, the themelet would be the design/body of the car and Morph’s Configurator would be the dashboard.

Total control – even at high speed

In order to have total control, even at high speeds, you (the driver) have a wide variety of methods at your fingertips to control the powerful machine, to make it do exactly what is desired.

A comprehensive dashboard as well as various controls, like steering wheel, pedals, gears etc, make up the different methods of control you need for your car. As a user of Morph, you now have similar ways to control your Joomla site. (more…)

Tags: configurator, framework, Joomla, Morph

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) (more…)

Tags: framework, Joomla, Morph, themelets