Mocha – Crisp, clear and in control | Joomla 1.5 template release
Right now, there is a lot to be excited about if you are a JoomlaJunkies club member! If you are not yet a club member, then there’s something special for you too: We are currently having a festive season special so join the joomlajunkie club now and get yourself a personal, business or developer membership for less. Existing club members will be pleased to know that this month we are also having a 25% discount on all renewals. This won’t be repeated soon, so go ahead and take full advantage of the reduced rates.
Now onto the good stuff. This month, we will be releasing TWO premium Joomla templates!
You may already know that there is a dark version of Rational Magic in the works. In addition to Dark Rational, we are also happy to announce the release of MOCHA – a clean crisp and professional Joomla 1.5 template that allows you to put the spotlight back on your content.
The making of Mocha
A few weeks ago, we released the SuperSlider module for Joomla 1.5. When setting up the demo site for the SuperSlider module, I needed a nice clean template to use for the demo…
Inspiration, needs and curiosity
I really loved the feature set and vibrance of both Zappa and Snappa – intelli-mods, configurable sidebars, mix and match modules, suckerfish dropdown menus – these two templates had them all! However, I felt like i needed all of these features but something a little different in the design department.
I needed a clean, crisp design that would be as easy and flexible to work with as Zappa and Snappa. On a personal level, I also wanted to see how flexible and easy to transform JoomlaJunkie templates really were and if it would be possible make a clean business-like template using Zappa, whilst still maintaining its rich feature set. So, I started working on my own “mod” of Zappa.
Result: simple, clean and tableless design
As a result of this “modding” exercise, the Mocha template was born. Mocha has the same feature set, stability and flexibility as both Zappa and Snappa, but wrapped around a simple, clean and elegant design. We then proceeded to add to the already impressive feature set – some enhancements that we felt worthy of such a template.
Mocha is a full tableless design – even Joomla’s core tables have been stripped out. A lot of emphasis has been put into to simplicity, both from the templates design perspective as well as from an administration point of view.
Want to see it in action?
Mocha is up and running on the demo server for you to try out in all its glory. Go ahead and have a look at the demo, the products details page and the easy-to-use template guide to see if you too would like some Mocha for your joomla website. 
Mocha’s Features at a glance:
- Joomla 1.5 Native
- Out of box install
- SuckerFish dropdown menu
- Full Tableless Design + Content output
- 7 Normal and 5 Intelli Module Positions which are capable of expanding to 30 module positions
- Change your site layout per component
- Fully XHTML and CSS Validated and Compliant
- Multiple layout options
- Detailed style guide
- Semantic markup / separation of presentation and content
- Comprehensive setup guide
- Fireworks source included
- Fully collapsible module positions
- Fully compatible IE6, IE7, Safari 2, Firefox 1.5+ (mac +win), Opera
Have a look at the demo website and leave a comment here about your thoughts!
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