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 Looking for a colorful and fun user portal style for Joomla? You don’t need to look any further than Vortex. This new template from RocketTheme features a multitude of module positions, menu choices, content options, and plenty of color choices to give your site that “something extra”.
Overview
An overview of the key features of this template are as follows:
- Joomla 1.0+ compatible
- Mambo 4.5.2.X compatible
- Great portal style design
- 6 complete color variations for the ultimate in flexibility
- NEW ButtonMenu, SplitMenu, and Suckerfish menu configurations for complete navigation control
- 20 included menu buttons plus blanks for each color variation so you can create your own
- Support for fixed or fluid widths configured in the css
- 4 interchangeable module style variations to allow you to focus attention on the modules of your choice
- Plenty of integrated content styles to give your content more impact
- Accessibility options to allow your users to change the rendered font size
- Custom Login module to provide a low-profile login interface as used in this demo
- Built-in support for Tabs & Slides from joomlaworks.gr
- Integration and styling for Slimbox - a faster leaner alternative to LightBox 2.0 utilizing a highly optimized and compressed version of the mootools javascript library
- Integraton and styling for Reflection - a mootools effect for quickly adding web 2.0 style reflections under your images
- An amazing 14 fully collapsible module positions for the most flexible layout options possible
- Fully compatible IE6, IE7, Safari 2, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9, OmniWeb, Shira, Netscape.
- Source Fireworks MX PNG and font files included
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Some screenshots showing these capabilities can be seen below:
  
Color variations:
  
  
Demo
Please check out the Vortex Demo on our demo server
ButtonMenu, SplitMenu, and Suckerfish Information
The exclusive RocketTheme menu systems in this template use the mainmenu by default and this menu is configured in the admin administator. For these to function correctly, understand that the ‘top level’ menu items will show up as the horizontal buttons across the top of the template. For sub menu items, assign Parent Item to these top menus to the top-level item. These will then show up below in a sub-horizontal menu when you click on a top-level item. For an example of this check out the demo server
For more details on the menu configuration options in Vortex, check out the instructions on the demo site
Installation Instructions
This month we’ve created This is a guide that covers how to set up your new Vortex template on your Joomla site and configure its features, functionality, and content to look similar to the RocketTheme Vortex Demo FrontPage. Full details on how to install and setup the template can be found on the demo server
Module positions are summarized in the diagram below:
NOTES:
- This template fully supports full width configurations for use with galleries or forums, make sure you do not publish any modules in left or right and the ‘mainbody’ will fill the entire width.
Configuration
There are a couple of configuration options for this template. This month we’ve put the configuration variables in the template’s own index.php file. This way you can use the Edit HTML button in the Template Manager to quickly and easily make changes to these options. This is how you can choose the color variations and also configure some default variables. Also you can select which menu the RTSplitMenu system should use.
Vortex Configuration Options
// ***************************************************
// Change this variable blow to configure the template
//
// If you have any issues, check out the forum at
// http://www.rockettheme.com
//
// ***************************************************
$default_style = "light_slate"; // blue_green | blue_sienna | dark_orange | dark_blue |
light_slate | light_orange
$menu_name = "mainmenu"; // mainmenu by default, can be any Joomla menu name
$menu_type = "buttonmenu"; // buttonmenu | splitmenu | suckerfish | module
$menu_buttons = array("b11","b18","b19","b16", "b17");
$submenu_side = "left"; // left | right
$default_font = "default"; // smaller | default | larger
$show_pathway = "false"; // true | false
$search_text = "keywords..."; // text to use in search boxe
// ***************************************************
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