Time for an official Joomla templates directory?

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Permalink Reply by Barrie North on October 21, 2009 at 5:04pm

http://twitter.com/compassdesign/statuses/5053564994

Permalink Reply by Kyle Ledbetter on October 21, 2009 at 5:08pm

"I think the scale of it was too big. But, now we have the resource directory for Joomla templates"

The resource directory is completely different though, right? A template IS a resource but not necessarily vice versa.

How do WP and Drupal handle it?

Permalink Reply by Stian Didriksen on October 21, 2009 at 5:14pm

Never thought about that before, but now that I do, it makes sense to have something like JED for templates imo.

Permalink Reply by Barrie North on October 21, 2009 at 5:17pm

I recall a forum discussion about this exact thing last year

Permalink Reply by Kyle Ledbetter on October 21, 2009 at 5:18pm

I'm officially volunteering for the JTD (Joomla Template Directory) Team, anyone else join me?
I know I always over-simplify things, but can't we just copy over the structure from the JED? That's the beauty of a Joomla site, right?

Permalink Reply by Dex Randall on October 21, 2009 at 5:24pm

YES!! Great idea. I've always wanted one too.
Something like the bestofjoomla template showcase?
How can we make this happen?

Permalink Reply by Kyle Ledbetter on October 21, 2009 at 5:27pm

It would prob have the same structure as the JED does for extensions.
Can I count you in as a volunteer as well? Anyone else?

Permalink Reply by Alexis Marks on October 21, 2009 at 7:55pm

I am interested also. I think you could add a lot more search functionality than JED has. It would be great to have an advanced search so when you have a specific project, you could scale the search results down to the templates that meet the basic criteria, then compare them side by side.

Permalink Reply by micheas on October 21, 2009 at 10:13pm

One thing that needs done is something that the foundations are just getting started on in with the extensions,

You need to vet the templates for bugs, tracking codes, security vulnerabilities,

One bad template on templates.joomla.org would make the entire project look bad. That is why a lot of people view joomla as insecure garbage, because several extensions are pretty bad as far as security. (commercial non-gpl ones are a sizable percentage of the extensions listed at milw0rm.com, but most of the worst are GPL, bad code is bad code regardless of the license.)

Template overrides would need to be reviewed,

php compatibility should be reviewed.

overall quality of the code should also be reviewed, as people are not going to see any of that from the screenshot and going "I want".

Overall a great idea, but Joomla could use a bit of an image buffing as far as security.

Permalink Reply by Alexis Marks on October 21, 2009 at 10:48pm

I think it would be interesting to come up with a list of criteria for what makes a template good, besides appearance. Load times, bugs, SEO, etc. Then have a panel of pros rate them on those criteria. Just your normal stars type rating, nothing that would be too time consuming.

Then we are giving full disclosure about a template and the user can make the final decision. It might also motivate some template developers to improve the weaknesses in their products...

Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on October 21, 2009 at 11:30pm

Yup, the KISS principle pays off time and time, again.

Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on October 21, 2009 at 11:42pm

For some reason, over the past four years I've been involved with Joomla!, we've not managed to get this one off the ground. WordPress and Drupal have had theirs forever.

I'm just curious why has it been a challenge for us? And, why do you want this to happen?

You are right in that Joomla!'s Templates are the best. And yet, we have not had this resource. Is there a correlation there? Joomla!'s template market has to be the most lucrative. Good or bad move, business wise?

What kinds of challenges could be created placing this on property? Are there benefits to doing these things as a cooperative arrangement between third party developers off property?

Sometimes, it seems like rules and community processes stagnate some of the on property resources. Is traffic that much better?

Just rambling. Thinking out loud.

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