Time for an official Joomla templates directory?

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Permalink Reply by micheas on October 22, 2009 at 1:15am

I guess I am feeling for the Joomla security team that is constantly dealing with Joomla has security holes myth.

I have seen a site with a 280K menu sprite. (sprites are to reduce load in a high performance environment, as large as that sprite was, it should have been about 28k, needless to say that joomla was slow to load.

Just a quick sanity check on index.php and the html directory and run yslow on it.

There shouldn't be much in the templates that requires much as the views should generally not be exploitable. as the controller should be handling all the user input and receiving mostly(only?) trusted output.

I wouldn't want a panel of pros rating the templates, I would want the panel to give a thumbs up or down and a numeric score.

They could also comment on the templates, but ratings should mostly be user driven.

The more I'm thinking about this the more it looks like a reasonable project.

One issue that is unresolved is what to do about security updates to templates. In this day and age I am not sure one should just wait for it to become a problem.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Dimitrov on October 22, 2009 at 1:37am

I wish to help!

Permalink Reply by spacepyrit on October 22, 2009 at 11:22am

I have been working on my own set of template standards (sort of like W3C or CSS Zen Garden). I haven't worked on it in a while, but if the JTD is going to happen, I would be happy to draw up a criteria of what makes a good template and what doesn't.

Permalink Reply by Kyle Ledbetter on October 22, 2009 at 11:28am

That's a great idea and would be a big help

Permalink Reply by Cory Webb on October 22, 2009 at 1:36pm

I'm with you, Kyle. I think there definitely needs to be an official directory. Here are my thoughts:

It should have the following search capabilities:
1) Search by provider
2) Search by layout
3) Search by main color
4) Search by free or commercial

It should also support ratings and reviews.

There should be a 3 strikes and you're out policy for developers who like to "borrow" designs from others. Not sure how you would police this, since anyone could claim that their designs were stolen, but we all know of a few repeat offenders who might get disqualified from listing in the directory.

If we can't do an official directory at templates.joomla.org, I have a good domain name we can use for an unofficial one. :)

Permalink Reply by Alice Little Grevet on October 22, 2009 at 2:15pm

I would love to see this. It would strenghten Joomla by consolidating a one-stop directory of templates. Right now I always hit the sites I know and like but wonder what I'm missing. The ability to search by color, provider, commercial or non- etc. would be wonderful. It would be a very useful resource!

Permalink Reply by saurabh shah on October 22, 2009 at 2:25pm

Hey Kyle .. cool one ! I have this idea since many days ... m IN for this ... Let's get started :)

Permalink Reply by JoomlaBear on October 22, 2009 at 2:34pm

I'm super keen to be involved and have been hankering for this for a very long time - I started this thread in Aug 2008!
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=318246

Count me in and I'm happy to help.

Permalink Reply by Dex Randall on October 22, 2009 at 3:54pm

Can we just have a directory like bestofjoomla, which shows popular and well-rated providers and templates? Otherwise vetting each template against a set of standards is going to be a prohibitive amount of work? Do templates need the official seal of approval to be listed?

Permalink Reply by Bill Watkins on October 22, 2009 at 11:59pm

Cory,

Good ideas. Perhaps we could also add the intention or purpose of what a template is designed for? I guess this would be compared to tags in bestofjoomla?

Thanks,
Bill

Permalink Reply by Bill Watkins on October 23, 2009 at 12:00am

Hi Kyle,

I'm up for this it would be great to include both free and commercial templates, even if in separate directories.

Thanks,
Bill

Permalink Reply by Kyle Ledbetter on October 23, 2009 at 8:58am

Thanks for the overwhelming support on the idea everyone. We'll need to put together a plan and present to the OSM board. I'll count on everyone's ideas and help getting this off the ground, and then maintaining it.

I think it's best to copy the Mosets Tree structure current used for the JED and JRD. My only concern: does Mosets Tree support tags and custom fields (similar to bestofjoomla)?

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