Are there several designs available once you use this framework?

Or would it be like a "Gantry skin" (with lots of config options)

fplanque wrote:

Are there several designs available once you use this framework?

Or would it be like a "Gantry skin" (with lots of config options)

nope, unfortunately.As far as i know it only has a skeleton skin to see grids and div's but no child templates.

However there are plenty of templates using this framework (for both joomla & wordpress) to see what might be done with it.

We would ideally, have lots of options and a nice admin in back office.
It mainly utilizes jquery & less which is good for b2 i think.The development is pretty active since 'rockettheme' uses it to develop club templates to sell.

But i promise to develop several templates (at least one or two a month) for b2evolution if we can have a framework like this.
And i think i've improved and they would be far more better compared to my earlier skins in 2.x series, now when i look back they really suck.

It doesnt have to be gantry, it may be something else, but having a framework like that, makes it real easy to produce templates.I mean, producing a skin out of a ready design would take a day or two for me, but doing the fundamental stuff like putting the layout, adding sources & extensions, template settings etc take the most time.The most frustrating part is that you have to do these same stuff over and over again with each template when you dont have a framework

tilqicom wrote:

nope, unfortunately.As far as i know it only has a skeleton skin to see grids and div's but no child templates.

However there are plenty of templates using this framework (for both joomla & wordpress) to see what might be done with it.

So is it "a skeleton only" or are there "plenty of templates using this framework" ???

fplanque wrote:

tilqicom wrote:

nope, unfortunately.As far as i know it only has a skeleton skin to see grids and div's but no child templates.

However there are plenty of templates using this framework (for both joomla & wordpress) to see what might be done with it.

So is it "a skeleton only" or are there "plenty of templates using this framework" ???

The framework comes with a blank -skeleton- template only.

There are existing templates around the web to 'look at' what might be done with it, but i doubt they are available for use.Most are paid templates.

Also: how does it compare to Bootstrap ( http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ ) ?

Also: Gantry will not abstract the template from the CMS, will it? I mean: if I buy a template from rockettheme, it is still specific to Wordpress or Specific to Joomla (but in both cases it uses Gantry for allowing customization). Am I correct?

fplanque wrote:

Also: how does it compare to Bootstrap ( http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ ) ?

I skimmed through the pages, and it seems it's nothing more than a css framework, packed with a few jQuery plugins, but that would do the job just as well as a starting point.

fplanque wrote:

Also: Gantry will not abstract the template from teh CMS, will it? I mean: if I buy a template from rockettheme, it is still specific to Wordpress or Specific to Joomla (but in both cases it uses Gantry fo allowing customization). Am I correct?

Of course, wp & joomla versions are different, you cant use a wordpress rockettheme template in joomla if i understood the question right.

That's a shame because a template framework that would aim at that level of abstraction would really kick ass! :)

(of course it would be a compromise system, but still...)

fplanque wrote:

That's a shame because a template framework that would aim at that level of abstraction would really kick ass! :)

Yea but sounds like a pretty hard job given the differences (:

The license is GPL2.0 (which is pretty lenient), and from what i understand we are free to incorporate it into b2 no strings attached.
http://www.gantry-framework.org/documentation/joomla/basics/license-and-usage

Yes I will look at it. But we will implement bootstrap first.

Yea bootstrap would be fine for starters.
Even LESS itself is pretty enough to build upon.Frankly, i am looking forward to v5 for many things i plan to do for b2evo and with b2evo

PS: I hope the docs will be better as well, as promised (: