Design
Unique Style Variations
Nebulae, the May 2011 release, combines visual sophistication with functionality and power. The template offers a range of unique and stunning style variations, with distinct colour schemes complimenting their detailed and beautiful background counterparts.
Fresh & Refined Typography
All the standard typography has been recoded and restyled for the May template release. The new set takes advantage of CSS 3 techniques, resulting in less code and greater performance, as well as providing an assortment of visually modern, and clean custom content elements.
Menus
Fusion with MegaMenu
Fusion Menu is primarily a javascript enhanced CSS dropdown menu, that combines standard suckerfish type functionality with animations, transitions and other advanced effects provided by Mootools; in addition to other MegaMenu features such as multiple columns.
Versatile Splitmenu
Splitmenu is a static menu system that displays 1st level items in the main horizontal menu and all subsequent child menu items in the Sidebar. This location, and other parameters pertaining to SplitMenu, are configurable in the Gantry Template Manager.
Framework
Gantry Framework
The Gantry Framework is the foundation of all the features and functionality in the template. It is a cross-platform instrument, which extends well beyond the core abilities of Joomla and its templating structure, and as an external bundle, it increases the ease of adding new abilities.
Template Interface
The most notable feature of Gantry, is the advanced and intuitve administrator interface for controlling the template. It allows for extensive control over all aspects of the template, such as module width distribution, and can be managed on a per-menu-item basis.
Modules
New RokStories Layout
Accompanying the template release, is a new version of RokStories with a new layout option, Showcase Tabs. This is demoed above, and places the content title, a label, and an automatically generated thumbnail in the tabs, whilst displaying the main image full width.
Styled RokContentRotator
RokContentRotator makes a return with template specific styling for the Nebulae template. The module is perfect for displaying content items in a dynamic fashion, using the vertically stacked tab items. The module is styled for multiple positions and module suffixes.
Demo Information
All demo content is for sample purposes only, intended to represent a live site. All sample images are the copyright of Charles Guan, kindly permitted for the Nebulae demo.
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