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Well, This list never gonna complete as there is so many good designs available for joomla. I personally think there is a need of more good free designs as all the free themes available is not very good or atleast good.

I using joomla for 2 of my projects and i made my own themes for that purpose.

Thanks for the collection Cyrus….Nice Overview !!

DKumar M.

Hmm, the commercial ones are nice.
But the other templates…

Good work. Nice to see that Smashing likes joomla !

Great choice of commercial templates, as for the free ones, these are truly the best out of free, unfortunately. Rockettheme.com guys are my favorites.

That’s one hellova resource !!! Keep it up smashing !

I think you missed some YooTheme interesting theme…

Can’t wait to see your wordpress templates again… you guys always come up with good ones like LINK

If this article was published in another site, I would think that it’s a sponsored article. Because it’s very surprising that there is no template from Joomlart.
They have many beautiful templates, which fits to any need, and each of them has a lot of color, layout options.
In my opinion, Joomlart is the best template provider on the internet. And one of their templates is already coming with the default Joomla distribution.
You can see their demo templates , and decide on your own.
As a footnote, I am not a Joomlart shareholder, employee, reseller or partner.

I feel you all left out some great websites.

They also have great tools for free and commerical that are quite excellent.

http://www.joomlart.com is also a great site.

while i saw the templates i just though… all this can be done in WordPress, what more have Joomla to offer? im talking about the design area, i dont know the system specs or capabilities, that would be good to know… some kind of WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal maybe!?

You should add here one more template club: http://www.gavick.comThis guys have very nice and pro templates.
I don’t understand why the admins publush only tempaltes from the Rockettheme. (cash?)

Nice templates, I’ve seen many more that work like a charm for any type of website niche you might be working on. Joomla might not be the smartest piece of of programming but it does a damn good job and it’s been improving every time a new release version comes out. *thumbs up*

Thank you everyone for the great feedback!

To the people concerned that their favorite wasn’t listed here, there are tons of template providers, and this is just short list. Hopefully there will be more Joomla posts in the future, so we will get to see more of them.

Also, both Gavick and Shape5 are listed.

Thanks!

Would agree, where’s YooTheme? Only templates I’ve ever bought for Joomla.

Good list otherwise.

I know that it’s hard to write such articles, because you can not include every template in the market. And anyway, someone will be always angry about why you included or not included something in the list :) I hope that you will include some Joomlart templates in the future posts. Because they really deserve it much more than some templates in this article.
And finally, Best of Joomla! is a great resource for people who search for a free or commercial Joomla template. (This is not the one which is mentioned in the ‘resources’ section of this article.) Here is the link : Link

superb deisgn collection of joomla

Wonderful!
Post about Joomla are always welcome!

There are very few free templates for Joomla period, and of these, only a couple are worth using. Most are poorly designed or just plain horrid. Best of Joomla is the best site for finding free and pro themes.

Good Templates. But not the best.

This article was illustrative in one unintentional way for sure: people can see what I’ve said before is true, and that Joomla’s community is paltry in comparison to WordPress. You can fall ass-backwards into great looking, free templates for WordPress, but the options for Joomla are increasingly barren (and what the hell is with that double top “navigation” and left or right column “menu” that Joomla template makers so adore? Has anyone ever felt that two blocks of links for finding your way around was a good idea?)

And for the record: I don’t use either, so the Joomla Jihadis can shout out their OPEN SOURCE MATTERS fatwas at someone else.

In any case, the gulf between pro Joomla templates and free ones is HUGE. I’m curious, outside of the staggeringly large base of WordPress vs. the small one of Joomla, why that is. Certainly there’s some enterprising students just messing around that want to share their creations with the world in every format.

I think this article is poorly researched. So many good Joomla template designers are missing. Looks a little like the author is PRO Rockettheme. No doubt, they make greate templates, but not to mention all the other great Joomla designers is a shame.

I ask myself if Smashing Magazine is not reading over the articles. Or let someone of the Joomla community read it before publishing. It is obvious that this article is not really objectively…

thank you so much for this post…I wish there were more joomla connected posts in the future

Robert,
Thanks, I hadn’t seen those conversions. So many times I’ve seen a great WP theme I wish was converted to Joomla.

James,
It’s a short article, only 35 of thousands of Joomla templates. Nowhere did it say it was an “Ultimate” or “Comprehensive” list of templates.

If anyone was offended that I left off their favorite template, I apologize. If I was asked to select one template from every commercial provider, the article would have looked a little different. Instead, I was asked to compile a list of some of my favorite Joomla templates. Rockettheme just happens to have created a number of my favorites.

Also, I take accountability for my article, by publishing my article SmashingMagazine did not endorse any particular template creator. That is why my name is under the title, not theirs.

Great Article…
What about this Web Design Agency?
Thank…

Wow,Thanks
Link

Great list, some of the templates are really nice. Thanks

here is a nice one that should be on this list
http://joomla1.5.youjoomla.info/youmovies/index.php

Nice theme, i mean about graphic… but most of them got usability issues. Don’t use it for popular websites.

oj that s was a nice joomlas templates, thanks very much for your resourses, smashingmagazine is on my number 1 Bookmarks.

greetings

wow…great Thx Allah for Joomla

sesion validated :) great links

Nice list !
There’s a good one, less popular, but they create minimal & clean beautiful templates : http://www.joomlabamboo.com/

it says free templates. The very first one isn’t free. how am i suppose to download with out it linking me to a site where i have to sign up for over 50 bucks