OpenJason

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1. Nice reviews and I agree with most of your opinions.

   I do think that Gavic, Rockettheme, Yootheme, and Shape5 are on the top of my lists. (I use these)

   RT has always done great stuff. The community there is as valuable as the templates. They do seem to make templates for a “younger crowd”. They seem to fit game/clan sites more than business templates.

   Gavic’s stuff is always polished, fast, and very up to date as far as design and functionality. I’d say these are the best business professional templates made for Joomla.

   Shape5 is really shaping up. They are doing a great job of providing a mix of templates. From game specific, a merchant ecommerce template, and a few smart business templates. The mix is a good one. The talent is definitely there.

   Yootheme is just some of the greatest templates I’ve seen. They definitely have some talented designers there and the creativity is amazing. Every month brings a nice surprise, and the modules are outstanding.

   The rest of the clubs have some great stuff too. I think you summed them up very nicely. I just wanted to add my $0.02 based on my experience with the ones I’m a member of.

   
   James.Mc
   November 15th, 2007

2. Ah… thanks for your comments! Yes, I agree about YooTheme… I’ve seem their stuff a while back, but definitely overlooked the talent. They really are good… thanks for commenting!

   
   Jason
   November 15th, 2007

3. i agree with most you say. rockettheme are the best of these and yootheme are very good too.

   i dont like that joomla designs. templates all the same and you can pretty much the same for free. all very basic

   but i never know shape 5 so i go look now ..

   
   Hej
   November 16th, 2007

4. JoomlaDesigns… yes, you’re right… they pretty much suck… Thanks!

   
   Jason
   November 16th, 2007

5. What about Template Plazza?

   
   anshell
   November 24th, 2007

6. Template Plazza is good too.. In fact, I would say their up there with the best… I’ll be updating the original post with that information…. thanks!

   
   Jason
   November 26th, 2007

7. Template Plazza has now been included!

   
   Jason
   November 26th, 2007

8. I dont see how you can give Joomlajet a shit rating. They are overpriced but if you want clean ,css type sites then these are far superior then most bloated templates out there on the market.

   Other themes have the bells and whistles but sometimes you cant beat a fast loading, clean style site.

   Joomla Junkie is better then JoomlaDesign by far. Your other opinions I aggree with – But compare some of the early Gavick sites to Rocketthemes and they look like blatent copies to me. I did like Youtheme but their latest november template resembles an abortion clinics floor.

   Just my opinion.

   
   Putts
   November 29th, 2007

9. you forgot about the neo joomla and the bonus themes

   
   sumit
   December 2nd, 2007

10. Hi Jason,
    I just stumbled across your review and was interested to see your comments about our site, JoomlaJunkie. I am not sure why you say “we rub you the wrong way”. Can you elaborate to why you feel this way? If you dont like our work that is fine – last time i checked we weren’t forcing anyone to use any of our templates?

    I really think that publicly bad mouthing us is not only unwarranted, but also highly unprofessional. Don’t get me wrong, constructive feedback is a good thing, but i cant see any trace of anything constructive in your mention of us.

    May i also clarify that your “average template price” is a tad inaccurate. The only thing we have for sale on our site for $45 is a double template pack. The rest of our templates are between $15 – $30.

    Any who, no hard feelings – we are all entitled to our opinions and hopefully the people reading this post will make up their own minds.

    Cheers,
    Chris

    
    Chris
    December 3rd, 2007

11. Hello,

    I was wondering if you could help the readers understand how you arrive at the ratings.

    By what criteria is a designer measured?

    for the record, I’m not a designer, but curious because of some of the comments you posted.

    thank you

    
    vscribe
    December 3rd, 2007

12. I think you could have some opinion but you come and make easy judgement of hard work for each team.

    Is it your way of life ?

    Joomla is an open source but you don’t understantd the meaning of “Open”.

    The community of Joomla is rising because of people who helps each other, not by striking anyone.

    Your opinion make nonsense and still stay yours.

    
    Benjistik Studio
    December 3rd, 2007

13. Regarding NeoJoomla… Yes, you’re right. I did not include them on this post, will certainly add soon. I suspect they’ll get a pretty good rating… I haven’t had the opportunity to use many of their templates, but they make some pretty good extensions. Thanks!

    About JoomlaJet and Joomla Junkie… will have a response within the next few hours… thanks.

    
    Jason
    December 3rd, 2007

14. All true about template rating, all true.
    In my opinion first five are:

    1. – Joomlart
    2.- Templateplazza
    3.- Rockettheme
    4.- Gavick
    5.- Yootheme

    
    seno
    December 5th, 2007

15. Cheers! Good choices… All of these place are great, putting out some good stuff. My top five are probably the same, but the ordering changes all the time…

    thanks!

    
    Jason
    December 5th, 2007

16. I agree with Chris your article review is highly unprofessional.

    
    clare
    December 6th, 2007

17. Clearly you haven’t read the comments following the article.

    Nonetheless, let me reiterate that this is my personal WEB-LOG, or blog, if you will. This isn’t intended on being professional, as it contains my personal opinions… well, if you read the comments, you’ll see that several other people have the same opinions.

    Commenting and saying this is “unprofessional” is like going out of your way to tell the sheep that it’s a donkey… makes no sense.

    Thanks for taking time to give me your opinion….

    
    Jason
    December 6th, 2007

18. Came across your post you make me laugh..LOL
    Before openly criticizing members of a community make sure your own web design work is of a high quality. Looking at your blog design and your commercial site daynger.com its a bit rich attacking other design firms.

    
    Mike
    December 6th, 2007

19. Hi Mike. Thanks for your post.

    First off: Will you please point out where I’ve openly criticized any community member? Nobody has been criticized….

    Did you read the post or the comments?

    Now, which members of the community do you refer? I’d love to know… If you’re talking about JoomlaJet, then that’s a completely different subject. See, I CARE ABOUT THE JOOMLA COMMUNITY. And if I feel like some high-priced, low quality template shop is out there raping the community, I’m going to step in and say something.

    Outside of that… Where do you get that I, or we, are designers? Nowhere on this blog does it make claims of me, Jason, being a designer. As well, nowhere on the Daynger site does it say I am a designer. There’s a design department at Daynger, but as you can see, the site is still in its infancy.

    So, that being said… will you please point out where I’ve made claims of being a designer?

    I appreciate the feedback, but clearly you haven’t read the post, the comments, or anything about this blog or the Daynger site…

    
    Jason
    December 6th, 2007

20. Jason,
    When you get a chance, please review the company I work for. We sell Joomla templates too, and we’d (frankly) love the (hopefully good) publicity.

    
    Penar
    December 10th, 2007

21. Penar – not a problem… hang tight and we’ll get’r done!

    
    Jason
    December 12th, 2007

22. I don´t agree with you about RT, they tend to make there templates boxy and too much squared.
    had a membership at them, but not for more.
    TP seems much more orientated towards there customers, where RT dosent listen (as they dosen´t listen to users of Joomla, yes, they are some of the developers of Joomla)

    But, your review is very good, and takes us a lot around the different clubs.

    Thumbs up for that work.

    
    Erik Madsen
    December 17th, 2007

23. Honestly guys Yootheme seems to win the battle out there, acording to the design interface. First time i saw there demo site i thought i was in a wrong place, like flash or something. There are little more expensive but i think its worth it.

    Cheers

    
    koulis
    February 28th, 2008

24. Gavick’s templates may be great, but their support is lacking and they are vindictive. I bought a 4 month membership in July 2008, I only got a 3 weeks of access, they cut off my account when I complained that I wasn’t getting any help and they won’t issue a refund! NONE of my many requests for help via e-mail or the forum have EVER been answered. NONE! BEWARE They are theives and only answer what they want to answer. Their tabs module conflicts with their drop-down navigation menu. They have YET to answer this and many other issues posed by me and other posters.

    
    Valeri
    September 27th, 2008

25. You should pullout Gavick from your list. I just curious on their aftersales service, and I found this thread on their forum: h++p://www.gavick.com/forum.html?func=view&catid=1&id=10375&limit=30

    Now I have to find another good vendor to spend my $100. Gavick produce a lot of nice and fresh template. But if it’s not working with IE (I hate IE as you are, but 80% of my customer using it) than forget it. FYI + IMHO.

    
    Doei
    December 6th, 2008

26. I don’t know about Shape5. Yes they make some good looking templates but when it comes to support good luck getting anything decent.

    Also the templates have tons of module positions but the installers come with so little. You have to create all the modules yourself if you want to get anything decent.

    
    shay
    March 3rd, 2009

27. Bad, bad experience here with JoomlaJet. I have been using Joomla for over 3 years now therefore I know what I’m looking for in a template. Unfortunately I got sucked in by a couple of their templates looking ‘nice’, only to find that they either didnt work or were a big job to get setup and altered to work and look they way I wanted.

    I had to email three times requesting a refund, with their first reply three months later saying that they dont do refunds.

    Waste of time and money – there are much better FREE templates out there.

    
    joomlareviewer
    June 8th, 2009

28. Great Templates! It was such great inspiration, that I completely scrapped my original plan and started over again! I do believe the result will be a much better product.

    
    joomla templates
    August 12th, 2009

29. Rockettheme sucks. Couldnt unistall on of their module. Had nuke it in the database in 4 different places. Its like a minny microsoft.

    
    Sam
    September 21st, 2009

30. In my opinion the best joomla tempalte designer is gavick. Their templates are always pro and amazing. The support is ok, maybe is too slow.

    
    jenny11
    January 17th, 2010

31. actually shape5 theme also is good,i hope…

    
    von
    June 20th, 2011