{"id":12,"date":"2007-01-19T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-01-19T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T20:08:06","slug":"templating-in-joomla-and-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Templating in Joomla and WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" id=\"image13\" alt=\"Vindaloo background\" src=\"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/vindaloo-background.thumbnail.png\" \/>I haven&#8217;t been writing in a while. It&#8217;s not because I don&#8217;t love it, I&#8217;ve been ramping up on a couple of projects and quite frankly that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be doing in about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things I&#8217;ve been using the Gimp to generate a new template for Vindaloo.com. I need to give credit where it&#8217;s due here. The person to talk to about this is <a href=\"http:\/\/runlevel7.org\">Al Gordon<\/a>. Vindaloo will be moving to Joomla soon. I&#8217;m writing a white paper on spam prevention and a few other things. I want to have a common theme for both this site and my Joomla site so I need to learn templating for both Joomla and WordPress. For Joomla the best thing seems to be PhotoShop and Dreamweaver. for the Open Source Developer who is on a budget. You can trade more time for less money and use the Gimp and Nvu. Nvu has a Mambo\/Joomla Template Generator which is okay. If you are using FreeBSD and nvu make sure to get the latest copy of the port. I submitted a patch a month or so ago to enable Cascades, nvu&#8217;s CSS editor which is okay.  Software:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvu.com%3envu\/\">Nvu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/templatebuilder.open4g.com\">Open4G mambo\/Joomla Template Builder for nvu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tutorials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbangiraffe.com\/2005\/04\/12\/themeguide1\/\">WordPress Template   building tutorial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been writing in a while. It&#8217;s not because I don&#8217;t love it, I&#8217;ve been ramping up on a couple of projects and quite frankly that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be doing in about 10 minutes. Among other things I&#8217;ve been using the Gimp to generate a new template for Vindaloo.com. I need to give credit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Templating in Joomla and WordPress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}