40 Hand-Picked Themes For Joomla
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Joomla is a CMS (Content Management System) that lets you create websites, blogs, web portals and online applications with a minimal amount of coding. It has a lot in common with WordPress.
We haven’t covered Joomla in any way previously on this blog, so we’re going to start by giving you a taste of the sites that can be made with Joomla. The following 40 themes are all free to use and show you the starting point you could have for your next site if you use Joomla with it.
If you’d like to see more Joomla coverage in the future, just let us know. Or of course, we can stick to good ol’ WordPress!
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What do you think of the themes? Any great ones, or will WordPress be your steadfast favorite for the foreseeable future?
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Tehseen
Tehseen likes to write about design and technology tools that can make things easier. Check out his blog about useful internet tools at Ijaar.com. He also writes for a number of other tech blogs including Techie-Buzz and Make Tech Easier.
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These Joomla themes are pretty impressive !
Glad you like them too Roseli :)
Great sites, but…
I’m just starting on the road with WordPress, trying to learn another CMS would be too time consuming for me.
Unless you tell me that Joomla will knock spots off WordPress as a CMS, and it can be learnt in a few hours, but I hope that you won’t say that.
For a blog or CMS website, it’s WordPress for me.
I can understand that Keith. It’s definitely best to get your head right around one CMS first before confusing it with another!
And to be honest, I can’t see myself saying Joomla beats WordPress by much any time soon…
Three pieces of good news to celebrate…
1 You aren’t going to tell me that Joomla is much better than WordPress.
2 I now have a comment on my newbie blog from Pro Blog Design (thanks Michael and please visit again when I have installed a theme).
3 The white areas of your post titles are now clickable.
I can go to bed a happy man.
Haha, Keith, I’m going to be checking back to your blog for more Sharpe references!! :D
And lol, it seems that everyone is glad to be rid of my old post titles! I guess they really were a nuisance for people!
Oh please no Joomla!! This CMS just sucks…
drop this thing and go with wordpress please!!!
best,
C.
lol – Don’t worry Charly, I’m still “with” WordPress, I promise! :D
Don’t forget our free Joomla Templates.
Polar Bear, Black Bear and Transparent Bliss are all very popular.
Cheers
Big Bear
At least for now, wordpress is the future for bloggers. Joomla, put quite bluntly, stinks. Please stick to your excellent content on wordpress and drop any other CMS.
All who are with me say ‘Aye!’
Aye!
Doesn’t look like Joomla has gone down particularly well. I think you’ll be getting your wish; pure WP! :D
None of these themes ‘spoke’ to me. I started out using Mambo, then Joomla and moved UP to WordPress.
Another vote for WordPress? Can’t say I disagree with any of you. Thanks for letting us know that after trying both, you’d definitely go with WP Rachelle! :)
It all depends what you want to do.
I do a lot of work with both Joomla and WordPress – I love WP for its ease of use. Joomla is a little harder to get to grips with initially – but you can go a long way with Joomla if you want to. One of its strengths is user management.
And both CMS’s have their audience, look at Google Trends.
Joomla powers the top 8 American university websites – Harvard, Yale, etc. Joomla also powers Linux.com with 180,000+ unique visitors per day. One of the reasons Linux choose Joomla was for the social networking capabilities Joomla has when combined with various extensions.
But I’m the first to admit WordPress ROCKS for blogging – we use WP for our blog on our website specializing in Joomla templates, we use Joomla for the rest of the site…
We’re also building an ecommerce website for a client at the moment using Magento. Which also rocks for shopping stuff.
So I belive the best CMS is not each individuals peronal favorite – but rather the CMS that is best for the task at hand.
I like the droppler effect, it looks great!
lol – I think it has a pretty cool name at least :D
You have a spelling mistake in this page ( Afterrburner ).
BTW – Nice post.
No offense but this was a pretty disappointing post. Not that my opinion matters all that much but I’ll give it anyway. Some of the themes listed are not really good at all. I guess WordPress has more good quality free themes than Joomla, but how about not target a high number like “40” and remove the shabby looking ones? ;)
Well wordpress warriors, it seems we have won the battle! ;-)
I like it… “WordPress Warriors” but maybe we’ve only won a battle, not the war!
Well, as JoomalBear pointed out – it is two different things. If you’re only up to easy-and-go blogging, stick to WordPress, though you could use Joomla as well. Since it’s capable of so much more and focussing on community stuff, with a load of (free up to paid) extensions of all kinds, it is more likely to suit bigger needs than WordPress does – as of yet. I have worked with both systems for quite a while now and love both for different reasons, so adding up content here with Joomla-related matters would at least have me as a fan ;).
excellent hand picked templates.
Nice templates but are they all Joomla 1.5? I’m a little worried about what will happen when Joomla 1.6 rolls off, so some of my sites with Joomla 1.0 templates will remain this way until Joomla 1.6 is out….!
Joomla24 (dot) com has some pretty nice templates but are running out of Joomla 1.5…when is Joomla 1.6 coming out?
Joomla?
Let me take a look, I have a Joomla site and I want to make it look nicer, thanks.
Hi Mobile Tracker,
If you need a hand for template customization feel free to PM me, I can turn absolutely anything into Joomla ;)
The Somnia template is amazing, thanks for the post :D
I recently developed website in joomla http://sakshipackagingindustry.com/ . I developed this using default template in joomla
Please review it.
cool themes , thanks
Dumidesign
http://www.dumidesign.com
Good job. You saved me from hours of searching for these kind of templates
Toronto Web Developers
he following 40 themes are all free to use and show you the starting point you coul
cool themes , thanks
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“manuscript” is very nice – I’ve worked building a few “old paper” websites and I’ve done everything from buying and editing a stock image to fit my needs, to buying a copy of the paper and physically scanning it into my computer
Very useful designs. Thanks.
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Still like this stuff. Very useful
Nice selection of templates. Thanks for sharing.
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Great selection. Thanks for having
Nice designs
Very informative. Thanks for sharing
Nice info . thanks for sharing
Good job. You saved me from hours of searching for these kind of templates
excellent hand picked templates.
Thanks for sharing, i was searching theme like “World War Craft”.
Template “Afterburner” is one of the best free template.
It’s very flexible.
I ‘ve used on 2 different projects.