Joomla templates are basically the shell of your site. They are
comprised of a series of files that determine the look and feel of a
site once your content and modules have been put into place. A template
determines things like fonts, colors, menu styles, navigation controls,
basic layout design, and certain images such as the header and
background (in some cases). A template is not an entire website in and
of itself at all. It is more accurately described as a base on which
your site's appearance and layout are formed.
Joomla Template development offer you the ability to completely separate a site's
content from its design. This enables you to quickly switch between
templates with only a small amount of necessary changes in the backend
versus having to completely rebuild the site from the ground up. A CMS,
like Joomla, gives you this ability.
While some templates offer a great degree of control over layout to
users, others can be significantly more rigid. Joomla Template development built on a
framework that offers a great deal of user customization options, like
Gantry, can extend on the built-in backend options Joomla offers in a
way that empowers the user to rearrange and reconfigure a site's layout
without having to modify the template's code directly.
You can also modify an existing template to appear slightly different
depending on which page you are accessing. For example, many sites are
designed with a different layout for the home page than a single article
page. You might not want some features to appear in specific areas of
your site. By duplicating the template style and assigning the adjusted layout to specific pages, you can do this fairly easily.
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