Building Joomla Templates with Dreamweaver

For those of you who want to build Joomla templates with Dreamweaver, there are several very cool tools available that automates much of the task of creating custom Joomla templates.

Joomla Template Kit

This is the original Joomla template design kit by Media 65. It consists of a set of Dreamweaver tools and menus that help take the pain out of the Joomla code. Here's what's included in the Joomla Template Kit:

• Joomla template design system and education
• Power full Joomla template extension for Adobe Dreamweaver®
• One hour video
• Templates which you may resell to your clients
• How to's, tutorials, code snippets, video and more.

The Joomla Template Kit is available at Media 65.

Joomla Template Kit 3.0 Beta

This is the updated version of the original Joomla Template Kit and is to be used with Joomla version 1.5. It's a free download if you have an active subscription to the original Joomla Template Kit. Again, available at Media 65.

Joomla 1.5 Templatebuilder for Dreamweaver

This Dreamweaver extension installs a menu bar for inserting the common code snippets needed in your Joomla templates. It's created and maintained by Daniel Duvald and can be downloaded from Joomla.org.

NewJoomlaBar

This extension for Dreamweaver allows you thanks to an interface simple to generate the various portions of codes php to be placed in your templates in order to post the modules of positioning, the body of page, heading HTML and other functions useful to Joomla.

More info at Joomla.org.

Dreamweaver Snippet Collection: Template Basics

Snippets are handy little pieces of code that can be entered into your document to save time and to have more consistency with code. The first Snippet Collection is all the code you need to make a basic Joomla! template. It includes 3 folders of snippets: Basics, Dynamic Objects and Module Positions.

More info at Joomla.org.