However, you can use overrides and utilising built in Gantry functionality for certain areas in a RocketTheme template, such as:

• CSS Changes
• CSS File Additions
• Javascript File Additions
• Alternative Module Layouts
• Color Chooser Elements
• Change in Template Width

Keep upto date with the latest versions:

The best way to stay upto date, aside from visiting the site regulary is to subscribe to the RSS feeds on the RocketTheme website.

On the RocketTheme website in the footer area, you can find RSS feeds for all the theme clubs and the Rok Extensions section, so you can be notified of any revisions and new releases made on the RocketTheme website.

These are:

• Joomla Templates Feed
• WordPress Themes Feed
• Drupal Themes Feed
• Magento Templates Feed
• phpBB3 Styles Feed
• Extensions Feed
• Product Updates Feed
• Team Blog Feed

Then reselect the element, and select the style tab menu, and you can then click on the active, or hover state of the element.

By the end of 2010, there were approximately 5.3 BILLION mobile subscribers, which is roughly 77% of the Worldwide Population. If you do not have a mobile version of your website, you are potentially missing out on a huge audience.

So, with so many users accessing websites via their mobiles, the first thing you should consider is which Content Management System is best for you.

As with building a website, in the traditional sense, there are both free and paid for versions of content management systems. However, there is an important difference...! With Mobile CMS, you must try to make sure the site shows correctly on almost any mobile device.

Some of the top FREE CMS systems for mobile are Joomla! and CellAdmin. As with the web version, Joomla is an easy to use, open-source CMS, with plenty of plugins and extensions to add the features you think are the most valuable for the performance and interaction of your site. CellAdmin is also easy to use, but has additional features not found in many of the free CMS versions. Interaction on your website is just as important whether using mobile or PC, and with CellAdmin, you have supporting features such as Ringtones, wallpapers and even Games!

If your budget allows, you can invest in a CMS which offers features not available when using a free CMS. Some of the top paid for versions include Wapple and Mobify.me. Wapple is a great CMS as it also combines reporting tools for performance optimisation, which is a great asset to anyone looking to understand user behaviour. Mobify.me is a great CMS system for E-commerce websites, it allows you to manage the content and design easily and with great flexability to ensure products can be brought online, via the mobile, with ease.

WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for those wishing to create a blog. However, standard websites can also be developed with a little know-how. WordPress is designed to be user friendly with simple installation instructions that will please even the most novices of user. This is similar also with Joomla. You can modify the system without actually touching a line of code, it has been created with ease of use in mind.

Drupal is more often than not, named the “Developer’s CMS.” With flexible code and more advanced features for a complex website, any expert developer will enjoy the convenience of modifying code without any issues. Beginners however, will find the terminology and system more complex and will need the assistance of a good how-to-guide or from their increasingly strong developer community.

Regarding modifications, WordPress uses a WYSIWYG editor; this is simple for both beginners and seasoned developers. If you are looking to code in specifics, then Drupal is the CMS for you. Joomla modifications are indeed simpler then Drupal however; the code can be inflexible – causing some problems for some novice developers.

Regarding standard functionality, Joomla seems to come up trumps, with a wide variety of themes and their extensive functionality. What Drupal lacks in terms of design elements, it more than makes up for with advanced features for more complex websites. WordPress would need plentiful add plugins to be on par with Joomla.

All of the three CMS platforms have strong and energized communities. The communities are dedicated to developing additional features, plugins and fixes. Although it appears that WordPress has a notably smaller community, each community hold developers who will assist you with any customization queries you may have.

In short, if you are a beginner looking to create a blog or a relatively simple site, with little content, WordPress is the site for you.

As a seasoned developer, we recommend Drupal. However, Joomla seems to be the”one size its all” platform.

As a forewarning, instances have shown that certain WordPress software upgrades and plugin upgrades can do more harm than good, compromising the look and functionality of your site. We recommend that you check for bugs and read reviews online before making any upgrades.

Drupal vs Joomla vs WordPress Comparison Chart

WordPress has been licensed under the ‘General Public Licence’; this is what WordPress consider their ‘Bill of Rights’. The freedom of this software allows you to run WordPress for ANY purpose, study the program functionality and make any changes as you wish, even allowing you to redistribute as standard or with any modifications you might have made.

The philosophy for WordPress is straightforward - keep it simple! They have strived to ensure the download process is simple, the set up process is simple and they have provided detailed explanations where they are needed.

The Interface is simple and easy to understand allowing you to create a blog or standard website quickly! It even comes with basic SEO functionality (You can download additional plugins for more complex SEO tools)

• Page titles, Heading tags are used however, as standard, Meta tags are not used
• The URLs are dynamic and can be meaningless and not useful to search engines.

There is however, a permalinks utility within the admin panel so you could change that URL within minutes.

That said, WordPress is Google friendly, created with code that is web-standard.

WordPress has a reasonable sizes community, working to develop plugins and additions to enhance the basic functionality.

Part One: Joomla!

Part Two: Drupal

It is built, improved and supported by a strong community of people. However you will need to undertake a steep learning curve to understand the application and get your head around the complex terminology as Drupal is known as the ‘developers CMS’, not really for a novice.
You can use Drupal to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications, but again, to achieve something unique you will need to use a range of customisable tools. With the lack of themes, you will also struggle here!

Outside of the generous array features, there is a wealth of free modules and plugins, which is supported with well documented and intelligently designed code. Drupal has even been optimised for the web as a social-medium – Great news for those building website, and encouraging feedback and interaction!

Simply, Drupal take social mediums to the next level; including forums, blogs & membership systems within an integrated, yet modular system which allows for communication, publication and E-Commerce functionality.

Installation is very simple and comes with relevant documents which will explain anything you might be unsure about.

Concerning your SEO functionality, Drupal is one of the best CMS in terms of standard functionality. With one click of the button, you will correctly use heading tags, meta data and
Drupal uses clean URLS –All basic SEO requirements for most Search Engines.

See Part One - Joomla!

You can adapt the front-end aesthetics simply by changing colours and adding a logo. However, beyond that, Joomla has a complex structure which may require the assistance of experienced web developers – Even then, some web developers may need additional training to understand the layout templates.

Alongside the basic features provided by Joomla, they have an animated large community who develop additional plugins for any additional features for your website. There are many free versions available online, however, for something more complex, you may need to pay a small fee.

Joomla can assist you in building a wide variety of websites, such as, Corporate websites & portals, intranets and extranets, online publications, E-commerce websites and Community driven websites. Joomla is great for creating community driven websites, where membership areas, newsrooms, forums and comments come as standard features on the platform.

The security features available for your site, are impressive, the design of the platform means that you no longer need to make all folders and files writable.

One of the obvious strengths is in the complexity of the platform, with deep level navigation & structure, and the use of categories. However, this complexity does not bode well from a Search Engines point of view.

In the past, Joomla has has a table based structure which was caused problems with Google. That said, in the later version of Joomla, the structure is based on DIV code. DIV does allow for the same design as a table based structure, but is more easily scanned by Google bots.

In the professional arena, over the last few years, it has been debated that blogging can be fundamental to some young businesses, entrepreneurs & freelancers, but of course, this is a generalised statement and blogs will not work for everyone in every environment.

Professionally, blogging can assist you in increasing your online profile, aid in your interaction with your audience. Using SEO rich content can aid in your search engine placements, they can also assist with your marketing and sales efforts.

A regularly updated website can give users a very good reason to continue visiting your website and returning users are the epitome of successful websites, but you will also need new users to continue to grow your online presence. As it happens, if you are interesting to your users they are more likely to talk to their friends and colleagues about it – Word of mouth as an acquisition technique
is extremely powerful and holds great place in the online arena. Nothing builds trust like having a friend recommend it to you!

There are also SEO benefits to having a blog both personally and professionally. Each blog article can combine the keywords most relevant to your business or topic and can assist in growing your search engine ranking (inc. Google, Bing, Yahoo Search and MSN) rankings. Alongside this, search engines love blogs and websites that are shown to be thinking about the user experience first, so if your blog contains links to other sites, this will only show search engines that you are here for the user, not necessarily for profit!

Blogging personally can be a great way to make friends, network with industry individuals or to find other users and bloggers with similar interests and hobbies. The likely hood of you going on holiday to Japan and meeting 10 good friends that hold the same interest in cooking may be quite slim, but with blogging you can reach out to these people and learn whilst you’re at it.

Blogging can be successful for you if you consider the following when writing your articles;

• Discuss topics your audience will want to read and hold an interest for.
• Keep it simple - Make sure you use audience friendly words, don’t over complicate it with Acronyms and Industry specific terms.
• Keep your content unique and keyword rich – 10 keywords per article should do it (Try not to spam your article with hundreds of keywords)

The RokGallery extension is the one-stop-shop for online galleries, and will adapt and grow, becoming increasingly more flexible and customisable for the user.

RokGallery is built upon a tag-based architecture giving you the ability to have multiple tag-based galleries. The RokGallery extension has also been developed with a ‘slice editor’ enabling you to create, edit and crop images, without the need for external editing software a full service suite.

This extension is a revolution to the web environment, which has been traditionally reserved for platform-native applications.

Some of the more evident features include;

• Multi file image upload mechanism that incorporates HTML5 drag and drop upload
• functionality (also compatible with Flash)
• Multiple image ‘slices’ per image with individual zoom/crop sizes
• Custom tag-based architecture
• Ajax-powered for speed optimization
• CSS3 animation effects for that desktop application feel
• Sophisticated slice editor for creating custom views of a particular image file
• Override-able architecture to allow for custom layouts including custom HTML, CSS, JS, etc.

Alongside this, the front end has become more sociable, including view counters, ability to ‘Love’ images, transitional effects for slideshow modules and sorting options – the ability to increase interaction between you and your audience can only do wonders for your website performance!

RokGallery has also been developed with continued improvement in mind and here we list the potential features for the future releases;

• Supporting EXIF data that is defined in the original image file
• Integrated Joomla module positions within the front-end views
• Commenting capability of images (either via 3rd party comments or built-in)
• Custom fields for images such as License and Usage details
• ACL support

RokGallery is only available to subscribing members of the RocketTheme Joomla Club, which for a relatively small cost, provides you with a cutting edge and professionaly designed template for your Joomla website, and a community platform which is a wealth of information and resources at your disposal.

Joomla is an open source content management system (CMS) and development platform enabling you to build strong performing websites and powerful online applications. This award winning software allows you to make and update web pages quickly, with ease.

Simply, Joomla is a collection of a platform and multiple extensions, each capable of performing specific tasks. Some are provided to you when you download the Joomla software and others you have to download as an add-on.

There are many frameworks available for Joomla. Gantry and Warp are among the principle frameworks, but there are others available, which will be discussed later.

Gantry

Gantry is an all-inclusive framework; a set of building blocks enabling the rapid development of design into a flexible and powerful web platform.

The Gantry framework is a consolidation of an extensive set of custom Joomla template functionalities into a simple, easy to use framework. Keeping in line with the creativity and cutting-edge design features already available, Gantry developers built this framework to be powerful enough to do everything previous templates already handled, and allowing easily, to extend and build-on these features with minimum of effort and complexity.

Gantry was built to provide a new layer on top of this traditional module configuration to give an unparalleled level of control and flexibility.

For a more comprehensive guide to Gantry and what it can do for you, please refer to http://www.gantry-framework.org/

Warp

Warp6 is a fast and powerful framework. It lets you create sophisticated templates with ease, even for the most comprehensive of websites. It provides all the elaborate functionalities that make templates easy to edit, nice to look at and speedy, in all browsers.

The Warp framework is mainly CSS/HTML and provides a collection of functions using PHP and JavaScript. It has been created, in essence, to make the job of web developers and designers easier, providing a set of tools which can help with the repetitive segments of projects, giving them more time to focus on the remaining tasks of each web development project. Warp is easy-to-use, SEO friendly and cross browser compatible.

For a more comprehensive look at the features of Warp, please refer to their website Yootheme.com

Other framework templates include (this is by no means all of the Frameworks available):

Rumi

Using Rumi frameworks you can create a beautiful and timeless design, the framework gives you shortcut options and powerful features with minimal effort and flexibility.

T3

The T3 frameworks is a third generation framework, supporting iPhone and other hand held devices. The framework provides the ability to create custom theme profiles, overrides and edit layouts.

Morph

Morph frameworks are designed to ‘morph’ shapes to accommodate multiple varieties of design layout, is has been designed with ease and speed in mind.