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Clarion is a subtle, conservatively styled design, that is primed for business use, whilst still providing a platform for flexibility, in terms of structure, layout and style choice. It is the perfect base for individualization, shown by its user friendly interface.

Custom styling is used for content images and RokGallery grid images to complement the conservative design. A bolded white border with a box shadow is added for a subtle effect. RokGallery also benefits from a cornered overlay on hover.

There are two versions of Clarion, the original, 960px fixed version, with a separate mobile layout for iPhone and Android; and a responsive version, that adapts automatically such as for desktop, mobile and tablet. It also has 960 and 1200px fixed layout options.

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Halcyon is elegant, reflecting a conservative design direction, perfect for deployment on a professional or commercial site, or as an excellent platform for extensive, individual customization. It has integrated styling for Ecwid, a third party eCommerce solution.

SpliceMenu is a great menu option that combines the dynamic, animation-based features of Fusion, with the dropline and sidemenu approach of SplitMenu. The dropline appears on hover, and all further children appear in the sidebar, or another configurable location. (more…)

Visage is a contemporary blending of stunning, refined visuals, combined with a polished undertone, providing a unique look that is flexible and intuitive to use. Each preset has its own unique module suffixes, such as clouds or paint splatters.

There are two menu options, Triple Level SplitMenu and Fusion. The latter is a CSS based dropdown menu. Triple Level Splitmenu splits the first level, second level and all further menu items, allowing for a navigation bar, a dropline and a sidemenu, as configurable.

Visage has a selection of custom overrides but most notable for the featured content component, where it has a left aligned, and tab-styled date to provide distinct visuals as compared to the standard Joomla layout. The title supports a custom, calligraphic-styled font.

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Enigma is a design-centric template without compromising on elegance. The subtle textures and patterns are perfect complementary elements. A beautiful selection of 8 presets, each individually detailed produce a refined design.

Enigma provides an easy to use and visually elegant solution to integrate social, a pillar of modern sites. Configure Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and RSS options. The icons appear in a the header area in a textured graphic, as configurable.

Enigma has a selection of custom overrides but most notable for the featured content component, where it has a left aligned, and tab-styled date to provide distinct visuals as compared to the standard Joomla layout. The title supports a custom, elegantly styled font.

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Momentum combines an intricate graphical design with the intuitive dynamics of RokGallery or RokStories, providing for a full scale background image, rotatable and configurable. The logo and menu are perfectly blended, stylistically.

The module class suffixes complement the developed and refined overall design appearance, by adding focus to the module blocks, such as the ribbon style with its double pointed bottom graphic. Sharp triangular visual elements are available for module titles.

Fusion Menu is an advanced, CSS menu system, which offers a wide range of per menu options, such as: inline subtext, icons, modules, module positions, custom column widths and number, as well as control over how menu items are distributed between columns.

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Radiance is a beautifully designed theme, based around Color Chooser, that allows you to choose a series of background, text and link colors, as well as overlays for each section of the design. Also, you can choose from the design, button or link, for the Read More.

The Color Chooser in Radiance benefits from a Background Picker, an administrative interface that allows for the selection of an image. You can choose between an image loaded from the MediaManager or through RokGallery, searchable by either file or gallery.

The richness of Radiance is composited in part from its prolific use of custom fonts for varying title elements, ranging from content articles to module titles and elements in the various RokSprocket layouts, such as Tabs; which adds character and uniqueness.

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Camber is a beautifully designed theme, based around the Color Chooser system, that allows you to choose background, accent, text and link colors, as well as overlay type for each section of the design. Also, choose from a wide variety of patterns for the background.

There are two menu options, Triple Level SplitMenu and Fusion. The latter is a CSS based dropdown menu. Triple Level Splitmenu splits the first level, second level and all further menu items, allowing for for a navigation bar, a dropline and a sidemenu, as configurable.

A uniquely styled feature is the horizontal login in the header area. The styling is automatically applied, without the need for a module suffix, which transforms the vertical login module into a compact, singular lined login, perfect for displaying in space-conscious zones.

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Reflex is an elegant, professional and highly flexible template. It debuts RokGallery, an advanced new multiple tagging gallery solution, with integrated styling and accompanying documentation, instructing you on using its simple, but powerful feature set.

Fusion is an advanced, CSS menu system, which offers a wide range of per menu options, such as: inline subtext, icons, modules, module positions, custom column widths and number, as well as control over how menu items are distributed between columns.

Reflex has a selection of custom overrides but most notable for the featured content component, where it has a left aligned, and side column-styled date and article info icons, such as print, to provide distinct visuals as compared to the standard Joomla layout.

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Modulus features ease of stylistic choice at its core, with the Color Chooser —an intuitive interface inside the template manager— that facilitates the swift customization of the template style, with an auto contrasting function for content text. There are twelve presets.

The template has the most comprehensive collection of integrated styling for RocketTheme Extensions, inclusive of: RokTabs, RokStories, RokComments, RokNewsFlash, RokFeatureTable, RokMiniEvents, RokAjaxSearch, RokNewsPager and RokWeather.

The login module is an important element of any site. Nevertheless, it can be a bulky presence on a page, especially if you are conscious of screen space. Modulus uses a popup login powered by RokBox, which is activated by a single button in the menu bar, to alleviate this.

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Nebulae, combines visual sophistication with functionality and power. The template offers several stunning presets, with distinct color schemes complementing their detailed background counterparts, as amplified by the mainbodys high transparency.

Scrolling Positions is a Gantry feature, which, when activated, modifies the behaviour of stacked modules. Instead of appearing vertically, the other modules become accessible via a button, e.g. More. The Content Top and Bottom position have this feature.

Fusion is an advanced, CSS menu system, which offers a wide range of per menu options, such as: inline subtext, icons, modules, module positions, custom column widths and number, as well as control over how menu items are distributed between columns.

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Entropy is a truly artistic piece, segregating its layout into distinctly designed panes, that are independently styled and configurable. The separated nature of Entropy allows for a visually enticing appearance, as well as catering for a more conservative look.

The richness of Entropy is composited in part from its prolific use of custom fonts for varying title elements, ranging from content articles to module titles and textual elements in the various extensions, such as the headers for each pane, providing uniqueness.

The template is outfitted with Smooth Scroll, which adds a smooth animation effect to page anchors. The effect activates when the top button is clicked, smoothly scrolling to the top of the page. It also works for sectional scrolling, as demoed in the 1st level menu items.

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Mercado is the epitome of elegant eCommerce integration, sporting three shopping solutions; in addition to its refined visuals, style and structure. It features a whole range of controls over its layout and design elements, allowing for easy use and swift modification.

The Sidepanel is forced on every page, and has a grid distribution of 3, leaving 9 to the Mainbody. Therefore, the Gantry layout controls only allow you to edit the Mainbody/Sidebar distribution, and not the Sidepanel distribution. You can switch the left/right position.

The template has integrated styling for a selection of different eCommerce extensions: Ecwid, a 3rd party and platform independent shopping solution that is wrapped into Joomla by RokEcwid; and redSHOP, integrated Joomla ecommerce extensions.

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