Mambo 4.5.3 Template Contest

[Mambohut]

Mambo 4.5.3 is soon to be released and now is the best time to organize a new template contest to introduce a new template to the new version of Mambo.

We spoke with Andrew Eddie, the director of Mambo development team and he agreed to include the winner template into Mambo 4.5.3. However the template must be approved by the dev team and it has to be a high quality template that meet the standards

The contest starts today and will continue for 2 weeks – deadline is Sunday - May 8, 2005 - 11:59 P.M EST – The template must be a fully functional GPL template in ZIP format, All submissions must be received by the above deadline, we will not accept any submission after the deadline.

Prizes:

in addition to the priceless prize of including the template into Mambo 4.5.3 thanks to Andrew for his support we also have prizes that are generously provided by a number of well known Mambo Addicts, here’s the list:

1. Integration with Mambo 4.5.3 mamboserver.com priceless
2. Mosets Tree - Directory Component mosets.com $99
3. Phil-A-Form phil-taylor.com $57
4. Mambo Media (MOSMedia) ag-solutions.net $60
5. $50 Gift Coupon buyhttp.com $50
6. WysiwygPro wysiwygpro.com $47.0
7. Dynamic Flash menu mambosolutions.com $15

Rules:

1. High quality templates only
2. The template has to be released under GNU/GPL.
3. All images are not copyright and are free to be used by the general public.
4. All artwork must be unique and the author’s own.
5. The template must make use of all the features and flexibility of Mambo
6. The template must be new and never been released before.
7. Template must be optimized for the default installation of Mambo 4.5.2 with all modules published.
8. Template must work with (IE - Windows) and (Firefox - Windows/Mac/Linux) at a bare minimum

** Send your fully functional template (ZIP format) to contest@mambohut.com

[august]

Are there any differences from 4.5.2 and 4.5.3 templates that one should be aware of?

Requirement numer 5 says "The template must make use of all the features and flexibility of Mambo". It is then rather crucial to know if there are differenced as mentioned.

[keliix06]

I am not aware of any differences that templates would be able to take advantage of. The big things for the upcoming version are set to be a fully language aware admin side and the implementation of ADODB, along with bug fixes.

Anything that fulfills this requirement with 4.5.2 if fine.

[Mambohut]

Good question, i don't have a definite answer for you right now but i am not aware of any changes in the templates engine according to the mini-roadmap published here

But i will double check with the dev team and get back to you.

As for # 5 in the rules section, it mean that you need to make use of features like modules/menu class suffix, parameters, columns auto-hide and things like that, in other words, bring the best out of mambo in your template.

[august]

Thanks for quick reply!

As far as I know, there are no new thing s in the template engine, but one never knows.

E.g. the user3 topmenu released in 4.5.1 (i believe it was this version) due to the implentation of mymenu, and its CSS classes, is an example of stuff that one need to be aware of.

[rhuk]

Originally Posted by august

Are there any differences from 4.5.2 and 4.5.3 templates that one should be aware of?

Requirement numer 5 says "The template must make use of all the features and flexibility of Mambo". It is then rather crucial to know if there are differenced as mentioned.

There's a couple of minor things..

There's a "td.columnpad" class that shows up for colunmns N+1 in multi column blog layout. What this means is that you can put a padding-left:15px or whatever to pad between the mutliple columns. Check out mamboserver.com to see this in action (this is patched version of 4.5.2).

Also, there is the mosLoadModules("position",-3); option. this creates a:

<div class="module">
   <div>
      <div>
         <div>
            <h3>module title</h3>
            module body
         </div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

structure. This allows you to do stretchable rounded corners.. as in mamboserver.com templates. (this was actually in 4.5.2.1 also).

Cheers,

Andy
Mambo Core Developer
http://www.mambodev.com

[Mambohut]

Thanks Andy for the clarification!

So basically no hard core changes and templates designed to run under Mambo 4.5.2.1 environment should work fine under Mambo 4.5.3

We also added another rule to the list (Rules # 8 in red) as a reminder for designers to test the template using different browsers/OSs, This will also make it qualified for the first prize.

[august]

Originally Posted by rhuk

There's a "td.columnpad" class that shows up for colunmns N+1 in multi column blog layout. What this means is that you can put a padding-left:15px or whatever to pad between the mutliple columns. Check out mamboserver.com to see this in action (this is patched version of 4.5.2).

Does this mean something like this?

PHP Code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Content in left collumn</td>
    <td>Separator columnpad</td>
    <td>Content in right column</td>
  <tr>
</table> 


By the way, where did you come by this rhuk?

[keliix06]

rhuk is Andy Miller of the Core Development Team, he has an insider's view

[august]

Should have noticed his signature..