Jungleland v1.0 is a really beautiful design template using earthy tones and a really attractive layout.  To make use of Jungleland for Runway ou'll need to have Umbraco 4 installed, with the Runway and Runway Top Navigation packages installed.  More instructions can be found on our homepage.

Jungleland v1.0 for Runway is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that you can use the template for free on your site, as long as your attribute the work to StyleShout.com and to Orcare Limited with links back to both sites.

This is the first template we've sliced up and packaged since seeing Doug Robar's presentation at CodeGarden '09 on Things he wished he knew when starting with Umbraco.  A great suggestion that Doug made is that images in CSS don't belong in the Media library, instead they should be referenced from a directory on your site.  This prevents site editors from breaking the CSS templates by deleting items from the Media Library.  But we've found it seriously reduces the effort involved in slicing and dicing design templates.  No longer do we need to upload all the images to the library then edit all the css to point to new unique URLs in the Media section.

So with that in mind, hopefully you'll see more templates from us soon.

Download the Jungleland v1.0 template from the Template Gallery.

The design templates are based on designs produced by styleshout.com, and have been packaged by Orcare to work with the new Runway feature in Umbraco version 4.  Runway is a bare bones website structure which can be used to build a best-practice Umbraco website.  The free templates from Orcare simply overlay the Runway components.

The new design templates can be previewed and downloaded for free on the freeumbracotemplates.co.uk website.

Niels and the team have undertaken open heart surgery on the templating engine in version 4.  Umbraco now uses ASP.Net Master Pages, rather than the template engine that was found in Umbraco 2 and 3. This has necesitated changes to our existing templates to be compatible.

The second major v4 feature is the new Runway Package.  Runway is a real barebones website package, which makes it easy to develop a best-practice Umbraco site.  There are also several Runway Packages which can be installed to extend the base Runway package.  We've made sure our templates work with the Runway Standard Top Navigation package, but expect to see us incorporate templates for some of the other Runway Packages.

We're not quite there with the version 4 compatible templates, but rest assured we'll post them here as soon as they're built, tested and ready.

Orcare have taken this template and adapted it for use on Umbraco -- The Friendly Content Management System.  The template is designed to site over the Document Types and Macros created by Warren Buckley for the Creative Website Template.

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