Jungleland Template Released
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It's been
a while since we packaged a new template for Umbraco. So today
we've released a new W3C-compliant, CSS-based Umbraco template
based on an original HTML/CSS design from the good guys at StyleShout.com.
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.