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[Matt Thomas]

Hi Janet,

I'm the creator of the Construct Template Development Framework, one of the
The Blank template's "competitors" (we're very friendly with one another).
The Blank template is very good, quite educational and a great starting
point. Alex has also added some neat tricks to it too. You do, though, need
to flush out the Blank template's index.php and CSS files. You can see an
example of their index.php at
https://github.com/Bloggerschmidt/Blank-Template/blob/master/index.php and
their template style sheet at
https://github.com/Bloggerschmidt/Blank-Template/blob/master/css/template.css

Construct is very similar in that it provides a foundation to build on.
However, I have also fully developed the index.php, complete with a number
of module positions (i.e.
https://github.com/construct-framework/construct5/blob/master/index.php),
and a core style sheet (i.e.
https://github.com/construct-framework/construct5/blob/master/css/screen.css).
Both of which can be overridden or customized (and I have a few tricks of
my own)

I think Construct provides more of what you are looking for in comparison
with "Sandbox" for WordPress. Both should be good solutions for custom
template development depending on where you want to start.

While I haven't read it, Alex is also a very smart guy, so I'd expect his
eBook to be very good too.

Hope that helps.

Best,

Matt Thomas
Founder betweenbrain <http://betweenbrain.com/>™
Lead Developer Construct Template Development
Framework<http://construct-framework.com/>
Phone: 203.632.9322
Twitter: @betweenbrain
Github: https://github.com/betweenbrain



On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Janet Sullivan <jmsullivan50 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'm new to Joomla as a CMS and was looking for a blank template, similar to
> the 'sandbox' theme in Wordpress.  Is this  "Blank" template
> http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/design-tools/18381
>
> roughly the Joomla equivalent of what Sandbox provides for a wordpress web
> developer?
> Would this be a good place to start since the website I will develop is a
> custom design?
>
> How useful  is the ebook that's available for purchase?  Is the
> translation pretty good so
> that the docs are easy to follow?
> Thanks!
> Janet
>
>
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