Expression Engine Templates

Natatorium ported to EE

2007-02-25T04:35:00Z

From the designer’s website:

Natatorium can be used as either a template for a site or a blog. It’s really flexible, with two levels of navigation. The template started off as a tutorial to skin the table (which you see on the site) and then just grew out-of-proportion from there.

It’s simple, flexible, and just plain nice to look at. It uses almost no images (the only one in the template is the header image) so it’s super-light (unless your header image is 2MB in size, that is ).

Didatic ported to EE

2007-01-12T16:15:00Z

Didatic is a clean looking template that adheres to web standards and was released by the designer under the Creative Commons License. Didatic is a three column layout with a header and footer in shades of gray. The first column used for the website content, the second column used for recent entries and the third column, labeled “sidenotes,” used to pull in information from other weblogs or trackbacks. The third column could easily be changed to pull in images from Expression Engine’s gallery, Flicker or another source. The header contains a links to some of the common Expression Engine functions—register, login, contact, search. The four-column footer is configured to display the categories, monthly archives for the past year, a third column for other links and a fourth column with some information about the theme. These areas can be re-configured to display different information based on individual needs.

From the designer’s website:

Didactic is a three-columned, gray-shaded template that’s accompanied with a “working” (read: somewhat) version of javascript that creates image captions on-the-fly.

The template really started off as an example for the javascript, which basically takes all images under the “captionate” class and provides captions (using the image titles/alt text). It also adds a subtle drop shadow to these images. Best of all, you loose nothing important if you have javascript turned off (or your browser doesn’t support javascript).

This theme was tested and appears to render correctly using IE7 and Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP. It was also tested on OS X and appears to render correctly using either Safari 2 or Firefox 2.

Dark Shine template ported to EE

2007-01-01T21:51:01Z

Dark Shine was originally designed for a paying client. When the client decided to go in a different direction, the designer released it as an open source web design. Dark Shine is a vibrant red/orange theme with two columns, a header and footer. The header has several blocks for navigational menus, plus a block for advertisements and a block for new members photos. This area could also be used to pull photos from Expression Engine’s gallery, Flickr or another gallery application. The main content area is split into two columns, one for content and one for another navigational menu. This template may be suitable for personal sites, or even corporate sites that want a bit of an edge.

This template renders correctly on a Mac using Firefox. It also renders well on Safari, though the header statistics are not displayed. It renders correctly on Windows XP Pro using Firefox and IE7.