Metropolis is recently released a fresh responsive Joomla Template from RocketTheme Club for the month of November 2012. Metropolis Joomla Template is a unique design to display your content setup into different ways! This is elegantly created any kind of business services sites and it helps to expose whatever that you feel for the vision. It could be movie reviews, portfolio works, art works, photography, magazine blogging, blog updates or anything that you feel it will suite for your niche businesses! Metropolis is full and fully powered by Gantry Framework which comes with plenty of features to customize your website and make stand out from the crowd! It has some great features like compact grid system, interface to control, in-build options for integrate font-sizer, Google Analytics, Date, etc., 3 total sidebars, you can achieve highly complex main body layout scenarios, RTL/LTR layout support and different template configurations for one or several menu items/pages. Metropolis is a responsive layout design that is also support for all kind of smartphone devices (There are five responsive modes: small or large phone, tablet, desktop and large display.) like iPhone, iPad, Tablets, Windows Mobiles and Android OS devices! It is compatible with Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0 ready!
Metropolis Joomla Template content functionality is powered by RokSprocket extension, which is integrated styling & standard collection of features. The new dropdown menu is great addition to the Metropolis theme that gives you a tree view or select box menu configuration and it is supported for mobile devices as well. It is also featured with K2 (3rd Party extension) for powerful content extension with CCK-like features. It has some extra-ordinary menu options to display like Child Item, Menu Icon, Module Menu, Split Menu & No menu and 10 preset styles that you choose from the J! Administered option in backend framework. Metropolis is well structured for Search Engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing and it has good increased site speed that enabled by RokBooster plug-in.
The RokSprocket and RokGallery extensions are included in the demo to display images and sliders to work with a responsive layout that support mobile touch events, such as ‘swipe’. Moreover you will see tons of options to customize as you wish, the demo of homepage loaded with some fantastic review about latest movies with zigzag image banner display and K2 blog style layouts. Everything is possible to customize from Gantry core. The footer section has 3 unique areas that could be used for branding your company logo or sponsors, contact form with Google map integration and latest updates from the blog! Check out the additional features and demo screen shot below:
Metropolis Joomla Template Features:
- Joomla 2.5 / 3.0 Compatible
- Responsive Layout
- 10 Preset Styles
- 76 Module Positions
- 10 Styled and 25 Structural Module Suffixes
- RokSprocket Responsive Layout Integrated
- Styled Support for Responsive K2 Layout
- Powerful Gantry 4 Framework
- Custom Content Typography
- Dropdown & Splitmenu
- Load Transitions
- FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE8+ Compatible
- HTML5, CSS3, LESS CSS
Integrated Extensions on Metropolis Template:
- RokSprocket
- K2 (3rd Party) Styling Support
- RokAjaxSearch
- RokBooster
- RokPad
You will also see the following great tutorial for ‘How-to’:
- How to Edit the Logo
- How to Change Template Text
- How to Enable RokBox Login
- How to Activate Popup Module
- Template Guide and Information
- Metropolis Template FAQs
- Responsive Classes in Metropolis
- How to Replicate Demo Content
Some Video Tutorials for:
- How to Install Gantry
- Find Out Gantry Features
- Learn Gantry Layout
- Check Gantry Module Positions
- How to Adjust Module Width
- View Gantry Module Variations
- How to Force Module Positions
- How to Do Template Overrides