Templates

[rubbadubbadoo]

The templates that come with Actinic Catalog 6 aren't that good imo, does anyone know where you can get hold of some 'free' templates?

Cheers
Alex

[pinbrook]

There isn't anyone who does free templates for Actinic.

you have 3 options

1 DIY
2 pay for a template theme written by an actinc developer - there are a few who have some off the shelf design at a reasonable price
3 pay a designer to produce the design you want

[rubbadubbadoo]

DIY it is! Time to get my cowboy hat and boots out of the closet :D

An example of my cowboy ways :p

www.rubbadubbadoo.co.uk (http://www.rubbadubbadoo.co.uk)

[pinbrook]

Good Luck!!

make sure you go to the Actinic download site and download, the developers guide and Advanced user guide - they will help you alot

[garyhay]

It is quite difficult to produce an Actinic Theme and make it generic enough to be sold on.

You will have to way up the time involved in learning to design a site and on top of that convert it for use within Actinic.

We are one of companies Jo refers to as having pre made themes. If you e-mail me off list (details in user profile) I can send you details.

[rubbadubbadoo]

How easy is it to use templates from V7 with Catalog 6? There is a template in V7 i like and think i could modify it to look as i want?

Cheers
Alex

[pinbrook]

You can take the design idea, and apply in to the v6 templates, you can't take the v7 templates to put into v6 as the background coding won't work

[garyhay]

Which template is it that you like?

[rubbadubbadoo]

hm...think it was called 'Smart'. I no longer have V7 installed so cant check :(

[garyhay]

If you e-mail me direct I am sure we can help you out further.

http://community.actinic.com/member.php?u=37

[Owen Drumm]

Why don't you just go somewhere like www.templatestore.com where you can get a decent design template for around $60. Worth a try methinks if you want to do it yourself

[garyhay]

If you see a template you like you can always have it converted to Actinic