Kudos to Gavick for this template design

This is very elegantly simple in its design. Congratulations!

I want to use it as the Intro Page of a non-profit website, "Ecosystems Research and Management Center". Has anyone used it for an actual site already? I would be interested to get some ideas from actual sites already done. Or, if there are some volunteers who would be interested to share their talents. [I am not that good in the design part itself.]

I need to launch it soon because one of the government agencies in cohort with the large firms and international conglomerates are competing and racing to build a huge dam in the most populated area of my home country, the Philippines. There are about 30 million people densely packed in a very small adjacent regions, not much larger than Los Angeles County.

They plan to flood more than 28,000 hectares (more than 69,000 acres) that is home to some of the native people of the country. They do not have much political clout compared to the large corporations and conglomerates that just want to amass more areas to earn profit.

The danger here is that there are known "earthquake-prone" fault lines in the area (the Philippines is part of what is called a "ring of fire"), so a huge dame breaking could literally drown millions of people along its path.

There was already such incident a few years ago; but the dam is not as large and in an isolated area. Still more than 700 people died.

Even without the above happening, Metro Manila and the adjacent regions are low lands, so the adjacent regions are already visited by floods every year. The trouble with water reservoir and hydro-electric dams is that the water level is kept very high all the time. So, when there are typhoons or torrential rains, the dam releases massive volumes of water during the height of the typhoon aggravating the flash-flooding further. The economic impact of these flooding is not fully scored in or glossed over by the corporations that wanted to build the dam solely for profit.

There are a number of groups, NGOs and the Catholic Church involved in the campaign but they they do not have a single site for their information campaign that would unite their efforts.

The proposed "Ecosystems Research and Management Center" would provide such site not only for the above issue but other ecosystems related issues that have grave impact to a country of more than 100 million in an area not much larger than California -- about a third of that population is concentrated in a very small area in Metro Manila and the adjacent regions.

Cornelio

Hallo,
about you idea I have few thoughts:
1) Start from collecting photos, people people's opinions, documents etc.
2) I think RockWall or Publisher template will be better .... but all depends what information you will have & want to present.
3) Use Green color style - green means ecology & natural environment

Hallo,
about you idea I have few thoughts:
1) Start from collecting photos, people people's opinions, documents etc.
2) I think RockWall or Publisher template will be better .... but all depends what information you will have & want to present.
3) Use Green color style - green means ecology & natural environment

Thanks Pawel F,

Have you seen any site using this aside from an e-commerce?

The Rockwall does look interesting and I will look further into it. I chose the StoreBox, because without the VirtueMart, it creates a very simple one page, Intro Page. The bulk of the content would be in separate websites linked to the Intro Page through the Main Menu. Some would be educational, like Taxonomy and Classification, possibly a forum site in the future.

I chose the StoreBox, partly because of the slideshow that is clickable that could be linked to articles in other sites or even outside resources. I hope the format is as simple as the SIGPRO or those made by other template makers. All you need to do is place the images in a folder. It is easy therefore to refresh the slideshow with most recent or feature topics. The old Gavick slideshow a few years back took forever to prepare. I hope the one used here is much simpler.

I actually have a lot of photos and videos (YouTube), as well as many articles already in the News or World News templates (in Joomla 1.x oe 2.x). Most of my photos are those related to Boston and my travels in Europe -- some of the are ecosystems related. However, I have an account with Flickr and I have been bookmarking relevant images about global warming, coral bleaching, endangered species in our country, etc.

YouTube is a rich source opinions in video format, most of the ones relevant to the Dam I stated in the first post are very amateur but they are authentic expressions of the various voices. There are feature modules in the News Template

The Philippines has about 7,100 islands so there are many beautiful beaches and marine ecosystems; some are very exclusive and isolated -- about US$1,999 for the charter flight and US$1,000 and up for the private casitas. There are many that are more affordable to both local and foreign travelers. However, many of our natural resources are threatened by the rapid population growth, as well as exploitation by local and multinational conglomerates that are in there mostly to earn profit. There are many abandoned gold and mineral mines with toxic waste ponds left behind after it was no longer economical to extract the residual minerals.

I just waited for the Joomla 3.x before consolidating the contents from old websites.

Cornelio

I can suggest you to use also new Phoca Gallery, because 2 days ago Phoca Gallery 4.0.0 Stable was Released only for Joomla 3.x: http://www.phoca.cz/news/702-phoca-gall ... e-released

p.s.
StoreBox is also great but it have top menu over sildeshow (you can see it on homa page) where can be problem to read/find it when you use very colorful photos of trees, landscapes etc. So you have first "prepare" them using photoshop or any other tool.
But of course you can use other Sildeshow style.

p.s.
StoreBox is also great but it have top menu over sildeshow (you can see it on homa page) where can be problem to read/find it when you use very colorful photos of trees, landscapes etc. So you have first "prepare" them using photoshop or any other tool.
But of course you can use other Sildeshow style.

Hi Pawel F.

I am not sure why you are trying your best to persuade me not to use it. I have looked at all the templates and I chose this particular template. I see potential in it as a simple Intro page -- without the VirtueMart. I may even remove the background image, not sure yet.

The only feature images in the Intro page would be the large photos in slideshow format. They will be chained regularly.As noted in my other posts, there will be other info-intensive sites for the bulk of the contents. I use the News (Dec 2012 template) for the information rich contents that is then linked through the Main Menu of the Into Page. And that will be a revised StoreBox, not any other template among those I have seen.

I understand the problem that you mentioned above. That was why I asked if someone has used the website as a company or business site.

I guess my challenge to you or others is how would you solve the problem that you stated. In general, it could be solved by placing the Main Menu and logo in modules above the slideshow. Some who really know what they are doing may float the Logo and Main Menu. Or use a slightly darkened background for the Main Menu and Logo.

I have seen the above ideas done. I just do not know how to do it myself. Thus, this post.

Cornelio


N.B.

I use the SIGPRO commercial version to display multiple images in a page -- which makes it very versatile to create infinite photo galleries within a website.. I find ut very smile to use. Just place the images in a directory. A single line defines how the images are displayed, sized, captions., etc. You can even make ut difficult for visitors to copy the images, if that is the intent.

I have to buy the SIGPRO but it is worth the price.