September template

any update?

offical information from gavick:

About the September Template, we can already inform that it will be release 7 to 10 days after

so wait patient...

Yes, looking for the release as promised by Gavick!

Yeah, I am wondering too, does this promise this hold?

Thanks!
Tom

Any info on the template title ?

I expect to talk tomorrow with Robert Gavick and decisions will be made from him.

Thank you!!

Thanks for the update!

any update on september delivery? would love to see it. desperate for a new template! hehe

Seichinha wrote:

Hi

We expect to show the August template tomorrow, till end of the day and files on September 1th.

About the September Template, we can already inform that it will be release 7 to 10 days after. So, this means it is already a working project.

Cheers

We are now nearly at 15 days after the release of the August one... still no news regarding the September one

Hi

It's still september. I do not have the exact date of relise. Please be patient.

teitbite wrote:

Hi

It's still september. I do not have the exact date of relise. Please be patient.

I think the people are asking because there was the announcement that the template wil be released 7-10 days after Cherry Template.

As a reader of forum discussions on the issues of the September template and the light version of Gamebox, I find it annoying that the people who run Gavick make false statements about the delivery dates of templates.

When they fail to honour their own promises, they do not keep their clients updated and write short sarcastic replies to their customers. Imagine if you went to McDonald's for a burger and they kept you waiting for weeks without explanation.

While Gavick templates are great, the business is being let down by bad communication with customers. The "Gavick Pro Announcements" section of the forum has had no updates for months !

It seems to me that Gavick staff think that customers have to accept non delivery of core product promises.

The customers simply want Gavick to meet commitments that they announce, and if that is not possible issue frequent situation updates.

I purchased another year membership and my payment cleared today, can someone active my membership? I can ONLY see the latest threads and have had no answer to my email.

Greatly appreciate it!

Edit: This was taken care of right away, Thank You Gavick Team!

Look fellas, you know you have great templates, and you also have production and customer relation problems. This in turn creates friction between you and your customers like me. It's your business model that's creating all this dramma.

I have a MBA in computer science but I also have a business degree, so I'm going to give you guys (respectfully) some advice.

There is a company Called Burger King in the USA, they used to make the best hamburgers but they branched off into making chicken, tacos, breakfast, and the burgers suffered, they almost went out of business until they went back to selling just burgers.
Conclusion: Don't go too far from what works, or in your case.. sells. Your designers and coders are at their best when they are challenged, I've seen it and I've come to appreciate it. Cherry was a disaster, it could have been made by taking all the modules off any of your templates and changing the background, face it and lets move on.

Most of the frustration comes from people not knowing whats next. People lose their minds when they don't know WHEN or WHAT. If I knew WHAT was coming next I could make plans. Right now I've been waiting a week to see the new template. I don't know if it's better than Gamebox or not, I make websites for record labels. The template has to match the images from the photographers the labels hire. I can't do every template in black or grey, so I need have some idea of color scheme by mid month.

If I knew I could give them a general idea of the template to come, they could decide if they want something I already have or if they're willing to wait. But I wouldn't dare give them a date off of Gavick's promises and I mean the company not the person. What I DO know is the template will NEVER be out they day it supposed to be.

Solving the problems:

Gavick post about 3 images of prospective templates each at the beginning of the month, let the members vote on the template that they would like to see published, you'll never be committed to making the one we pick but at least you'll have a clear idea of what we want, combine that information with your logistics. Now I know it's hard for a artist to be told what to produce, I know you want to be free to produce what you want. Your going to have to balance that out with your customers demands and needs at some time.

Stop giving release dates, I know you guys drop them to shut us up but when you don't keep them it puts you in a bad light. I know it's funny to see us squirm but it feeds these forums with strife and anxiety. Instead of release dates give out a release IMAGE, that will shut everyone up. Make sure that image is dropped religiously on the 15th of every month, and nobody will care about the release date.

Now I know somebody is going to say I've broken the forum rules, But I have 4 web design companies, Gavick made me buy a subscription for each company so in all I have 5 accounts here, 4 paying and this one, had to follow the rules....right. At any rate ban me if you need to but I feel much better finally voicing my opinion.

PLEASE... Less Blog / News --- More Social / E-Commerce

I can't thank you enough for adding JomSocial to GameBox. More and more clients are going to be wanting JomSocial as it's incredibly effective in managing a community.

But there really needs to be more E-Commerce.

eShop STILL as I understand has yet to be updated as promised. And MyStore is so far the only template this year for E-Commerce and I don't believe there were any in 2009.

E-Commerce is very important, as many small businesses in my community wish to take their good online.

Of course, I can add VM (I've used it on Pulse), but it doesn't change the fact that it's not supported.

So PLEASE, no more blogs. E-Commerce and Social Sites are what people are asking me to build for them.


I've said it a hundred times before, I don't care about colors, and I usually don't care about themes. I heavily modify the CSS and the change out most of the photos. But Structure and Component Integration are VERY IMPORTANT.

We must try to please the majority of members. So... some like e-commerce, social and others business presentation, blog and so on.
But don't worry because we will release at least another e-commerce template this year. I'm sure that Robert agrees.

If there's no last change for this month, September will have a sport car theme that can be used for others type of websites.

Seichinha wrote:

We must try to please the majority of members. So... some like e-commerce, social and others business presentation, blog and so on.
But don't worry because we will release at least another e-commerce template this year. I'm sure that Robert agrees.

If there's no last change for this month, September will have a sport car theme that can be used for others type of websites.

I understand Paulo. And thank you for the news. If you guys could finish upgrading eShop it would be a huge help since I can re-work that one in many different ways.

No more news?

still nothing I really do not understand why you say "7-10 days after the August template" and after that you do not keep your promise.... 23 days after the August template => still nothing...

...Since you have promised the Semptember Template near 10/13, could you please update us about the release date?

Thanks in adv,

Hi

Sorry. I do not have an info either

Hi guys

Here's informations about the September template. As we said previously, we were expecting to release September template some days after CherryDesign template, but plans were changed and we are working on a different template.

We made this change because the 1th template that we thought to release still have some issues of functionality to solve, specially on header section. So, if needs more time and some new ideas, we decide to change to a different template.

The new template it's a sport news theme and we called "Sporter"

Like always, expect a premium joomla template from us.

Cheers

Thanks for the info.

Will support Jomsocial?

Originally will not.
It's a theme for sport news, but it might be possible to add in future.

Since I know this is going to be asked 50 times...

Are there screen shots of the design yet?

Do you have a tentative or idea of a possible release date?

Well, of course we have screenshots but from the original draw, that might be slightly different from the final result. Wait for 1 or 2 days and we will post here some.

About the release date, we expect to have it done in next 4 or 5 days.

Cheers

Seichinha wrote:

Well, of course we have screenshots but from the original draw, that might be slightly different from the final result. Wait for 1 or 2 days and we will post here some.

About the release date, we expect to have it done in next 4 or 5 days.

Cheers

Outstanding, you've covered all my curiosity. Take your time, no one will die waiting for the release!

Oh they will

i think its silly that on one hand gavick offers discounts to purchase Jomsocial - so people like me, make the switch, and then templates dont come with the jomsocial template built in - it should be standard for all your templates from now on.

we had that discussion earlier on the forum...

if gavick makes jomsocial to all templates, and jomsocial makes update (which they do atleast once a month) you will complain about gavick not updating the template fast enough... therefor jomsocial will not be a part of every templates.

gavick is doing everyone a favor to get you discount on a product like jomsocial... with a few changes you could take any jomsocial theme and copy it to the new template if you need jomsocial. i know many has done that.

Agree,
Gavick is not obligated to give us support for Jomsocial. If template come with Jomsocial we will be happy for this, otherwise you can install Jomsocial and then customize it.

Cheers

celone wrote:

Agree,
Gavick is not obligated to give us support for Jomsocial. If template come with Jomsocial we will be happy for this, otherwise you can install Jomsocial and then customize it.

Cheers

right!!

bhillsboyoz wrote:

i think its silly that on one hand gavick offers discounts to purchase Jomsocial - so people like me, make the switch, and then templates dont come with the jomsocial template built in - it should be standard for all your templates from now on.

So you'd rather them NOT give us a discount because they only offer JomSocial themes in some of their templates?

To finish this unnecessary discussion - we won't provide JomSocial support in all templates, because it needs a lot of work and in a lot of situations it's useless (JomSocial in the template like CherryDesign ? It is a joke). Some other template clubs offer support for JomSocial in all templates but quality of the JomSocial themes in these templates is intolerable for us. We favour to provide good quality JomSocial themes in the selected templates instead of provide low quality themes in all templates. For me - EOT

We are not obliged to offer Jomsocial, Kunena and other 3rd party themed templates on a monthly reoccurrence. There is a template provider that does this but the design detail is very poor.

I think members forget that Gavick concentrates on the design and quality of each template rather than churn out a predictable template every month.