I had previously posted about starting a site to host templates and design tutorials, and I now have the site up and running:

eetemplates.rippleweb.org

It may not be prettiest site around, but it’s functional.  Please check it out and let me know what you think.

Also, please consider contributing any templates or design tutorials that you would like to share with the EE community. 

Thanks!

Excellent job and thanks for creating such a resource.

For your efforts, you get to be the first entry under “Templates > CSS & Design” in the revamped Knowledge-Blog. [grin]

Cool!  I hope it becomes a useful site for EE users.

I’m sure it will be useful. Its about time someone actually did something like this instead of us all just talking about it. Well done! I may contribute something I’m working on.

I noticed the first Template got listed this evening… congrats!  I’ve got a suggestion as far as the Template distribution and installation go, though:

Make use of the Template Library.

Seems to me that the easiest approach would be to make the Templates so you could just drop them in.  Save them with the .tpl extension and then package them so that you just drop them in a subdirectory of system/templates/.

Then create the Template Group and when you create a Template inside it, base it off the appropriate one in the ‘Template Library’.  (This brings up the fact that when you create a Template Group you should probably be able to select to have it pre-populated from any existing subdirectories/groupings in the Template Library.)

This approach (using grouped .tpl files and putting them in the Template Library) should allow you to easily have several pre-made “themes” ready to go and you just choose what you want when you create your Templates.

That is a great suggestion, Chris, thanks.  I had not thought about the Template Library.  I’ll update the submission page to link to that and ask contributors to consider packaging the templates that way.

It hadn’t occurred to me either. I’ll look and see what I’d need to do to adapt the Kubrick template I just finished to work in that manner.