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Does anyone know where I can buy professionally designed, unbranded, commercial templates for Expression Engine?  I’m specifically looking for ones that do not link back to Expression Engine or the designer’s site.

I know many commercial websites have these sort of links, but I’ve just never liked them…

You can use EE to power any template you find on the internet - no need to look for EE specific ones.

Even Professional Joomla Templates?

Sure.

Anything that renders to HTML could be re-worked to run off EE. In the case of templates designed to run off other CMS I’d save off a rendered HTML version and use that as my starting point.

Hi 3mil3,

As Michael states just about any template that you can find on the web can be used in conjunction with EE. The only parts that won’t work are if the template has been made for a specific CMS and there is any CMS specific code sprinkled in with the template then that isn’t going to work but you can 100% definitely take the CSS styling and the images and get all of that working exceptionally easily from with EE.

All you need to do then is to place in the EE code specifics to spit out the information in the places you need and you are away!!

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

Oops you beat me to it Michael. I had the page open for a while before posting! 😊

Mark

Mark and Michael are both correct. It’s a bit harder to work with WordPress templates due to the code that comes with it, but if you view the *rendered* html code, you can work with that instead.

I don’t think it’s all that hard to work with WordPress templates, at all.  90% of the time you can simply replace WP’s php (which is normally named the same as the function it is trying to perform: i.e.  the_category, the_post, the_author, etc.) with the corresponding EE tags and you’re set.  Of course, you have to tweak things here and there, but it really isn’t that difficult at all. 

As for Joomla/Mambo themes, those you’d definitely have to view the rendered code and pick them apart from there due to the nature of how components display themselves.  It takes much more work, but definitely doable if you have the time and patience…

Just my 2 cents, which is about all it’s worth anyway.  :lol:

Wow, thanks for the overwhelming resonse!  I’m impressed.

I totally understand what all of you are saying, but that is exactly the problem.  I don’t want to have to rework a template from the rendered HTML.  No, it’s not that I’m a lazy bugger.  It’s just that there are some serious time constraints, because I need to have a website up and running by 1 January 2008.

I was just hoping I could pay for a template and be done with it, slightly customising it where need be 😉

The time you’ve spend on this topic is the time you needed to rework a template, so it’s not that much of work

Now you’re telling me!  😛