Radiance Theme
April 2012 YOOtheme club theme
Apr
02
Check out "Radiance" our brand new theme release for April 2012! It's vibrant and colorful design suits perfectly any kind of software, gaming or product website. To showcase your content this theme uses the new screen style of the Widgetkit slideshow with the eye-catching swipe effect. It also offers a fancy firefly background effect and other custom options such as 10 different colors, 3 module variations and 15 font styles. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
- Available for Joomla and WordPress
- 10 style variations available
- Fancy FireFly effect
- 3 module style combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
- 4 system styles matches perfectly with the module styles
- Flexible template and column widths
- All Warp framework features are available
Comments (133)
robiv8
http://www.yootheme.com/blog/2012/02/29/inspire-theme#comment-3485
Colors changed, one or two new effects and complete.
Nothing new, no wow effect, or what one knocks down. pity
greenparrot
joon2008
oesten.tylebrink
ela.media
I really need to think about my renewal as im maybe using 2-3 templates each new renewal.
elgun.karimov
Stand OUT.
flytreklame
ryan.jones
YOOtheme... what is going on?? It seems like the quality and uniqueness of YOOr templates is really dropping off. As a 3-year member holding a developer license, this has me fairly concerned.
I realize that not every template will be suited for everyone. That said, the last several months releases seem to be the same thing, just with very minor variations and different available template styles.
To be honest, over my last 3 years membership, I really only end up using 2-3 templates each year that are released.
juergen.kling
sascha
juergen.kling
ieqshop
We are living in different countries and different time zones. Maybe it's delay due to different working time. Or maybe your questions are too difficult or too confusing. Please try again. They're helpful.
bigjens
ieqshop
I have refreshed yootheme.com for more than 20 times, because I thought a new template will be released on 2012-04-01. But I didn't.
Today I see it, but it's not my style. I love the moving images and eye-catching effect. I hope it can be achieve in the Widgekit set some day.
Gas up. I'm waiting for a template which is better than Nano theme.
cassandra.leone
aksel
Dig in deep on the design for your next template please guys..always really excited to check out your new releases! :)
sven
first of all thanks for all your feedback. I would like to give you a short reply to some of the critics, mentioned here.
We work very hard to bring you a broad palette of new quality themes every month. And like all the other themes, we put a lot of effort into Radiance theme as well.
The theme offers you a lot of unique features, that maybe are not visible at first sight. Just let me mention some examples:
Radiance differs a lot from the latest themes by allowing you to publish your content directly on the colorful backgrounds. It allows you to create a modern and "boxless" layout. This possibility makes Radiance very outstanding.
Additionally you can also choose from different wrapper and module styles: blank, transparent and white. This allows you to create very different layouts and sites with one and the same theme and makes Radiance incredibly flexible.
Many elements are lovingly adjusted for each color style and each module/wrapper option!
Please do also check the "Features" site of every theme, there you will find an overview of many unique features.
Best Regards
Sven
bigjens
My customers are lawyers, estate agents, financial service providers. Each of them would probably kill me for a colourful background with a fancy firefly effect :-/ I used 'Revista' now for 3 different customer websites and if one of them finds out that i did that ......
Unfortunately the Joomla support for 1.5 ends this month, so I am probably not the only one who has to migrate a couple of pages and needs a template for that new 2.5 pages now. Business templates! In this case 'Radiance' does not help at all.
CU BigJ.
greg.van
sven
http://yootheme.com/themes/documentation/customizing/create-a-new-module-position
studiograficod2
sascha
studiograficod2
schmallegger
greg.grant
polanter
oliver.mayer
bolag
useless templates and i am a bit dissapointed.
actually more then a bit...
bigfrontdoor
This one is probably going to be suitable to a small subset of businesses and organisations but the likes of the "firefly effect" is just a bit silly in my opinion, it's really not going to add anything to a real website is it ?!
sascha
bigfrontdoor
Just can't imagine any website ever benefitting from having the effect switched on though, that is the point I am making !
kutt.niinepuu
bigfrontdoor
It's easily switched off and the template is decent aside from that in my opinion, just seemed to me to be an effect put in purely for the sake of it.
If you can use it on your client sites then great.
drjonz
doogledesign
1. Too many dark/gaming templates
2. Enough with the space templates
3. We need more diversity--templates that can be applied to less masculine sites, templates that can have usefulness for professional sites, templates that have some solid module variation differences (not just color/heading changes)
Not a fan of Radiance as it applies to typical web designers needs.
largeproductions
I'm struggling to find a use for the last few templates because they don't fit any themes of any of the sites I'm building and because of that I'm having to look elsewhere.
Let's have some business style templates that will fit a more general kind of commercial site, please :)
lucio.dattaro
ralharithi
The worse thing you can do to someone who did put an effort in a Job is to write some of the dumb comments written here.
If you do not like the template, do not use it, find another one and move on.
My message to YT Team is that good job, and it can be enhanced a little if you add a class for a background for the module name.
As for the CSS animations, I think if you can ass different options would help, maybe use some of the last YT of March.
Overall thank you YT for your usual good work.
ralharithi
2- add an option for colors of the background of the module Title.
ralharithi
Sorry greenparrot, you have demonstrated my point.
Have a nice day.
greenparrot
ralharithi
Freedom does not mean violates other's :)
You can say it positively delivering the same meaning, just try to make it constructive...
:)
Have a nice day.
joon2008
Radiance Theme is better, I think.
Yootheme is still the best :)
ralharithi
I think YT is doing a great Job, just needs to build options to personalize templates
oliver.mayer
centurypixel
roman.fedin
jeremy.corkin
-Mechanics
-Fitness Trainers
-Painters and decorators
-Builders
-Massage Therapists
etc etc
I don't build sites for NASA LOL
More templates focussing on small business services please :-)
Just my 2 cents.
joon2008
kpappas
;-)
nepol
It's fine to show off this really amazing skills you have for designing with pure code guys but really, we need to get more practical
officialmarks
officialmarks
officialmarks
george.anderson
greg.van
greg.van
If you build websites for people and expect a magic template to come out each month that you can slap a logo and text on and everything will be perfect then you’re in the wrong business. With a little work the Radiance Theme can work for almost any business you can imagine. If you want to use it for a business website turn off the background effects, change a few colors, and there you go. So maybe Yoo Theme needs to mix it up a little more and they will. We must all remember that Yoo Theme brought us Widget Kit, Zoo, and Warp Framework. I am confident that Yoo Theme will create some more amazing tools and templates for us all to enjoy.
kutt.niinepuu
The complainers tend to be "young" developers who have grown to "download and install" with their "generation". You have to do everything for them. So, YooTheme, "oldtimers" love you, because they see things like you do. For the youngsters, you could just configure more "presets" to suit wider needs and everyone would be happy.
kutt.niinepuu
I personally would like a "nano" preset for every upcoming theme, to get a blank slate alongside of the maxed out thing to get ideas from.
joel.shapcott
whats wrong with learning fireworks and a bit of css to make it original? I'm self taught and can do it, so if I can do it anyone can.
lassa
ipti
daniel.clements
The added bonus is that it appears most people hate it, so it won't be overused. Not sure about all the hating, though. This template can showcase a lot of things in dark or light styles.
The worst templates are the "flashy" design-heavy ones that are so obvious when different sites use the same template. The best templates are the ones that really on the content of the site, and are not so obvious when different sites use the same template.
That's the reason I switched to yooTheme, and the reason I am staying.
Keep up the excellent work!
kelly.mcclain
The main thing she needed and was sold on instantly was the ease of the widget kit gallery. The only thing missing was a simple template that complemented her logo and showcased her body of design work.
One hour of work later she's ready to start adding content!
First Draft: http://izzitmagic.com/
THANKS!
joon2008
greg.van
kelly.mcclain
raihan.jamil
mmediacorp
And don't be so hard on the guys. They're still doing a great job. It's certainly not Rocket Theme, where every theme for nearly a year has been bland, basic and genuinely boring. The Yoo crew are still kicking out nice stuff, and I for one, will be staying.
Look at Balance, Revista, Catalyst, Cloud, Streamline, Shelf, Downtown... all recent, and all nice themes (though I admit I don't care for Inspire).
So Radiance isn't for me, but it's still far from terrible. My only suggestion, and this is for a lot of themes, is to be able to vary the logo positioning from within the themes backend.
Overall, I still say 'Good job'!
maverpix
mmediacorp
I do totally agree about the framework. More variations and control would be nice as well. Like maybe a middle ground between Warp and Gantry. Gantry does have a lot of options, I'll give ;em that. But to me, it's really too much, and is intensive to learn. I like the simplicity of Yoo and Warp. 'Yoo' are still my guys!!
per.pegard
jakob.gede
But with the features and design possibilities i get new ideas how I can use this Template.
Thank you YOO Theme!!!
imagine333
punchdrunklove
I can see this one for an outstanding landing page!
Thank yoo!
andrea.stephenson.24
mmediacorp
But I do see your point. More professional, serious, 'mature' themes out of the box would be nice. I'm still sticking with 'Yoo'. If you compare with some others, Yoo is still top notch to me, with Gavick coming in second (though they lack the options that Yoothems do).
Again though, I do see your point :)
michael.anlauf
greg.van
greg.van
michael.anlauf
greg.van
greg.van
george.anderson
marni.derr
The only thing I would like to see.... Air and Vanilla moved to Warp6 :) Oh heck, move them all to Warp6.
Just want to say I love YooTheme! Love Zoo! Love the Warp6 Framework!
studiograficod2
I do the same job of you and you wrote exactly the main aspects...we choose yootheme because we love how they make templates and tools, and how we could customize them to meet our design and layouts needs! i think we don't have to aspect new cool designs every time.....but more warp features, responsive templates, smart search supports....a solid base to make custom product to our customers....please yootheme...be more courageous and turn on new ideas!
raihan.jamil
sean.goresht
Just a note though -- I believe the firefly thing was copied from another website (Firefly Design)? Can't recall, but the design most certainly isn't new...
marni.derr
frederic.cottart
I am very happy with this theme. As my clients are not NASA, I will have to make some changes but I think it will feet to their needs.
Thanks Yootheme !
domeniconi.marco
This template is just beautiful. Very intelligent design and really easy to customize in dark or light mode. Thanks!
beau.lukes
Thanks as always guys! You do wonderful work.
markprintergto
Templates are a fast quick starting point and not the finished article.
cassandra.leone
cassandra.leone
The ongoing criticism about no business sites seem totally off base to me.... MAYBE not all business templates moved to Warp 6 but between Revista, Vanilla, Pure, Cloud, Milk, Nano etc there seems no lack.
I wonder sometimes if we overlook the fact that we need to put in OUR chops to make the sites "business" vs "gamer". YOO offers us the grid and initial set up.. its up to use to make the changes to CSS for styling not just slap stuff in the boxes and call it good.
YOO makes that all so very much easier than any other club out there... but it remains our jobs to do the leg work!
YOO all keep up the good work!
greg.van
schmallegger
dr6sigma
The new theme and the Inspire theme ROCK! I recently finished a web using the Vanilla them and I am currently building a new theme using Inspire and I have a eCommerce site in the hopper that I will the new theme on which will make is an absolute AWESOME site!
The YOOtheme support team has been outstanding in answering ALL of my question... and boy do I post some dumb ones but they are patient and all ways provide the correct level of detail in their prompt responses.
Right now I have more projects then I can complete because of the great foundation and dynamics YOOtheme provides!
Thank you YOOtheme!
Richard
richard.stephenson
Having said that, more sites are probably paid for by 'corporate' than 'creative' money so it would be great to have a little more emphasis in this direction.
...maybe 2 templates per month - that should do it!
vertigo
raffaello.giannelli
The point is not if you like or not this template.
I think that the problem is the lack of business template, like most users already said.
For me Nano is the template actually is the best one, because sometimes less is more.
Nano should be perfect with a little more typography stiles.
I'm still waiting for this and I was disappointed too this month.
I also waited for the April's fools this year from yootheme! Remember last 1 April? That theme was AWESOME!!! XD
raihan.jamil
Please do not get disheartened at all from all the feedback above. You should know that so many people are writing because they care. We have come to love YOO for obvious reasons. In many aspects, you are like our Apple of Joomla. You have amazed us so many times, that anything but amazing feels frustrating.
If I may, I have 3 suggestions for YOO:
1. Bring back the old themes - 2008 onwards and clean them up for J 2.5. There are some awesome themes in there.
2. Perhaps create some resources (videos?) for assisting people in creating their own templates using Warp 6 (if that is an option). I look at sites made using Yoo but cannot recognize Yoo in there. I would like to learn.
3. PLEASE bring out some ecommerce templates for business that is fully functional. The beauty of ZOO with the shopping cart power of VM. I would pay extra for such an option from YOO. I know of so many others who feel that way. So, PLEASE.
Yoo be what you are. We will love you, and we will always try to renew our membership with Yoo.
LOVE YOO.
prffrost
joe.bastulli
joao.fonseca.98
We all love yootheme you but please just listen your clients.
More corporate style needed and responsive layout cant be delayed any more no matter how many work is involved. I have my renew dated to 12 days from today. Not a final decision yet but probably I will wait for your moves and eventually renew later.
robert.clinton
As for innovating, I would prefer that you focus most of that energy towards developing ZOOcommerce and other such highly useful and desired components.
joe.bastulli
sebt
The point that a number of themes are not usable for business sites without heavy customisation is a fair one. Radiance is a good example, and most users will end up turning off the fancy animations which though they might be "cool" are not appropriate for professional sites.
Personally I think that YT should approach theme design in a more client focused way. Use exemplar sites out there as a a basis for design if you're struggling for ideas. Warp itself is excellent and a fantastic basis upon which to build sites - on that I think we all agree - but many will question whether, after all the heavy customisation needed to a theme to make it usable for their project, they might not be better off starting with Nano.
Broadly speaking there are two approaches: a. make templates that will have a broad general appeal, b. make templates that are focussed towards specific needs. Templates like Shelf are good examples of (b), where Nano and Cloud are good examples of (a). In my view there should be a ratio of 2:1 specific:general.
Like many, as a designer and developer I am looking for templates that will allow me to fulfill clients' needs. So here's an example of what I'm talking about in the (b) category...
Say a client comes to me who is a Photography business. We need a template with flexible layouts, widgets and styles to cover the raft of stylistic needs for top-drawer photography sites. Call the template "Photography", and keep updating it periodically with new styles, layouts and widgets to keep that template top of the "photography site building" game. Make everything you do focused around the target market segment. Invite the community to get involved by suggesting exemplar sites and requesting features; for example in the area of Photography we'd like some more widgetkit gallery, lightbox and photo wall options, or perhaps a sliding thumbnail presenter.
I know that, here and there, YT do this. For example, Revista is News focused. But things could be much better if Revista was "Magazine/News" and had more flexible layouts, styles and customisation options for that purpose.
I'd also like some more effort put in to compatibility with different devices and browsers. None of your recent themes work properly with Opera 11 and there are quirks with other browsers as others have mentioned. I've reported a bug with the WK-lightbox on touch devices that has thus far been unanswered.
I'm not unhappy with YT generally but there is always room for improvement and I hope some of these comments are taken onboard.
S :)
greg.grant
pamolade
YooTheme - you´re doing a great job, just try something new :)
jeff.gurrier
This template has some promise, but you probably can't show it to customers. Most people cannot see beyond the demo site graphics and photos to imagine the possibilities.
If the demo site showed how this theme could have been used for a business situation, I doubt there would have been more than the usual kind of commentary.
Perhaps Yootheme wants to keep the demo site generic for this very reason. If that is the case, then I would recommend they rethink that strategy and use more "fake business" oriented graphics. Unless, of course, the theme is intended to be "fun' or "gaming' oriented.
baggeler
I was really disappointed when I saw the "spaceships theme" as I was percieving this the first day I saw it.
However I gave it a test run and applied it to my site and after beeing able to see behind this "alienating monkeys" I found this to match wonderful and selected it as the final theme to use...
As most people here are making a subscription not for private but yes for usually small business client projects, I highly recomend everybody at Yootheme to keep this in mind and show/sell/present the theme appropriately as it wil surely facilitate the emotional connection with your clients.
Having said that I want to thank Yoothemes as it really reduces my work a lot and I hope it goes on like this.
greg.van
steven.coling
cassandra.leone
LOL.. sorry couldn't resist, based on the previous posts. :)
steven.coling
schmallegger
greg.van
baggeler
This is what I call KISS!! And I envy all those of you having such graphic skills, I am stuck with the simplest stuff and am only dreaming about making a Title graphic like that or even adapt it just to fit into the template...
Congratulations!
george.anderson
Thanks
George
george.anderson
schmallegger
david.boggitt
schmallegger
garry.crick
A really nice interpretation of a theme, just goes to show that YooTheme give us brilliant tools, but its down to us to make the difference.
Thanks
schmallegger
garry.crick
We have been with YooTheme for a little while now and I have to say that YooTheme have been amazing at both support and releasing new themes each month that inspire web designers.
Our web design website is built using the MILK theme, however as you can tell its what we have made of the theme that makes the difference - web design in kent
Thanks YooTheme - keep 'em comming!
Garry
peter.daalmeer
I really like the templates from Yootheme, but i agree with all this complains. Really hope next times there are more business friendly template like Balance and Revista. Most making Business sites Hope you listen to what you're customers wants by making the next templates. You can't ignore so much complains!
garry.crick
Here's hoping for a business style theme similar to that of Balance
emilio.navas
george.anderson
simon.roberts
On balance I have to agree that perhaps I was initially a little in the camp of the "It's not very applicable in a general way", however I am now firmly in the "It's what you make of it" camp.
My only gripe with Yoo is the sketchy MSSQL support, the underlying cascade framework is good, "styles" an excellent approach to overide management.
It would be nice to be able to overide files that were not in the original "style" scope but I recognise the technical issues that may arise from that.
All in this is a sweet framework with a talented set of designers saying "Hey, look, you could do this"... but you don't have to.
I paid the top whack price for a single site and I still consider this a great bargain, I am relatively new to Joomla but an experienced software dev; I had almost completed my clients new site but was unhappy with the underlying spaghetti. (It never hurts to be honest, we all make mistakes) the warp framework has replaced this neatly.
The template, icons and theming is all gravy.
IF I could change one thing that yoo offered it would be an automatically generating menu component that works on MSSQL. That would be handy.
Thanks for all your hard work, at whatever price, I thought the monkey looked a little emotionally challenged if I'm honest but the alien was cute :)
Have a great day, perhaps this - hopefully - balanced review will be an end to the theme trolling: IF you are stuck for ideas on how to amend the templates just google around, I did and within a day I had a whole list of resources, tips and ideas, 3 days later I have a completed client site that is live, a happy client, no spaghetti and a head full of new ideas.
For the price of a sit-down meal. (but not spaghetti) Bargain.
oesten.tylebrink