How does Gantry make theming easier and more powerful?

Gantry is a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform theme.

Key Features

  • 960 Grid System
  • Stunning Administrator interface
  • iPhone and iPod Touch custom theme support
  • XML driven and with overrides for unprecedented levels of customization
  • Per-menu-item level control over any configuration parameter
  • Preset any combination of configuration parameters, and save custom presets
  • 65 base module positions. Easily add more!
  • 36 possible layout combinations for mainbody and sidebars
  • Up to 3 sidebars for a total of 4 column layouts
  • Many built-in features such as font-sizer, to-top smooth slider, IE6 warning message, etc.
  • Flexible grid layout system for unparalleled control over block sizes

Full Features List...

Gantry Overview

Gantry was born when the RocketTheme development team wanted to consolidate our extensive set of custom Joomla template functionality into a simple, easy to use framework. However, we wanted to ensure we didn’t lock ourselves into a rigid framework that would stifle the creativity and bleeding-edge design features that we had become known for. It had to be powerful enough to do everything our templates already handled, but allow us to easily extend and build-on these features with a minimum of effort and complexity.

We wanted to have a solid base we could build on top of when creating a new Joomla template. Anything that was common to all templates was a prime candidate to be put in the core of Gantry, and anything specific to the template design itself should be part of the template itself. Traditionally the Joomla layout options are limited, but Gantry was built to provide a new layer on top of this traditional module configuration to give an unprecedented level of control and flexibility.

Want to Know More?

Gantry is a powerful framework that RocketTheme uses as the basis for all of its new Joomla template designs, and we have made it available to you via the GPL license. You are free to use it in your template development projects. Please check out the Documentation for full details and information on how to implement Gantry in your own projects. We have put together extensive online documenation and video screencasts to show you how to get this done with the minimum of effort. Also RocketTheme club members can access our internal Gantry Forums for an even greater level of assistance and insight.

You might want to check out these Screencasts:

Gantry Installation

Part 1: Installation

Gantry installation is a simple process that follows the same process for other Joomla extensions. The installation bundle contains a unified installer with both the framework and the default template. More...

Gantry Features

Part 2: Features

The Gantry Framework comes bundled with some important core capabilities, or features. This short screencast provides an overview of those features and their capabilities. More...

Get to know Gantry

Intro Screencast

This introductory video will give you a taste of what Gantry can do. For more information please check out the Documentation.

Download Gantry

Download Gantry

Gantry Framework + Joomla Template
Latest Version: 3.0.9

Screenshots

Screenshot - Template Screenshot - Admin Screenshot - Presets Screenshot - Features Screenshot - Layouts Screenshot - Advanced

Talk About Gantry

Gantry was created by the folks at RocketTheme. Join us on IRC using the irc.freenode.org server and join the #gantry-framework channel to talk about using, implementing, and customizing the Gantry Framework.