I have been around Boonex and Dolphin for close to 2 years now and I waited impatiently for Dolphin 7 to be released. Now that it has been
released my concern now is the same design I've been looking at for 2 years...UGH!!
There are thousands and thousands of Dolphin sites out there and I for one DO NOT want my site looking like thousands of other sites in fact I don't want my site looking like any other sites. Clearly there is an immense need for new template designs for Dolphin.
I think if designers and/or developers started creating these and put them in the marketplace to sell you would make quite a chunk of change(if they are well designed).
I do see a lot of design being done where the Dolphin designs color is changed and maybe the background behind the blocks but the key thing that needs to be replaced is the flash banners at the top of the page.
What we need is a whole redesign that is compatible with Dolphin 7
When a design is created a possible way of selling it is similar to what templatemonster.com does is have a regular and an exclusive price.
Some folks will not be able to afford the exclusive price but there are others who want and can afford an exclusive template.
In the future it would be great if Boonex could set the back end up like Wordpress where we can just upload a template and have it instantly
installed, if that happens Dolphin will be truely amazing!
My company has plans for many community sites utilizing Dolphin and we are going to be looking for unique design templates...we are talking WOW factor here...
I prefer doing business within the Unity community because basicly you get Dolphin, your passionate about Dolphin.
So I will end on this note...GET DESIGNING PEOPLE!
http://www.templatemonster.com/swish-templates/19671.html
http://www.templatemonster.com/swish-templates/18136.html
http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/18406.html
http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/16848.html
http://www.templatemonster.com/swish-templates/16824.html
http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/14079.html
2. Do what the rest of us do, if you want a truly custom look that is NOTHING like the rest of the sites out there then see more
Dolphin has 2 features that a template like the ones you provided examples for would break.
One is the menu builders. The other is the page builders.
Most of the example templates you pointed out seem to have a different color header for each of the blocks. Now dolphin can do this, but switching block types cannot be done in just the template alone. The template will include the new block styles see more
Deano92964 Thanks for your reply!