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JoomlArt Dravity Review  Hot
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Written by Tony Lindskog   
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Article Index
JoomlArt Dravity Review  Hot
Screen Shots
Verdict
Editor's rating
7.6
out of 10
Editor's Rating
Overall rating
7.6
Creativity
9.0
Layouts
9.0
Color Variations
6.0
Module Positions
6.0
Module Extras
8.0
Template
Release Date: Monday, 03 March 2008
Design Studio: JoomlArt
Web Site: http://www.joomlart.com
Joomla Version: 1.0x and 1.5x
Instant Setup: Yes
Source Format: PSD
Color Variations: 4
Module Positions: 10

PROS: Glamourous (fashion) magazine style template with four color options (3 minor, 1 major). Added option to use  text instead of an image for your logo. Nice Content/menu/menu layout.

CONS: No head-banner option.


By releasing JA Dravity, JoomlArt continues the mind frame from JA Corona with it's black background and swirly graphics.

Initially when Dravity was released, and even on the spec-page about Dravity it still says, it was released with only 2 color options. A later updated release added 2 more colors, which brings the total of color options to 4, 3 minor (all black with different accent colors (red /default), cyan and pink) and a LIGHT version).

The light version has a white background which gives this template a whole new different look and more of a newspaper feel that could be used for anything from a news site about the world or computers or as a plain easy to read blog.

That update turned this template from a decent template which could only really be used for fashion magazines or teen-girl sites to something that could be used in a myriad of ways.

It also adds a nice option of using a text logo with slogan (see below) instead of just using an image as a logo.   

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Now you have no excuse to not change the logo when installing a template, either use the text logo option and keep using it or use it until you have time to create and update your logo.

JA Dravity also comes with 4 menu options: JA Split menu, JA Suckerfish menu, JA Moo menu and JA Dropline menu; and as expected it offers XHTML transitional, css validates true and it sports 508 accessibility and cross browser support.