Gantry - Our choice of Web Engine
Thursday, 01 July 2010 14:02
Written by Administrator
Maggs have chosen Gantry for their main rapid deployment of websites.
Gantry which was created by our friends over at rocketheme bring all the luxurys for creating rich graphical and text CMS (Content management Systems)
the main features Gantry provides:
- 960 Grid System (http://960.gs) for simple consistent layout. 12 and 16 column support
- Per-menu control over all Gantry functionality
- Ability to save/remove custom presets
- Built-in AJAX Support
- RTL language support
- iPhone and iPod Touch mobile autotheme support
- Built-in Gantry RokGZipper to compress and combine Gantry JS and CSS files
- Cleaner more understandable index.php. All the complicated bits are handled for you in the Gantry core.
- Flexibility to configure up to 6 modules in row position.
- 65 base module positions in the Gantry core. These can be easily extended to add more
- 36 possible combinations for the layout of the mainbody/sidebars alone!
- Flexibility to configure different grid-size layouts based on number of published modules. You are not forced to use the same grid layout for every page
- 12 built-in Gantry Features like Logo, font-sizer, to-top smooth slider. Easily create your own to add more functionality with little coding required.
- Ability to force module display and 'blank' module positions for advanced module placement ability.
- Stunning new Admin interface providing better usability and control.
- Unique Layout controls allow you to configure your layout without having to do math or ever create a 'broken' layout.
- Layout controls provide visual representation of your front-end layout for simple and intuitive customization.
- Gantry is XML driven, adding another row of completely flexible module positions is as simple as editing one XML file.
- New flexible parameter system allows loading preset theme attributes and modifying for a custom design. Also support session and cookie level overriding for development.
- All new table-less HTML overrides based on the excellent GNU/GPLv2 overrides from YOOtheme (http://www.yootheme.com)
- New standard typography and Joomla core elements styling
- New advanced caching system makes using Gantry really fast!
- All configuration state is stored in params.ini and cached for speed.
- Optimized codebase with speed, size, and reuse core tenants of the framework design
We would like to thank Rockettheme for making this system available