Hi Janet, I'm the creator of the Construct Template Development Framework, one of the The Blank template's "competitors" (we're very friendly with one another). The Blank template is very good, quite educational and a great starting point. Alex has also added some neat tricks to it too. You do, though, need to flush out the Blank template's index.php and CSS files. You can see an example of their index.php at https://github.com/Bloggerschmidt/Blank-Template/blob/master/index.php and their template style sheet at https://github.com/Bloggerschmidt/Blank-Template/blob/master/css/template.css
Construct is very similar in that it provides a foundation to build on. However, I have also fully developed the index.php, complete with a number of module positions (i.e. https://github.com/construct-framework/construct5/blob/master/index.php), and a core style sheet (i.e. https://github.com/construct-framework/construct5/blob/master/css/screen.css). Both of which can be overridden or customized (and I have a few tricks of my own) I think Construct provides more of what you are looking for in comparison with "Sandbox" for WordPress. Both should be good solutions for custom template development depending on where you want to start. While I haven't read it, Alex is also a very smart guy, so I'd expect his eBook to be very good too. Hope that helps. Best, Matt Thomas Founder betweenbrain <http://betweenbrain.com/>™ Lead Developer Construct Template Development Framework<http://construct-framework.com/> Phone: 203.632.9322 Twitter: @betweenbrain Github: https://github.com/betweenbrain On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Janet Sullivan <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm new to Joomla as a CMS and was looking for a blank template, similar to > the 'sandbox' theme in Wordpress. Is this "Blank" template > http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/design-tools/18381 > > roughly the Joomla equivalent of what Sandbox provides for a wordpress web > developer? > Would this be a good place to start since the website I will develop is a > custom design? > > How useful is the ebook that's available for purchase? Is the > translation pretty good so > that the docs are easy to follow? > Thanks! > Janet > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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