I love these template tutorial videos. Thanks a lot for great work,
Lewis

This product has greatly simplified my life. The time spent to create a template has been cut in half and this extension for dreamweaver is extremely intuitive. It installs very easily and is well worth the money spent. Great job!

I am not going to pretend that someone who does not know how to use Dreamweaver is going to find this useful.

BUT... for those of us who have coded in HTML/CSS, and enjoy using Dreamweaver, this really is the mut's nuts.

I am not normally one to be so enthusiastic, but credit where credit is due.

It does exactly what it says on the tin, and on the way everything you ever wanted to know about joomla and were afraid to ask is revealed.

I really had to scrape the cents together to get this, and I am absolutely delighted.

The documentation is excellent, the videos are great and very friendly. I seriously recommend the manual, well written and you learn so much about how joomla works let alone this DW extention.

Frankly, Joomla should be paying this guy, what you learn here in an afternoon, you could spend a year working your way through the wiki joomla documentation to find out :-)

Bottom line, if you care about making your own original templates for joomla and your clients, and you use dreaweaver... go without food, drink and dr*gs until you can afford this extension. It is indespensible!

I have been using this product for past year, upgrading to the new version was an obvious choice. I know there are some free options out there; however, they do not come close to Joomla Template kit. The development time you will save in your first project will pay for this product.

In addition to a great product, the provided support, online tutorials are above expectation, in fact, Media 65 have raised the bar for other providers. My words fall short; so just visit their site and see their product videos yourself.

Media 65, congratulations on a job well done and Thank you!

Let me start with the bad stuff.
The download is nearly half a gigabite and it won't download with a download manager. Their server is slow too so getting the product after you pay for it may be quite frustrating.
The Manual is online only and not downloadable and again, their server can be slow. But the manual content is well organized and presented and seems to be updated regularly.
Now the good stuff.
If you need to design templates for Joomla and have no idea where to start then this is the place. 99.99% of the interminable download is a set of videos which literally pull apart the guts and theory of a Joomla template so that even before you start discovering the extension itself you are well armed with some pretty neat stuff about what you are going to be doing. Multiple taemplates per site and conditional statements to show positions. The videos cover both the extension and the Joomla options in the backend which is a real bonus.
When you do get to the video covering the use of the extension itself you are taken theough an intriguing 50+ minute voyage of discovery which builds a template from scratch and you are off and away.
You will need a pretty good basic grasp on CSS but without it you could cope because the sample template shipped inside the extension itself is very customizable.
On the support website is another great video which takes you set by step through a conversion of an existing HTML page to a Joomla template.
So with what Brian provides you should be in the template development business quite quickly but another bonus of this package is that it tells you where to start looking for the more advanced stuff relating to the deeper elements of Joomla.
Another bad thing is that your $100 will only buy you one year of updates and support. After that you need to buy again. That's a great pity and the policy should be changed!

This product not only allows fast and effective template creation, the included videos help you understand the inter workings of the entire process. Quite simply the best tool of template creation for Joomla I've ever used. Excellent support also.

I research and research and finally I feel very comfortable with Designing Templates for Joomla.

At first, after viewing the 2.1 Videos, I was a little disappointed, but after installing the software and watching the VideoSet 1 Videos for 3.0, I'm glad I made the choice of purchasing the extension. I am very satisfied with the extension and the manual and JSS Designer html reference file. Awesome Tool!!!

Having purchased an earlier version a couple of years ago - I thought I'd try version 3.

I paid and downloaded the file - unfortunately an earlier version had been left in my download profile.

Unfortunately, v3, in my opinion, is difficult to use with only two templates available to base new designs upon. These are built with a number of different CSS files - it is difficult to understand the CSS.

Consequently, it is very difficult make changes easily to these templates.

This product is feature rich and provides the quickest set of tools I have seen to create great templates. I do not design templates and have used many of the same ones you have used like RT, JA, etc.

I found this program and decided to give it a shot. The template make is, by far, the best utility I have ever bought for Joomla.

The product includes a very clean and easy to understand video seminar/teaching guide.

Support
The support is very responsive and understanding of someone diving into template making. He is fast, concerning, friendly and knowledgeable.

Product
Installs very ease. Buttons and template making are literally 5 buttons away. From there you are on your way to designing the module layout. It even comes with a fully functioning, complete, template.

Price
Well within reason for what you are getting. Should not be an issue. Once you see it and your PC you will thank the developer!

My hat is off to m65.net

In the IT profession there's a field called Rapid Application Development. Tools used for such are a/o Visual Basic/C etc.
Now we have something really cool that will help developing a Joomla template at almost the speed of thought - you still have to click a few buttons, right ;)
Hence, Rapid Template Development.
The kit does what it's supposed to do. Judging the kit on the sound quality of the tutorials and giving it a bad rating doesn't do any justice to the kit itself. The kit is superb!

Probably geared toward the patient, very patient. As mentioned in another review, the audio is often times choppy, rendering some remarks unintelligible. Who is at fault I do not know - maybe Mozilla, maybe Adobe, maybe Camtasia, maybe the author's equipment. Regardless of the audio shortcoming, and while the author obviously has good intentions, someone else (a professional) should conduct the tutorials.

The author often jumped from point to point so quickly I was still looking at the Dreamweaver screen and had to rewind the video to catch up - a script is desperately needed.

I spent a lot of time researching this extension, and finally bit the bullet and purchased it. It was a huge mistake! If you are already experienced at making Joomla templates, and you are looking for a tool to help you do it, then this may be a good fit for you.

But if you are like me, someone who has developed several websites with Joomla and feel comfortable with it, but are looking for a user friendly template creator, then stay away from this extension. Run away!

The "tutorial" video is so amateurish that I rebooted my system several times, thinking it was a problem on my end. The audio is absolutely horrible. Many times, the audio quits before the film segment does. The developer seemed to be teaching off the cuff, with no prepared script or idea of what he was going to talk about. Finally, every new feature and version that he promises is always "coming soon" but never seems to arrive.

I wish someone had been honest enough to include these things in their glowing reviews. It might have saved me $100. Oh - by the way - no refunds.

JTK rocks. I'm not a coder and I have struggled with
Joomla templates for way too long. Your videos are awesome. Since
watching them, I now have a good understanding (one that I couldn't
get from various other sites and books) of how Joomla works. I can't
thank you enough for making this product.

I design lots of Joomla sites and have been using the JTK for about a year. It's easy to use and makes my life much easier! Highly recommended.

It's made my Joomla template design a lot easier.
Brian the wizards kick but!

Thanks
Don

I recently had to modify a template's module positions and create new ones, and didn't have a clue on how to. This extension both taught me how and made it so easy to do what I needed. I'd looked at other similar extensions and none offered what this one does.

I have used many different dreamweaver templates in the past. Media65 has given me the opportunity to move those websites into the 'joomla' environment.

No longer must I tell clients that the 'joomla' sites are 'boxy' and boring. We can be as creative as we want.

The tutorial is excellent and really shows how joomla templates work. I am even now able to merge multiple templates together to make very cool websites.

thanks for a great product.

I thought Brian pronounced Joomla quite well, but I got a bit confused when he was talking about the "Grim Reaper". I slowly realised though, that he was referring to "Dream Weaver"
All in all, it was a very entertaining video - highly recommended...

Try it... then go out and buy it!

Great product! Moreover, Brian's work is greatly appreciated. I have found the kit to be invaluable in our Joomla learning process. Very thorough!

This baby developer is very happy. :)

neri

Easy to setup and get the ideas behind this nice tool IF! You are a true experience or commercial Dreamweaver user. Once done learning the methodologies, you will find yourself able to design a pixel-perfect custom CMS dynamic site.

In other hand the Dreamweaver's casual or a beginner user may find then self in a dead end. There is lots of technical procedures to be aware before going in to the core of Joomla and that include messing up with the template files and folder substructure, lots of extensions depend on it.