UK Charity website

[cantthinkofanickname]

I'm a volunteer for a UK charity local branch. There is a main site http://www.ageconcern.org and I have offered to redesign the local website (not that one!). Want to use a CMS and have installed Joomla! on my local systems (all amateur stuff as well as me). Looks good but need a template which is going to be compliant AND accessible. Some thing that will produce a site along the layout of the mother site above. Budget fairly non existant I'm afraid.

I do not want to design the template myself as it'll be enough to grope with Joomla! Seen some good ones for 1.5 so tempted to start up this version with the idea that if I keep it fairly simple and develope the site on when 1.5 firms up. Has anyone had any bad crashes with 1.5 yet?

Anyway, stop rambling. Suggestions for a good accessible template, no tables, compliant welcome better if it's 1.0.12 and 1.5 suitable. Any other thoughts or advice welcomed. Graphically challenged right now but willing to get to grips with javascript.

PS do tempaltes allow javascript libraries?

Thanks.

[pvh123]

Hi,
If you pick up the latest build of Joomla 1.5, there is a template called " Beez" This template is absolutely table free.

It is made for 1.5 and not for 1.0.xx , mind.

[cantthinkofanickname]

I've looked at Beez, unfortunately if I do cntrl+ twice in FFox the text busts out of the containers. So it would appear to be unsuitable! Also, it does not seem to have a skip link.

Does Beez allow colours to be changed out?

Feedback would be welcome.

[pvh123]

If you go to http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... html  you find a post raised by Angie Radtke who is the co-developer of the Beez template and very much into the same as you are looking for.
Send het a PM and make contact about your porblem and/or wishes.

Good Luck

pieter

[cantthinkofanickname]

I had a quick look at that and my feeling is that Beez is too uncertain for me, and too much risk of a problem I cannot solve considering my own inexperience at this stage of my learning cycle on Joomla!

Thanks for your input.