OK, I started

[saikaz]

What's up everyone, thanks for all the messages about being an affiliate. I'm done with all that now, but I'm not done with my site. I'd like to get some pre-rolling-out-the-red-carpet reviews of it from ya'll. I'm going to officially open it up for business this Friday (i.e. get all the Joomla links out and home I don't mess up the SQL database again...), but before that, I'd like to know if there's anything you'd change on the page.
I'm sticking to the green cause' the logo's going to work nicely with it (if the designer ever gets the revised logo back to me). Besides get the logo up and getting the placeholder links out, what would you do? Thanks for the checkup!

[jharri26]

Decent start. I would modify the template a little bit so its not so much the standard one with Joomla. Also I would recommend not using the built in weblinks component. I created my sites using Joomla (xhttp:www.route66poker.net, and xhttp://www.casino-game-review.com) The second one I am using the same template, not quite done with it. Let me know if you have any questions on Joomla maybe I can help.

[losercore]

Looks good. I have used Mambo/Joomla a lot in the past and love it.

The thing about standard templates is not as bad as it seems. We, as affiliates and webmasters, see a lot of websites and analyze them even more. Therefore we are always seeing these templates and can spot a standard template from a mile away. For the average user just looking for a poker site, I'm not sure it's the same way. In some cases yes if you are using totally default everything they will know. With most people thinking they need to change the standard template so much, the standard template becomes a rarity.

Just a few thoughts...

[gder03]

doe joomla templates come w/ html and css codes? I plan on starting a site, so i have downloaded some templates. however when i unzip the files, i dont see any coding taht i can edit.

i agree w/ everyone; that looks like stereotype joomla site.

[losercore]

It depends on the template. Most have a CSS usualy called template_css.css or you can just edit the Index file directly. Most templates are not that hard to change around.

[gder03]

ah yes, I see now. thanks.