Populus Template

The exciting new Populus template features a module driven design with loads of module positions, making it one of the most flexible templates we have ever offered. Harness the power and flexibility of Populus to create the ultimate community portal site.

Populus also features our popular integrated tabbed module system, providing you with a powerful way to display your content. Also making its return is the stylish RokSlideShow module, as well as many more features you’ve come to expect from RocketTheme templates including: RokMooMenu, an incredible 22 module positions with subtle module variations, RokZoom integration, and so much more…

Overview

An overview of the key features of this template are as follows:

• 8 Preset Styles
• Ability to flip sidebar from right to left
• Fireboard forum integration
• Community Builder Integration
• GroupJive Integration
• Incredible new RokSlide based tabbed module system
• 6 Hilite module variations for each color style
• 22 fully collapsible module positions for the most flexible layout options possible
• 3 built-in menu options - The exclusive RokMooMenu menu system, Suckerfish, SplitMenu, as well as a module position to use your own custom menu module (Module)
• RokZoom Integration - custom slimbox variant built from the ground-up with cool zoom effect and a brand new look
• Built-in IE6 PNG fix
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS Valid
• Fully compatible IE6, IE7, Safari 2, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9, OmniWeb, Shira, Netscape.
• Source Adobe Fireworks PNGs included

Color and Style variations:

Populus Populus includes 8 beautifully rich preset style options for you to use on your site along with subtle hilites for your modules. The warm, soft colour styles will please your members and enourage new visitors to join in the fun.

The 8 preset styles included with the Populus release are shown below:

Demo

Please check out Populus on our demo server

The New RokSlide Powered Tabbed Modules

Harnessing the power and functionality of the popular RokSlide module, Populus offers the ability to present your modules in sliding tabs. Publish multiple modules into to a single tab module position as well as customize the titles that appear in each tab.

Organize large amounts of information in easy to navigate tabbed panes and reduce the clutter and space needed to display your content. By default, User 10-14 module positions appear in the bottom tabbed module pane. You can also add more module positions if needed.

The Exclusive RokMooMenu

Our highly popular exclusive menu is called RokMooMenu. This menu has been developed from scratch using the latest and greatest MooTools JavaScript framework. The RokMooMenu is a highly advanced and fully customizable menu system is accessible and degrades to a standard SuckerFish menu if JavaScript is not enabled or supported. Some of the great features include:

• Hover support for IE6 using the sfHover javascript class just like in Suckerfish.
• Fully degradable to standard SuckerFish menu if javascript is not supported.
• Configurable mouse-out delay to allow for accidental mousing out of the menu.
• Completely customizable animation effects using MooTools transitions. Can be configured in X and/or Y directions.
• Support for fade-in transparency
• Experimental support for IE6 z-index bug using the iFrame hack.

Learn more about RokMooMenu on the Menu Options Demo Page.

Menu Information

The exclusive RocketTheme menu systems in this template use the mainmenu by default and this menu is configured in the admin administator. For these to function correctly, understand that the ‘top level’ menu items will show up as the horizontal buttons across the top of the template. For sub menu items, assign Parent Item to these top menus to the top-level item. These will then show up below in a sub-horizontal menu when you click on a top-level item. For an example of this check out the demo server

For more details on the menu configuration options in Populus, check out the instructions on the demo site

Module Positions

Module positions are summarized in the diagram below:

NOTES:

1. This template fully supports full width configurations for use with galleries or forums, make sure you do not publish any modules in the side module positions ‘mainbody’ will fill the entire width.