To begin, I am not even going to touch the inevitable flame war here. Joomla vs WordPress vs… who cares? And frankly, neither should you. You wouldn’t hammer a nail with a saw, would you? So let’s bear in mind that every job requires the correct tool.

That being said, this tutorial will demonstrate how to proceed from design to deployment of a complete Joomla template theme, including core override and template option parameters that you can use and abuse to your hearts content.

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