Joomla Form - Admiring and inspiring good form with Joomla

Recently Featured Sites

About JoomlaForm

JoomlaForm.com exists to admire and inspire good form in the Joomla! community.

What is form?

Form is defined as "The design, structure, or pattern of a work of art" (Dictionary.com). Joomla! provides a solid framework for management and the proper function of a website, and designers provide the form.

"Web Design Enthusiasts"

JoomlaForm aims at becoming a community of Joomla! users, template designers, and web design enthusiasts with the purpose of showcasing and promoting good design with the best CMS available, Joomla!. Our mission is to scour the Joomla! world to find the sites that are, in our opinion, the best of the best examples of good form using Joomla! as their framework.

How does it work?

It's simple. You submit (site submission temporarily suspended due to spam) your site to JoomlaForm.com. I review your site, and I decide whether or not it will be one of the JoomlaForm.com featured sites. When a site is featured on JoomlaForm.com, a screenshot of the site's home page will be displayed along with a link to the site. Visitors will then be able to review your site and discuss what they like and do not like about it.

What JoomlaForm is Not

JoomlaForm is not an awards site, although it should be considered an honor to be featured.
JoomlaForm is not the final authority on what consitutes good design (although we like to think we are ).
JoomlaForm is not a design firm.
JoomlaForm is not a Joomla! forms generator, plugin, component, module, etc. If you were looking for that, you might be interested in Phil-A-Form, Facile Forms, or MosForms (this is the one I used here at JoomlaForm).
JoomlaForm is not a forum for airing grievances. If you have a problem (personal or otherwise) with the owner(s) of a JoomlaForm featured site, please take it up with them personally. I will delete all reviews of this nature.
JoomlaForm is not owned by, operated by, or affiliated with the Joomla! core development team or with Open Source Matters, Inc., the entity that maintains the Joomla! copyright.

Criteria

To be fair, we must set forth some criteria for becoming a featured site at JoomlaForm, so here they are. A JoomlaForm featured site...

...must use either Joomla! (any version) or Mambo version 4.5.2.
...should be an original design. Sites that use stock templates (a.k.a. SolarFlare) or Template Club templates (RocketTheme, JoomlArt, etc.) will not be considered (unless you can make a good case why it should be considered).
...should not use tables in the design. It is understood that Joomla! renders content with tables, and so that cannot be avoided (until version 1.5!). However, the template can and should be developed using proper XHTML/CSS techniques. If tables are used in a site's design, you must make a good case for why it should be considered.
...should make good use of graphics. This means that all images should be clean and professional, and they should be used efficiently to enhance the overall look of the site.
...should have logical, easy-to-use navigation.
...should break out of the mold of the "typical" Joomla! website. This is not 100% necessary, but it helps.
...must not contain material that is not appropriate for all audiences. Sites that contain pornographic material will not be considered. We reserve the right to determine what passes as appropriate material.

Badges

If your site gets selected as a featured site on JoomlaForm, you can proudly display one of these badges and let the world know that your site was featured at JoomlaForm.

The Big Badge

JoomlaForm Badge

The Small Badge

JoomlaForm Badge

Badge Source PNG File

If your site is featured here and you would like a copy of the source Fireworks PNG file for this, let me know and I'll send it to you.

Let's Summarize

JoomlaForm is a community of web design enthusiasts gathering to admire and inspire good form for the purpose of promoting good design in the Joomla! community.

JoomlaForm is not an awards site, a final authority, a design firm, or an official Joomla! website.

Thanks for visiting JoomlaForm.com. Enjoy!

- Cory Webb , JoomlaForm founder and webmaster

Set as favorite

Bookmark

Email This

Trackback(0)

TrackBack URI for this entry

Comments (4) add comment

Subscribe to this comment's feed

Taine: ...

Massive respect to Webb for this one stop shop for design inspiration. This site along with HowToJoomla.com can be described in one word... CLEAN! I like that, for too many Joomla sites are too ambitious and too busy. Its reassuring to see that just cause a site is built on the Joomla framework doesn't mean it has to look like it.

Taine
www.pearance.com

report abuse

vote down

vote up

July 04, 2007
Votes: +0

Cory: ...

Hi Taine,

Thanks much for the compliments! I really appreciate it.

Cory

report abuse

vote down

vote up

July 04, 2007
Votes: +0

Freddy Rangkuti: ... http://www.fraimarketing.com

All content in this site is free of charge, download E-Books, find the answer of your marketing questions, develop business contacts with other members, consultation with marketing expert and participate in our forum. In the long run I will develop this site into those who want to be entrepreneur and cooperate with third party such as bank, investor with the link to Joomla sites in the world.

Bravo, I hope, I can get the big badge

Success for you
Dr. Freddy Rangkuti

report abuse

vote down

vote up

September 20, 2007
Votes: -1

Rita Lewis: ... http://wordstoweb.net

I love your sites and dedication to Joomla! design and methods. Thank you for creating this site as well as your great How To Joomla site. I would like to submit two of my sites for your design evaluation because feedback is a great way to learn. I've been designing and coding in Joomla for three years after creating standard web sites for a previous 5 years. I love the interactivity and modular nature of Joomla. How does one go about submitting sites for your review?

P.S. I agree with Taine's comment but sometimes due to client wishes, it is difficult not to create a cluttered layout. Believe me I have argued for unique and uncluttered layouts. Joomla is just a tool, the design is up to us and our abilities to either make our own templates (which I have not had the time to do) or customize commercial templates to fit our specific needs.