Hello Antonio,

I really don't see a problem with a 100% complete makeover If you have a good designer with you and knows what they are dealing with, there's no problem altogether You can basically change and modify anything in the theme files but you just need to retain those "data" attributes on the html codes. Those data attributes plays an important role in the javascript codes.

For example in the html codes, if you see data-user-id="xx", these shouldn't be altered or removed

Thank you Mark.

I'll try to do it myself (not from scratch, just adapting to an existing framework) and see if I'm good enough to achieve the "wow factor" to change visitors into users.

Hello Antonio,

Take a look at Alex's site or request him to give you access. He has a really really really good looking EasySocial implementation

Hey Antonio,
If you make an awesome theme! Share it with all of us This seems like something I would be really interested in (:, also Mark did you let OptimumTheme know the changes that need to be made to the theme :P such as a responsive sticky nav bar and whatever else that one guy mentioned? :P (Sorry I couldn't remember your name man :P)

Hm, not sure but you contacted Enes already?

Thank you all guys.
What I'm thinking will take looooooong time, but be sure that I will share with you my results once completed.
As I said several times I will wait at least 1.3 version to go live with my project. In the meanwhile I'll play with ES as it is , then I'll add new things when they come

I'm curious if everything that Antonio wants to accomplished can be done via "child" template so things don't get overwritten each time there is an upgrade.

Any limitations with "child" template?

Slow down guys I don't know yet what to do and how.
I have some experience with Wordpress but Joomla is almost an unexplored land for me, so I must learn a few things before starting.

One questions for everybody: what should be a Joomla Template and what an ES template?

lol antonio :P Hey mark you guys should implement a Theme Switcher. Something for users to switch to different themes. It will look nice once ES gets a lot more themes from you guys

Hi Antonio

I'm more wordpress and only trying joomla because of ES. SEO and duplicate content for joomla is a nightmare which I found out about recently reading different forums and articles.

If you only modify the CSS then it should be easy, because you can use template override. If you modify the code a lot by moving things around, then when you ready to upgrade it will be a nightmare.

CSS over rides for the win. You can change a lot of stuff with pure CSS. Colors, positions, icons (although can be harder), widths, sizes, and styling. Here's a speedy example, want the online status to be light blue? Add this to your Joomla template (and clear your cache):

div#es-wrap .es-online-status .es-status-on {

    background-color: #ADD8E6 !important;

}

FireBug is a great tool for making modifications and quickly getting the CSS selectors.

Thanks for sharing this Josh and I agree with Josh here. The idea is to use more css than modifying theme files. If you are more proficient in html / css, then by all means go and tear down the html codes and do your magic