Template Engine with Templates for Modules

[Rave[N]]

Hi, I’m more of a graphic designer than web developer, thus for me (and my clients) the looks of the website is often very important. I’m new to Joomla!, but I find it easy to learn and operate. However – design abilities of Joomla! is a bit of a holdback. Particularly – designer does not have control of how content is output via modules and components. The only way to change this is actually hacking into the code. What I’m after is a template engine that would allow designer to define the basic layout of website, specify module locations as you do that now. On top of that, I would like to be able to specify the layout of particular module or component the same way as basic layout inputting module specific variables. It would be just great if you could input module variable into a basic layout as well (something like {module_name.module_variable}). This way, for example, you could possibly make user name input field on the top of a page, password input field somewhere in the middle and “login” button at the bottom (obviously, this example is absolutely illogical, but it is just to illustrate the flexibility it would give).

I understand that it would add complexity and require module / component developers to document their products more precisely, but It just might be worth it.

By the way, similar wish (for custom fields) is in here -> http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,748.0.html

Tnx

[Jinx]

Done in Joomla! 1.5

[FidelGonzales]

Outstanding!!!!! A dream come true!!!!