So, are you still not ready to publish your new Joomla site because it's still under construction or under development? Or have you buy a domain name for your next Joomla project and still can't start to develop it now so just want to park your domain name for a while? Then here's a gift for you, a free Joomla blank template that you can use for your still under construction site.

Rather than using a Joomla default offline page, now you can use this Joomla 1.5 version UnderCon template to make your offline or under construction website more better and sweeter.

This UnderCon Joomla version is based on the Wordpress UnderCon theme from Netizens Media which also featured in SmashingMagazine's 100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009 article.

Notable Features:

• Customizable title, description and logo under the template configuration.
• Use Feedburner for email subscription and delivery.
• Use Twitter for visitors following your site status
• GPL Licensed — it’s free and you’re free to mess with it.

Download the UnderCon template file below and read on the instructions.

How to

Using UnderCon is simple, it installs like any other Joomla templates, but there’s a couple of things you’ll need to get ready beforehand - although this is optional. Instructions below is from the LaunchPad WP Theme version which this template and UnderCon theme is inspired by.

Get a FeedBurner ID

For a template that incorporates FeedBurner to build subscriptions before you’ve even started blogging, this one is necessary. Signing up for FeedBurner is easy and you were probably going to do it anyway. Visit FeedBurner.com and follow the instructions there. Once that’s done, login and visit your account page.

All you’ll need is the name of your FeedBurner feed address. That’s the text after “http://feeds2.feedburner.com/”. Copy it into a text file somewhere for easy reference.

Next, get Twitter username from Twitter.com if you still don't get one yet for your social networking life.

Credit:

• Inspired by LaunchPad from ThemeShaper and UnderCon from NetizensMedia
• Logo (’DizCow’) from the awesome and free LogoInstant

If you find it useful, please consider to donate $5 for NetizensMedia and $5 for Lab towards the development of future templates/themes.

Download UnderCon template here.

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