Touching the soul: New from Shape 5

It came out a while ago, but I'm busy working on a really fantastic project at the moment, which does involve a Joomla site, geared around positive social change so I'm playing catch up with a lot of things, new themes is one of them, so I apologise. That and we've just had a baby girl, so I hope the apology gets accepted.

This one from Shape 5 is nice and rather than focusing on a new extension or something you can add to Joomla to make it smarter than Joomla already is, it concentrates on Joomla and just a couple of extensions, that you'll get with the theme from Shape 5.

I'm a big fan of Joomla and as I've said before, try to use just Joomla if I can as adding other extensions and extensions that start playing with the core and the database, increases the risk of something going wrong and while I know a theme doesn't have to use these other extensions, it is just nice to see a theme that has had a bit of work put into it, just for Joomla and this one ticks all the boxes.

Some, but not all of the themes features include:

• 100% tableless CSS
• Validates with XHTML
• Validates with CSS
• Joomla 1.5 compatible
• SQL dump available
• 21 module positions
• New! S5 MP3 Player Plugin
• New! S5 Spotlight News Module
• Module edits: S5 Accordion Menu, S5 Image Fader, S5 Live Search, S5 Tab Show, S5 Map It
• Sliced PSDs included
• Set background images and color via theme parameters
• Site Shaper available (demo quick installs)
• Fully collapsible module positions
• Lytebox enabled
• Tool Tips enabled
• 4 Menu systems: No-MooMenu Scroll Down, No-MooMenu Drop Down, No-MooMenu Fading or Suckerfish
• Custom page and column widths
• Compatible with the following browsers: IE6+, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari, Advant and Chrome

Click here for a demo or more information.