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Steampunk Vintage Admin back-end for Joomla 1.5

This is an administrator template which gives you a steampunk look and feel in your Joomla 1.5 site.  The image below is Joomla 1.5.23!

We've just created a quick hack of the standard Joomla admin template - Khepri. The hack involves swapping all the newer Joomla icons for some steampunk icons. A few changes to css complete the picture so that Joomla 1.5 starts to look a lot more Victorian!. Not to everyone's taste admittedly  but certainly to mine and to a select and superior few... The images below show the new look and feel, restrained but characterful. Now you can give your Joomla 1.5 site a 'makeunder' with a retro-Steampunk back end.

The template is not yet complete so understand this is a beta until complete, however it works in all aspects so feel happy to download and test.

I have just completed the 48 and 32 bit icons, now working on the 16 bit icons as used by the menus. I'll do a 1.7 version if anyone else is really keen? Feel free to comment!

This template installs in the usual way and when you are in the Joomla back-end just select the templates menu option and then click on administrator to view the choice of back-end templates. Simply select the steampunk template as your default and the icons will start to change. The following icons have been used in the production of this template.

The Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) doesn't like people reskinning the Joomla back-end. You have to add new functionality as well as reskinning so this template will never be released through the JED, you can only get it here. Please let others know this template exists by clicking on the Facebook like this button on the final download page.

The icons that are 'upgraded' are all the main 48 bit icons that appear on the control panel and the 32 bit icons which sit in the toolbar on top of all the main options. The 16bit icons haven't been forgotten either. They are all included so the menu dropdowns all look just as familiar. The 48 bit icons have been replaced by larger 73 bit versions for extra clarity. Have fun!

Bundled with the template is a new quickicon module that replaces the default quick icons at the back end. It adds a few new icons to the back end main page.