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We've just created a quick hack of the standard Joomla admin template - Khepri. The hack involves swapping all the newer Joomla icons for the older and brigher icons from Joomla 1.0. A few changes to css complete the picture so that Joomla 1.5 starts to look a lot more friendly place. When Joomla was upgraded to 1.5 the dev team decided to drop the 'chummy' look and instead adopt a more corporate look and feel. This allowed Joomla to grow up but in the process it lost a lot of the accessibility that a friendly "look and feel" provided.

If you've not used Joomla 1.0 before you won't be aware of the much more friendly and familiar back end that it always had. This was adopted from the Mambo days. If you've ever been in the backend of a Joomla 1.0 or Mambo site the above image will be very familiar.

So, the friendly look is back! Now you can give your Joomla 1.5 site a 'makeunder' with a Joomla 1.0 back end.

If you are a long-time Joomla 1.5 user then you'll actually find it more intuitive and easier to identify the icons as they are so much brighter and a lot clearer... If you are a Joomla 1.0 user and you finally have to bite the bullet and upgrade your Joomla 1.0 site then make it easier for you to migrate yourself with this joomla 1.0 administrator template.

This template installs in the usual way. When you are in the Joomla back-end just select the templates menu option and then click on administrator link to view the choice of back-end templates. Simply select the joomla10 template as your default and the icons will start to change.

The change was not a complicated one, we just used the existing Joomla template and made a lot of simple changes. All credit to the original developers of the Mambo and Joomla 1.0 interfaces.

You can get it here:

http://lightquick.co.uk/jdownloads/joomla-1.0-administrator-icon-template-for-joomla-1.5.html

On top of the above we have just knocked together some Virtuemart 1.0 icons. This completes the picture so that you can keep your old cart look and feel too. 

This is based upon the module created by Joomspot with some simple changes. Instead of the standard VM icons we've added two that just weren't present in VM 1.0.

http://lightquick.co.uk/jdownloads/vmquickicons.html  

The next change will be a steampunk look and feel to Joomla 1.5. 

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