How much does it cost to remove copyright text/images from free templates?

[Larryish]

Hi guys,

Got a Joomla 1.5 site going up for a customer, and he likes one of your templates. Problem is the logo/link text; the customer likes the template but being a "corporate type" he wants full control over what gets linked from the site.

If it is significantly cheaper than paying a designer to create a custom template, I would be interested in purchasing a license to use one of your free templates (siteground-j15-1) without visible copyrights.

The main domain and database is going on a VPS and there are 3 mirror domains to go on shared hosts (siteground?) that will load the main database remotely.

What is the cost of a license to use one of your templates, sans copyright links, on 4 domains (to include subfolders and subdomains of same)?

Please contact me as larryishNEARgmail.com or reply to this thread, I have it set as a subscription with email notification.

Thanks :)

[MichaelP]

If it were me, I'd call SiteGround's sales folks and talk to them directly about the license.

The reason I'm responding to your request is that I am using the J15-1 template, Prime Blue. I assume that is the one you are referring to. It is a resizable style that reads the site name from the config file and places it as text in the header. On my site, the site name is long enough that when the window is resized smaller than 1024 pixels wide, the text wraps and the header does not always respond appropriately, depending on which browser is being used.

On IE6 the header resizes to make room for the text, and everything looks fine. On IE7, the text wraps but the header stays the same size, causing the text to spill over into the top menu area. It looks awful. On Firefox, the text does not wrap. Instead, as the width of the template gets narrower than the text, the text extends beyond the template on the right and off the window. These are the three main browsers and are my main concern. I also checked it's behavior on Opera and Safari for Windows, and they both behave like IE7 with the text spilling over into the top menu area. These browsers all render things differently, and I don't have the programming skill to make conditional code that would render correctly in all browsers, if that is even possible.

I like the template, and hope to continue using it. I'd like to find a workable solution, such as replacing the text with a graphic. If you or anyone finds a solution to this, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks,
MichaelP
www.premier-cleaning-services.com

[Larryish]

Hi Michael,

The template looks good, very simple and straightforward.

I contacted someone at Siteground via the contact form, and a salesperson named Dana replied.

Unfortunately Siteground will not allow me to pay them for the privilege of removing the Siteground return links from the template. It seemed a reasonable request, their negative reply was unexpected.

That means I will have to pay my regular designer to create a similar template and because of this it will be an extra week (I estimate) before the client will be cutting me a check.

That is o.k. though as I tend to share my experiences with businesses, both good and disappointing, on my rather large network of consumer review websites.

As for the banner, you should go into /templates/siteground-j15-1/index.php and add the banner between the div id=logo and the next /div and add a regular IMG tag for it.

Hope this helps. :)

[MichaelP]

Thanks for the reply Larry. I'm a little surprised at their response. As a business person, it makes sense to me for a business to service it's potential customers. Oh well, business culture is inexplicable to me sometimes.

I'll play around with code a little and see what I can come up with.

[nestlemilo]

Hi guys,

Got a Joomla 1.5 site going up for a customer, and he likes one of your templates. Problem is the logo/link text; the customer likes the template but being a "corporate type" he wants full control over what gets linked from the site.

If it is significantly cheaper than paying a designer to create a custom template, I would be interested in purchasing a license to use one of your free templates (siteground-j15-1) without visible copyrights.

The main domain and database is going on a VPS and there are 3 mirror domains to go on shared hosts (siteground?) that will load the main database remotely.

What is the cost of a license to use one of your templates, sans copyright links, on 4 domains (to include subfolders and subdomains of same)?

Please contact me as larryishNEARgmail.com or reply to this thread, I have it set as a subscription with email notification.

Thanks :)
Thank you for the tip Larry.