General Features

• Same installation process as well as Joomla! 1.5 template installation.
• No need to install support extensions like component, module or plugin.
• Ability to handle error page, offline page and component page into framework to be easily designed.
• Custom module chromes styling and rendering which are controllable by ParamsBox. Including, sub-text and "load module positions" supports for Menu module type rendering.
• ParamsBox with extra and powerful features such as codes editor, image viewer, layout and typography options, etc.
• Securing direct access to template's ini and xml files using .htaccess.
• Template or skin's image caching support using .htaccess.
• Delivered with a sample of Rumi Skin for rapid development.
• Optimization supported by Rumi Ultimate System plugin.

Child or sub templates

• Child or sub templates architectures called "skin" or "Rumi Skin".
• Simple "new skin" installation from the Rumi Framework backend settings.
• Possibility to provide additional settings for each skins.
• Easy integration with CSS grids/framework such as 960, Tripoli, Blueprint, Elasticss, 1kb grid, Yahoo! UI, Yaml, Bluetrip and more.
• Each skins have capability to handle main template css, error css, offline css, component css, grid css, iewarning css, browser css (depend on each browsers platforms and versions).
• Capability to handle favicon.ico inside each skins.
• Each skin can provide skin's preview image.
• Minimum coding; as you only need to focus on layout and styling on creating a new skin.
• Each skins can be distributed as a single file installation in a ZIP file.

Rumi ParamsBox Features

ParamsBox is a developer tool to help designers on debugging/customizing/configuring/etc each Rumi Skins from frontend site.

• Securing ParamsBox by IP address limitation from the Rumi Framework backend settings.
• Skin Parameters that contain with skin details information such as create date, author, copyright, license, author's email, author's URL, version, description and file list information.
• Availability to edit CSS, JavaScript and PHP files of current skins on the fly using CodePress editor.
• Availability to view image files of current skins.
• HTML Doc Type options
• Modular CSS with pre-packaged resets, joomla base, basic typography.
• Font type, font size, font unit measurement and font direction (RTL/LTR) override options.
• Font replacement using Cufon font generator.
• Background options such as color, image URL and styling.
• Option to show or hide built-in "go to top" button.
• Option to choose Joomla! CMS system message style such as normal, on the fly or Facebook style.
• Option to activate IE warning (IE 6 or all IE browser versions) or just disable website from being accessed using IE browsers.
• Logo or branding options such as using custom image or custom text and availability to add additional slogan or motto under logo.
• Provide 50 module positions control with module rendering and styling options such as default, horz, accordion menu, drop column menu, drop down menu, wing menu (left, top, bottom, right), fisheye menu, normal menu, tab menu, outline, pathway, round, slider, table, xhtml, xhtml level 1, xhtml level 2, xhtml level 3, xhtml level 4, xhtml level 5.

• Meta Tag, SEO and Tracking options such as site name/title, meta description, meta keywords, meta generator, Google key, Yahoo! key, MSN key, Alexa key and Google Analytic integration.
• Site Offline mode options such as show or hide login form, custom offline message, custom logo URL.
• Error (404) mode options such as custom error message, show or hide default error description, custom logo URL. Error (404) mode also support 3 columns of module positions so you can provide a link back to the specific page in the website or just other information.
• Option to show or hide Meta Tag Debugger to analyze meta tag on each page.
• Option to show or hide module positions (as Rumi Framework disable direct access to parse URL parameter such like ?tp=1).
• Option to show server memory usage.

Rumi Ultimate System Plugin Features

Rumi Ultimate System plugin is distributed separately and able to work side by side with Rumi Framework or indepently. It should be compatible with other templates or extensions though you don't use Rumi Framework.

• Capability to compress JavaScript files and declarations for all website pages.
• Option to choose a JavaScript Framework for your Joomla! CMS website or not. Available JavaScript Frameworks options are Mootools 1.1, Mootools 1.1. - 1.2.1 Compatibility + More, Mootools 1.2.4, Mootools 1.2.4 + More, latest version of jQuery.
• Option to process JavaScript compression inside <body> tag or not.
• Capability to use JavaScript Packer to encode all JavaScripts loaded by Joomla! CMS website.
• Capability to compress CSS files and declarations for all website pages.
• Option to process CSS compression inside <body> tag or not.
• Option to clear CSS white space, comments, etc to reduce file size.
• Option to activate one line HTML compression.
• Option to choose single or multiple files cache for JavaScript or CSS.

To Do List

• Rumi Skin: Download-able skin sample with integration of CSS grid/framework such as 960, 1kb grid, Yahoo! UI, Yaml, etc
• Rumi Framework: Add capability to set different style for each menus or pages
• Rumi Framework: Default CSS styles for menu type modules, Joomla! CSS base, typography, rounded CSS
• Rumi Framework: Mirroring HTML override to skins
• Rumi Framework: Provide mobile detections for skin layout
• Rumi Ultimate System plugin: Smart JavaScript and CSS caching methods