We are pleased to announce the beta launch of our new Joomla! template framework, /motif. Actually, it's not that new. We built /motif back in October of 2009 for our own purposes.

/motif is a template development framework for Joomla! built to simplify the development of fully-custom Joomla! templates and empower web designers to become Joomla! template developers. We are Joomla! template designers and developers, and we built /motif in October 2009 to "scratch our own itch." We needed a simple, robust, and flexible template framework with a non-restrictive license so we could use it on all of the custom templates we build for our clients. Unfortunately, none of the frameworks available at the time quite fit what we needed, so we built our own.

This framework will be the basis of a new Joomla! template club called Themeables, which we will be officially launching at CMS Expo in May. Head over to the Themeables website and grab a copy of /motif for yourself. The framework is free (as in freedom and as in beer). If you want to learn more about /motif, check out the /motif documentation.