Introducing NewsKit: The July 2017 Joomla template

Hello all, another shiny new month and another shiny new Joomla template from JoomShaper to our valuable user community. This month, we have come up with NewsKit, the fully responsive Joomla template for any newspaper, magazine, professional blog, fashion, sports and all other editorial or publication related websites. The NewsKit template will ensure guaranteed exposure, visual and reader friendliness with its amazing features and functionalities.

NewsKit comes with industry leading SP Page Builder Pro. Building an news website with NewsKit will be a high five experience because of its stunning design and all rounder presentation features.

NewsKit is developed on top of the best Joomla template framework Helix3, and the template is powered by industry leading drag and drop visual page composer tool SP Page Builder Pro. There are two homepage layouts that will bring flexibility to your desire. We have developed modern and advanced addons of SP Page Builder for this template like Thumb Slider, Article Slider, and the Heading addon. The SP Poll component lets you create polls of any topic or event on your news site. Also, the template comes with SP Tweet module that allows you to display your Twitter feed on your web pages.

Figure: NewsKit homepage (please click to enlarge).

Now let's have a quick look at the core features of NewsKit.Two Homepage Variations

• 4 customizable color presets
• Article Slider addon
• Heading addon
• Headline addon
• Thumb Gallery addon
• News Gallery addon
• Tabbed Article module
• SP Tweet module
• SP Poll component
• Fully responsive
• Versatile typography
• AcyMailing newsletter
• SP Page Builder Pro
• Helix3 framework
• Translation and Retina ready
• 24/7 support

Visual Site Building

The entire design of NewsKit is powered by the revolutionary drag and drop live page composer tool SP Page Builder Pro. The crafty functional frontend editor brings an amazing experience of customizing and designing the total website on the front end. Do all the customizations and see the changes instantly. Its drag and drop functionality will let you have a flawless time and cost saving web building experience.

Figure: Fontend editor of SP Page Builder in NewsKit.

Amazing Homepage Layouts

The NewsKit template comes with two homepage layouts. The both layouts developed with utter care and packed with hundreds of essential features. The home layout one starts with a nice a slider, displaying all the trendy articles. Then there is an artwork of article slider addon displaying all the featured articles. This design also comes with a watch video section where the recent news videos are displayed. The second layout comes with a card design of articles and all other amazing design variations.

Figure: Amazing home page layouts in NewsKit.

New Improved Article addon

We have added new feature fields to our existing Article addon in this template release. The addon now has more design functionalities that you can add to this template. You can limit article showcasing and select the article layout display easily.

Figure: Amazing Article addon in NewsKit

Thumb Gallery Addon

This is a new addon that comes with NewsKit. Thumb Gallery lets you display image thumbnails in a really eye-catching display. The smooth slider is a guaranteed attraction. You can customize various options regarding the news image gallery with the addon. 

Figure: Thumb Gallery addon in NewsKit.

Article Slider Addon

The Article Slider addon is another amazing thing in NewsKit. It lets you showcase your articles in sliding frames. You have all the functionalities to control the slider by limiting the number of article items going to be displayed on the slider. There are autoplay, article display layout and other options you can customize in the addon.

Figure: Article Slider addon in NewsKit.

SP Tweet Module

SP Tweet is a special module that comes along with the NewsKit template. The soul goal of the module is to give you a solid mechanism to add your Twitter feed right into your web pages. Display your Twitter feed anywhere on your news portal easily. 

Figure: SP Tweet Module in NewsKit.

SP Poll Component

The polling feature is one of the most interactive features that are packed with NewsKit. Set up events, campaigns, opinions etcetera related to polls with ease using this SP Poll component. It can collect the votes and show results instantly. No doubt polls are a must have feature in any news site. So add and customize polls by adding multiple options and design elements with the SP Pole component.

Figure: SP Poll component in NewsKit.

SP Tabbed Article Module

SP Tabbed Article module is the another great element that comes along with NewsKit. The job of this module is to give you ease of access while creating stunningly beautiful thumbnail-based tabbed article menu display. In NewsKit, the module provides hovered grid based article display in several tabs. It will definitely add a huge value to your site's appearance. 

Figure: SP Tabbed Article module in NewsKit.

Cloaking Up

So, this is the July 2017 Joomla template from JoomShaper. We strongly believe our efforts and dedication will be of great use to our user community. We also believe the integrated features and design structure of NewsKit will be your must have tool while developing any news website. Meanwhile, please don’t forget to share your opinions and thoughts with us to improve our products further. Thanks for choosing JoomShaper.

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