Joomla is the most flexible platform known to empower website developers and give them a rewarding content management system. Preferred by a majority of web developers, it is not only a befitting CMS helping developers to organise content perfectly, Joomla has eye-pleasing Joomla templates that help owners to customise any site the way they want. Some of the best Joomla templates not only have enticing page layouts but are amazingly rich in features that help website creators to create a spark in the stores. Here are a handpicked Joomla templates that are incessantly popular at present owing to their responsiveness, SEO friendliness and rich features.

#1 jPeople

jPeople is a cool template with an incredible layout. Its image slider presented just below the navigation bar, help developers place flashy banners, videos or large images. Requiring some basic coding skills in using it, it is a favourable template for the developers. jPeople offer login form to support creating of membership site and have a dozen of ingenious modules.

#2 JA Simpli

It's a great multipurpose template that developers use for creating a range of websites from personal portfolios to blogs. It has alluring 4 types of premade templates for the home pages. To add to the convenience of the website creators, it allows for customisation of designs without working hard with complex coding. Further, JA Simpli is lightweight template without any framework and works great with the integration of third-party plugins.

#3 JD Miami

Joomla's JD Miami is the first choice of developers who want a fast loading as well as a lightweight template. Besides being a template having a bundle of business-like features for websites, it is also a fitting one for eCommerce sites as it allows adding up of pricing tables. Features like slider, ACY mailing, Tabs. testimonials, blogs can be easily added using JD Miami which are must-haves for services based websites.

#4 Shopin

It is a minimalist and responsive template that offers J2Store eCommerce integrations. Having extreme flexibility, it is a proper template choice for all kinds of eCommerce businesses. It's a feature-packed and all-in-one modern and natively responsive template that helps companies trade their products together with promoting their brand.

#5 Glamour

This template is best suitable for lifestyle and fashion sites, having mobile-friendly layouts and exclusive features like shortcodes. It offers a responsive modernised theme for websites with minimalist designing that is apt for lifestyle or fashion magazines, clothing designer store, or for parlours, spa, hair & beauty salons. This template is no doubt the first choice for those willing to own a site that is about fashion or beauty trends.

The list certainly does not end here. There are much more luring and user-friendly templates of Joomla, helping developers to create out-of-the-box websites such as Polist, Tixon, MegaDeal, Crux, iStore. To put it simply, Joomla stands as an awarding CMS platform, but its rich set of web templates for an array of categories like eCommerce, Business, Portfolio, News, Event, Education, Blog makes it more endearing to all developers.

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