/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.

Here are just a few features in /motif:

• GNU/GPL License
• Cascading themes
• Mobile-ready
• Auto-loading CSS and JavaScript
• Shortcut functions
• Wordpress-style functions
• Reusable code
• CSS and JavaScript file caching & gzipping
• Position Chrome (Load multiple module positions with one line of code)
• Joomla plugin triggers
• Multi-theme architecture
• Theme menu assignment
• Theme-specific parameters
• IE-only CSS & JavaScript