Hello,
I am developing a web site and I am looking into acquiring some templates. I have looked over a few places over google, but they either claim to be free with specific requirements or seem like a scam.
Thank you!
http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla-templates.htm
Isn’t a scam because i’ve used templates from there before, and you don’t have to pay anything.
Hope this helped.
Hey, I need a completely blank Joomla template that I can edit with Joomla 1.0! Anyone know where to find one – it would also be useful if I could edit the header, but I’m not going to complain if you can’t find one like that 
My favourite blank template is part of the tutorials from Compass Designs:
http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/
Here is the tutorial:
http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/17-joomla-tutorials/48-joomla-template-tutorial.html
Here are the files – you will have to register and login to get them but it is really worth the effort:
http://www.compassdesigns.net/downloads.html?view=list&category_id=2
The template is free, clean and xhtml friendly and the tutorials are very easy to understand:
As Joomla templates are just simple files they are editable with a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++.
There are excellent template guides around. Firstly for Joomla version 1.0.XX there are visual tutorials:
http://help.joomla.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,253/
Also check out Rocket Theme’s site. They too have great tutorials:
http://tutorials.rockettheme.com
My only personal adjustment to their template is the path to the template in the index.php file on line 15 starting <link href="… – which I change to the following to allow for easy cross-site changes:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="
<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>
/templates/
<?php echo $cur_template; ?>
/css/template_css.css" />
NOTE the combination of the PHP call for the site URL. That is then joined with the templates folder name and then a PHP call for the template name.
All the best,
Mike