Gantry was born when the RocketTheme development team wanted to consolidate our extensive set of custom Joomla template functionality into a simple, easy to use framework. However, we wanted to ensure we didn’t lock ourselves into a rigid framework that would stifle the creativity and bleeding-edge design features that we had become known for. It had to be powerful enough to do everything our templates already handled, but allow us to easily extend and build-on these features with a minimum of effort and complexity.
We wanted to have a solid base we could build on top of when creating a new Joomla template. Anything that was common to all templates was a prime candidate to be put in the core of Gantry, and anything specific to the template design itself should be part of the template itself.
Traditionally the Joomla layout options are limited, but Gantry was built to provide a new layer on top of this traditional module configuration to give an unprecedented level of control and flexibility.
Starting with Gantry Framework v3.0, iPhone and mobile supports is part of the core of the framework. With the possibility to assign specific modules to the mobile positions or use aliases to keep one version of content only, with the easy to customize styles that for the most inherit colors and images directly from the full version of the templates, with the image resizer that allows to keep the images smaller on the iPhone custom themes, this new added feature makes very easy to have iPhone themes of your sites. Try loading this demo site on your iPhone.
Visit the Official Gantry Framework site