BiggieSmalls and why I'm going to make this template
by Daniel Dimitrov on September 03, 2009
Do you know the story of Lamborghini?
In his first years Lamborghini was building tractors and other machinery for the agriculture. However he had a passion for automobiles. With the time he was getting richer and richer and was able to purchase cars as Mercedes, Jaguar, Maserati. He bought a Ferrari and that is what changed his life. Lamborghini found out that the cars were equipped with inferior clutches and he had to return several times to Ferrari for clutch rebuilds. One time he was waiting for the technicians to fix that and he went to speak with Enzo Ferrari and complain about the problem. The proud Enzo Ferrari replied: "Lamborghini, you may be able to drive a tractor, but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari properly".
I felt like Lamborghini several times during the past few months.
I have purchased a template from a very big template club. The template was good looking, but had some things that were not OK. When I buy something, I always expect to find support if I have problems. Not that I cannot fix the problem myself, but why spend 1h looking for something, when there are people who should fix that? So, I went to the company forum, found a thread from another user complaining from the same. I've added more details about the problem and started waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. No developer or even a moderator replied to the post for days! Eventually a member of the staff started working on this, but never managed to write a solution. So 3 Months are now past and my Membership has expired. Well, I fixed the problem myself, but I still cannot believe that I got such a support.
Some 4 weeks ago Neil Malhar from ijoobi put the idea in my head to build a template. From this idea BiggieSmalls was born! And believe it or not BiggieSmalls is not that "great" template that you get from another companies - where you have something that looks good, but immediately when you want it to look a little bit else you have to edit 100 CSS files. No BiggieSmalls is not that! Biggiesmalls is for all of you that know CSS on the scale from 1 to 10 with 0 Cool. Eventually if you know CSS you will customize the template within 10 minutes, if you don't know css at all you will customize it within 20 minutes! And you will not have to edit a single CSS file, because all color, border, width, font-style settings are in the backend of Joomla! Right now there are more than 100 settings that you can edit! And that gives you nearly endless possibility to tweak that template! That is why I call it the Lamborghini of all Joomla templates. You get one template and at the end you can make 1000s.
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2009-09-04 15:25:17 | JonusC
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2009-09-05 15:38:58 | Shoarma - Wow

I was searching for such a long time to have more grip at my design.
It's for sure I'm gonna try out BiggieSmalls!Shoarma
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2009-09-05 22:33:26 | Guido Hulscher - Okay!

You are the hero between heroes. The man between men. Once again you aaze me at a level I thought I couldn't be amazed. The 9th of September will be engraved in my agenda.
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2009-09-06 03:58:51 | David Grudniski - Upgraded

I just recently upgraded from 1.0 -1.5 but I have to be honest I didn't like the free templates much. So I was contemplating buying one.
Talk about timing. I really like the versatility of BiggieSmalls
Great job you guys.
Keep me informed.
Thanks
Dave
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2009-09-06 11:58:38 | adone

How much is cost BiggieSmalls template? Name template inspiration Notorious BIG-american rapper?
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2009-09-06 21:55:35 | Daniel Dimitrov
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2009-09-06 15:36:31 | opengl

You are a big Bulgarian blessing! May you turn out like Lamborghini.
How much is this BiggieSmalls template? I hope it's free.
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2009-09-06 21:54:31 | Daniel Dimitrov

Hey opengl,
The Price is written under the demonstration video:
http://compojoom.com/blog/8-news/92-biggiesmalls-video-demonstration
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2009-09-09 11:26:33 | Manish

Ya a drag and drop options of soughts would be sooo cool!
Or rather even some like artisteer(i hope thats the right name) but with code like that of biggie smalls - that'll be a dream in disguise to say the least!
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2009-09-15 23:50:47 | Manish

I sometimes wonder if comments like above are actually making comments or trying to create publicity for their website :-P
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2009-09-16 00:39:43 | Daniel Dimitrov
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2009-11-02 05:33:19 | Anonymous - re: Daniel, you are the best thinker and developer
Marie wrote:as always you made the impossible possible or am I dreaming?
No, you made it!
Always striving for the best, the light and taking to your shoulders the heavy weight to make life even lighter...great job!yes That's right
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2009-11-03 05:12:11 | saeed - re: Upgraded
David Grudniski wrote:I just recently upgraded from 1.0 -1.5 but I have to be honest I didn't like the free templates much. So I was contemplating buying one.
Talk about timing. I really like the versatility of BiggieSmalls
Great job you guys.
Keep me informed.
Thanks
Daveyes
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2009-11-28 01:12:15 | Monis Bukhari - Good job

Great job Daniel, thank you

Several times I felt just like you...
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2010-01-01 09:36:08 | v.sathish kumar - re:
Steve wrote:Congratulations Daniel. Looking forward to the new release!
Steve
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as always you made the impossible possible or am I dreaming?
No, you made it!
Always striving for the best, the light and taking to your shoulders the heavy weight to make life even lighter...great job!