Features

Gantry is packed full of features to empower the development of designs into fully functional layouts with the absolute minimum of effort and fuss.

• 960 Grid System

  (http://960.gs - 12 & 16 Column Support)

• WordPress Support

  Currently The Gantry Framework is available for Joomla! & WordPress - two very powerful and popular GPL Content Management Systems

• Stunning Administrator interface

  Gantry provides a uniquely intuitive interface to control all aspects of the design

• XML driven and with overrides for unprecedented levels of customization

  Gantry is easy to configure, customize and extend

• Per content/item/taxonomy level control over any configuration parameter

  Layouts, colors, features, etc can all be different for any part of your site content

• Preset any combination of configuration parameters, and save custom presets

  Creating custom presets allows you to easily save any combination of configuration settings for later use

• Built-in extensible AJAX communication layer

  Our powerful AJAX system allows dynamic functionality in features as well as opening up AJAX to 3rd party plugins

• RTL language support

  Gantry makes it easier than ever to develop Right-to-Left (RTL) based designs for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi

• Built-in CSS and JS compression and combination

  Reduce the total number of requests for your site as well as adding compression for maximum page optimization

• Flexible grid layout system for unparalleled control over block sizes

  Control the sizes of your blocks with our simple grid layout controls

• Optimized codebase with speed, size, and reuse core tenets of the framework design

  Gantry is more than just unparalleled flexibility and control, it also provides a powerful basis to build professional quality designs.

• 65 base widget positions.

  To get you started right we've included plenty of widgets, but adding even more is a trivial procedure

• 38 possible layout combinations for mainbody and sidebars

  The mainbody and sidebars now have an unprecedented level of control. Gantry provides support for all kinds of layout options

• Source-ordered 4 column mainbody

  With up to 3 total sidebars, Gantry allows you to achieve highly complex mainbody layout scenarios

• Many built-in widgets and gizmos such as font-sizer, Google Analytics, to-top smooth slider, IE6 warning message, etc.

  Easily add your own unique functionality with Gantry's gizmo support

• Ability to force 'blank' widget positions for even more advanced layout customization

  Create layouts with blank spaces or complex alignment requirements with this functionality

• Flexible parameter system with ability to set parameters via URL, Cookie, Session, Presets, etc.

  Any parameter can be configured via XML to be settable from a variety of mechanisms for complete customization

• Table-less HTML overrides

  Gantry designs provide modern table-less output for the best in SEO and usability

• Standard typography and WordPress core element styling

  Great typographical features right out of the box

• ini-based configuration storage for easy portability

  All configuration options are stored in simple text-based ini files

• Automatic per-browser-level CSS and JS control

  Advanced control of CSS and JS for any specific browser version allows browser bugs and issues to be isolated and patched with a minimum of fuss

Coming Soon...

We have great plans to continue adding features and improving on Gantry. Some of these include:

• Drupal Support

  Drupal is a very flexible and extensible CMS platform

• Automatic Update

  Possibility of updating Gantry plugin and Gantry powered themes by 1 click

• Optimization for Administrator backend

  Using compression and other optimization techniques to speed-up the Administrator UI

• Duplicating Overrides

  Easy way of duplicating existing overrides for a quick way of changing small pieces of your setup

• Diagnostic Functionality

  A powerful and informative diagnostic module to gather relevant information to provide to support personnel