On April 4th-5th 2008 there’s been a Joomla Day in Utrecht, Nederlands.
Here are two great presentations, published on the Arno Zijlstra blog.
The first, made by Mitch Pirtle (one of the Joomla founders) is a 10 minutes talk about the Web site branding. At the end of the presentation, Mitch tells us about how templates should be improved by the site designer to improve the branding of a website.
The second, made by Arno Zijlstra (a Joomla founder), talks about Joomla 1.5 template design.
He talks a lot about template overrides, Module Chrome, used to modify components and modules output.
Arno talks about menu management and uses JMenuSite to change template depending on the active menu.

