Magazine

Red Evo’s Flexinews theme is one of the more full-featured free themes out there. It also include 5 different color choices (red, green, blue, orange or purple).
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JakartaTimes is a high quality magazine style Joomla 1.5 template. Since it follows a magazine style layout you’ll need to have a good chunk of content for the site, but if you’ve got the content then this is a great way to lay it out.
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