There's the two that ship with Joomla (BlueStork and Hathor), five more in the 
article below and three more linked in the comments:

http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-admin-templates/

There's also a few more floating around including the work done on this Joomla 
distro: http://squareonecms.com/. Quite a few of those changes might make 
Joomla 3.

Steve  


On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote:

> I find the back-end template waaaaaay more complex to fiddle with.  
>  
> I know of only two so far:
>  
> - AdminPraise Lite from the guys who make ProjectFork. There's a premium 
> version that seems to have more configuration options.
> - Mission Control from RocketThem
>  
> 2012/5/29 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com 
> (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)>
> > That looks very useful, thanks!
> >  
> > I can't help from wondering if someone has created an entire extension that 
> > is a replacement for the back-end that incorporates all these features 
> > without having to make changes in the code. If not, maybe there should be?  
> >  
> > David Roth
> >  
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Helvécio da Silva <helvecio...@gmail.com 
> > (mailto:helvecio...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > Is this is what you are looking for?
> > >  
> > > http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Apr-2012/item/721-Customizing-the-Admin-Menu
> > >  
> > > 2012/5/29 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com 
> > > (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)>
> > > > Thanks to both of you! Those articles were very helpful. I had not 
> > > > gotten a chance to check out the ACL feature in Joomla until now.
> > > >  
> > > > I was wondering while reading it, is there a way to replace the "help" 
> > > > tab so it links to custom documentation for the user instead of the 
> > > > Joomla documentation and links? Thanks!  
> > > >  
> > > > David Roth
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Helvécio da Silva 
> > > > <helvecio...@gmail.com (mailto:helvecio...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > > I found this from Jen Kramer (She's GREAT!) in Joomla Magazine. It 
> > > > > can be a kickstart.
> > > > >  
> > > > > http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-May-2012/item/761-Joomla-ACL-Configuring-back-end
> > > > >  
> > > > > 2012/5/23 OSTraining <i...@ostraining.com 
> > > > > (mailto:i...@ostraining.com)>
> > > > > > Hi David
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Give this a try:
> > > > > > http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-acl-tutorial-for-allowing-one-person-to-modify-only-one-category/
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > That was written a while ago and there's an extra permission now.
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > You'll also need to go to Site > Global Configuration > Permissions 
> > > > > > and give the new user group permission to "Access Administration 
> > > > > > Interface"
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Steve
> > > > > >  
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote:
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > > You can use Joomla 2.5.x ACL to acomplish that. A little bit 
> > > > > > > tricky, but I believe it can be done.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > G'luck!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2012/5/23 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com 
> > > > > > > (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com) (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)>
> > > > > > > > I've never bothered with any other template for Admin than what 
> > > > > > > > is supplied with Joomla. But I want to be able to have a 
> > > > > > > > non-technical user be able to edit the content for a category 
> > > > > > > > of Articles assigned to them, but don't want anything else 
> > > > > > > > visible to them so they don't become confused or start to mess 
> > > > > > > > around with things which could screw up the pages. Before 
> > > > > > > > anyone tells me that the user should go through training and 
> > > > > > > > learn how to manage things so this doesn't happen, while I 
> > > > > > > > would agree, that isn't the case this time.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Does such an admin template already exist? Or can Joomla 2.5.4 
> > > > > > > > be made restrictive enough so when this non-technical user 
> > > > > > > > logins in they only see what they need to? Thanks!
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > David Roth
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
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