I'm a customer of Joomla Praise and have enjoyed their templates and their extensions.  I am a big fan of their replacement adminstrative templates that add a lot of nice features when doing site admin.  I simply get more done quicker.

Recently they released their AP-Lite (Administrative Praise Lite) template for free.  This is a fast loading, "lite" template that I have found very good as well.  Because I'm on a relatively slow connection here in Africa, the extra speed is apreciated.    Download it and add it to your template collection.   You may find it quite useful.

Go over to Joomla Praise and download the AP-Lite template