JomSocial Templates vs Joomla! Templates
The look-and-feel of a website reflects the website's identity and content. Therefore it is important for one to know and distinguish the difference between joomla! templates and jomsocial template. In order to have a complete look-and-feel of your site, you have to change both templates.
Let's clarify here first. By analogy, Joomla! Platform is an operating system and the Jomsocial Component is the application in Joomla!. JomSocial is a Joomla! component. In Joomla!, there can only be one component displayed at a time.
Now, Let's talk about Joomla! template. Joomla!'s templates can be found in Joomla!'s backend (Extensions -> Template Manager). You can go ahead and change the Joomla! template, it won't change the look-and-feel of the Jomsocial component.
Position of the JomSocial Component in Joomla
So some of you might be wondering, where the heck does the position of JomSocial component is placed in Joomla? To answer that question please open templates\[template_name]\index.php found in your joomla directory.
The line responsible for displaying JomSocial is
Go ahead, search for it, and play as you like with it.