How would you like to see this theme, Modernizm, be in our WordPress theme collection? It’s another eye-popping design by Firman Firdaus. Modernizm is most definitely a magazine WordPress theme having a strong, structured grid-layout with a very soft white-grey color combination that gives spotlight to your blog pictures and photos. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Modernizm.
I knew you must have been waiting for this last post. I’m now giving you all the details about SimpleReader‘s powerful back-end. I’ve covered the main elements of the theme in my first post and the page templates that come with the theme in my second post. In case you’ve never seen SimpleReader before, click here to read more details about the theme and here to view the demo site.
Our idea is simple: create an intuitive, self-explanatory theme options panel.
Here’s what we come up with. So without further ado, hereby I present the screenshots of our all-new theme options panel. Click the pictures to view the larger versions.
Well, it’s time to walk you through SimpleReader again, our latest newspaper WordPress theme that works lightning-fast and is pumped with powerful SEO. In case this is your first time around, you might not want to miss the first part of the walk-through that covers the home page and the blog post page of SimpleReader. There’s going to be a third part too. Be ready for that as all about SimpleReader‘s backend will be revealed. Click here to read more details about the theme and here to view the demo site.
In addition to the standard static page that most WordPress themes have, SimpleReader comes with five extra page templates, each having specific function. It’s got a Full-width page that would be useful for content customization that requires the sidebar go. There is a Gallery page which shows post thumbnails along with their excerpts in one page (the page is AJAX-paginated). Also, there’s a fully-functional Contact page which gets rid the hassle of installing a dedicated plugin merely for showing a contact form. For the sake of SEO greatness, SimpleReader has a special Sitemap page as well as a Tags Archive page.
We’re incredibly thrilled to launch SimpleReader, our second theme in July 2011. SimpleReader is a newspaper-styled WordPress theme dedicated to those who are in need of a simple and clean WordPress theme that works wonders. SimpleReader is designed by Firman Firdaus, one of our collaborative designers.
I’m going to cover all features of SimpleReader in 3 blog posts. The home page and the blog post page, two most important pages of a web site, will be this post’s main focus. My second post will cover all the page templates that come with the theme. All features of our all-new theme options panel that powers SimpleReader will be revealed in my last post.
The idea is simple, we wanted to create a design that lets users pick what interests them right away from the first time they visit the website. The home page should be easily navigable, contain relevant and important information only and give spotlight to content. That’s why we came up with the name: SimpleReader. You can view the demo site here.
As you can see, the home page is clutter free. The header and footer sections contain a drop-down menu, a search box, links to inner pages and a line of copyright information. The main section of the home page shows a number of articles with thumbnails and excerpts. At the bottom-right of the page are AJAX page buttons that let users easily navigate through your blog posts. Yes, we’re talking about seamless user experience here.
Hey there! We’re so excited that we launched Equilibria last week. We hope this post will explain how easy it is to use the theme. Equilibria is our first multi-purpose WordPress theme, mainly targeting business users who also put their blogs at the frontline of their businesses. Equilibria comes with 3 (three) landing pages and several page templates including a gallery page that functions like the popular iPhone app, Pulse News. The theme comes with 5 (five) preset stylesheets and is ready for customized CSS, giving you the infinite potential of customization.
Business themes are among the most sought-after premium themes in the WordPress business. It’s a fact that’s very understandable; people try to bring their businesses online and consider a premium WordPress theme as one of the investments they should make. However, as an online business grows, a community which is dependent on the business will grow too and business owners will start to think that blog and social networks are key tools to maintain the community. That’s where the problem lies.
Imagine that you’ve started with a WordPress theme that’s only tailored to showcase your products, say a portfolio WordPress theme. What would happen if some time in the near future you needed a blog? Do you think you really have the time to redesign?
That’s what Equilibria is for. It comes with three landing pages (business, blog and portfolio) to cater your current and future uses. No matter how you start your business with (a blog, a business site or a portfolio site), you will always have the ease to expand and explore.
Everyone loves freebies and we’re so keen on giving these away too. We’ve recently decided to make the most of the social networks (i.e. Facebook and Twitter) and we think it’d be great to spice this up a bit by giving away free support licenses for our latest theme: RPG.cod Free. You can actually download the theme for free, though. But, if you’re up for this ultra-easy task, you will also get a free support license, which is currently priced at $30.
The task is pretty simple. You only need to follow us on Twitter and become a fan of our Facebook page. Once you’ve done that, simply contact us by filling this form! Better be quick as we’ve only got 25 licenses to give away!
What lies behind all this? Well, we’ve never actually used those networks to engage with our current and future customers so hopefully this can be a good start. We’re ready for this now and it’s the right time to build strong userbase and reach out. So, once you’re one of our Twitter followers and Facebook fans, please feel free to interact just the way social networks are meant for. Non-technical issues only, please. We’ve already got the Resolution Center for all the complicated stuff.
Alright, then! Catch you all later!
After having been more than 2 years in business, ColorLabs finally gets its second facelift. The site is now fairly simpler and shows a lot of whitespace which makes reading much more enjoyable. It is also in so many ways more integrated so users will find it easier to explore.
Okay, this is something that is completely new at ColorLabs and we bet you’re going to love this. Each purchase now includes a free, optional first-time installation and configuration service and we promise to make your web site ready in 24 hours. Not only is this so great and helpful for you all, this also cuts the number of technical issues raised in our support systems, which in turn will let us focus more on designing new products for you. To opt-in, you need to submit a request to the Resolution Center and we’ll get down to business in a snap.
The contest has just ended. After receiving 104 wonderful WordPress theme concepts and selecting the best 12 for the finalists, we finally are about to announce you the winners. Again, we deeply thank all of you that have participated in the contest and we look forward to seeing you again in our next theme design contest.
Before we annouce you the winners, we would like to say our special thanks to the judges: Jason Schuller, Jean-Baptise Jung from WPRecipes.com, Alexander Frison from WPEngineer.com, Jeff Chandler, Michael Castilla from WPCandy.com, and Michael Dobler from Smashing Magazine. It’s been so wonderful working together with you guys and your comments about the designs are deeply appreciated.
Here comes what you’ve been waiting for. The grand champion entitled for US$ 1500 is Firman Firdaus with his concept TypeMagz! He is the winner of the Category C (Newspaper/Magazine) and his design is the best among the 12 finalists.
TypeMagz by Firman Firdaus
It’s (nearly) a wrap. The submission period has just ended and it’s been so exciting to see 104 wonderful WordPress theme concepts from contestants in different countries of the world. We deeply thank all of you that have participated in the contest. And as we all know, there are obviously people who succeed making their way into the final now and there are also people who do that later in the future (let’s hope that we can host another theme contest, right?).
Anyway, we know that you’ve been waiting for this. Here are the finalists, in a totally random order. We deliberately do not publish the designs as the competition has currently not ended (yet). Please welcome the finalists! (drum snares…)
Designing a dream WordPress theme?What do you believe in designs? We believe that great designs are designs that speak and function. They were developed through insightful inspirations and born to convey an important message to the viewers. Although designs are always eye-candies, we do believe that awesomeness lies beyond.
Talking about WordPress, what do you think an awesome high quality WordPress themes should look like? Should they have vivid colors? Clear typography? Great content readability? Or perhaps something that conventional graphic design theories forget?
Well, we guess this is your time to decide. Express your insights by designing a theme concept for us. Show yourself off, gain some recognition, and not to mention, there is a total prize of US$ 3500 available for you, talented designers.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Hereby we present you a new ColorLabs, along with a new membership system provides all-in-one solution for customer to ask for theme support, read the online regularly updated theme documentation, upgrade theme licenses in few clicks, and download the latest version of the themes.
Online documentation, theme knowledgebase, and tutorials will make you easier to get through the installation and configuration process. We will also post some articles about how to modify particular section of the theme, integrate plugins, etc.
With this new system, you can update your profile (name, email, password, and blog URL) and you don’t have to rely to newsletters (in the past, using the old system) which happened to be unreliable as it often caught as spam, got lost on its way, etc, etc. Should there be any updates made to the theme, we will post a Tweet to inform you all and afterward you can log in to the site and click the download link. And anyway, you will never find the link expired or whatsoever anymore; and you don’t have to buzz us to activate the link.
Platformate Theme has just been released and made avaiable for sale a day ago. The theme is designed for you who are willing to have unique blog design, a magazine look with personal touch. In one single purchase, you get the unlimited possibility to pick and decide the color scheme of the theme. Here is a very simple tutorial on how to colorize your theme.
There are basically 3 colors applied across the theme: the dark tone, the light tone, and the link hover cover. With these 3 user-definable options, you can get any color you want for your blog.
Note: The category spoilers colors in the right sidebar must be configured in “Category Color Assignment” in the bottom-left of the admin panel.
