ColorLabs Themes are Compatible with WordPress 3.3

We have updated all ColorLabs WordPress themes to be compatible with WordPress “Sonny” 3.3. So if you are planning to upgrade your WordPress install please update your ColorLabs themes first to the latest version. Download the latest version of your themes from the member area. Remember to back up your site before upgrading your WordPress.

Theme Sneak-Peeks: An E-Commerce, a Blog, and a Newspaper Theme

We have received 3 new theme designs from our co-designers. In fact, one of them is undergoing coding right now. So we will release  at least 2 more themes on February and the other one will be released on March. For early screenshot of Sneakers Addict, an e-commerce theme, go to this blog post. And some teasers are also available for Momentum (blog) and Reportage (newspaper) over here.

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I’d love to introduce to some of our upcoming themes which will be released over the course of this month. Recently two new theme designs from our co-designers, one is a blog and the other is a newspaper style. And since we just launched Neu last week, a news website theme with magazine style, we decided to work on both designs and dedicate this month to the web publishing industry.

For the first time ever, meet Momentum and Reportage.

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Every year, the pressure’s on to do something different and unique for your special someone on Valentine’s Day. This year, we have a perfect solution for you.

In honor of this special celebration of love, and since we love you all so much, we are providing you with over 70% discount on ColorLabs love-and-celebration related WordPress themes, the Adam & Eve and Invitora. The regular price for each theme is $49 for the standard pack, and $99 for the developer pack. With the Valentine’s Discount Coupon you will get each for $14 for the standard pack and $28 for the developer pack.

“Now where is this coupon?”

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A picture speaks 1,000 words but does that picture can drive 1,000 visitors to your website?

Images not only improve user experience but, if used correctly, can also be an asset for organic search by helping your page shows up higher in organic search result. By providing an optimized image you are providing search engine with a better understanding of what that page is about. Google also has a section dedicated to searching for images and this can bring traffic to your website or blog.

But, just by having an image won’t bring you any result. Although advances have been made on image searching method, search engine still can’t “see” an image so you have to surround your image with descriptive hints on what it is about.

Image SEO is something that people neglect to do. People either forget to do it, have never thought about it, or don’t see the value in it. Image optimization is a great method to grab targeted traffic and it works for many businesses, and it never hurts to optimize your site.

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In January I’ve added a few websites to our Showcase Gallery where we feature the best designed customization sites out there. There’s nothing can make us happier than seeing our customers modifying our WordPress themes, ripping them apart and creating incredibly beautiful websites.

Every now and then our users submit their modified version of our themes. Each week we go through each one of them and publish the one we think will give value to our users. If you have created a site using one of our themes, please provide us link to that site and we will try to include it in our showcase.

This post, will cover the 10 websites that we added to the showcase recently. Browsing through examples of beautiful website designs can provide inspiration that can be put to good use in your own design work.

Click on any of the screen shots to visit these awesome ColorLabs WordPress Themes customizations!

1. Motorsport Retro

Based on: Arthemia Premium

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If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field you then the only way is to never stop learning. Whether you’re working for a company, a freelance, or a hobbyist hacker, web developers must continually update their skills. The web technology changes in the blink of an eye and it’s one of the most beautiful things about it. These changes and improvements can be overwhelming if you don’t start to do something to catch up.

A top web developer is supposed to keep updated with any updates and developments that occur in web development as an industry. This in other words is to say that they should be highly flexible, adapting to any changes that occur. There has never been a successful web developer who feels he know enough and just stop learning at some point.

In this post, I will share some methods that ColorLabs developers use to enhance their WordPress skills and keep theirself updated with best practices and techniques in today’s coding. They involve everything from keeping up on what’s landing on browsers, following resources and references, to meeting other people with the same profession.

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I am excited to announce the release of a new theme, the Indulgence theme. Indulgence is designed specifically for restaurant, cafe and bar owners. Take your business to the next level by bringing it online where your potential customers are.

View Live demo and Buy this theme. Start your restaurant website today.

WordPress makes it easy and inexpensive to create a professional and attractive website and Indulgence is the perfect WordPress theme for restaurants, cafes, pubs and bars. Indulgence homepage showcases your featured foods, menu items, business/open hours and your Google Map location.

Optimized for social sharing, including testimonials from satisfied customers on Foursquare, your website is sure to reach all foodies through viral marketing. Indulgence also include an online reservation system so you can bring customers to your table by offering reservations right from your restaurant’s website.

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This announcement should be online like 7 hours ago but something weird happened. I finished writing the post and are 100% sure I clicked the publish button. But then the post status suddenly return to be a “Draft” with nothing written on it, only the title. That’s what you got when you change things during a server migration. I just found out about it 30 minutes ago, that’s why this announcement is a bit late. Sorry, guys.

Enough with the rambling. Happy time!

The Site5 Giveaway that we started last Wednesday has ended and now it’s time to announce the winners of One Year hostBasic Web Hosting Plan from Site5. So, without further ado, the winners are:

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The wave of selling online is just starting and we believe e-commerce themes have a lot of prospect. So in case you’ve been looking for a nice e-commerce theme for your website or any ongoing projects, we’ve got something coming up for you. We are going to work on yet another e-commerce WordPress theme called  ”Sneakers Addict“, designed by Andre Septian.

Sneakers Addict is very simple by using more white space and a dark theme on menu navigation. The design doesn’t highlight only the content, it also put the products in the spotlight by using subtle effect and images. Backed by a cool color scheme and beautiful typography that nicely fits the overall feel of the theme. The ribbon placed on the left upper corner of the product is a nice touch and it’s interesting how Andre also add cool effect on the product details.

Good website navigation is essential for any site, but much more so for e-commerce sites interactive. So we’re going to provide a sophisticated product filter this time where customers can filter based on price, materials, categories, brands and even colors.

Here is a first peek at Sneakers Addict’s homepage. As always, feedback is welcomed with open arms. :D

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WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” was released on December, 2011 to the masses, a fact that I think you are well aware by now.

We had been testing our themes on 3.3 since the release and had found some minor problems. We have fixed the problems and everything works perfectly fine now. We’ve updated all themes to include all the fixes and all is well.

If you want to upgrade to WordPress 3.3, you have to upgrade your themes first to the latest version. NOTE: Before upgrading your existing site to WordPress 3.3, it is highly recommended that you backup your site and deactivate all plugins. We cannot promise that all of your plugins are compatible, so make sure you check those for compatibility before updating.

The latest version numbers are listed below:

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Backbone Theme Framework is Finally Here!

The Backbone Theme Framework was officially launched last week. We also prepared 2 Backbone child themes, Vidio and Sakura—both are included in our Backbone purchase. If you purchased Backbone during the pre-order, the download link is now available on your member area. If you haven’t and wondering why you should, then read this blog post.

5 One Year Unlimited Web Hosting from Site5 is Up for Grab

With one week left in January, we thought it would be nice to team up with Site5 in order to host another give away. Just like last time, up for grabs are 5 web hosting accounts with unlimited disk space and bandwidth. You can win a Web Hosting Account for 1 Whole Year!  

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Wow, who would have thought that it’s been 6 weeks since my last theme sneak peek post. We were so caught up working with Backbone that time just fly by. Don’t worry. We are not being lazy.

Over the past few weeks along with developing our Backbone Theme Framework we have also been hard at work developing two robust WordPress themes. I have featured the first one on my previous sneak peek post (check it out and make sure you leave a feedback or two :D).

The second theme we are working on is called Neu. Neu will be a magazine/news theme ideal for content-heavy websites.

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