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Igloo Online Magazine

Željan Topić — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:21:31 +0000

After so much work, I’m proud to announce that Igloo theme has been released under BizzThemes platform now and is ready to rock your site. Theme has proven track record, with over 10,000 users and 2 years of active updates. Based on users feedback, we crafted the layout and design to perfection, so rest assured this is not ‘just another magazine theme’.

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Feature list is very long, but one feature really stands out and is new to our framework – shortcodes. In a few words, shortcodes are short code snippets, you may enter into your post area and enhance your post look/feel/layout without hassle. We wanted to get rid of those difficult and inflexible templates and give you simple tools to achieve even more.

Shortcode Groups:

Box Styles
Tabs and Toggles
Column Layouts
Random Styling
Code Blocs (former templates)
- Blog
- Sitemap
- FAQs

Igloo

Željan Topić — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:57:52 +0000

Sticky Slider
Stick any of your posts to the top and put forward articles you want to promote at the moment. After you unstick your featured posts, they seamlessly integrate into your post archives.

Amazing Shortcodes
With shortcodes, styling your posts is easier than ever. Split your content into columns, highlight certain words, create your own tabs and toggles, insert your FAQs or even create multiple blog pages from different categories.

Advanced Widgets
Theme is packed with 9 advanced widgets that enable you to have full featured online magazine out-of-the-box. Add tabs, Twitter stream, ad banners or even style your own widget with rich text editor.

Designed to Perfection
Theme has proven track record, with over 10,000 users and 2 years of active updates. Based on users feedback, we crafted the layout and design to perfection, so rest assured this is not ‘just another magazine theme’.

Feedburner Reader Counter
The best way to attract more subscribers is to show them your feed is live and running. If you’re just starting simply turn this feature off and activate it, when your user engagement jumps up.

Our New Theme Features plus Some Teasers

Željan Topić — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:36:05 +0000

It’s been a while since our last blog post, but don’t think we’re sleeping or sth. Loads of work has been done lately and I’m really proud to finally polish the concept of our upcoming theme framework. It will transform your way of using WordPress themes in the future – instead of finding your way through complex options panel, you’ll build your site by drag’n'dropping every single element into beautifully designed grid – follow our blog for future updates.

New theme features

Contact form widget in all our themes. It is linked to your Akismet plugin for filtering spam
WP 3.0 menus in all our themes. We have supported 3.0 menus for quite some time now, but from now on this will be the only way for using navigation within our new themes.
AJAX sliders. As sliders tend to slow down loading times, we’ve shifted from direct to json loading of slider content and slider options.

New BizzThemes.com features

Restructured support docs and forums. Support is accessible as never before and you’re clicks away from resolving your issues.
Restructured front page. Site activity and support access is now available to community members only.
Access to the big list of our site members. You may philter which member is currently active and contact support staff in seconds.

Upcoming theme teasers (Igloo)

Feedburner Chicklet

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eConsultant

Željan Topić — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:02:27 +0000

Featured Slider
Pick any of your existing pages, include an image, a video and order them how you want. Slider has loads of options to choose from as well: speed attributes, fixed height, custom back/forward button etc.

Fully Widgetized Layout
If you’re tired of using loads of templates and custom code to get the desired layout and content, theme widgets on the front page, footer and sidebars are to the rescue.

Simple to Use
Theme is mainly built on widgets and uses drag/drop functionality to handle the layouts. Even though it has loads of options, it doesn’t require extra knowledge of WordPress.

Navigation Menus Administration
Instead of time-consuming and ineffective way of handling menus, we hurried to implement WP 3.0 menu administration that is simply amazing (This is WP 3.0 features: custom menu)

Which Features Are Missing in Our CMS Themes?

Željan Topić — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:20:40 +0000

Share your thoughts and win a standard theme package of your choice. This thread will be opened until prior notice, so you’re never too late to submit your comments.

Kreera

Željan Topić — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:41:54 +0000

Dynamic Image Slider
Pick any of your existing images, associate them with a desired post and present them on your desired pages. Slider has loads of options to choose from as well: crop positioning, speed attributes, link management etc.

Google Fonts
As default web typography sometime gets boring, you have option to choose from 18 built-in fonts, provided by Google. Fonts are cross-browser compatible.

Customizable Front Page
The homepage of your theme is completely customizable and allows you to add/edit/move any section instantly via theme options panel and dynamic widgets.

Fully Widgetized Layout
If you’re tired of using loads of templates and custom code to get the desired layout and content, theme widgets on the front page and sidebars are to the rescue.

BizzCard – Professional vCard for Freelancers

Željan Topić — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:35:36 +0000

We are proud to present the newest member to our gallery – BizzCard theme. If it looks simple, is easy to use and helps you create your website in less than 1 hour, our aim has been achieved. This theme is also the first one to fully support WordPress 3.0, even before it gets officially released. We hurried to integrate awesome navigation menus and custom post types that make new version of WordPress the best CMS solution currently available.

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New Theme Features

Giant Logo

This can be a full-blown regular looking website or just a place where you may share you most important information via big logo image.

Twitter Gadget

Gadget performs independently from your page content loading, so no more loading delays due to Twitter fail-whale. Display as many tweets as you like, anywhere across your site.

FAQ Administration

Display frequently asked questions for your customers and give them freedom to comment on your answers. (This is WP 3.0 features: custom post types)

Navigation Menus Administration

Instead of time-consuming and ineffective way of handling menus, we hurried to implement WP 3.0 menu administration that is simply amazing (This is WP 3.0 features: custom menu)

Flexible Widgets Placement

Besides default widgets you have 6 custom ones, which you may place wherever you like: above logo, below navigation menu, above content … the only limit is your creativity.

New Framework Features

Separated theme and framework library (easy future updating)
New updates control system (similar to core WP)
New custom editor (edit all your custom files from admin panel)
New Translation control (from now on with gettext standard)
Massively updated SEO (just install the theme, framework does the rest)
Small but urgent design fixes for admin panel
Cleaner and faster code
Updated hooks (added new actions for all functions)
Documented theme files (inside files on top)
Better change log (now also inside theme files)
Probably a lot more …

BizzCard

Željan Topić — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:05:08 +0000

Giant Logo
This can be a full-blown regular looking website or just a place where you may share you most important information via big logo image.

Twitter Gadget
Gadget performs independently from your page content loading, so no more loading delays due to Twitter fail-whale. Display as many tweets as you like, anywhere across your site.

FAQ Administration
Display frequently asked questions for your customers and give them freedom to comment on your answers. (This is WP 3.0 features: custom post types)

Flexible Widgets Placement
Besides default widgets you have 6 custom ones, which you may place wherever you like: above logo, below navigation menu, above content … the only limit is your creativity.

Affiliate Program for BizzThemes?

Željan Topić — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:09:03 +0000

After receiving tons of email about our affiliate program, I’m starting to overcome its drawbacks. I have nothing major against affiliate marketing, but really hate when someone advises you a product and you find out it’s actually just another affiliate marketing. How to trust a business, when you know it offers affiliate marketers cash for spreading out a good word for them. It is a complex question, so I’ll guide you through some of the advantages and disadvantages of affiliate marketing for our business.

Pros (+)

Cheapest and best advertising.
Best ROI available.
Users get rewarded for promoting our themes.
More site traffic.

Cons (-)

Who believes affiliate marketers? I know I don’t.
Scheduled payments to marketers also take some resources.
Can be false and misleading advertising sometimes

Conclusion

It really is a tough decision, which I’m not ready to undertake until someone convinces me otherwise. All our competitors use it and I know we could earn a lot more, but risk of losing our credibility is too big at the moment.

Breaking News: IsoTherm Bizz’d Up

Željan Topić — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:52:32 +0000

With IsoTherm, our business product portfolio is one magazine theme richer. We had doubts about this type of themes being added to our gallery, however all doubts are gone and we are extremely excited to share it with our community members.

This new and innovative design will definitely give all journalists opportunity to publish top news articles in best way possible. As users don’t want to read long novels and tend to concentrate on images and videos, we adapted theme structure to match readers expectations. Featured post section breaks the usual content flow structure and gives users dynamic and usable reading experience.

If you want a flexible theme that will let give you control over every area of the theme, then you’ll definitely like the IsoTherm News Magazine WordPress theme. Managing your own news site has never been more fun and easy, so don’t hesitate to download starter edition or buy commercial package and join our fast growing community of BizzThemes enthusiasts.

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IsoTherm Front Page (click to enlarge)