By Cameron Chapman
Proper use of image compression can make a huge difference in the appearance and size of your website image files. But compression is an often-misunderstood topic, partly because there’s a real lack of understanding on what the different types of compression are good for. If you don’t understand which type of compression to [...]

Our first ever iThemes Bootcamp ended Saturday night, but not before making another video!
Here’s some footage of the weekend as well as some feedback from attendees about what they learned and how they would rate the first Bootcamp.

Our first ever iThemes Bootcamp ended Saturday night, but not before making another video!
Here’s some footage of the weekend as well as some feedback from attendees about what they learned and how they would rate the first Bootcamp.

Few would have been able to predict the growth of social networking sites like Twitter. Ultimately, they helped bloggers by bridging the gap between the site, the writer/publisher behind the site, and the community, or the readers who enjoy the site. When these sites were much smaller and more rarely used, the main method of [...]

One challenging topic bloggers fail to realize is that a lot (usually fifty percent or more) of the people who visit your site will read just a few words on your site, then move onto the next site. Beyond bounce rate, there are other issues that must be solved.
Readable content is key when writing online, [...]

Over the past year I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Leland through his excellent WordPress resource, Theme Lab.  While most designers have turned their attention to building premium WordPress themes, Leland is one of the few who has continued to release quite a few completely free WordPress themes which are of a comparable [...]

Revival is a clean and stylish business / CMS WordPress theme from Viva Themes. This lightweight, fast loading theme features a large slideshow on the page based homepage to promote products / services, drop down navigation menus, and an integrated blog.

Key Features

Page based hompeage
100% tableless CSS design
Very lightweight and fast loading theme
Front page slideshow, [...]

StudioPress have released version 4.0 of the Lifestyle magazine style premium WordPress theme. New features include: more efficient theme options page with extra options, auto-sized thumbnail images, support for localisation and more. Check the full list of features here.

Price:
Lifestyle Theme Package: $59.95
Pro Plus Package: $199.95 (all current and future StudioPress themes)
Demo & Release Page | [...]

Valtik is a basic CMS WordPress template from NattyWP.

Features

Built-in colour chooser – specially developed block for managing colours will help you to configure the background, links, headlines and menu colour etc.
3 page templates (Archives, Sitemap and Fullwidth)
Feedburner subscription
6 additional widgets and 4 different widget spaces
Completely widgetized sidebars with special widgets
Built in Theme Options panel, [...]

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If there is a commonly reoccurring need for a particular solution, there is a great probability that someone has – by now – solved that need and has finished the legwork involved in researching and constructing something that resolves it. At the very least, you will find documentation on general solutions to [...]