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Just Released: Market, an eCommerce Child Theme for Builder

February 2, 2012

Introducing Market, the latest eCommerce child theme for iThemes Builder. With simple lines, cool colors, and bold contrast styling for widget areas, Market is the perfect store-front for your WordPress eCommerce site: Like Depot (another eCommerce Builder child theme), Market features integration with three different WordPress eCommerce plugins: Shopp, Cart66 and WP-Ecommerce. Simply visit the Market demo home page to select your preferred plugin to view the specific Market styling for each. Check out Market’s [...]

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2012 State of iThemes Feb. 22

January 30, 2012

As we’ve grown and expanded, I’ve found it essential to begin sharing our strategic plan and initiatives, vision, and core values with our customer community each year. (We do this annual and quarterly with our team as well – which will happen Feb. 14-15). I do this because we want to be a transparent and personable company … we also want you to know where we are heading so you [...]

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Introducing Kepler Light

January 26, 2012

Introducing the latest Builder child theme: Kepler Light, the “lighter” version of the original Kepler. Kepler Light features the same great photography-focused styling, great for showcasing your creative work: Kepler Light includes several specific post styles to focus on featured images, all with a unique custom date stamp to add interest to your blog: To see all of Kepler Light’s portfolio-related features, check out this free Kepler overview webinar from WebDesign.com. [...]

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Best Practices in Web Development Instruction [New eBook]

January 24, 2012

The iThemes Education Program is proud to announce the release of Best Practices in Web Development Instruction, an eBook full of helpful tips and information for educators in web design and development. This collection of “best practices” was gathered through interviews with web development and web design educators at all levels of education, including our own instructors at WebDesign.com. Use these helpful tips when teaching students about the many aspects of web [...]

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Score One for Web Freedom

January 20, 2012

The good news is … SOPA and PIPA have been delayed by the House and Senate. The bad news is … they will come back with brand new clothes, a shiny new name, and more teeth soon. In fact, they could come back with a venegeance because of the forces behind them. Millions of people rallied together to tell those who represent us that we will fight to protect our [...]

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Just Released: Student Edition of WordPress Web Designer’s ToolKit

January 18, 2012

The Student Edition of the WordPress Web Designer’s ToolKit is now available to qualifying students attending high school, college, technical and/or web design schools. If you are a full-time student interested in, or simply curious about, web development and WordPress web design, this is the perfect opportunity for you to access professional tools and gain premium training. The Web Designer’s ToolKit is the flagship offering at iThemes, including all themes, [...]

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Censorship Sucks, Freedom Rocks

January 17, 2012

Many of you may have heard the ruckus about two bills going through the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that seek to limit your web freedom. They are Software Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act. And you should contact your senator and representative today to tell them you OPPOSE them. Fight for Future has all the gory details (aka a great resource site) for learning more at [...]

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Just Released: Adept, a Child Theme for Builder

January 13, 2012

Introducing Adept, a stylish new child theme for iThemes Builder. Percfect for small businesses or professional bloggers, Adept features a sleek design to pair with Builder’s great flexibility and functionality for easily building WordPress websites. Adept features: simple navigation with great button styling and secondary dropdown styles   alternate module styles for navigation and widget modules to configure your site exactly to your specifications: Default navigation and widget styles   Alternate [...]

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Celebrating 4 Years at iThemes

January 11, 2012

This month, iThemes celebrates 4 years of serving our awesome customer community. In 2008, iThemes was launched out of the home office of our founder, Cory Miller. Since then, we’ve grown to over 20 employees around the US and globe, and staked out a surprisingly sizable portion of an office complex. Over the years, we’ve learned that mottos are important.  We even had one cut out of foam (yes, it can [...]

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Free WordPress 101 Tutorial – Getting Started with WordPress

In this week’s free WordPress tutorial, Benjamin Bradley reviews 18 critical elements you need to know when setting up your WordPress site, including some insights into hidden areas of the dashboard and how to create an easier work flow. In addition to learning about privacy settings, filling out your profile – how and why you want to do this, how to access advanced options when creating posts and pages, how [...]

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