Chronicle wedding plans with Vow’s blog styling, add wedding details like ceremony location or registry information, or add a photo gallery with engagement photos:

Vow's Blog Styling

Wedding Details: Location and Registry Info

Engagement Photos

Paired with Builder’s powerful layout engine, Vow is the perfect partner to a beautiful WordPress wedding website.

Get Vow (and Builder) today!

In this brand new WordPress training video you’ll learn all about the easy flexibility of FlexxTheme, as well as the new versatility you might not have heard about.

Now you can get all 18+ themes for only $97 to build your blog the right way.

Download the Flexx webinar handout.

You may also want to check out this post by one of our own members about how to choose between iThemes Builder and the FlexxTheme for different projects.

Get FlexxTheme now.

The response has been incredible, and we feel really amazed to have so many friends from all across the globe.

A ladder, a level, and some double-sided tape later, we now have the newly-installed Friends of iThemes wall:

We all gathered around, noting the names that now finally had faces, the unique personalities of each photo (some made us laugh pretty hard), and we all felt pretty inspired. So, thanks to all of you, our Friends. You make it possible for us to do what we love.

Don’t see your face here yet?

Upload your photo for our wall and join the Friends of iThemes club.

And don’t forget to join us for the State of iThemes webinar in two weeks. We’ll be sharing more of our strategic plan and initiatives, vision, and core values with our customer community, including our annual theme for 2012 “Make Waves”.

See you there!

We have several iThemes mottos, and one of them is an ancient African proverb:

In the fast-paced world of web development and design, it’s good to be reminded that we do greater work together than we could ever do alone.

Brad, our designer, sketched up a few amazing designs and we went to work enlarging it by 1000% for its new home on the wall. Over the span of 3 days, it took around nine hours to complete:

Here’s a time lapse of us painting it (enjoy!):

Join us for the State of iThemes webinar on February 22 at 6pm CST. We’ll be sharing more of our strategic plan and initiatives, vision, and core values (like this one) with our customer community, including our annual theme for 2012 “Make Waves” (which is awesome).

Grab your State of iThemes seat now!

FlexxTheme was created for people who want more versatility out of their blogs and websites. It gives you the edge with built-in SEO features, easy to ways to plug in graphics and backgrounds, and other features that will save you time or from having to learning code.

FlexxTheme is the ultimate WordPress blog theme that gives you the greatest potential for one sweet price!

Now you can get all 18+ themes for only $97 to build your blog the right way.

Also, we’re holding a free training webinar on How to Maximize the FlexxTheme Feb. 7 so be sure to signup below:

Maximizing the FlexxTheme
Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/642453658

Flexx is the ultimate WordPress blog theme that gives you the greatest potential …. learn more about this powerful blog theme in a free webinar below by WebDesign.com Prof Benjamin Bradley.

Maximizing the FlexxTheme
Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/642453658

Market, the Latest Child Theme for Builder

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 cool shop and product page:

The Market Shop

Keep customers up to date with your news, featured by Market’s blog design:

Market's blog styling

Market is available for immediate download, included with nearly 60 other child themes, in the iThemes Developer Pack, the All Access Theme Pass, or the 3-in-1 Web Designer’s Toolkit. Get Market stand-alone (bundled with Builder Theme Core), too.

Get Market now.

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 can join with us. (You can see last year’s State of iThemes webinar replay here and my 2011 Year in Review post here.)

We don’t want to just be a company that has a transactional relationship with you. We want to be more. We want to be a partner and friend to you. That’s why we say you are part of our “customer community” not simply just customers. And why we also launched our Friends of iThemes customer ambassador club (to let those of you who want an even closer relationship with our team and business to have the opportunity to do so).

This year, our annual theme is “Make Waves.” We have several campaign initiatives around this and I’m super excited to unpack them for you at the 2012 State of iThemes webinar on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. Central Standard Time. (I hope this time is the best time for the most attendance.)

I hope you’ll join me for this special time as I point the way our ship is heading this year … and enlist you on the journey!

2012 State of iThemes Webinar
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
6 p.m. Central Standard Time

Signup for the 2012 State of iThemes Webinar here:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/222585554

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:

A Beautiful Feature Image Post

Featured Image Less Than 960px Wide

Featured Image Greater Than 960px

To see all of Kepler Light’s portfolio-related features, check out this free Kepler overview webinar from WebDesign.com. You’ll walk through all of the theme features, plus a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Kepler Light to showcase images and other visual web type elements.  You’ll also learn how to use Builder’s layout engine and image grid extension with Kepler.

With Kepler Light and Builder, you’ll have the perfect foundation for creating awesome WordPress photography sites. Kepler Light also partners perfectly with DisplayBuddy, a collection of plugins designed to showcase images, video, and text uniquely and easily.

Get Kepler Light stand-alone, bundled with over 50 other child themes in the Builder Developer Pack, or in our All Access Theme Pass.

Get Kepler Light today.

These Best Practices of Web Development Instruction include tips and ideas for:

• Getting started
• Engaging and connecting with students
• Teaching methods and techniques
• Assignments, class projects, and tests
• Pointers for teaching different age groups
• Practical tips to help you day-in, day-out

If you’re not already a participant in the iThemes Education Program, you’re invited to join us in our efforts to expand and improve web design education for the next generation of web designers.  If you’re a full-time student interested in, or simply curious about web development and WordPress web design, check out the recently-released Student Edition of the Web Designer’s Toolkit–the perfect opportunity to access professional tools and gain premium training.

A special thanks go to the educators and team members who contributed to this ebook: Benjamin Bradley, Cherish Flieder, Christy Sooter, Kathy Gill, Steve Cunningham, Tami Frascht, Kevin Hendricks, Nina East, and Brad Ulrich.