Produce Better Designs with Sample Content

This week’s tip will help you produce themes/designs that stand up to real-world use.
The problem is all too common. You develop a design, and it looks great. Then you ship it off to a client, and it starts to look horrible. The reason? The client is putting in different content than you did.
The solution is [...]

Basic Builder Demo Webinar March 3

Matt Danner and I will be giving a Basic Builder Demo Webinar to a local Builder User Group started in Las Vegas by one of our great community members, Rick Knox, on Wednesday, March 3 from 8-9 p.m. Central Standard Time.
We’ll be taking direct questions from the Las Vegas group live on the webinar but [...]

Flexx and Builder Differences

Many have asked about the differences between the FlexxTheme and Builder.
Both are awesome and both meet different needs.
So we made this video to help explain and demonstrate two of the major differences between these themes: layout and design. This video will only scratch the surface of what these themes are capable of doing but will [...]

Use the Right Tools for the Job: Video

Part 2 of Matt Danner and I’s conversations from our recent Nashville trip that spilled over into a video post … in part 1 we talk about the difference between free and premium products.
This one talks about using the right tool for the right job.

The Difference Between Free and Premium: Video

In this video, Matt and I discuss what is the real difference between free and premium apps (or anything for that matter) is.
This was a conversation we had during our recent trip to Nashville for a client. We started it out by talking about the iPhone app store. There’s your backstory!
Please make a comment [...]

iThemes Live On the Road – Nashville

Just cause they were traveling doesn’t mean they forgot about the viewers at home.
Cory and Matt live stream from their hotel in Nashville, TN to share the experience they had meeting up with some iThemes customers and why they’re in Nashville in the first place!

ColorZilla – FireFox Addon Video Tutorial

ColorZilla is a really handy addon for FireFox that allows you to get the hexadecimal values for colors with just a click of your mouse. Here is a brief video tutorial on using ColorZilla.

FireBug – FireFox Addon Video Tutorial

Firebug is absolutely my favorite addon to FireFox. It is an extremely powerful tool for diagnosing issues, as well as for development. Here is a brief video tutorial I did showing you some of the basics of using this great tool.

New Builder Child Theme: Astro Released

Matt and Brad from the iThemes team have been hard at work creating a new (and free) child theme for iThemes Builder … it’s called Astro.
This is the fifth free bonus child theme offered for Builder customers and is now available in your member’s area.
It includes:

Cool social icon tabs – a new Builder hook [...]

Learning CSS 101: The Box Model

If you want to design awesome web sites or just make little tweaks to your site’s CSS, you should first learn some fundamentals. One of the most important things to learn know about CSS is how the box model works.
Everything on a webpage is a box. The site you are looking at right now is [...]