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Responsive WordPress Theme

Željan Topić — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:25:18 +0000

Since the great success of Berita theme, I have decided to release its successor – Responsive. This is the most advanced, mobile friendly theme you can imagine. It has it all, HTML5 and sheer simplicity to make any of your designs quickly fit into theme framework. It is versatile business theme with a fully responsive layout and media files. All you need is to activate the theme and your site is ready for business.

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Fully Responsive Design

Design and the whole structure of this theme is built to scale on all browser widths/resolutions and on all mobile devices, along with different screen size. Dimensions are specially developed to fit tablets and smart phones. Now go ahead and resize your browser window to see the results.

Developed with HTML5

Theme has been built using the latest HTML5 standards, the fifth edition of HTML. It will work perfectly with the latest browsers and will fully embrace the forthcoming browser innovations. Elements, such as

and

Flexible Slider

Theme uses FlexSlider, the best responsive jQuery slider around. It is built to serve the newest of beginners, while providing seasoned developers a tool they could use with confidence. Responsive web design can be tricky, but I hopefully this slider will serve to uncomplicate the process, just a little bit.

Custom Templates

Add custom pages like Blog, Sitemap, Archives or choose No Sidebar page template if you want to display your page content with sidebar in full width. This is really easy to manage, so you shouldn’t have any problems with it.

Translation Ready

All theme options and texts are easy to translate into any language you want. We made sure theme options are also translatable, so you if you are developing a site for you clients in language other than English, you won’t have any trouble.

9 Alternative Colour Styles

You may style your site however you want, however, we included 15 predefined skins to choose from. Match your brand design with one click and use simple design editor to style the rest (fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders,…).

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Responsive WordPress Theme

Hair Care WordPress Theme

Željan Topić — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:03:37 +0000

Hair care theme in is next (previous was Nail Care) in my current series of Beauty & Spa themes. Booking and Scheduling system is so good, I wanted to expand it to much more themes, so expect a few more in coming weeks. Hair care is prefect WordPress theme for your hair salon. It has all you need to run your hair salon on-line: showcase of your services, products, staff, location, contact information and most of all, full booking / appointment management system. Give you customers opportunity to book on-line and send them automatic reminders via email and easily manage your opening / closing hours.

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Main Features

Full Booking System

Theme comes with in-built functionality capable of taking online bookings for your services. You can set your opening and closing hours for every day of the week and and then view/manage orders from your WordPress administration. Admin can accept/cancel and manage requests and is notified via email, when new booking has been set. Administrator also has the ability to automatically notify customers, when booking is confirmed or cancelled. Pretty neat, huh?

Easily Manage your Services

The theme has powerful and easy to use back-end options, which allow you to simply add services, pricing and much more. Pricing for your services is also integrated into booking form and single service pages, so rest assured everything is integrated. You can display your services anywhere you like on your website, with a simple widget, specifically designed for this purpose.

Customer Testimonials

Every successful business has happy customers to prove their value, so make sure to display testimonials from your customers. With this theme, this is really easy and everything you need to do, is to add feedback content, author name and link to their website. It is intuitive, easily manageable widget, which will bring more customers your way.

Advanced Slider

Slider widget for this theme is probably the best one, we have developed so far. You can set the height, width, and loads of special effects, like the time duration and slider pagination. You can add images and videos, which will be automatically resized and cropped to fit your slider width and height.

Hours and Location

We made a simple widget to add hours and location information for your salon. You may add any other info instead. To add maps, go to Google maps, find your location and embed it inside this widget. It doesn’t get much simpler than this.

Custom Templates

Translation Ready

Shortcodes

Theme comes predefined with a number of custom short codes, which are listed on this page. Shortcodes allow you to add styled content to your site with little effort and ability to add buttons, boxes, toggles, … and stylish alerts.

8 Alternative Colour Styles

You may style your site however you want, however, we included 8 predefined skins to choose from. Match your brand design with one click and use simple design editor to style the rest (fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders,…).

Full Theme Preview:

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Hair Care WordPress Theme

Nail Care WordPress Theme

Željan Topić — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:41:04 +0000

I just developed the most advanced WP theme yet. It’s really amazing and the booking system will blow you away, especially if you’re looking for a simple, yet very functional way for making appointments with your customers. It is perfect for nail care salon owners, who want to showcase their services, location, customer testimonials and their products. It comes with a full-blown booking / appointment managing system, which is fully integrated into WordPress CMS. Send your customers auto reminders via email and easily manage your opening / closing hours.

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Main Features

Full Booking System

Theme comes with in-built functionality capable of taking online bookings for your services. You can set your opening and closing hours for every day of the week and then view/manage orders from your WordPress administration. Admin can accept/cancel and manage requests and is notified via email, when new booking has been set. Administrator also has the ability to automatically notify customers, when booking is confirmed or cancelled. Pretty neat, huh?

Easily Manage your Services

Customer Testimonials

Advanced Slider

Advertising Ready

What use do you have from an appealing website that looks good without ads, but once you put some advertising on it, it goes bad? – None. This is why we put extra effort to blend advertising units with the layout of this theme, so you’ll not only have a professional looking website, you’ll earn from it too.

Translation Ready

Shortcodes

10 Alternative Colour Styles

Custom Widgets

Theme has 10 widgetized sidebars, placed inside 3 main areas: Header, Main and Footer. Rearrange all areas however you like, even on home page only. As always, theme comes bundled with loads of advanced widgets: Booking Online, Testimonials, Slider, Social Links and more than 20 others.

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Nail Care WordPress Theme

WordPress 3.3 in Final Stages (beta)

Željan Topić — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:36:04 +0000

WordPress, my favourite content management system, is growing and developing faster than ever. I feel it has been just weeks ago, when 3.2 version was last published and here comes another improved version, 3.3. Its first beta has already been released, so lets dive into 10 most anticipated improvements, at least for me.

1. New media uploader (Plupload)

No need to mention that this media uploader feels much better than previous version. Plupload was developed by TinyMCE dev team and is a JavaScript API for dealing with file uploads it supports features, like multiple file selection, file type filtering, request chunking, client side image scaling and it uses different runtimes to achieve this such as HTML 5, Silverlight, Flash, Gears and BrowserPlus. It is well integrated into WordPress and first thing you’ll notice is that you can now drop files into upload section and the rest is handled automatically.

2. Welcome screen on 1st time install and 1st time post-update

This improvement is aimed at WordPress beginners and should encourage them to make their first important configurations correctly. It guides them through the set-up process for the first time and feels much like facebook notes, when new features are available. It’s a very neat feature and I’m looking forward to see API for this, so plugin and theme developers could use it too.

Learn how to use tooltips inside themes or plugins.

3. Improved admin bar

Admin bar has been redesigned from ground up and now feel much more advanced and smooth. The menus now drop down when you hover your mouse over them, saving you more clicks. I’m not a fan of uncontrollable menu behaviour, but this should feel comfortable after a while. The menu has also been re-arranged, with the “Appearance” menu now appearing. Also, if you hover over the WordPress logo there are links to lots of useful places like the support forums and the codex.

4. Performance improvements

Even though previous version got much faster, 3.3 feels considerably faster as well. You’ll notice performance improvements instantly, so browsing through settings and adding new posts should be zippier than ever.

5. Responsive admin

This improvement won’t do much for most WP users, but should bring better and responsive admin design for those with smaller screen sizes, like mobile or iPad. Some of the responsive admin work has been pushed to the 3.4 release but just some simple screen resizing shows the progress has been made. When you shrink down your browser the left admin menu collapses and the dashboard widgets resize. If you’re beta testing you should definitely play around with it.

6. Fly out admin menus

New flyout menus aren’t really per my taste, but once you get used to them, you’ll do everything a bit faster. Previously flyout menus only appeared when the menu was collapsed, but now they appear all the time, which is great. It saves one click on your navigation but when you spend all day working on WordPress those one clicks can add up.

7. Permanent widgets

As my themes and framework is heavily dependent on widgets, this is the most significant update for me. You have probably suffered this setback in the past when you tried to change a theme and out of the blue, all the widgets that you had perfectly organized on the previous theme disappeared. Well, this is going to be fixed in WP 3.3 and now all your widgets will remain from one theme to the next, you will be able to find them on the sidebar of the new theme.

8. Remove admin warnings

The truth is that there are many ways from preventing these messages about upgrades and stuff from showing up, which includes several plugins and hacks, but with this new version you just have to choose that these messages won’t appear from now on. I haven’t found the setting just yet, so it’s probably still under development or sth.

9. Improved Editor API

Post editor uses latest version of TinyMCE, but the code behind it is changed to allow better re-usability of the editor. Right now there are few methods (none of them working well) to have rich editor on the admin page, but with latest changes this should be really easy to do. New WP will have jQuery 1.6.4, jQueryUI 1.8.16 (finally complete version with all components), editor API for easy use of editor anywhere and improvements to scripts enqueue process.

10. Improved `/%postname%/` permalink structure

If you’ve ever used the /%postname%/ permalink structure on your WordPress site (and haven’t we all at some point) then this bit of news will interest you. Not only is that permalink structure is patched and much faster, it’s now a recommended option as well. It usually gives websites a tiny SEO boost, so you might want to check this out.

Learn more about postname permalinks.

Other improvements

Improved Metadata API
Improved Settings API
Admin dynamically display on devices of various screen sizes
Implement language packs for core, plugins, and themes

More News about WordPress 3.3

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Improved Security and Faster Website Browsing with CloudFlare

Željan Topić — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:15:53 +0000

For the whole past year, I’ve been experiencing issues with my blog, which you’re just reading – bizzartic.com. It went from hack attacks and pharma hacks to downtimes. As most site owners, I didn’t bother thinking about it, but two weeks ago I experienced a serious security threat, when net bot changed my .htaccess files. Only my front page was visible, with other pages getting 404 error. At that time, I started searching for a better hack proof solution and I think I finally found it. It’s called CloudFlare and it’s really awesome, at least for now. I use it for my blog (bizzartic.com), as well as for bizzthemes.com, my commercial WordPress solution.

What is CloudFlare?

It is a service that does two things for your website: makes it faster and increases it security. This is achieved with a single change to DNS. Your website is instantly protected from a wide range of online threats and it loads much faster, since your content is dynamically optimized across the Internet. And best of all, CloudFlare’s core service is free.

How does CloudFlare work?

It prevents spam bots and website attacks with flawless security tools. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through its intelligent global network system. It automatically optimizes the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance.

CloudFlare in 90 Seconds from CF Vimeo on Vimeo.

Stats & Reports Tour Video from CF Vimeo on Vimeo.

Threat Control Tour Video from CF Vimeo on Vimeo.

Always Online Tour Video from CF Vimeo on Vimeo.

How much does ClodFlare cost?

It comes with 3 types of accounts. Free, Pro ($20) and Enterprise (custom price).

CloudFlare Features & Pricing

CloudFlare promises to create your account in seconds and takes just 5 minutes to supercharge your website. All it needs is your email address, a username, password and the plan type you want to take. Once you entered the required fields, click the sign up button.

Learn more about CloudFlare

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Pure Magazine WordPress Theme (v2)

Željan Topić — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:56:05 +0000

After more than two years, since original Pure Magazine theme has been last updated, I’ve decided to make this theme premium and a lot better. Old theme will of course stay available, but only new one will be supported in future. It is beautiful and functional theme, which gives you complete control over your web magazine. Each post can be styled uniquely with 1, 2, 3 or more column layouts. It is advertising ready, so not only will your ads look great with the rest of your website, ads will be more effective than ever. Start publishing your news as professional, concentrate on your content and leave this theme to do the rest.

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Main Features

Featured Posts

WordPress is awesome, really awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Easily a ‘must-have’ for all good News/Magazine themes is having a featured posts section. Featured posts widget has it all, sliding posts with thumbnails and even sticky posts as a bonus.

Carousel Posts

Show your latest posts with carousel sliding effect, which is also SEO friendly. You can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show as well. Post will be shown with the thumbnail and a link, so by clicking on it user can view particular post.

Category Posts

Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category in the best way possible. Latest post is displayed with a thumbnail and you may also choose to highlight first couple of them with larger text. It is very easy to read and really grabs users attention.

Advertising Ready

Translation Ready

Shortcodes

10 Alternative Colour Styles

Custom Widgets

Theme has 10 widgetized sidebars, placed inside 4 main areas: Header, Featured, Main and Footer. Rearrange all areas however you like, even on home page only. As always, theme comes bundled with loads of advanced widgets: Featured Posts, Carousel Posts, Social Links and more than 20 others.

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Pure Magazine WordPress Theme (v2)

“Google App Engine, Your Price Hike is Terrible!”

Željan Topić — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:54:50 +0000

Not sure if you knew, but Google decided to leave App Engine preview phase and up the pricing. Not just slightly increase the price, like they do it in Fast Food restaurants, but sky rocket it, like from $9 a month to $270 a month, as this report suggests; or from $2.63 to $34.38 per day, as this user acknowledged.

Image source: http://androidandme.com/2011/09/news/how-google-app-engine-pricing-changes-might-affect-android-apps/

I usually don’t mind price increases, especially if they’re justified and transparent, but this totally blows away my perception of Google as a fair business. They firmly stand on so many issues I can relate to, but using “bait and switch” tactic is so uncool. I understand their current price is too low, but why did they set it so low in the first place? Initially, I thought this was because they simply scale it up on their massive infrastructure, but never though of it as a “bait”.

I can’t imagine how many start-ups this decision will kill, including some of our own projects. There are also thousands of Android Apps, relying on App Engine, so rest assured this price hike won’t end up well. I understand Google is not a public service, but nevertheless, I was hoping their dark cloud wouldn’t rain on us. But, as they say: “After the rain comes sun”, … oh crap, Oracle killed that too.

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“Google App Engine, Your Price Hike is Terrible!”

Firma Business WordPress Theme

Željan Topić — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:29:25 +0000

This theme is perfect for corporate websites, where you want to display information about your company and share links to your other social web profiles. Theme is simple to manage and easy to modify, using the amazing template Builder. It was developed for small and large corporations, with strategically positioned layout, easy-to-read fonts and appealing colour variations.

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Main Features

Corporate Friendly view screenshot
Theme has been developed for small and large corporate websites. The layout, colour variations, typography and all widgets were strategically placed to appeal corporate audience, so rest assured customers will find all information about your corporation in seconds.

Simple, yet Fast Slider view screenshot
Feel free to have as many sliders as you want, even on the same page. Configure each one of them separately: add custom back/forward buttons, position them anywhere you like, edit effects and include selected posts inside it.

Nested Grid Structure view screenshot
Theme has nested main grid structure, which means you may add widgets and HTML inside three-column grid structure, which is placed within main content area. Also create your own nested grids if you like and for instance split sidebar in half .

Translation Ready view screenshot
All theme options and texts are easy to translate into any language you want. We made sure theme options are also translatable, so you if you are developing a site for you clients in language other than English, you won’t have any trouble.

Shortcodes view screenshot
Theme comes predefined with a number of custom short codes, which are listed on this page. Shortcodes allow you to add styled content to your site with little effort and ability to add buttons, boxes, toggles, … and stylish alerts.

10 Alternative Colour Styles view screenshot
You may style your site however you want, however, we included 15 predefined skins to choose from. Match your brand design with one click and use simple design editor to style the rest (fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders,…).

Custom Widgets view screenshot
Theme has 12 widgetized sidebars, placed inside 4 main areas: Header, Featured, Main and Footer. Rearrange all areas however you like, even on home page only. As always, theme comes bundled with loads of advanced widgets: Slider, Latest News, Social Links and more than 20 others.

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Firma Business WordPress Theme

Tanjun Business WordPress Theme

Željan Topić — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:47:24 +0000

This is the most complete business theme I’ve released so far. It has everything you need to run your website and more. Every element is highly customizable through template builder and powerful design options panel. It is designed to be simple and developed to be the best.

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Main Features

Simple and Fast Slider view screenshot
Feel free to have as many sliders as you want, even on the same page. Configure each one of them separately: add custom back/forward buttons, position them anywhere you like, edit effects and include selected posts inside it.

Perfect Pricing Table view screenshot
Pricing tables play an important role for every company that offers products or services, so we made sure you get the best one. Configure custom product features, comparison tables and add appealing call-to-action buttons.

Post Formats view screenshot
Post Formats is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.1. A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post. The Post Formats feature provides a standardized list of formats that are available to all themes that support the feature.

15 Color Schemes view screenshot
You may style your site however you want, however, we included 15 predefined skins to choose from. Match your brand design with one click and use simple design editor to style the rest (fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders,…).

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Tanjun Business WordPress Theme

Hosting Pro Business Theme

Željan Topić — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:00:30 +0000

Out of the box hosting template for web hosting companies, resellers, hosting equipment and services. You’re able to build clean and professional hosting website quickly and take your web hosting business to another level. It’s ideal for resellers and includes all features, you’d expect from a professional hosting provider.

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Main Features

Integrated Domain Lookup

Domain availability search has never been easier. You may configure the widget to search for domains within specified whois extensions and even set available domain name links to point to custom domain registration address.

Advanced Pricing Table

Pricing tables play an important role for every company that offers products or services, so we made sure you get the best one. Configure custom product features, comparison tables and add appealing call-to-action buttons.

Easy Table Manipulation Tools

Table editing inside WordPress was always hard, thus there are many plugins for this. No need for plugins anymore, as table editing is not seamlessly integrated into the theme. Easily edit pricing tables, add new rows, columns and even change cell colors – without any HTML knowledge.

Advanced, yet Simple and Fast Slider

Have as many sliders as you want (not these sliders o_O), even on the same page. Configure each one of them separately: add custom back/forward buttons, edit effects and any include any site post inside it.

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Hosting Pro Business Theme

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Responsive WordPress Theme

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WordPress 3.3 in Final Stages (beta)

1. New media uploader (Plupload)

2. Welcome screen on 1st time install and 1st time post-update

3. Improved admin bar

4. Performance improvements

5. Responsive admin

6. Fly out admin menus

7. Permanent widgets

8. Remove admin warnings

9. Improved Editor API

10. Improved /%postname%/ permalink structure

Other improvements

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How does CloudFlare work?

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Pure Magazine WordPress Theme (v2)

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