Archive for Blog Design
iThemes Now Offers Premium Themes for Movable Type
Posted by: | CommentsA couple months ago, iThemes started a great conversation with Anil Dash, a Vice President from Six Apart, about developing premium blog themes for Movable Type – one of the largest Open Source blogging platforms available.
Today we announce our new Movable Type Premium Theme Store from iThemes.
There are three MT themes available; Business Blogger which is FREE THEME DOWNLOAD, Blogging Success (based off of our WordPress version), and soon to arrive Essence. This is an exciting time for us and we are really pumped about this new partnership with Six Apart!
Please check out our Movable Type Theme Store or visit iThemes for our WP Premium Themes.
Relaunching Church Communications Pro
Posted by: | CommentsHey CCP Readers! I know it has been quite a while since I have been active here and I offer my apologies!
Since I’ve joined the iThemes team, we have been blasting out a bunch of new projects which has kept us all pretty swamped. One of the major products we released this morning is a new WordPress theme called Flexx Theme. It is off the wall, and I believe for churches (or anyone else for that matters) it is going to absolutely change the playing field when it comes to church blogs or church websites.
Here’s just a few of the goodies that Flexx Theme is capable of doing:
- Offering 1,056 layouts variations!
- Click of the button layout and styling options.
- Easy to upload backgrounds and headers without FTP.
- No coding experience needed or required to use!
- Rotating and Fading Image Headers.
- Automatically Search Engine Optimized.
- Built in Color Picker for Background Colors
- and more things you can shake a stick at!
I will also be working on FLEXX THEME: CHURCH which will be released at ChurchTheme.com in the next week or so. Either way you won’t want to miss getting it but if you do want the original Flexx Theme then get it now because the price will go up next week!
All this to say what ties into my headline.
We are going to load the Flexx Theme for Church Communications Pro to show it off and so you can see how it works. So please excuse the mess as we start relaunching CCP and give it one new sweet look!
A Whole New CCP Coming Soon!
Posted by: | CommentsI wanted to start off this Monday with a big announcement to all the Church Communications Pro readers that there are going to be a BUNCH of new (and hopefully exciting) changes taking place here at CCP soon.
Cory Miller has been blessed with his new business at iThemes and is really busy – so much that CCP just hasn’t been able to be worked on. This blog has been a great resource to many ministries and churches and I personally have enjoyed many of the insights presented here. That’s why I presented Cory with an idea which we have both whole-heartedly agreed to.
Starting today, I will become the new brain-child and chief editor at Church Communications Pro. This is a great honor in many ways. One of my goals has always been helping The Church to find ways to communicate the Gospel with excellence and relevance in an always moving, always changing culture. This is a very difficult task! It’s also my dream to see churches collaborating and working together to build the Kingdom; sharing ideas and resources through CCP is just one small way to achieve this. I hope that I can continue to build on the foundation and outstanding work that Cory has started and to help you to the best of my abilities.
Some of the changes that I see happening over the next few weeks are:
1. A brand spanking new design and look!
2. Content and category changes. Almost everything will remain intact for now but there will be new content and some new features.
3. Guest writers who are the some of the best at what they do.
4. Exclusive products and special deals through Church Communications Pro.
No doubt there will be some kinks to be worked out and fine-tuning ahead but it will definitely be worth the wait. So stay tuned in to what’s going on and updated information that’s coming down the pipeline!
Blessings!
James Dalman
Church Communications Pro
The First Five Steps to Optimizing Your WordPress Blog
Posted by: | CommentsI just posted on my blog design site a post detailing the first five tweaks I take when doing a new WordPress blog installation.
Here’s a summary of the most important tweaks I do:
- Install the Google sitemap plugin
- Activate the Askimet plugin
- Burn your feed
- Change the permalinks structure
- Use a contact form
Note: These are just the first five changes, according in priority, that I do.
Church Communications Pro Gets An Overdue Facelift
Posted by: | CommentsThis is long overdue … my Church Communications Pro blog has needed a facelift-redesign for some time to reflect more of my own design style that’s grown from releasing over 20 free WordPress themes … and doing a bunch of other custom WordPress blog designs in the past four months.
Oh … for now … if you haven’t noticed … comments are back (emphasis: “for now” and on selected posts).
We’ll see how that goes … if it again, becomes a distraction … then off they go.
But back to the redesign … I’m still doing tweaks, which is the great thing about WordPress blogs … you can tinker and tweak until you exhaust yourself.
