Stockholm Magazine – Balance and Simplicity of the Design

Stockholm is the latest photo magazine theme designed by our modest teammate Ceyhun. Even though Ceyhun joined our team back in mid-2011, he has worked on significantly improving our back-end and framework. A few months ago he shared a first draft of a photography-inspired theme and we immediately fell in love with the balance and simplicity of the design. We made it a priority to to implement the design and code into our framework so that it would be ready immediately.

When this theme was revealed, we decided Stockholm was the the perfect name for it’s light and dark personality. There are not many places in the world where darkness occurs for 24 hours or the sun never sets depending on the time of the year. This theme, and its name, is inspired by the beautiful Swedish capital. Stockholm offers an unique and balanced layout for a magazine or photography theme. The contrast is perfect for showcasing high-quality images.

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City Desk – All in One WordPress Newspaper Theme

Designing and developing great themes is a fun process but nothing happens exactly as planned. Our initial vision of a theme inevitably evolves into something very different by the time its complete. Luckily, it always looks better than what we had in mind. This is exactly how our newest theme – City Desk – came to fruition.

Wish you had an all-in-one newspaper theme? That’s the thought process behind this extremely powerful. option-filled theme. When we started to design City Desk, we didn’t want to create just another newspaper theme. Instead, we chose to focus on the following:

  • Leverage the power of WordPress to build a truly unique magazine / newspaper theme
  • Implement features typically found only on sites with large budgets and staff
  • Give users options to creatively display their news site

Some of the sleek features incorporated are due to our great community. Many members shared their expectations from a magazine theme and we went to work based on valuable input. The end-result is City Desk – an all-in-one WordPress newspaper theme.

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Your WordPress Site Needs Personality

Ever look around for a quality theme for your personal site – something that isn’t just a portfolio site or blog, but really focuses on the individual? Look no further. We’ve been peppering our newest WordPress theme – Personality – with all the right details and features.

Your site is your identity. The Personality theme was designed with this principle in mind. We wanted to escape the traditional blog as some users may need a professional web site to inform their audience of their skills, background, or just who they are as a person. The focus is completely on YOU. In addition to the balanced layout, we came up with an unique design that is versatile enough to satisfy almost any individual’s needs.

It needs to work your way. Functionality is key and the Personality theme includes features typically not found in similar themes. Here are some notable examples:

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Tie the Knot with a Wedding WordPress Theme

Over the past few years, I have probably been asked a dozen or more times by friends and family to create a WordPress wedding website for the lucky bride and groom. In fact, just this year, I have attended six weddings in some amazing locations around the world. So it’s really fitting that our newest theme is a WordPress wedding theme.

And we did our research before developing this beautiful piece of work by ensuring we touched on the most important aspects of a wedding site.

Telling Your Story

Let’s face it – the bride and groom’s story is always a fascinating tidbit. It’s one of the most interesting points of discussion before, during, and after the wedding. So we’ve made it easy to tell your story to the world by eliminating all the noise packaged in standard themes. From the proposal to the engagement to the big day, just focus on your story and let our wedding theme do the rest.

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