2010 has been tough, but very productive and probably a major milestone in my career. I finished my regular studies for masters degree at faculty of economics and established online business that has become both profitable and enjoyable at the same time. I’m now able to invest a lot more into development and actually turn some ideas into practice, without bumping into obstacles that are related to cash and resources.

Major 2010 achievements

• 13 fresh premium WordPress themes
• New theme framework
• Redesigned and cleaned bizzthemes.com
• Ditched BuddyPress

Major 2011 goals, heh =)

• Theme framework
  • import/export feature
  • demo copy by default
  • ajax everything
  • auto update for theme, not just framework
• BizzThemes site
  • showcase site
  • paid feedback
  • pimped design
  • at least 12 new themes
  • testing and possible transfer to themeforrest
• Other projects
  • pay to follow app for Twitter
  • new laptop

I realize I could not achieve anything without your support, yes, without you who are reading this, so thank you again and looking forward to collaboration in 2011.

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My Plans for 2011

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Now that new bizz framework is stable enough for further theme development, I’ve decided to release long-awaited Restaurant theme that is as flexible as site building gets. You’re able to create as many menus, galleries, sliders, blogs … as you want, even on a same page. Place them wherever you like and have fun doing it. Build sites for local restaurants or for yourself in mere days.

This theme also marks another milestone for as it’s the fastest theme, currently available on the market. I optimized every piece of code to the limit, so if you check theme demo with YSlow (Firefox add-on), you’ll see 93/100 mark. Test your current site against it and you’ll see the difference.

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Main Features

Advanced Menus (as custom post type)

Fast and Flexible Slider (as custom post type)

Simple and Tasty Design with 8 Predefined Skins

Opening 30% discount for all, so hurry and sign up.

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Restaurant Pro – Theme that makes you Hungry

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Yesterday, I watched a movie, The Social Network, with my buddies. I’d say it’s a very good movie, especially for us – programmers, but very flawed as well. The screenplay was excellent, but portraying Mark as genius, just for coding a simple Friendster copy was a bit too much for me. I understand people are prone to drama and supernatural, but you can’t shoot a movie about real people and make them into geniuses, just because they’re now billionaires. I’m sure Jack Dorsey will be flying like a bird, when they make a movie about Twitter.

Back to the point, BuddyPress, the social network provided by WordPress. Watching the movie, I learned people like social experience on the web, but not always. They love to spy on their friends and people they actually know, but they just don’t care about the others. At the moment, I have the same problem with BizzThemes, where I implemented BuddyPress, in a hope to engage users to communicate with each other – with no success. Why? Because they just don’t care about other community members that have bought premium themes and only want simple support forums that can process their support queries.

The conclusion

I’ll probably remove BuddyPress from BizzThemes and implement simple bbPress support forums instead. I’d also advise all website owners to rethink their social strategy and only offer their own social network, when they plan to engage people who actually know each other. This is why MySpace failed, I’ve failed and you will, if you use BuddyPress just because social is currently in.

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BuddyPress Failed after watching movie, The Social Network

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As lots of people have contacted me after I’ve announced this new theme framework, I’ve decided to test the idea of BizzThemes as a marketplace for a limited amount of designers. The idea is to have all themes built on bizz framework, so that designers will only code the styling and other theme specific functions. They’ll also apply their own pricing and will earn most of the share (50-60%). Authors will have to provide some support – the rest will be covered by bizz team.

As this is still just a thought and nothing is final, I’ll test it with a few people and decide from there on.  If you’re a designer and think you have skills to design top quality business web sites, drop me an email and we’ll discuss things further:  admin@bizzarti.com.

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This month is all about news, so I’ve decided to update all of my News themes and pour more life into them. Igloo hasn’t been updated for a long time and now is the perfect time to do so.

Theme has proven track record, with over 10,000 users and 2 years of active updates. Based on users feedback, I crafted the layout and design to perfection, so rest assured this is not ‘just another magazine theme’.

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Feature list is very long, but one feature really stands out and is new to our framework – shortcodes. In a few words, shortcodes are short code snippets, you may enter into your post area and enhance your post look/feel/layout without hassle. I wanted to get rid of those difficult and inflexible templates and give you simple tools to achieve even more.

Shortcode Groups

• Box Styles
• Tabs and Toggles
• Column Layouts
• Random Styling
• Code Blocs (former templates)
  • Blog
  • Sitemap
  • FAQs

Advanced Shortcodes

Sticky Slider

Feedburner Reader Counter

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Igloo – Bizz’d Up

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This is 10th premium theme release and also the first one in series of niche themes, that will soon be added to my portfolio. From this release onwards themes will depend much more on widgets, rather than custom code blocks, that are difficult to modify and are not prone to multi-use.

Theme has been designed to suit consultant, professionals and experts that want to present themselves online and attract new customers with neat design and top search engine visibility. It is very simple to use and flexible as it gets, customizing the design is like playing with LEGO, the only limit is your creativity.

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Unique Theme Features

Featured Slider

Pick any of your existing pages, include an image, a video and order them how you want. Slider has loads of options to choose from as well: speed attributes, fixed height, custom back/forward button etc.

Fully Widgetized Layout

If you’re tired of using loads of templates and custom code to get the desired layout and content, theme widgets on the front page, footer and sidebars are to the rescue.

Simple to Use

Theme is mainly built on widgets and uses drag/drop functionality to handle the layouts. Even though it has loads of options, it doesn’t require extra knowledge of WordPress.

Navigation Menus Administration

Instead of time-consuming and ineffective way of handling menus, we hurried to implement WP 3.0 menu administration that is simply amazing (This is WP 3.0 features: custom menu)

New Framework Features

• Added classes into framework instead of lib_theme
• Sort and check slider pages in theme options panel
• Simple contact form widget
• Eliminated all PHP notices if debug mode is on
• Added support for WP thumbnail images and automatic header feeds

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eConsultant – for Consultants and Professionals

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I am proud to present the newest member to BizzThemes collection – BizzCard theme. If it looks simple, is easy to use and helps you create your website in less than 1 hour, our aim has been achieved. This theme is also the first one to fully support WordPress 3.0, even before its official release. Themes  integrates awesome navigation menus and custom post types that make new version of WordPress the best CMS solution currently available.

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New Theme Features

Giant Logo

This can be a full-blown regular looking website or just a place where you may share you most important information via big logo image.

Twitter Gadget

Gadget performs independently from your page content loading, so no more loading delays due to Twitter fail-whale. Display as many tweets as you like, anywhere across your site.

FAQ Administration

Display frequently asked questions for your customers and give them freedom to comment on your answers. (This is WP 3.0 features: custom post types)

Navigation Menus Administration

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Flexible Widgets Placement

Besides default widgets you have 6 custom ones, which you may place wherever you like: above logo, below navigation menu, above content … the only limit is your creativity.

New Framework Features

• Separated theme and framework library (easy future updating)
• New updates control system (similar to core WP)
• New custom editor (edit all your custom files from admin panel)
• New Translation control (from now on with gettext standard)
• Massively updated SEO (just install the theme, framework does the rest)
• Small but urgent design fixes for admin panel
• Cleaner and faster code
• Updated hooks (added new actions for all functions)
• Documented theme files (inside files on top)
• Better change log (now also inside theme files)
• Probably a lot more …

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BizzCard – Your Business Virtual Card

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Yet another of my old BizzArtic WordPress themes has been transferred to BizzThemes platform, where I’ll be able to continue with its development and offer support to its users. I tried to incorporate all requirements I received from users of old theme. Now it’s much simpler to use, has loads of new features and gives premium users ability to control its design with just a few clicks.

If you’re running a news site or have a personal blog, this theme is the best fit for you. With IsoTherm you’ll be able to concentrate on your content and rest assured everything else works at top-level (SEO, cross-browser compatibility, reading usability etc.)

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IsoTherm Front Page (click to enlarge)

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IsoTherm Bizz’d Up

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I’ve been developing new BizzThemes social network for quite some time and after I received loads of feedback on its concept, it was time to develop the real deal. It came out really good and puts our customers support experience on a totally new level.

Why Social Network?

• Support isn’t related to forums anymore but is available throughout the whole site
• Keeping track of your support groups has never been easier (email, RSS, activity stream)
• Customers may follow all activity streams through RSS feeds and Email
• Sending private messages is now available to all customers
• Instead of complex newsletter system, network uses smart notifications
• Option to use BizzThemes as your Twitter client and post your activity streams directly into Twitter
• Better user experience and a good foundation for future development

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• Browse our theme gallery, review pricing details and join our fast growing community.

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After I’ve bizz’d up Berita, I’ve decided it is time to do the same for Inuit Types theme. This is really a great piece of work, so I couldn’t wait any longer to give this theme bizzthemes framework upgrade. Basically, theme is now really simple to use and has the best SEO incorporated. Take as a clean sheet of paper that comes with the best paint brushes available. The remaining thing that this theme needs is your creativity, so don’t hesitate to purchase one of our premium theme packages and release the artist within yourself.

Inuit Types was previously offered for FREE, so we have decided to keep it this way and offer starter edition free of charge. With this free upgrade you won’t lose any of its major functionalities, but if you want to get professional support, all the features available and be the first to receive its upgrades, than make sure you buy one of our theme premium packages and join our BizzThemes community.

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Inuit Types Front Page (click to enlarge)

Theme Features

Comment Rating

This theme includes simple, yet advanced ajax comment rating system. Logged in users have option to rate your comments with thumbs up/down approach.

Looped Post Slider

Integrated jQuery slider for Sticky posts with number of options to set up your slider: auto slide, auto height, optional fixed height etc.

Total Design Control

You’re able to design your site just as you want – all from the neat theme options panel. Control all colors, images and even typography with just one click.

Enkelt Design Control from Željan Topić on Vimeo.

Total  Layout Control

You have an option to arrange your layout modules the way you like and to exclude unimportant module blocks that don’t fit your needs.

AJAX Login Form

Fully customized Ajax login form, displayed in any navigation section. Translate it, add your own image in form header and redirect users to site of your choice.

Total Branding Control

If your purchase Agency theme package, you have option to totally control the theme branding: add your logo into footer, control back-end branding and even rename the theme if you like.

Integrated PrettyPhoto light-box script

All images and Flash videos pop out in a beautiful light-box window. To configure this option, just enable PrettPhoto script, everything else is handled automatically.

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