BizzArtic » igloo http://bizzartic.com Željan Topić, Blogger, Google Enthusiast and Premium Wordpress Theme Designer Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:06:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Igloo – Bizz’d Up http://bizzartic.com/2010/08/11/igloo-bizzthemes/ http://bizzartic.com/2010/08/11/igloo-bizzthemes/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:30:38 +0000 Željan Topić http://bizzartic.com/?p=2082 Post from: BizzArtic - Blogging Ideas and Tips

Igloo – Bizz’d Up

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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

Advanced Shortcodes

Sticky Slider

Feedburner Reader Counter

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Your Favourite Icon Now in Igloo

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Igloo theme got yet another update, my god it’s version 3.2 already :0 As always some now features were added but it is mainly just an update from last release. I focused on your feedback, eliminated all reported bugs and some other fixes I encountered myself. Most notable new feature is ability to show your favicon in modern browsers, if some of you don’t know what that is, visit this site.

Here is a short summary of new or updated features:

  • Custom Read More Text (on homepage it is usually seen as Read more…, Read Full Post… or Read On…)
  • Custom Favicon.ico (small icon to show up in modern browsers)
  • Transparent Images in Internet Explorer (just ad -trans to your .png images, example logo-trans.png)
  • Feedburner Feed Server choice in drop-down (if you transferred your feeds to google you can now change server for your feeds)
  • New Dark Black style
  • New Dark Green style

Other fixes:

  • Search results title fix
  • Custom templates fix (Please note: if you have any igloo custom templates, please update them by choosing a right template again )
  • Author pages fix
  • Image Gallery template fix (now displaying last 24 images)
  • Left image align in posts fix

And as always delete your old igloo theme files before you upload new one – you won’t lose your previous settings!

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Igloo News 3.0 Released

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Finally after few weeks of tweaks new version of Igloo came out. My main focus was on standardization of all elements, thus I’ve validated all my code (W3C) and made it compatible with WP theme requirements. I could take it to their repository but I’ll still wait a bit to get some feedback from you.

In this release no plugins are needed whatsoever,…from now on I just recommend them as major ones are now embedded into theme functions.

Some new features were introduced:

  • Relative Dates in Comments – new
  • Choose Blog Title over Image logotype -new
  • Total Feedburner Management – new
  • Show Feedburner Feed Counter (Chicklet) – new
  • Custom Control Panel – new
  • Exclude Categories/Pages from header – new
  • Include Pages in Footer – new
  • 3 layouts to choose from – new
  • Option to hide Top Categories and Sidebar Tabs – new
  • Embedded AdSense Support – new
  • Child Pages Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs) – new

And design improved:

  • Cleaner design
  • Shadowing of top boxes
  • Introducing new layout (2 column boxes)
  • Better image border effect
  • Fixed Widgets Design

And typography upgraded:

  • Better H1,H2,H3,…H6 look
  • Better Code Highlight
  • 3 level bullets and numbering
  • Better paragraph and line spacing

Also some features were dropped:

  • Center Widget – It was ugly
  • Custom Bookmarks – Much better plugins are out there
  • 200×200 center banner – no center widget

Demo |  Download | Support | Features

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Igloo News Updated to Version 2.1

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This update is again quite significant. Some pixels were fixed and no bugs as none was found. A really big update was done on design, which has changed on all theme skins, it is now more SEO and user friendly. Typography has changed to >font-family:Georgia, Times, serif< on all major areas and now has more magazine-like look.

Also some new features were introduced, most notable is option to hide comments counter on home page. This is very important if blog doesn’t have many visitors from the start. Nobody likes to see all posts tagged with ’0 Comments’ so I’ve changed it to ‘Comment’.

And for conclusion I have to emphasize that my aim is to develop Igloo Theme to be better than even best commercial premium themes – Hopefully I succeed ;)

Download and Demo

Screenshot:

igloo-screen

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Igloo News Updated to Version 1.0.3

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I made mistake with my last version, it is no major bug or anything, the problem was with style switching on front page. As I use the same release in my demo version I forgot to delete some useless style-switch drop downs and feedback link in released version 1.0.2.

You can delete this manually or just overwrite theme header.php file if you haven’t customized it of course. Please download latest version 1.0.3 here:

Delete this:

<link rel=”alternate stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/skins/2-black.css” title=”black” />
<link rel=”alternate stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/skins/3-red.css” title=”red” />
<link rel=”alternate stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/skins/4-green.css” title=”green” />

Delete this:

<div class=”alignright switcher”>
<form id=”switchform”>
<select name=”switchcontrol” size=”1″ onChange=”chooseStyle(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value, 60)”>
<option value=”none” selected=”selected”>Default style</option>
<option value=”black”>Black</option>
<option value=”red”>Red</option>
<option value=”green”>Green</option>
</select>
</form>

</div>

And…Delete this:

<li><a href=”http://www.kampyle.com/feedback_form/ff-feedback-form.php?site_code=9849398&amp;form_id=8175&amp;lang=en” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘popupwindow’, ‘width=438,height=500,scrollbars,resizable’); return false;”>Give Feedback</a></li>

Again sorry for the inconvenience!

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Igloo News Updated to Version 1.0.3

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Igloo News Updated to Version 1.0.2

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There were no major fixes, just some minor changes in style.css and orher template files to correct layout for few pixels. I tend to be perfectionist and those pixels bothered me for some time – now space between containers is fixed.

Other major changes were made to Google Analytics Settings. I removed it alltogether from theme administation and imposed proven plugin that really rocks and it is quite simple to manage too. Plugin is called Google Analytics for WordPress…I think it is better to leave analytics development to others and concentrate on better things that make my theme better than others – desing and usability. Plugin is included in ‘plugins_important’ file which you can find in theme directory.

Now download it and Give Me Feedback if you have something to say.

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Free Igloo Theme Teaser

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As you know from my previous post, I’ve applied to WooContest with my Igloo WordPress Theme to compete for prize of $2000 in cash. I got an encouraging comment from WooThemes administrator but not much more so I’ve decided to contribute my contest design to community for free.

Subscribe if you want to be the first to know when Igloo theme is released.

Igloo theme is a WordPress Theme that will be bundled with all the functions you usually get from Premium WordPress Themes plus a lot more:

  • Easy subscriptions management with Feedburner (Plugin)
  • Auto image resizer (TimThumb plugin)
  • Unique and professional design
  • Different color schemes to chose from
  • Improved default WordPress search (Plugin)
  • Extended author profile (Plugin)
  • Video panel that automagically extracts flash videos from posts
  • Dynamic Flickr Images (Plugin)
  • Easy Google Analytics insertion (Plugin)
  • Simple Ads management: 125×125, 200×200
  • Easy category drop-down menu (up to 2nd level)
  • Custom templates: Archives, Contact, About, Comments, Single and more…

Stuff you will get:

  • Very fast load times thank to minimalistic design with almost no images
  • SEO friendliness you usually get with commercial premium themes
  • Commercial support for customization
  • Copyrighted and professional design
  • Bundled Installation Instructions
  • Happiness:)

Stuff you won’t get:

  • No License to distribute theme commercially
  • No quarantee whatsoever

And please note that all design work is copyright protected so you cannot sell it further without further agreement from BizzArtic, PERIOD!!!

Sneek-Peek:

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