Simple Themes Blog

If you're using Synapse as a child theme, you should see an update to v.2.0 in your control panel...

Responsive web design is a popular topic these days, and is proving to be a great avenue for promoting usability, simplicity, and overall compatibility. We've decided to build our latest simple WordPress theme around a very popular responsive boilerplate, coupled with the popular Options Framework for full customization. Skeleton includes a free bbPress(2) theme and it's absolutely free! Take Skeleton for a test drive and download it today.

While recording some new screencast, I recently had the chance to play with 3d Studio Max and create some neat intro effects. This was the result f a 24-hour crash course in 3d.

I recently stumbled across some very nice and simple CSS3 buttons by Chad Mazzola. Lately I've been digging into SASS and getting into color manipulation, so I thought I'd try something with these. Continue reading for the source and a demo…

We're getting close to launching our new WordPress theme called "Breeze" and are very excited about this one. Breeze includes a ton of new features (which will be pushed out to other themes shortly) but one of our favorites is Content Templates. This new feature allows you to quickly insert preformatted content into your Pages or Posts. What's even better, is you can customize it right inside the editor. Read on for a video preview.

 

Awhile back, I was inspired by the beautiful work of Orman Clark over at Premium Pixels.
Personally, I prefer Fireworks over Photoshop for Web design, but every once in awhile, I see people doing things in Photoshop that really challenges me to attempt the same effect in Fireworks (especially when I can apply it to WordPress)...

 

We've recently launched a new tool that allows you to replicate the intended content for our WordPress themes. If you've ever installed a WordPress theme and have found yourself frustrated that it looks nothing like the demo, this tool will help.

 

Onyx brings simplicity, beauty, and complete versatility to the table with features such as independent widget styling, 5 great color styles, updated featured slider, and so much more. Onyx is the December theme for WordPress and is immediately available for download by all Simple Themes members.

 

Our November theme release, Impacto is now available for download. Impacto is not only a very versatile WordPress theme for virtually any kind of site, but has built-in features to create stunning landing pages and product pages.

 

We've just released a great new theme called "Nuvo". This theme has almost too many features to mention, but we'll cover the big ones. This is probably our most flexible theme to date.