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This post is part of our Customer Spotlight series. If you have an interesting story to tell and would like to share your experience with WordPress and Elegant Themes on our blog, please contact us! Let Me Introduce Myself My name is Tim Strifler and I’m a freelance WordPress web designer. I...
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Over recent years, graphic design has seen quite a rapid change in popular trends.For the most part, current debates are focused on two styles and buzz words: ‘Skeuomorphic‘ and ‘Flat.’ Skeuomorphic describes design details that reference real life objects. Flat describes...
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Many of our themes include large & beautiful homepage sliders that look great with transparent PNG images. However, we find that our customers often have trouble replicating the look of our theme demos due to a lack of experience with image editing software. To help break down this barrier, we...
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Last week we launched our Customer Showcase Contest. After viewing over 800 submissions, we have chosen our 20 favorite sites to go head-to-head for a chance to win a slew of awesome prizes (courtesy of HostGator, Sucuri, Maxcdn, ManageWP, HitTail and Inmotion). It’s great to see such...
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We want to celebrate all of the wonderful ways that our customers are using our themes. To do this, we are launching a contest to award the coolest and most creative uses of our products. All you need to do to enter the contest is submit your website (which must be using an Elegant Theme) using...
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“With great power comes great responsibility.” That’s what Spider Man would tell you if he was teaching you about color theory. When using our themes, the Theme Customizer gives you full control over the colors in your design; but how do you make sure that you don’t ruin a...
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Last week we asked our readers to participate in a survey to help us better understand exactly what theme-buyers are looking for in our Premium WordPress Theme. Thanks to the ~1,500 people that completed the questionnaire! We took all of the data and created an infographic to display the results....
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We have set out to create the most beautiful, elegant and complete icon font on the web…for free! We have been struggling to find the best icon font to use in our own projects, so we decided to create our own instead. This font will be used in our themes, and we will continue to update the...
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Excitement was in the air today at the Elegant Themes’ office as our member counter ticked us into the two-hundred thousands. This marks a huge milestone for the company and we couldn’t have done it without you! We are celebrating with cheers and beers, but since we can’t buy you...
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After much delay, WordPress 3.6 has finally been released into the wild. If you are an Elegant Themes users and are wondering whether or not you should upgrade, I am here to tell you to “go for it!” We have tested the latest version of our themes with the 3.6 launch, as well as the...
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Over the weekend, the Elegant Themes team went to WordCamp San Francisco where we watched Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress) give his annual “State of the Word.” His presentation was packed full of juicy stats about how WordPress is used and consumed. We decided to aggregate...
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Today I am excited to give you a sneak peek of our upcoming multipurpose theme called Divi. With Divi, we hope to create our most powerful theme yet. Sporting a design that is both modern and elegant, and a user interface that is equally flexible and intuitive, Divi is the the all-in-one...
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