Noble template
This month we proudly present our new template “Noble”. It’s stylish and individual design in combination with our new ZOO blog template make it perfect for your private website or blog. To give our new template a noble touch, we used discreet retro colors, lots of whitespace and played around with the typography. You also have the option to enable some nice Google webfonts! To give you a wide range of different color variations you can choose a color style for the content, different background colors, textures and illustrations. You can combine all these setting which makes up to 480 different template variations. We already arrange 8 nice combinations which are available as presets in the template configuration. Feature list A variety of template color variations Lots of modules with color variations, endless combinations with icons and badges possible Built with the Warp5.5 template framework Utilizes different webfonts Compact size, using minified CSS/JS, gzip and data-URI’s Fully compatible with the latest Mootools Version 1.2 Works with all YOOtools
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Boxes Icon Set
Today we are very happy to present you the next icon set release for our icon club . The Boxes Icon Set! We put a lot of effort in this release and we are proud that it is the biggest club icon set in our portfolio now! It contains 34 high quality icons in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16×16 to 512×512 pixels. This makes 272 extremely detailed icons which are handmade and optimized for each specific size. Of course vector PDF files are available so you can change the colors and customize the icons! Here is an example of the different sizes for the cardboard box icon. The boxes icon set contains all kind of boxes: cardboard boxes, wooden boxes, metal boxes, shoe boxes for the ladies and more. Each has different colors and variations like closed, opened or filled with paper. The different colors makes them perfect for organizing different categories, for example your product-bundles. We also included a nice paper bag in the set. Don’t worry, it’s 100% recyclable! Take a look at all the different boxes: Spice up your websites, catalogs or shops with our new boxes icon set. Our Premium members will also get all the vector PDF files for easy customization and resizing. Have a look at this set and join our icon club today! We would be very happy to get some feedback. Please post a comment with your thoughts about this set and your wishes for future releases.
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Free Social Icons Set
First of all thanks for the great feedback we received for our new icons stuff! We are very happy that you folks like our new icon club we launched last week – And today we want to bring you the complete social bookmarks icon set as freebie , including all sizes and even the vector source files. Using social bookmarks icons on your website has never been prettier. Easily share and bookmark content and spread it all over the world! We provide our social bookmarks icons with a high brand recognition, looking straight-lined and equally fresh styled. Of course they are designed to match with all our club icon sets . This freebie features most popular web and social media icons, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google and many others. For each of them we created different color and shape variations to give you a wider selection of matching icons for your website. The whole set contains 47 high quality icons in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16×16 to 512×512 pixels. This makes 376 extremely detailed icons which are handmade and optimized for each specific size. The set also includes vector PDF files of all icons that are compatible with Adobe Illustrator and can be rescaled to any size without a single loss to the details. So download , enjoy and and please feel free to Twitter , Digg or recommend them. Are you missing your favorite social media icon? – Tell us and we’ll see what we can do about it!
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Free Social Icons Set
Royal Plaza template
Its July and YOOtheme delivers its brand new template “Royal Plaza”. It comes with 3 main color variations to give your site a new and individual look. They differ completely in module styles, typography and the whole look of the site. Its like three different templates combined in one! We have a modern and neutral business look, a vintage style with some more retro elements and finally a shiny premium look. These different styles make the template really versatile to fit all kinds of websites. Additionally you can set your template to a plain style of each variation, to turn off the wrapper edges of the site. We built in a second menu position “menuright”. Now you are free to place the menu at the left side, the right side or even menus at both sides of the menubar. These positions give you the freedom to publish the logo anywhere in the header, even in the middle between both menus. Further we put a second row of bottom modules into the footer of the site. Feature list A variety of template color variations Built with the Warp5 template framework Multi-column dropdown menu Lots of modules with color variations, endless combinations with icons and badges possible 2-1-3 column ordering for search engine friendliness Compact size, using gzip and image sprites Works with all YOOtools
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Royal Plaza template
YOOicons launched
At the end of our “YOOtheme templates – An inside look!” presentation, we did at JandBeyond, we showed the audience a little teaser of our secret project we were working on the last 9 months: Our new YOOicons! And today we are very proud to open the gates to the new website presenting our icons . You may already use one of our templates to build good looking websites. But what about your content? Wouldn’t it be great to have some real eye-catching icons to beautify the content of your website? Icons are an essential content element for web design. Today almost every major website uses icons to highlight important parts in their content. This is why we came up with the idea of creating handcrafted icon packages for web and print projects. With YOOicons we will offer commercial icon packages as well as free icon sets. We start with our first commercial icon package: the Basic Package. The Basic Package The Basic Icon Package is packed with 125 high quality icons. It includes useful icons for your company website, many social icons and all the standard icons you need for web applications. All icons are available as 32-bit transparency PNG file format in 8 different standard sizes ranging from 16×16 to 512×512 pixels. This makes a total of 1000 extremely detailed icons which are handmade optimized for each specific size. Adobe Illustrator compatible vector PDF files of all icons are also available so that the icons can be rescaled to any size without a single loss to the details. The Design Process Let’s take an inside look into the process of designing of the Basic Package. We started off with a blank sheet of paper and produced our first ideas from scratch. While we used our imagination to come up with new and inspired designs, we went along the line of trial and error, to find out what would work and what didn’t. In doing this, we got a better understanding of how our icons should look and feel: crispy, clear, lively and fitting a wide variety of needs. Now for the second step. We began to translate the selected scribbles into vectors. Lovingly taking care of every detail, we began with the largest size of 512 x 512 pixels. To keep a consistent look, we arranged a vivid and harmonic color palette and we where enthusiastic to see our icons taking form. Next we prepared the smaller sizes, taking perfectly care of a beautiful result. Most important in this step was designing with the pixel grid. We needed a good feeling for which detail to highlight or ditch in every step of downsizing. Of course there were many modifications and sometimes it was a hard fight until we were truly satisfied. With the slices we’d already build in Adobe Illustrator it was easy to export the icons as PNG. To play safe we singly checked each one of them in Adobe Photoshop and cleaned up scruffy edges if necessary. The final step was to export the source file as vector PDF – Et Voilà, here they are! Visit our icons website and enjoy browsing through all icons!
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YOOicons launched
I♥YOO Winners
You did it again! We received so many exciting pictures from all over the world… Thank you! It was really hard for us to pick the 10 winners. Thus we chose our 20 favorites and randomly picked the 10 lucky winners. We will notify them today by email that they have won a 6 month membership with the app bundle and all the new tools for ZOO 2.0. Congratulations! We want to thank all of you guys again for participating in our I♥YOO competition . It was really fun! Enjoy the winning pictures. This year we want to highlight some guys from South Africa: Matthew, Dwight and Marcos. They did really funny pictures with alien masks through their travel from Cape Town to Amsterdam, Brussels and JandBeyond! Awesome, guys! We did a little Photoshop collage but also check out their travel log “Out of this World” with a lot of more pictures.
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Live presentations online!
First of all we want to thank the organizers of the JandBeyond conference for this great event and the whole on-site organization. Robert , Alex and the whole team did a great job! We had the chance to present two sessions about our templates and the new ZOO 2.0. For those of you who did not have the chance to see the presentations live, we recorded both of them on video and are proud to show you the result in this blog post. So lean back and enjoy the show! YOOtheme templates – An inside look! In our first presentation, Sven one of our lead designers took a closer look at the design process and the magic behind YOOtheme templates. He gave an insight of what makes a template a good tempate and what we do to achieve this. He also explained how easy it is to customize images of the templates using Fireworks. Watch the presentation: ZOO 2.0 in Action! The second presentation by ZOO developer Jan and support team member Malte showed the ZOO 2.0 in action, and described what benefits you’ll gain by using it. The visitors got an insight look of content building and templating and followed a live demonstration of building a blog with the ZOO in five minutes. Watch the presentation:
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Bloc template
This month YOOtheme brings you another great template: Bloc! Its 3D-design is great for creating rich media portals, band websites, blogs or sports sites. We created a lot of very unique template variations and for sure it will give your site a brand new modern look. The main content wrappers are displayed as 3D blocks and new module variations offer some nice 3D effects. The Mega Drop Down Menu has a fancy hover effect and even the left menu got a new ribbon hover style. We have also added a special header position which fits perfectly the 3D block and can be used to present a large header image. The toolbar and logo will be shown nicely above the image. There is also an additional logo position in this template. Now you have the possibility to put a second smaller logo next to the Drop Down Menu. Feature list A variety of template color variations Built with the Warp5 template framework Multi-column dropdown menu Lots of modules with color variations, endless combinations with icons and badges possible 2-1-3 column ordering for search engine friendliness Compact size, using gzip and image sprites Works with all YOOtools
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JM Anion – Build up movies site with Magento
JoomlArt (http://www.joomlart.com) Magento theme for May is coming, it’s JM Anion (http://magento-themes.joomlart.com/jm_anion/)! Anything about theaters, DVD, HD…
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Tools for ZOO 2.0
Today we are pretty excited to share some great news on ZOO 2.0. While the ZOO download statistics are still steeply rising (they surpassed 20.000 downloads) we finished the first minor update: ZOO 2.0.1! Besides several bugfixes we have a big surprise: All YOOtools are now converted to work with ZOO 2.0! We also developed a new Category Module that let’s you easily create linked lists to ZOO categories. Read on to learn more about all the great features… Tools for ZOO In addition to our current YOOtools extensions we created a new series of tools which work with ZOO 2.0. The main difference between them is that for the old YOOtools you would have to create Joomla articles which were then loaded as content items. The new tools for ZOO 2.0 instead have layout positions and load content from ZOO! They are working the same way the ZOO item module does. Thus you don’t have to create duplicated content anymore. The new tools load the content you’ve already created for the ZOO items. Isn’t this awesome? Especially the image resizing and caching feature from ZOO 2.0 comes in handy when assigning the content to the module layouts. We converted following tools this way: YOOcarousel, YOOaccordion, YOOscroller, YOOslider and YOOdrawer. As a bonus we also converted the YOOmaps module which displays ZOO items on a single map now. You don’t need to create any new markers, they are loaded directly from ZOO. If you need to display a map of all your points of interest or all companies in your business directory, the YOOmaps module will take care of that. All YOOtools are exclusively available for ZOO members who purchased the app bundle. Check out the demos of all tools for ZOO . New Category Module There is a new module in town. The category module will render a nicely styled, nested list of your categories. Try to use it in your blog. Your users will be able to easily navigate through your blog, without you having to build a custom menu. Take a look here to see the new category module. Google Maps Element We revisited the Google Maps element. In the 2.0.0 release you had to create some custom HTML for the marker popup. We felt that this is a little annoying. Wouldn’t it be great if you can place existing content of your item in the marker popup? Thus the googlemaps element renders now by default the item name. But in addition you can also select a layout which should be rendered in the marker popup. This way you can assign any content to the layout positions and it will automatically show up in the marker popup without creating any new content or custom HTML. Isn’t this great? Of course we added the layout rendering also the the new Maps module for ZOO. See it in action here . Further Updates and Changes With the new release, we also got rid of a few bugs and introduced some changes. Here is a not complete list of bugfixes and changes to the ZOO 2.0. fixed bug with Twitter Authenticate and SEF turned on fixed translation of country element fixed language files to include googlemaps element fixed minor css issue with category columns updated item module to version 2.0.1 updated search plugin to version 2.0.1 fixed categories teaser description in cookbook app country element is now searchable changes to the applications installer, now accepts different archive types fixed bug with rss feed item order fixed bug with comment cookie scope fixed minor CSS issue with comments in documentation app fixed filtering bug for relateditems element fixed bug with utf-8 encoding of the default.js file fixed bug with saving utf-8 encoded item-, category-, type slugs fixed bug with breadcrumbs (direct link to item) added some exceptions to the application installer fixed bug with alpha index Make sure to check out the new release , as it includes lots of goodies that will make your day.
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