Another Mashable.com WordPress theme has been launched. For those of you don’t already know Mashable is among the world’s most popular blogs covering topics around technology and social media.
Last year we updated the look and feel of the various applications: marketplace, codes, invites, france, mashtracker etc, this year we’re focusing more on the user experience of the main blog itself and exposing the evergreen content that users frequent the site for as well as the daily news topics that users want as well.
This redesign is a great step towards subsequent initiatives that will allow all of the segments of the readership to find the content they want more easily on Mashable and keep them on the site.
We’ve been working hard to create these beautiful icons exclusively for GraphicRiver. They are a great addition if you already have our free icon set, they are done in a similar style and could be used together. The new icons are a lot more refined and clean, with a lot more new icons that may have been missing from the first set. Check them out and let us know what you think.
We’re also quite excited to announce that the latest marketplace from the wonderful Envato team is now up and running. It’s called Graphic River, and it is where we have put out latest icon set up for sale. Also, if you have a read through this post you will see that they will be giving away 10 free copies of our icon set… scroll down for details.
There are 148 icons in total, and they are ideal for use in your website, blog or application. We’ve seen or last set used in everything from top 25 iPhone applications, to web blogs and some really neat websites. We hope that this new set will be just as successful and useful to all of you out there.
Download Function Premium Icon Set | .zip Format | 2.5mb | 48×48px Icons
As part of their launch Graphic River have agreed to allow us to give away 10 free copies of the icon set. They launched their new marketplace today, and I really suggest you check it out. The Graphic River website allows you to buy & sell all sorts of graphic resourecs. Everything from icons and Vector illustrations, to Brushes and Shapes for various softwares.
1. Sign up to Graphic River, if you haven’t already.
2. Leave a Comment Here telling us what you would use the icons for.
3. With your comment include your Graphic River username.
4. Make sure you fill out your email address on the comment form, so we can contact you if you win.
Winners will be chosen & announced on March 2nd. The winners are the people we judge to have some good solutions for how to use their icon set.
Good luck to everyone, we hope you all enjoy the new icon set. Leave us some feedback and let us know what you think, and possibly give us some ideas for a few set. I think the next set will be free so it would be great for us to see what icons everyone would like to see.
We’ve been working hard on a few things lately, and this latest theme is one that we’ve made just for you guys! We’ve been working with Smashing Magazine for a while, and we’re happy to finally be able to release the theme. We’ve worked hard on making something that had the clean and sleek style that you’d expect, but we’ve put some extra focus on extending the capabilities of WordPress and it’s standard features, giving you a few extra features to improve the user’s browsing experience.
More details and information is available on the link above, also you can check out the live demo to see the theme fully working. We’ve included the PSD files for you to have a play with and make your own customizations to the theme, or just to have a look around. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think of our latest free theme.
All of the latest posts are automatically added to the top of the homepage in a neat and interactive showcase of recent posts. A thumbnail is automatically created, and when you scroll over the image the title appears, it’s a cool little way to encourage your visitors to explore and enjoy your posts.
To further encourage exploration on your blog, we’ve included a cool little drop down, which you can use by simply clicking the category name with a + next to them on the homepage. Clicking the name will bring a drop down, revealing some posts from that category.
We’ve built in some custom widgets that you can control from the WordPress admin panel to easily change the settings for the latest and features posts in the sidebar. We’ve also made them look beautiful, even if we do say so ourselves.
We’d just like to say thanks to Smashing Magazine for working with us on this brilliant theme, and for (in our honest opinion) running one of the best sites on the net. They really do provide a huge amount of quality and informative content, serving thousands of designers of all levels, so if you haven’t already Subscribe to Smashing Magazine RRS feed.
Also, we’ve not had much chance to blog recently, so thanks to anyone who’s still with us, and I promise you we’ve got a few posts to come in the coming weeks and some interesting and cool new announcements. Thanks guys, let me know your thoughts on the theme.
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