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iThemes Builder Theme Demo Video

Cory Miller — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:59:33 +0000

Our new blockbuster theme Builder Theme is coming out Dec. 16 and today we did a live demo webinar with over 100 of our customers.

Three Things We’ve Been Up To: Video

Cory Miller — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:40:32 +0000

Just released a new video at iThemes about what we’re doing …

Here are the links to the three things I talk about in this segment of iThemesTV:

Our First Roadshow: Dallas Here We Come!

Cory Miller — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:04:47 +0000

The iThemes team is putting on our first roadshow — a 2-day intense workshop called the iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp in Dallas, Jan. 29-30, 2010.

You won’t want to miss it! It’s first-come, first-serve and we only have room for 50 people.

Check out the registration details here

Two Videos with My Awesome Team

Cory Miller — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:58:39 +0000

We just got a super cool studio setup in our office and have been working on audio and video for our upcoming launch of WebDesign.com University and we recorded two videos today.

This one is our Happy Thanksgiving one (bloopers at the end) ….

This one is a teaser video about our upcoming blockbuster theme that we’ve been calling Builder since April when it was started ….

Fun Times at Dallas WordCamp 2009

Cory Miller — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:30 +0000

The iThemes team has been on two roadtrips and every time it’s a blast. I’m very thankful to be a part of and lead a passionate team of people who love what they do and enjoy life together!

This latest trip was to Dallas WordCamp 2009. Chris Jean and I have been twice now. It was my fourth WordCamp and it’s always great to meet new people and deepen relationships with existing ones.

We took our OKC staff, including Matt Danner (aka Hiccup aka Twitter-er Extraordinaire aka The Newlywed), Chris Jean (manning the Genius Bar), James Dalman (aka Designated Troublemaker) … and met our new sales consultant for WebDesign.com, and iThemes customer, Bryce Raley.

Here are some fun pics that show how truly goofy we are:

I Heart Open Source

Cory Miller — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:38:16 +0000

Over at the iThemes blog, I just announced we’ve made the decision to switch our licensing model to the same one that WordPress is released under – GPL.

I say this a lot: I love open source. I love WordPress and am thankful for the open source contributions over the years that have helped make it the best online software for managing blogs and websites.

I’ve always sincerely meant and believed that …

But now … we’re putting our money where our mouth is …. and aligning ourselves with WP and open source philosophy.

Go read our post on it and make a comment there: iThemes is going GPL.

New Business WordPress Theme Released: Charlie

Cory Miller — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:00:28 +0000

We just released a new blue and white WordPress biz theme called Charlie at iThemes. Related posts:Rockin Blue 3 Column WordPress Theme Released Dark WordPress Blog Theme Released Duct Tape Marketing Business Blog WordPress Theme Released Related posts:

Introducing Movable Type Themes, Template Sets from iThemes

Cory Miller — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:16:01 +0000

Today, we’ve officially rolled out our Movable Type Theme Store.

It’s been a couple months in the making, but we’re pleased with the warm, welcoming reception we’ve gotten from SixApart, makers of Movable Type.

We’ve taken two of our most popular themes (Essence and Success) and ported them into Movable Type 4 to start. (We’re taking pre-orders for Essence, which should be done shortly.)

Our hope is to get feedback from the MT community on what they actually want (since admittedly, we’re new to MT).

We’ll still be offering premium WordPress themes, but will begin venturing into taking that same innovative design, functionality and creativity into Movable Type.

Part of the design to move into the Movable Type arena has been an obvious need for quality templates for a solid, robust publishing system … and the extremely friendly and welcoming atmosphere we’ve gotten from SixApart and the gang there.

Go check out our Movable Type Theme Store here.

FlexxTheme: WordPress Blog Theme for Professionals

Cory Miller — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:12:13 +0000

Over at iThemes, we just released another version of our FlexxTheme called Professional.

As the theme might suggest, it’s designed for CEOs, small business owners and independent professionals wanting to get started blogging.

Check out FlexxTheme Professional here and find purchase information here

P.S. – The best deal is our multiple-use package that includes all 5 FlexxTheme versions.

A Truly Web 2.0 WordPress Blog Theme: Flexx

Cory Miller — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:56:35 +0000

I don’t usually brag. I am a pretty low key type of guy. In fact, in San Francisco this year for WordCamp, I preferred anonymity. I like to sneak in the back and keep my head down. Way away from the limelight.

But I’m going to get outside my comfort zone and do a bit of overdo recognition to our five-member team at iThemes …which includes Nathan Rice, Jesse Petersen, Chris Jean and James Dalman.

Each one brings some great talent to our company … and today we just rolled out one awesome mega WordPress theme called FlexxTheme.

It’s truly the biggest and best theme project I’ve ever been a part of … we thought to ourselves, what do people want and need from a WP theme … and we built a theme around that.

The result?

A theme with …

Over 1,000 possible layout combinations
Plug and play graphical changes – including Flash-like rotating header images and easy background effects
A contact form page template already embedded
Simple search engine optimization tweaks

Oh! And it’s already WordPress 2.7 compatible! We’ve been testing it on the nightly build for over a week now. The demo site is even runnign 2.7.

Check out these terrible screencasts I just did showing off some of the functionality I mentioned above .. like the FlexxLayout that offers point and click layouts changes and making graphical changes easily.

Go test drive the two initial versions of FlexxTheme called Bold and Canvas … and find purchase details here