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Over a month ago the whole VirtueMart community has been presented the release of the stable version of VirtueMart 2.0. This quote says it all: “Finally after 2 years of development, the VirtueMart team proudly releases the first stable version of the new VirtueMart 2 Core. More than 100 people were involved, 8500 posts were written and endless lines of Skype chats were done”. Since then we have received a lot of inquiries from our customers and website visitors considering the launch of VirtueMart 2.0 templates. So far we’re not in a big hurry to launch them, and there are good reasons for that. But first things first, let’s just take a deeper look at ViertueMart 2.0. Right after the launch it was almost a picture perfect – everybody was happy, store owners congratulated VirtueMart developers, it was Christmas time and New Year euphoria. Nothing has portended a tornado ahead, but let’s be consecutive. Here are the key features that were announced with the release of VirtueMart 2.0:
- Template overwritting
- SSL checkout
- Joomla Plugins implementation (payment, shipment, coupons etc.)
- Advanced Tax system
- One click checkout or multi-page checkout
- True multi-currencies management
- Multilingual store as a native solution
- Joomla 1.5 and 1.7 compatible
At first sight these features cause tons of excitement and strong desire to update your VirtueMart store instantly. The sweetest part of this release is the following major feature – VirtueMart 2.0 is based on Joomla MVC framework which means that you can change a lot in your store by putting less efforts in this process. Well, everything looks great so far and maybe you’ll believe that VirtueMart 2.0 is truly a flawless and reliable platform for your online store. And here comes the most interesting part of this notorious release.
Is it stable?
When I was reading people’s comments below the official post concerning this release I had a feeling that the people were leaving super positive comments simply because they haven’t tried the new version and just posted their comments because of their generally polite attitude (or maybe they just wanted to get a free do-follow link from their comment).
There was a time when JavaScript’s reputation has been stained because of the “copy-paste” stereotype that was insanely popular in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Unusual and a little bit “messy” syntax has come a long way of adoption by the programming communities. Years have passed and JavaScript language has evolved to become a powerful technology that supplies the web with tons of innovations. CoffeeScript is the offspring of JavaScript that proves the proverb – “like father like son”, in its good meaning.
Coffee Script is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. According to its developers, it adds “sugar” to Java syntax which makes it more comprehensive. You write less code faster and achieve more functionality and readable code too – it is a win-win situation, don’t you think so? Basically, CoffeeScript is a smaller and improved version of JavaScript that delivers all the best from it and requiring less efforts.
![Introduction to CoffeeScript [+Useful Tutorials]](http://blog.tmimgcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/coffee-script.jpg?9d7bd4 "coffee-script")
Before you start creating Java code with the help of Coffee Script you should install it to your computer (please be sure that you have installed Node.js and the Node Package Manager to your computer as well) and check some useful resources where you’ll find information about how to use the editor, create code and run it.
As you may have noticed recently our product line was enriched with WordPress 3.x themes. Despite the fact that it may seem just another piece of boring corporate news we must state the significant importance of this milestone – both for our company and our dear clients. It is not a secret that WordPress themes are an insanely popular product. So, it is not that simple to satisfy the growing needs of our customers with every new update of the WordPress CMS. But we are always open to hear the voice of our people and improve our products and services according to your needs.
WordPress CMS is famous for unique combination of reliable and highly functional back-end software which is spiced up with the ability to add extra features by installing widgets, plugins and other “delicious” stuff. And that’s the reason WordPress CMS is considered to be the most user-friendly software – even the newbies can master WordPress within the short period of time. Now that all ceremonies are over we can go straight to our topic. Below you’ll find the detailed information concerning the functional improvement of our WordPress 3.x themes.
Custom Post Types
Creating various types of posts is one of the greatest features that opens many great opportunities for WordPress users. Currently you can use the custom post types in our WordPress 3.x themes too. Here is the list of all possible post type options:
- Portfolio Post Type is the post type that delivers content in the form of image portfolio with some text comments to the images.
- Slider Post Type is another image related option that presents all your post content in the dynamic slider with navigation buttons and short text info.
- Testimonials Post Type lets you set up custom fields for this type of post, such as testimonial name, testimonial URL, set up featured image etc.
- Services Post Type
- FAQs Post Type allows to create a special post where content will be displayed in the ‘question – answer’ form as it is usually done on the FAQ pages.
Page Templates
This exact option offers you adding page templates that have various design characteristics. These pages have different number of columns, layout, sidebar absence etc. Here is a short info concerning each of our page templates.
- Full Width Page is a page template with one column and without any sidebar positions.
- About Page is a page template with one column and without any sidebar elements.
- Testimonials Page has custom styled design created by our designers specifically for displaying testimonials posts.
- FAQs Page template is a full-width page without any sidebar created for displaying FAQ information.
- Portfolio Page has 1, 2, 3 and 4 columns view layout enhanced with Prettyphoto jQuery plugin.
We are here to proudly announce that a bunch of brand new Responsive Templates are now available at TemplateMonster. These gorgeous, modern templates are based on flexible designs that adjust to different types of screen resolutions. This means that every single responsive template available on TemplateMonster will be adaptable to any device people use to enter the website that is based on this template. Technically we achieve this with the help of CSS3 media queries, so it’s all good for most of the browsers and devices you may use to access the website. You may even see how template layout switches by playing with the browser window width – adjust it while viewing any demo to see how the layout changes. However, to our readers who love old junk browsers – or should we politely call these browsers ‘vintage’ – we must say that the the dynamic screen size adjuster won’t work in the old versions of Internet Explorer. We assume that people browsing websites based on these templates will be browsing mobile web with Safari, Firefox, or Opera Mini and other mobile browsers which have no problems with CSS3.
Responsive website templates include several layouts, each optimized for proper screen resolution. In fact there are many width options included, but the major ones are for desktop, tablet, and 2 sizes of smartphone screens.
- desktop layout (980px);
- tablet layout (768px);
- smartphone layout – landscape (480px);
- smartphone layout – portrait (320px).
These 4 primary layout types as well as secondary ones get activated in the corresponding screen resolutions. Again, to see these responsive layouts in action, please check out the templates’ live demos and drag and drop the browser window edges to adjust the width. After that you can take a tour around our responsive templates and decide what design you need for your new adaptive website.
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Blackbird Business Responsive Template
Here goes responsive template that will scale seamlessly to suit any browser width. This design is remarkable for having a skeleton οf content area split into columns, besides it has a drop-down menu, icons accompanying textual passages to favor a quicker visual read of the link, and definitely a jQuery slider with the Macbook imagery that has got the main relevance and is used to display multiple images in a limited space. This responsive layout perfectly serves many width options, get the feel of it playing with the template live demo and resizing your browser window.
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Mohawkedev Internet Responsive Template
The featured internet services related web template combines a spectacular slider that has a content overlay with intelligent responsive layout that scales to suit your browser width. In that the design could be perfect for business, web development, and consulting companies. Among other best practices introduced within this new template we can mention the color choice, drop-down menu, attractive typography and buttons, comforting background texture, and more. This template will help you deal with various devices used to display your solid website.
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SafeWorld Charity Responsive Template
As in every other responsive website template, this design, if being seen in smartphone version, embraces horizontal panels for navigation. All unessential elements are simply eliminated to get the layout optimized for mobile web standards. Plus having a larger clickable area, this navigation option greatly helps fingertip content browsing. Other sweet features of this charity template are content division lines that run zigzag, the dichotomy of black and white colors, red highlight upon hover, and also an attractive slider with cute transparency elements, which is being preserved on every of the available layouts.
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Our today’s post offers a showcase of superior Joomla 1.7 Templates that have been recently added to TemplateMonster collection. They are based on the all-time favorite design standards that reveal the vision of both simple and sophisticated Joomla layouts. What adds up the strength values of every single Joomla 1.7 template featured here is that being enhanced with a whole array of functionality features, these designs also offer extreme ease of use for both site owners and visitors. Make sure you can easily personalize Joomla 1.7 templates to your website content, and this in the long run will considerably cut down on your website development time. Now check out the list we’ve made for you today and choose your next Joomla 1.7 powered design.
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Growex Business Solutions Joomla 1.7 Template
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Bonus Joomla 1.7 Template
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Deqerion Business Joomla 1.7 Template
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Ribbons are gaining popularity in website design. They can break the flat website surface and give some interesting depth to the content. Well, you may have seen these design elements appearing here and there, but today we’d like to showcase website templates that embrace attractive ribbons.
You can see them used as stylish and decorative header elements, banner navigation bars, price tags, call-to-action buttons, shopping cart and login icons, layers for writing a tagline and company name, tapes emphasizing the specials, and the like. Ribbons are a sort of a special way to drive users to the right website areas and achieve clear separation of content. Probably because they are conspicuous and so demand rapt attention. Today’s featured templates apart from embracing ribbon metaphors, also implement few more design elements which are very popular right now, check out.
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Food Online Store Zen-Cart 1.3.9 Template
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Coffee Store VirtueMart Template
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How to increase the chance of the customer buying the product? With attention spans lasting just a few seconds, you must engage the audience with your web store really fast. Now we’ll go so far as to suggest you the template solutions we have to accomplish this. We’ll show you in detail how various interesting design elements hang together in our most creative eCommerce templates. You’ll see miscellaneous sliders, subtle attractive layers and unusual tilts, overlapping and transparent elements; also spot how the gallery and price tags are executed and how the good qualities of the products are played up. These are actually the numerous breaks from design convention which appear to foster the buying experience. Because they induce users to browse more deeply into the catalog of products as people remain hooked with what they see.
Check out the continuation shawcase with more of eCommerce templates that creatively guide the customers to the point of purchase.
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Sound Online Store VirtueMart Template
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Mobile Store Magento Theme
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What is a website today without a photo gallery? If you want to share your photos or artworks, or any other images that you think your audience will want to see, and you want to do it in the most creative way, we would suggest you to browse and explore for our latest Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries 2.0.
From the technical point of view, Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery design includes dynamic flash pages with a gallery section and is coming with a full-fledged Moto CMS engine inside. Its gallery and texts are easy to configure and update since you work with a convenient admin panel (this includes WYSIWYG editor, rich customization options, built-in image editor and much much more). Go ahead and take a quick look at the Flash Photo gallery templates presentation page where more info on the features is presented. Just to know better what’s packed behind the beautiful designs that you’re about to see.
Now you can check the demos of some freshly-crafted templates compiled here by clicking on the links or images below and see them in action. Their galleries combine great performance capabilities and elegant interactivity.
Also don’t forget that TemplateMonster is currently running an awesome promo across all of Flash Photo Gallery Templates. Up to the end of this Friday you save 25% on your Flash gallery template purchase. Choose from the many Flash Photo Gallery 2.0 templates that will help you with your website. There is a variety of styles and layouts that you’ll be happy to see and use for the showcase of your photos and images.
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PhotoPortfolio Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0
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Mark Smith Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0
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Miranda Johns Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0
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Instead of having the website that changes the elements instantly, you can stream your presentation and transition the content with the help of some spectacular transition effects. Such effects can in fact take the otherwise boring and flat transitioning to a smooth and continuous dynamic sequence that will enhance the viewer interest. Transitions effects greatly help the flow between images, text blocks, and graphics as they bridge the gap between such sliding elements. In the featured examples you’ll be able to see some of these interesting Flash effects including blinds, shatter, slide, 3D rotate, cover, page flip, and many more. Keep in mind that whatever content you have to represent you can introduce it in a more interactive way using any of the mentioned Flash templates with some special transition effects. Your website content then will flow nicely from one scene to another and have the most distinctive and professional look. If you however want to take the makings of some great image transition effects, you may also check out one of our previous posts dedicated to best image transition effect tutorials.
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PicStorm Flash CMS Template
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Buzzns Flash Site Template
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Colex Flash Site Template
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TemplateMonster unveils the new series of Drupal Templates with extra features. From now on all of the new Drupal templates that you’ll see on TemplateMonster will be made according to this new standard. The renewed Drupal designs are the first ones to be delivered with an extensive set of features that greatly expand the possibilities of layout, bring cleaner code along with some slick pieces of functionality. Drupal Templates will now bring more freedom to end users by letting them customize the layout exactly how they want. Basically our developers team does a big thing to upgrade the way you develop with Drupal, as now we offer nimble and capable product that will help our customers create a website quickly & easily and progress at peak efficiency.
So, what’s new in our Drupal Templates?
- HTML5+CSS3 – every single Drupal 7 Template is now has a clean and nice HTML5/CSS3 code.
- CSS3 animation – these templates include animations made with CSS3. This allows you to perform beautiful motion-based functions and enhance site visual attractiveness (not displayed in any version of Internet Explorer).
- Simple content editing – integrated WYSIWYG editor makes content creation easy, while savvy users can show off their web geek skills.
- Easy install – installation process in just a few clicks; everything is quick, easy and doesn’t require any special skills at all.
- Backup – backs up/restores your Drupal database.
- Social media capabilities – add links with icons pointing to your social media accounts.
- Social sharing – push your content out via social channels including Twitter and Facebook and let users share their social activity streams.
- Content mashups with views – create sliders, galleries, carousels of different structure and complexity.
- Super fish menu – each template has a drop-down menu that can be moved and placed according to your preferences.
- Google maps – take advantage of Google maps with easy-to-use and flexible interfaces.
- Lightbox – clicking on a small thumbnail image will open a lightbox with an enlarged image.
- FAQ – special content type will create and adjust the page with frequently asked questions.
- Polls – content blocks and pages for polls.
- Panels – let you create layouts of any complexity and put up the content in them.
These are the major new features coming with each renewed Drupal Template. We believe these will change your life greatly while you’ll be working with Drupal templates because you can now control the template in ways you haven’t seen in any Drupal template before. Now here comes another awesome thing for you all – we’ve added a free sample of extra features Drupal template, so you’re absolutely welcome to download it, install and play with it and then let us know your opinion about it!
Also, please look through all new Drupal Templates with extra features that bring extra features and lots of improvements. Much more of templates of this kind are coming up.
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PlusGroup Drupal 7 Theme
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Sobos Drupal 7 Theme
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