Saturday, April 19, 2014

WooThemes – Swatch

WooThemes – Swatch

Swatch

Below is a screenshot of the Swatch home page with each of its modules explained. More detailed documentation below.




The home page of Swatch is largely widget based, with 3 regions available for placement of custom woo widgets below the mini-features module, and 0-4 regions in the footer. Place widgets in these regions under “Appearance > Widgets”.
The featured slider can easily be enabled/disabled under “Homepage Slider” theme options (more information below).
The Swatch theme comes with support for 2 menus. The Primary Menu is located below your theme header. The Top Menu (not shown in the demo) will appear in a strip across the top of the site. You can activate the top menu under “Appearance > Menus”. See documentation on “Menus” for more info.


 

Setting up the Featured Slider 

The unique home page featured slider can be used to display noteworthy content and has its own custom post type called “Slides” designated to it. The slider uses custom post images for the background image, and then shows the the title and content in a caption.




 The Swatch homepage slider pulls the custom “slides” post type. The number of slides is set under the “Homepage Slider” theme options panel. You can set the animation speed, effect, auto start and slide interval under the theme options.

Adding a slide


To add a slide simply follow these steps:

    Go to Slides > Add New.
    Type a title for the slide and complete all of the post’s body content.
    Add an “Image” in the Custom Settings panel if you wish it to appear as the background image. Alternatively, add it in the content if you wish it to appear within text content.
    Publish the slide.

Setting up the Blog


To create a dedicated blog page you need to create a new page, it doesn’t need any content in it, as you would the portfolio page documented above. Then assign the “Blog” page template to that page. Once you’ve done that you can navigate the “Appearance > Menus” page and add a menu item to your navigation so visitors can easily access the page

Setting up the Mini-Features

Mini-features can be used to highlight your business, or website’s key features. These will then appear under your homepage slider as you can see on our demo.

To add Mini-Features just navigate to “Mini-Features > Add New”. Give your mini feature a title, some content, to be displayed if a user navigates directly to that mini-feature page itself, a mini-feature excerpt and icon (if you so desire).

To Know More Visit:

http://docs.woothemes.com/document/swatch/

Friday, April 11, 2014

120 Free BlackBerry Themes

120 Free BlackBerry Themes: Top 5 Free Themes

I just realized there are around 120 free BlackBerry Themes now available in the BlackBerryCool Store. To see them, just click through to the themes section, and arrange them by price. In talking with some of the other writers, I thought I’d put together a list of some of the better free themes. Here are 5 we picked out that looked good and had a decent feature set.


Hero Sense UI theme v1.0.38 to 1.0.65 by BBThemes
Features:
  • Hero Sense UI for blackberry
  • 5 User customizable icons on homescreen
  • Fully customized icon set
Mac OS hidden dock vision theme for 8300,8310,8320 (4.5OS) by BT Design v1.0 by BT Design
Features:
  • mac os-like
  • Hidden dock on the homescreen.
  • Customizable homescreen icons.
  • Hotkey X to media
  • 4,5OS only
Free Blackberry Theme for 8900, 9000, 9630 & 9700 on OS 5: pure.volume by purelab. vpure.volume 5.0 by purelab
Features:
  • Small file size (about 320kb)
  • Speedy, sleek and wallpaper friendly
  • Hidden Today
  • 8 non-user customizable icons on home screen (horizontal scroll)
  • Left equalizer (combined message main box), right equalizer (calendar)
  • Yellow outer bar (batter), Green inner bar (Signal)
  • Hit spacebar on homescreen for ShortcutMe or Quicklaunch
  • Screen Transitions
  • User customizable font size
  • Supports International Characters
Newspaper LITE v1.0 by MMMOOO
Features:
  • Cool and useful hidden menu with page 1 and page 2
  • Customized default style icon set, easy to use, still with fresh look
  • Smooth, clean and stunning!
BerrySense – HTC Sense-inspired theme v1.1 by Mobilecubed
Features:
  • 9 Total customizable icons, including a Weather slot, based off of device application order (Slot 1 is the weather slot, 2-7 are the dock, and 8 and 9 are the left / right icons around the clock).
  • Hidden sliding dock.
  • Hidden Today area for Messages and Calendar.
  • Profile icon accessible on from the home screen.
  • Following keyboard shortcuts are enabled: Spacebar for QuickLaunch, $ for SMS / MMS, ALT+S (or ALT+P) for SearchIt.
  • Customized Locked screen with weather slot enabled.
  • 5.0 screen transitions
Check out our extensive list of free themes in the BlackBerryCool Store.
Know any other free BlackBerry Themes? Let us know in the comments.