BlogmyQuery – BMQ

Update: The Thesis Black Friday Sale has ended, and although it caused quite a frenzy, I have left this experience with a newfound distaste for sales. The last thing I want to do is mess with the psyche of potential customers, and sales have the ugly side effect of conditioning buyers into thinking that what you offer can always be had for less.

We’re having a Black Friday Sale over at DIYthemes, and from now until supplies run out, you can get Thesis at an unprecedented 20% discount. To cash in, simply enter the following coupon code when you purchase or upgrade:

edit: code removed because the sale has ended

When I say “until supplies run out,” I’m being completely serious. People who are great at promoting Thesis and explaining its benefits have already pimped this sale, and as I write this, there are literally only 94 out of 150 coupons remaining.

If you’ve been indecisive about getting Thesis and checking it out, right now is the absolute cheapest you’ll ever be able to get the theme.

This set of free characters is ideal for adding a little personality into your designs. With a variety of actions and poses to chose from you can easily adapt them into your designs anywhere you feel needs it.

Inject a little fun into your dull and boring help pages, emphasize a feature or a button on your page, add a little hint or tip on your page coming from one of the characters, use them to show off or present your portfolio items… Basically you can use them for anything, we don’t mind. All we ask is that you link back to this page if at all possible, but it’s not a requirement.

Created by Pasquale D’Silva

We’ve worked with Pasquale before on our Twitter Illustration in a previous post, but we really love his style so wanted to work with him again on something which we would use, but also something that we could share with you guys.

We highly recommend you check out his work via his blog @ darkmotion.com because he truly is one of the most talented and professional people you will ever come across, so if you did like this character set, and perhaps want something a little more unique and something created just for you give him a shout.

The Full Set

Here is the complete set – we’ve gone for quality and usefulness, trying to create poses that could be used in a lot of many different ways, and for many different things, take a look below!

Show us what You’ve done

If you do download these and use them it would be cool to see them in action, leave a link in the post below and let us know what you think of them. And if these go down well we should be seeing some more like this in the future.

Download the Character Pack

The files are in .eps format perfect for scaling. You will need to unzip the pack at first, then you will find the files inside. Enjoy!

Download Function Character Pack | 309.8 kb | .zip

While the Pathfinder functions themselves have not changed inside of Illustrator CS4, what has changed is their default behavior… and this might cause some confusion. In previous versions of Illustrator you could select two shapes and click a Pathfinder button to create a compound shape…

While the Pathfinder functions themselves have not changed inside of Illustrator CS4, what has changed is their default behavior… and this might cause some confusion. In previous versions of Illustrator you could select two shapes and click a Pathfinder button to create a compound shape…

A while ago we had the pleasure of working with DreamTemple for a Wordpress Theme which they’ve given away for free on Smashing Magazine. That means you can get this beautiful and unique theme for free, from the king of freebies Smashing Magazine.

We’re very happy to once again have some of our work featured on such a wonderful resource, and are working on another free theme which will be also be released on Smashing Magazine.

Theme Details

Details and Subtle Touches

As always we’ve added many subtle background effects and textures, the beautiful dark wood texture contrasted with the clean open paper background on which the content lies. We’ve managed to make something which remains very spacious and clean when it comes to the content, even though it sits on top of something very decorative and grungy.

Colour Changes

As a added extra touch, we’ve created some additional schemes which you can easily switch through by clicking any one of the colour tabs on the side of the theme. This will change the colour of the links throughout the page. We were going to have a completely new theme for each tab, but the colours never looked as good as they do right now, so we felt it would be better to retain the quality of the original and just have the links change colour.

Traditional Blog Layout

Although Magazine styles are great (well I still think so at least) - we’re just as happy to see more and more personal blog layouts coming back. The truth is, not every blog needs to have a magazine layout, so we’re glad to have been able to offering something for those of you who prefer something which is more personal.

Once again, we’d like to thank DreamTemplate for working with us on this theme and Smashing Magazine for releasing the theme and their great support.

Download & Demo

Download & Details |  Demo

More details and information is available on the link above, also you can check out the live demo to see the theme fully working. And as the theme is free you’ve got no reason not to try it out. The PSD file is also available for download, make sure you check the download & details link for that. Thanks, let me know what you think.