BlogmyQuery – BMQ

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.

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. 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.

The Neat New Features

jQuery Latest Image Showcase

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.

Related Posts Drop Down

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.

Latest Posts & Featured Posts

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.

Thanks to You Guys & Smashing Magazine

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.

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

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.

Another collaboration between ourselves and WooThemes, the result: this stunning theme with optional layouts. We’ve realized, that while a lot of people no doubt love magazine style themes - there are still a lot of people who would like the option of having something a little more personal. So here you have it!

As always with WooThemes there is a range of colours to chose from, and a really easy to manage back end, which means whichever layout you chose - it’s always easy enough to manage.

Theme Description

OpenAir is designed to have a very sort and open feel to them, with soft subtle gradients and border with great use of white space to give a spacious and elegant feel to your content. We’ve set the theme around a grid based layout so that information can easily be seen and read throughout.

Theme Details

Navigation

We’ve made navigation very easy and well presented through the theme. At the top you have any links/pages you’d like. And along the other navigation/tabs we have a list of categories. Making it very easy for you to browse through the categories, and to see which category you are in at any given time.

Post Info & Related Posts

Related posts are a great way of encouraging exploration to your website. And we’re used to seeing them hidden away in posts or at the end of posts, but why not have them on the front page next to a post? They are easily accessible now next to any post.

Grid Layout

Grids are undoubtedly a great way of displaying a lot of information, in a easy to browse and manage way. OpenAir makes great use of grids in this way to display older posts in a much more attractive way.

Download & Demo

Download & Details |  Demo |  Blog Post

Use the links above o read more about the theme and to experience it for yourself. We’ve had a few releases on WooThemes and are really proud to be working along side some great guys. Not only do they provide great looking themes, but if you purchase a theme you’ll no doubt be impressed with their support forums and custom back-end theme options. And right now they are running a 3 for 1 deal on all of there themes, Including this one.