BlogmyQuery – BMQ

In this post we release a yet another freebie: JournalCrunch WordPress 3.0+ theme, a theme for magazines or portfolios with an integrated journal. The theme was designed by Site5 and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• live demo
• large preview (.jpg, 0.7 Mb)
• full installation guide and documentation
• download the .zip-package (zip, 0.3 Mb)
• download the .zip-package from a mirror site (zip, 0.3 Mb)
• release on the developer’s site

Features

• Widget ready (footer and sidebar)
• Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
• Custom Homepage with 2 different views (featured posts or slider)
• WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled
• WordPress 3.0+ Menu Management Support
• Latest Tweets Built-in Widget
• Built-in Pagination
• 9 shortcodes
• Grid and standard posts listing
• Ninvo Slider, easy to setup from Admin panel
• JQuery Drop-down menu
• JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
• JQuery Forms
• Ajax based contact form
• Live form email validation

Comments (large preview)

Grid listing (large preview)

‘Featured posts’ view (large preview)

‘Slider view’ (large preview)

‘Latest tweets’ widget (large preview)

Live form validation (large preview)

‘Normal’ listing (large preview)

‘Options’ page (large preview)

Shortcodes (large preview)

Sidebar (large preview)

Single page with comments (large preview)

Slider items with custom post types (large preview)

Thank you, guys. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.

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In this post we release a yet another WordPress theme: Sight is a powerful WordPress 3.0.1-ready theme which will work best for magazines and blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style and has two views: the standard blog view and a grid view. A big image slider on the top gives you extra ability to show the most important content. The theme was designed by WP Shower exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• live demo
• large preview (.jpg, 1 Mb)
• video presentation
• download the .zip-package (updated, v2) (zip, 0.2 Mb)
• alternative download link (.zip, 0.2 Mb)

Features

• WordPress 3.0.1 Ready
• Theme Options page
• Two Pagination types (Default + WP Page-Navi support & AJAX-fetching posts)
• Valid XHTML 1.1
• jQuery-powered Featured Post Carousel
• Custom Widgets
• 2 Custom Menu Locations
• jQuery-powered Drop-down menu
• Nested comments
• Two post view types: standard blog view and a grid view
• Google Analytics Ready
• Custom Logo Upload
• Gravatar support
• Search Engine Optimized
• Browsers compatibility (IE 7 , IE 8 , Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome)
• Built in support for Social Bookmaking on Blog Posts – tinyurl.com API support for URL shorting

Front page (large preview)

Comments (large preview)

Custom Widgets (large preview)

Drop-down menu (large preview)

Gallery (large preview)

Grid View (large preview)

Category (large preview)

Single post (large preview)

Slideshow (large preview)

Social Widget (large preview)

Theme Options (large preview)

Motivation for the design

As always, here are some insights from the designers:

Sight is a powerful WordPress theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style with Golden Grid usage. It has two views to get information in the way you want — a standard blog view and a grid view. A big image slider on the top gives you extra ability to show the most important content.

The theme supports the newest WordPress versions and has 2 Custom Menu Locations. 2 pagination types are available: Default with WP-NAVI support and Ajax-fetching, like in previous Twitter interface. The Sight theme supports Social Media. It has links to share each post to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious Digg, no plugins needed. It is also Search Engine Optimized, so you don’t need to care about it, just set it up and get love from Google.

Please don’t forget to visit designer’s website for more free high-quality themes.

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Post tags: Freebies, themes, wordpress

In today’s news round-up we feature four powerful and new jQuery plugins that will add plenty of cool functionalties to your sites or applications.

Phono – jQuery Phone Plugin

Phono is a simple JQuery plugin and JavaScript library that turns any web browser into a phone; capable of making phone calls and sending instant messages. You can even connect to SIP clients; all with a simple unified API.
Phono – jQuery Phone Plugin

Wijmo – jQuery UI Widgets

Wijmo is a complete kit of over 30 jQuery UI Widgets. It is an extremely dangerous mixture of jQuery, CSS3, SVG, and HTML5 that when combined become an unstoppable force on the web.
Wijmo – jQuery UI Widgets

SlideNote – A jQuery Plugin For Sliding Notifications

SlideNote is a customizable, flexible jQuery plugin that makes it easy to display sliding notifications on your website or in your web application.
SlideNote – A jQuery Plugin For Sliding Notifications

IMGr – jQuery Image Rounder

IMGr is a jQuery plugin for rounding image corners. The script utilizes CSS3 in modern web browsers, and VML in Internet Explorer 8 and below.
IMGr – jQuery Image Rounder

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

Today we are glad to release a Payment Icon Set, a set with 18 payment icons in PNG format, in the resolutions 32×32px — 128×128px. This set was designed by Phil Matthews and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

The icons are inteded to be used on e-commerce websites where you can show what types of payment the shop accepts. Each icon comes in curved and straight edge variations. As usual, the set is free to use in private and commercial projects — no credit is required.

Download the icon set for free!

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed or rented. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.

• preview
• download the icon set for free (zip, 0.8 Mb)

Behind the design

As always, here are some insights from the designer:

This icon pack includes 18 different payment icons in PNG format. These icons are released free of charge and can be used without credit. The icons cannot be resold in any way. The copyright of each logo is owned by the respective payment company and I do not take responsibility for any part of the design of these. They are inteded for you to show what types of payment your website accepts. Please spread the word if you like this icon set or find it useful. Thank you.

— Phil Mathews

Thank you very much, Phil! We really appreciate your efforts.

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Post tags: credit card, Freebies, Icons, payment

As you may have noticed, from time-to-time we like to highlight to our readers some of the best freely available and freshest possible icon-sets. We really do love them, and we are sure you will love the selection we have for you today. You will find a mixed bag of social icons, an almost complete e-commerce set, and, finally, a flag icon-set that consists of a monumentally huge 2400 icons.

Discons

The Discons icon set, designed by Dave McNally, consists of 95 icons and all are 24px circles. Each icon has one unified shape – the glyph was combined with the background and knocked out of the shape. This means it’s easier for you to alter colours as there’s only one shape for each icon.
Discons

Glossy E-Commerce Icon Set

Ecommerce Glossy has been created by the folks at Iconshock for Hongkiat readers. It consists of 21 different e-commerce related icons in total and comes in these formats: AI, PSD and PNG.
Glossy E-Commerce Icon Set

2400 Flag Icon Set

Liquidcity has created a flag icon for every major country in the world, plus a few more. They've created them in several sizes so they'll look great no matter where you use them – 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, and 64×64. They also come in 2 variants – as flat and standard, and the other with a lovely glossy finish.
2400 Flag Icon Set

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).