Mimbo Pro was first released just shy of two months ago and both Darren and I have been overwhelmed by the response. To celebrate the reception of the theme, and the May day bank holiday we have decided to run our first sale. For the whole of today, the 5th of May, we will be [...]
The most common support items for Mimbo Pro are to do with the TimThumb script - and minor problems with it’s usage. Below are the three things that fix the problems with the image resize system.
The scripts/cache folder needs to be given the permissions 777 in order to save the cache files. This speeds up [...]
When I started Pro Theme Design I was thinking about what I wanted it to be and, whilst I wanted to sell Premium Themes, I also wanted to expand my knowledge, and the first way I am going to do this is by designing, and giving away for free, a free icon set.
Well this is [...]
Been a couple of weeks since an update. In that time we’ve done a fair amount of support on the forum, and it’s taught us a lot about what people want and how people use the theme. We’re going to be updating the faq to reflect the problems people have had.
Yesterday I made the stupid [...]
Today we sent out the first update for Mimbo Pro. We were hoping to stick to only updating to fix bugs but we had some ideas for new features and couldn’t resist adding them.
An abbreviated version of the changes is…
new control panel options for carousel count and page/ categories in top navigation
full gif and png [...]
When I came up with the idea of Pro Theme Design I wanted to do two things, 1 make money from kick-arse premium themes, and 2 give something useful back to the community. So when I read that Matt Mullenweg, the man behind Automattic, said he thought that Premium themes were holding back the community [...]
A long-awaited, full-featured magazine/news theme for Wordpress — Mimbo Pro is finally here!
Already familiar with the original Mimbo? Imagine no more manual template editing, no more Photoshop, no more image-cropping or FTP’ing. Plus a built-in contact form, image gallery, custom archive pages, breadcrumbs, ad management, Feedburner and Google Analytics options, and more. [...]
When you’re working on your website it is often best to test locally and then upload to your website. Either that or you should have a test site of some sort. Working on your website whilst it’s live is just asking for problems (as I’ve found out a number of times… I’ll learn eventually).
To test [...]
Lot’s of people have created Wordpress themes, thousands of people in fact. However only some of them have become popular themes and I believe this is for two reasons.
Bad promotion
Bad design
Bad Promotion
How do you get people to download and use your theme? Promoting a theme, especially at the moment since there are so many to [...]