On Nov 29, Elegant Themes officially released Harmony, a versatile premium WordPress theme designed for musicians and bands. Its key features are its custom audio player for sampling music tracks, event manager features and eCommerce functionality. Visitors can listen to the band’s music, purchase concert tickets via the band’s ticket vendor of choice and purchase music/merchandise through the theme’s WooCommerce powered e-store pages. It’s a one-stop website both musicians and fans will surely enjoy.
Harmony is a well designed, well developed theme considering this is Elegant’s first step into music themes. A lot of expectation and inputs have been given by users since the theme’s announcement on Nov. 7 and these suggestions have been carefully woven into the theme as best possible. The theme continues to deliver that signature Elegant Themes look and upholds its reputation for simple yet sophisticated design that distinguishes it, specifically Harmony’s aesthetics, from other music themes in the market. In addition, its excellent event management capabilities make it convenient for fans to patronize the band’s latest gigs and concerts as seamless and as effortless as scrolling through the pages.
Harmony includes an integrated MP3 audio player which gives fans and potential fans the opportunity to listen to audio samples of upcoming or already released music tracks. The theme is also equipped to display music videos and concert previews as an effective marketing tool to attract the attention of this media savvy generation of fans. This theme is also responsive and will work well on handheld and mobile devices – a staple of every ear plugged music fan out there. This means that fans can enjoy their favorite band’s music anytime, anywhere – which is definitely music to any musician’s ears.
Features:
- Responsive Design
- Theme Options
- Shortcodes
- Page Templates
- Perpetual Updates
- Secure and Valid Code
- Browser Compatibility
- Complete Localization
- Unlimited Colors
- Unparalleled Support
Harmony Premium WordPress Theme includes top-notch tech support provided by Elegant themes’ support staff to help you setup your site and get it running in no time.
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One fine day I was trying to fill in an important official form online on my Mozilla Firefox’s browser. After spending about half an hour I reached the last few questions of the form. One question there asked me to click a checkbox to answer but I could see no checkbox on the screen. After wasting a lot of time reading the instructions and every possible detail over and over again I asked for advice from my friends. One person told me that I should try to refill the form on Internet Explorer. I tried it and now the checkbox appeared and I successfully completed and submitted the form online.
The problem just described occurred because the form was designed to work especially for Internet Explorer. You see, designing an application for all systems is tedious as one has to tweak the runtime code again and again to make it compatible to work with different systems. Here is where Adobe AIR jumps in. If an internet application is designed using Adobe AIR then it will automatically work for all systems and browsers.
Technically speaking:
“Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash and Flex technologies, and Action Script to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on a broad range of devices including desktop computers, netbooks, tablets, smartphones, and TVs. AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver®, Flash Builder®, Flash Catalyst®, Flash Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems.” – Adobe’s website.
Adobe AIR has a wide array of apps that can help designers design better applications. Below I have selected 17 of them.
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It’s the age of the boy band, the rocker chicks, and the indie alternative rock group and fans have been stalking their favorite bands social network sites. But what if these bands had their very own websites to give them and their fans an online address where they can all converge and have fun?
Elegant Themes is coming up with its version of the music/band/artist WordPress theme and it looks quite exciting. We wonder how Nick Roach is going to combine elegance and swag all at the same time. No doubt, it will be something good.
Sneak peeks can be seen on the Elegant Theme’s blog page. A few features that’s been talked about are:
The theme is compatible with the standard soundcloud plugin, and that you can add your soundcloud social media Icon in the header
- Highly visual, clean and responsive experience
- Includes an eStore / eCommerce compatible
- Alternate color schemes
- Major features: showcase songs, sell swag, cultivate fants, notify them of upcoming shows
- Define your own background image for each location
Check out the Elegant Themes blog or even our blog regularly for the latest updates on the release of this new theme from Elegant Themes, Harmony theme.
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Almost in all our blog posts we need to add external links, images, etc. to enhance the quality of our posts. The traditional method to do that is to first write the complete article and then search for the relevant data on the Internet and, when found, insert it in the blog post. But you can save a lot of time by using the Zemanta WordPress add-on. If Zemanta is installed and you are writing an article in WordPress then the add-on displays relevant articles, links and images that match with your text and you can choose which ones to insert right from the WordPress dashboard. Zemanta will also display the attribution details of the image. Obviously this is a great help in your blogging journey.
This is just one example on how add-ons can help you in blogging. If you want more of these fantastic add-ons then you have come to the right place. In this article I present you 10 useful WordPress add-ons for Firefox.
The add-ons collected below have different purposes. For example Deepest Sender, can be used to post to your WordPress website even when you are on a different page. This can be of a great help when, you are reading an article on the Internet and you think you can build upon the idea presented there in a better way. All you have to do is to hit Ctrl+ and you will be in your WordPress dashboard and can start typing.
So scroll down and find which one suits you best.
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Believe it or not, 2013 is right around the corner, and we want you to be prepared. Thanks to some big advancements in eCommerce functionality for WordPress in 2012, the Best eCommerce Themes of 2013 are sure to be amazing. eCommerce is simply the commerce conducted through the Internet. With millions of websites, blogs, and Internet users, more and more businesses are taking their products online. The successes of sites like Amazon and Ebay has dispelled all skepticism about eCommerce websites – not to mention the scores of “mom and pop” operations selling everything from ebooks to digital hugs…yes…some people are making money selling completely made up things.
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Twitter is one of the most visited social networking platforms on the planet. WordPress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms. When the two meet, you can expect beautiful things to happen.
Below we present you with 25 helpful Twitter plugins for WordPress – Plugins can make your WordPress site do virtually anything.
Here’s an example of what you can achieve with one of these Twitter Plugins for WordPress.
It is a common habit nowadays that people sign into their Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail accounts when they start their computer, and after checking their accounts they typically close all these web pages but do not sign out of their accounts. Instead they go on to work on new web pages and they occasionally return to their accounts to check any latest updates. Now there is a plugin named “Simple Twitter Connect”, no. 5 below in this list, which enables you to log into your WordPress dashboard through your Twitter profile. Once you install the plugin and sync everything then you can login to your WordPress dashboard with your Twitter account. If you have the habit of being logged into your Twitter account all the time then you can log into WordPress by just a click of the button – you will just have to hit the “Sign in with Twitter” button and you will be in.
This is just one example of the power of the Twitter Plugins presented below. Scroll down for more info on these wonderful Plugins for 2012 – 2013.
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Ecommerce is one such thing which doesn’t need any introduction. Especially in this century we can say it’s on fire with the innovations and new ventures coming in. Gone are those days where Amazon and eBay are the only destinations for online shopping. One such industry that benefitted from this whole scenario is definitely web design and development. They received an immense number of new opportunities. Small groups and freelances also received a good amount of work in to design themes with the evolution of ecommerce software like Shopify, etc. We tried to collect a few of the best shopping website designs for your inspiration.
These 30 Stunning ecommerce website designs can provide a more enjoyable user experience, and they can also be excellent sources of design inspiration. We hope you enjoy (and get some good ideas).
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