We are happy to announce the launch of a new Obox personal blogging theme, called Smoke & Mirrors.
With a minimalist design focused on white space, typography and solid colors, this theme is aimed at those of you who want your content to ooze style and sophistication.
Features
In terms of functionality we have broken down some of the standard Wordpress sidebar widgets and redesigned them to look different from the norm and function with smooth jQuery effects.
These widgets include:
- A freshly designed Archive list
- Slick Popular posts jquery slider
- Recent comments list which is not your average list
- Social links to all your favorite social networks
Other features include our new Like and Unlike post voting system, bread crumb navigation and Author Post details. The usual OCMX-Live features that we pack with all our themes are also included.
Post Layouts
Because this theme is focused on blogging we have tried to give you a bit more power when it comes to the layout of your posts. It is therefore possible to position your posts feature image in one of three different locations (above, to the left or to the right of the copy).
This function is easily controlled when creating a new post. If you want to change the position of the image at a later point is easy to do so without having to resize your images, TimThumb will do it all for you.
Don't forget about integration
Before this Wordpress theme was releases we created a Micro Blog called Smoke & Tumble. The micro blog is designed to go hand in hand with this theme, so we suggest that you also download the free Smoke & Tumble package when purchasing Smoke & Mirrors ;)
We invite you to mess around with the Demo and as always, your feedback is more than welcome.
8 Comments
Another great theme guys.
You talked about the different post display options you can have, have you thought about doing screencast tutorials about this? as this would show the functionality, so you get to see it rather than read about it.
Just an idea though.
Looking great, Im really liking this theme! The sub-menu thingy looks really out of place though, rather chunky compared to the rest of the design, but for the rest.. very nice!
(Small note; on the theme details page, the width on the right shows 960pxpx)
@Craig - You are right bro, we need to get a decent mic to do some video recordings.
@Dave - Thanks for the positive feedback, I think I may reconsider that sub menu. I have fixed the pxpx issue (woops!)
WOW, gone for a few days and you guys launch this beauty!
Awesome... well done guys :)
Btw, when are you guys doing another From the couch episode? I miss those!
People actually buy this crap? lol.
@Jason - Yip many people do. Weird hey.
Im impressed guys, truly!
Ive seen you grow from the beginning of this blog to where you are now with the themes and stuff! Looking really great!
Personally I would add a left and right border to the search box. Keep it up!
Nice. And it should be working some day like for example themeforest.net. Dont give up!