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WORDPRESS VERSION OF THE THEME

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DOWNLOAD Freebie: Revenant Template Home Page (PSD)

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DOWNLOAD Freebie: Revenant Template Home Page (PSD)

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The Agile Manifesto

Agile philosophy is that something. You’ve probably heard of it – it’s been huge in web development for over a decade – but do you really understand what it’s all about? And what’s more, how it can apply to you, as a designer?

To start, the agile philosophy values these concepts:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

All well and good for developers, but this reactive philosophy that strives to accommodate change instead of pre-empting it can be relevant for designers, too.

Working with an agile philosophy means starting with a client’s basic idea and foregoing a big upfront design in favor of consistently delivering smaller, valuable increments of a project. As each of these is completed, the client gives feedback which can be acted on immediately, before moving on to the next element. These small cycles, or ‘iterations’ last from one to two weeks, and after a series, each element can be put together to create one final, cohesive product.

In short, communicate well and communicate often in order to design well and deliver often.

If this still sounds far from anything you feel you can implement in order to improve your workflow, hang in there. With agile in mind, here are three useful, design tips that, if followed, should increase your efficiency significantly.

1. Forego Meticulous Research and Upfront Design

An agile design approach requires small iterations, and this means you won’t be delivering a large, upfront proposal to your clients. Instead of taking large amounts of time to produce static PSD mock-ups of the entire site, use the time before your first iteration (known as iteration zero) to do your groundwork.

Ask yourself:
• What does your client envision?
• What features are they aiming for?
• Why are they building the site?
• Who are their users?

Your research here will not be as painstaking as you’re used to, but answering these questions should give you enough of a design vision, enough of a sense of your client’s aesthetic style and brand, to get started and see real results – which is what agile is all about.

You can still design, but the point is that it’s not about perfectionism and ‘counting pixels’ in the early stages. Your aim is to create something workable – rapid prototyping in order to see your designs ‘in browser’ straightaway, so you can get the feedback you need to improve.

If you’re still uncomfortable with this approach, think how frustrating it can be to spend infinite amounts of time working on a carefully constructed design, only for your client to be unhappy with the final product.

By avoiding upfront activities, you will avoid this happening and develop a much deeper understanding of the whole project, and will become far more results driven.

2. Think Continuous Integration, (Scrum and Deliverables)

The success of agile lies truly in the concept of continuous integration. By testing a product continuously throughout its development, issues can be discovered and resolved throughout the process and changing requirements can be taken into account as and when they are realized.

The organization of design into specified time frames, or ‘sprints’, that work on specific user stories, allows you to work on what you know and only what you know about the site’s desired functionality. This means you’re able to create a working product (by prototyping in HTML) based on your client’s highest priority, get their feedback, adapt your work, and then move on to the next priority. This is repeated, and your work refined as you go along.

Scrumming (which are short, daily meetings) allows for scheduled brainstorming sessions that contribute to the development of the end product by encouraging critical reflection on iterations as they are completed and tested and thinking of new ideas to apply as the project progresses.

Although a slightly crude account of the scrum process, what is being highlighted here is the importance of adaptation throughout the entire process of creating a website.

3. Communicate Consistently and Clearly

• With Your Client
This means keeping your client involved throughout the design process, continuously explaining your ideas to ensure that you are both on (and that you both stay on) the same page. Once you’ve presented your ideas, listen to their concerns and always keep their needs at the forefront of your mind, then create solutions accordingly.

By remaining in constant communication, you are continuously being reminded of the overall goal and are able to make sure that you, as a designer, are not going off on an unnecessary tangent, spending hours on an element of a site that your client never wanted.

Using an agile framework means concepts you’ve worked hard on shouldn’t get thrown out, and if they do, you won’t have wasted a huge amount of time perfecting it.

The other benefit of communication is that you will be able to gain valuable insight into how your designs are being interpreted, and this will help keep you on the right track, as well as help you develop as a designer.

• With Your Team
Due to the fragmented nature of the agile philosophy, cohesive design can be difficult. Communicating with your team is just as important as communicating with your client, and taking advantage of daily brainstorming sessions can help you create a unified feel from something that may initially feel disjointed.

Finally…

Admittedly, designing in this way is not initially intuitive. You might feel that by producing a deliverable, you’re committing to something that you’re not completely enamored with. The whole point though, is that agile is a test-driven process, and feedback is imperative.

In order to avoid stagnation and keep our industry moving forward, we need to borrow from the agile philosophies of developers. Although we approach things from different a perspective, the agile philosophy is flexible enough to suit a design approach as well as a developer’s.

Theme comes with a Revolution Slider which is the best selling Premium WordPress Plugin for creation of Slideshows. It is one of the most advanced and highly customizable slideshows ever created. See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with our convenient drag&drop backend to your very needs. This is an extra $15 of value (price of the plugin)

Theme utilizes a unique and premium drag & drop IOS Slideshow which can be seen on the front page. It will give your store a fresh and unique look.

Revenant has a convenient Administration panel which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

The Theme comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend of your WordPress Theme. You can choose any color you want to be the Theme’s leading color (you can see 8 examples in our preview).

The theme allows you to change all the main colors of the Theme (background color for titles, color of title fonts, color of hover elements, color of shadow used on text) along with the background. This means that you can change all the colors and looks of the theme with just a few clicks.

Four different blog pages will give you the opportunity to choose the style that you prefer. You can choose from a standard blog, a minimalistic blog and a blog designed to look like portfolio.

Unlimited home pages will allow you to present your site in a way suited for your company. Simply create any kind of Home Page with the Aqua Page Builder.

LIVE PREVIEW

See Revenant Business WordPress Theme in live action!

Revenant Business WordPress Theme Features

• 4 built in sliders (Revolution Slider, IOS Slider, Full width Slideshow and Nivo Slideshow)
• AQUA PAGE BUILDER
• 5 custom Widgets
• Google Web Fonts
• WPML Plugin support for extra languages
• Video, Gallery, Audio, Standard and Link Posts Templates
• Revolution Slider
• Clean & Crisp Design
• CSS3 Features and Animations
• Detailed written help file
• Full Width Google Maps Contact Page
• +70 shorcodes with easy shortcode generator.
• Use your custom logo and favicon icon.
• 3 blog templates (standard, minimalistic and portfolio like)
• 3 home page layouts (fullwidth slideshow, nivo slideshow, category home page and portfolio home page).
• 3 portfolio page layouts (2,3,4 columns)
• Unlimited Home Page Templates
• 5 Post Templates (Standard, video, link, gallery, audio)
• Filterable portfolio items.
• Team Page

AQUA PAGE BUILDER

Aqua Page Builder is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to create an unlimited number of template variations for use in your WordPress themes. It follows the same user interface used by the Menus & Widgets admin pages – making you feel right at home with the UI.

Similar to the Widgets &amps Menus, Aqua Page Builder features the drag and drop interaction to build its templates.

Since its official release over 3 months ago, Aqua Page Builder plugin has received over 10000 downloads across the globe. If you don’t know what Aqua Page Builder (henceforth AQPB) is, then I’d recommend you to watch this short video which demonstrates some of its awesome features. http://www.screenr.com/iI87

Screenshot taken directly from our Theme is below:

Page Builder (second image)

REVOLUTION SLIDER

Create a responsive(mobile friendly) or fullwidth slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with our convenient drag&drop backend to your very needs.

This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

Some video Tutorials to help you get started with the Slideshow. Also please note that you will get the demo txt file to recreate the same Slideshow as in Live preview in seconds:

VIDEO TUTORIALS

• Slider Installation & First Steps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVleysEPHM4
• Frontend Walkthrough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FroPmOLT0
• Easy Slider Creation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCgspm_GaP8

AJAX LOADING

Revenant is using an advanced AJAX loading of the Projects and Posts on the front page. If you click on one of the Projects it will open live on the Front Page. From there you can choose to either close it or read it in full details (user will then be taken to the single static page of the recent Project or Post). With this functionality a user can easily check all the Projects and recent Posts without leaving the Home Page.

HOW TO REGISTER ON OUR SUPPORT FORUMS

Support is handled via our Envato support forum. It is designed in a way so only Envato users that have bought some of our plugins or Themes can register. You have to use the purchase code in the process. This has been causing some problems so please check the screenshots below to see where to get the purchase code.

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After you click on the License Certificate you will then be able to see the code in the file which will look like in the screenshot below:

QUICK GUIDE

There are two ways of installing the Theme for your WordPress installation.

INSTALLATION VIA FTP

Extract the themeforest package you recieved to any folder on your harddrive. The archive contains several folders. You will need to copy the “Revenant” folder which contains the theme data to your wordpress installations theme folder on your server. Example of a destination folder: http://yourserver/wordpress/wp-content/themes/. The resulting file structure will look like this: http://yourserver/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Revenant/. Next go to your WordPress installation admin panel to appearence/themes. You will see theRevenant theme listed along with other themes. Press Activate and the theme will be active in a moment.

INSTALLATION DIRECTLY FROM YOUR WORDPRESS INSTALLATION

Go to Appearance/Themes and click on the tab Install Themes. Now click on the upload button and choose the zip called Revenant.zip. After the Theme uploads to the server simply click on Activate and your brand new theme will be ready to use.

To make the theme look like our live preview and for it to function properly it should be installed in the following order:

PROPER INSTALLATION PROCESS

WHAT A CLASSIFIED AD IS

Classified ads have been very common these days. Classified is a heading under which different ads of different categories are available. Starting from the sale of a product to the recruitment of employees, from the sale of pets and plants to tuition providers and rental houses anything can be displayed. The classified ad providers target the customer for your ads as per the suitability criteria such as geographical location and the targeted society.

When you wish to have your classified ads being shown you need to provide your e-mail address so that your classified ads can be associated with it. Along with ads you need to provide images and descriptions related to your products in order to provide some information about your product to your prospective customers.

The classified ads on the internet work as a link that pops up when the user is busy working with some of his own work. That popping link of classified ads makes the user aware of the products or services a business is providing and in turn the business gets its customers.

If a classified ad is being printed in a newspaper the size of the ad is reduced because the more huge size of the ad is the more cost it incurs. Classified ads have been flourishing day by day as many customers are now more interested in having a look at these ads by sitting at home.

WHERE TO PLACE CLASSIFIED ADS

Classified ads being shown on the internet are not always the paid ones. Many websites provide an opportunity to the businesses to get their ads placed on websites free of cost. These websites provide a boost to the revenues of the new business by letting them reduce their expenditure on advertising.

For past few years the market for the classified ads have been increased tremendously. In the year 2003 there was a huge increase in the classified ad market with the figure being quoted for printing classified ads being $15.9 billion and the online classified ads being $14.1 billion. Although since the past 3 to 4 years there is a severe decline in the classified ads printing in the newspapers as there has been an excessive increase in the placement of online classified ads. The rise in the trend of the online classified ads is because of the increase in the number of internet users all over the world.

There are two different ways of getting your advertisement being placed on the internet. One is the paid placement and the second one is the free of cost placement of classified ads. The free classified ads placement gives an opportunity to many newly entered business to sell their products without incurring advertisement costs. Whereas the paid ads charge over the number of times an action is being clicked. These online classified ads give an opportunity to businesses to earn the best of their sales with incurring almost negligible cost of advertisement.

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If you like the design of this Theme stay tuned as it will be finished in the upcoming week!

UPDATE

Themes has been released and is now available on Themeforest. You can check it out here.

DOWNLOAD Portfolio Page in 3 Columns (PSD)

Freebie: Portfolio Page in 3 Columns (PSD) (39)

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DOWNLOAD Portfolio Page in 3 Columns (PSD)

Freebie: Portfolio Page in 3 Columns (PSD) (39)

Hide My WP is a WordPress Plugin which hides WordPress and controls access to PHP files. It protects your site from 95% of SQL-Injection and XSS attacks. This means you can install unsafe plugins without worry about security.

Some of the core functions of the plugin are:

• Hide wp-login.php
• Hide wp-admin and all of its files (for untrusted users)
• Change WordPress theme directory, remove theme Info from stylesheet, replace default WP classes and finally minify it!
• Change plugins directory and hash plugins name
• Change upload URL, wp-includes folder, AJAX URL, etc.
• Change WordPress queries URL
• Change author permalink (or disable it!)
• Change or disable feeds
• Hide all other WordPress files!
• Disable WordPress archives, categories, tags, pages, posts, etc

Some extra features:

• Easily replace any words in your html output file!
• Notify you when someone is mousing about your WordPress site (included with visitor details like IP, user agent, referrer and even username!)
• Compress html output and remove comments in source code
• Remove WordPress meta Info from header and feeds
• Change default WordPress email sender
• Custom 404 page!
• Remove unnecessary menu classes
• Clean up body classes

In reality this means that not only your visitors will be unaware that your website is based on WordPress CMS, but also the potential attackers. We all know that hackers, spammers and robots all love to attack WordPress Websites.  Hide My WP simply prevents them to recognize your WordPress site and simply ignore you! It is a unique and brilliant solution and the plugin will be a bestseller with no doubts. You can read more about the plugin on Codecanyon, where it is for sale for $20. Not much for the best solution to hide WordPress.

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Isolated Cottage in the Grass Field License

If you would like to contribute your photos to our blog please send your images to info(@).premiumcoding.com with a short note describing the motive or idea behind the photography.

All images found under category Daily Photo on PremiumCoding are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

Theme utilizes a unique and premium drag & drop IOS Slideshow which can be seen on the front page. It will give your store a fresh and unique look.

The Theme is meant to be a camera shop but can ofcourse be used to sell anything else. Enjoy the nicely designed product images and slideshows and give your shop a modern and clean look.

Camy has a convenient Administration panel which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

The Theme comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend of your WordPress Theme. You can choose any color you want to be the Theme’s leading color (you can see 8 examples in our preview).

The theme allows you to change all the main colors of the Theme (background color for titles, color of title fonts, color of hover elements, color of shadow used on text) along with the background. This means that you can change all the colors and looks of the theme with just a few clicks.

Two different Shop pages will allow you to choose between a full width Shop and a shop with a sidebar that can contain normal wordpress widgets and woocommerce widgets.

Three different blog pages will give you the opportunity to choose the style that you prefer. You can choose from a standard blog, a minimalistic blog and a blog designed to look like portfolio.

Four premade home pages will allow you to present your site in a way suited for your company. Choose between a great full width slideshow, nivo slideshow, shop page with slider or classical layout with portfolio and recent posts.

LIVE PREVIEW

See Camy E-commerce WordPress Theme in live action!

Camy Ecommerce WordPress Theme Features

• 2 built in sliders (Full width Slideshow and Nivo Slideshow)
• 5 custom Widgets
• Google Web Fonts
• WPML Plugin support for extra languages
• Video, Gallery and Link Posts Templates (3.3 WordPress Feature)  browser!
• 2 Shop Pages
• Shopping cart with a fresh approach
• CSS3 Features and Animations
• Detailed written help file
• WooCommerce that utilise a unique shop
• +70 shorcodes with easy shortcode generator.
• Use your custom logo and favicon icon.
• 3 blog templates (standard, minimalistic and portfolio like)
• 3 home page layouts (fullwidth slideshow, nivo slideshow, category home page and portfolio home page).
• 3 portfolio page layouts (2,3,4 columns)
• 3 Home Page Templates
• 4 Post Templates (Standard, video, link, gallery)
• Filterable portfolio items.
• Team Page

It’s purpose is for creative agency sites or blog in old typewriting style with big and bold fonts.

Studio 9 has a convenient Administration panel which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

The Theme comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend of your WordPress Theme. You can choose any color you want to be the Theme’s leading color (you can see 8 examples in our preview).

The theme allows you to change all the main colors of the Theme (background color for titles, color of title fonts, color of hover elements, color of shadow used on text) along with the background. This means that you can change all the colors and looks of the theme with just a few clicks.

LIVE PREVIEW

See Agency cretive Portfolio WordPress Theme in live action!

Agency Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme Features

• Google Web Fonts
• Video, Gallery, Audio and Link Posts Templates
• CSS3 Features and Animations
• WPML Support for extra languages
• +30 shorcodes with easy shortcode generator.
• Use your custom logo and favicon icon.
• 2 portfolio page layouts (2,3 columns)
• 5 Post Templates (Standard, video, link, gallery, audio)
• Filterable portfolio items.

HOW TO REGISTER ON OUR SUPPORT FORUMS

Support is handled via our Envato support forum. It is designed in a way so only Envato users that have bought some of our plugins or Themes can register. You have to use the purchase code in the process. This has been causing some problems so please check the screenshots below to see where to get the purchase code.

Click on the image for a larger preview!

After you click on the License Certificate you will then be able to see the code in the file which will look like in the screenshot below:

QUICK GUIDE

There are two ways of installing the Theme for your WordPress installation.

INSTALLATION VIA FTP

Extract the themeforest package you recieved to any folder on your harddrive. The archive contains several folders. You will need to copy the “Agency” folder which contains the theme data to your wordpress installations theme folder on your server. Example of a destination folder: http://yourserver/wordpress/wp-content/themes/. The resulting file structure will look like this: http://yourserver/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Agency/. Next go to your WordPress installation admin panel to appearence/themes. You will see the Agency theme listed along with other themes. Press Activate and the theme will be active in a moment.

INSTALLATION DIRECTLY FROM YOUR WORDPRESS INSTALLATION

Go to Appearance/Themes and click on the tab Install Themes. Now click on the upload button and choose the zip called Agency.zip. After the Theme uploads to the server simply click on Activate and your brand new theme will be ready to use.

To make the theme look like our live preview and for it to function properly it should be installed in the following order:

PROPER INSTALLATION PROCESS

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Abandoned Castle (Grad Kamen) License

If you would like to contribute your photos to our blog please send your images to info(@).premiumcoding.com with a short note describing the motive or idea behind the photography.

All images found under category Daily Photo on PremiumCoding are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.