Today we have a brand new Widgetkit 1.2 release prepared for you! It's a short follow up to our Widgetkit 1.1 release 3 weeks ago. The new responsiveness of all widgets marked a major step in the evolvement of Widgetkit, and we thought it was about time for some icing on the cake. So, besides the regular bugfixes, we have put some work into the improvement of our Gallery widget.
Now we are very proud to present you Nano2, our first completely responsive theme! It takes full advantage of the brand new Warp 6.2 theme framework, that we have been working on for the last months. Warp 6.2 comes with a completely responsive design which adapts perfectly for all device resolutions.
Nano2 is the successor of our very popular Nano theme. Like its predecessor Nano2 is an optimized and streamlined framework theme and serves as a blueprint to build your own custom themes. We revamped all of the existing Nano styles and made them responsive. They look fresher now and adapt perfectly for different screen sizes. In addition we added 3 new styles to cover all kinds of different layouts. These styles are a great starting point for you to design your own customizations, modifications and enhancements.
Tada! Today we are really proud to announce the first major Widgetkit release since we introduced it back in January. Widgetkit has improved constantly over the last 6 months, but lately we have worked hard on a really important new feature: A completely responsive design for Widgetkit. All widgets including all the fancy effects are now adapting perfectly for all different device resolutions. This goes along with our upcoming Warp 6.2 release which also features a completely responsive design. But besides bugfixes we added nice little features to Widgetkit 1.1.
As we started working on bringing the responsive design to our Warp 6 theme framework we quickly realized that it is not only the CSS which does all the work. We also needed JavaScripts which would add even more functionality in addition to the CSS media queries. Fortunately the JavaScript engines of modern browsers offer a function called window.matchMedia which can evaluate media queries so you are able to handle the result. And for all browsers which support media queries in CSS but lack of the window.matchMedia function we added a tiny polyfill to add this functionality.
It has been a little over a year since we released the Warp 6 theme framework. It was a major success for us and we have improved it constantly. That's why we are really excited to announce the next major framework release Warp 6.2 which comes with a completely responsive design which adapts perfectly for all device resolutions. We will do two blog posts where we'll take a closer look at how we implemented the responsive design in Warp. This part will focus on the responsive layout and its CSS. But first of all the good news: It was really easy to make the Warp framework responsive. Thanks to our current CSS framework, which already provided a fluid grid system.
Check out "Steam" our latest theme release for June 2012! It's fresh and colorful design works perfectly any kind of event, magazine, blog or company website. With a modern layout you can present all your essential information to your visitor in a clean and direct way. Then to get a bit fancy, just combine it with our powerful Widgetkit and you have built an cutting edge website! All in all this theme offers 8 different very detailed color variations, 4 module styles and 13 different fonts. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
All our frequent blog readers surely noticed that this is our last theme which will support Joomla 1.5 and Internet Explorer 7. You can read more on this topic in our last blog post Goodbye Joomla 1.5 and IE7
Joomla 1.5 reached its offical end-of-life in April 2012. Most theme and extension developers already dropped Joomla 1.5 support and we also think it is time to say good bye. This is why we will stop developing templates for Joomla 1.5. The next June template will be the last template available for Joomla 1.5. The same goes for Widgetkit and ZOO.
Internet Explorer 7 was originally released in 2006 and does not support the latest web standards and technologies compared to modern browsers which offer a rich support for HTML5 and CSS3. Its market share fell under 3% worldwide this month and many companies like Google or Open Source CMS like Drupal dropped IE7 support for their upcoming releases. So we also decided to discontinue IE7 browser support for our themes and extensions from July 1st 2012 on.
This step allows us to focus on modern web technologies for our next major Warp framework release coming in July! We are very excited about it. More news coming soon!
Get on board and check our new Subway theme! It brings you a modern boxed layout with a broad range of options for customization. You can choose from various color and transparency options. Explore many beautiful designed details like fresh typography, icons, CSS animations and animated backgrounds. Also this theme brings you some nice custom features: Two new Widgetkit styles for the Slideshow and the Gallery are included. Their design seamlessly fits into the theme. Also notice the fixed social toolbar, which appears if you hover the icon to the right of your browser window. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
As promised here comes our second part of our space icon series! Now the Space Crew is complete with a witty robot in three different mood versions, the green twin of the protozoa alien, a satellite, a planet and a flying saucer. So what are you waiting for - with this team you are ready to travel to infinity and beyond! This makes 7 icons altogether. All icons come in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. It makes a total of 56 additional handcrafted icons which are of course optimized for each specific size.
Take a look at the new space icons and join the icon club!
