This month YOOtheme brings you another great template: Bloc! Its 3D-design is great for creating rich media portals, band websites, blogs or sports sites. We created a lot of very unique template variations and for sure it will give your site a brand new modern look.

The main content wrappers are displayed as 3D blocks and new module variations offer some nice 3D effects. The Mega Drop Down Menu has a fancy hover effect and even the left menu got a new ribbon hover style.

We have also added a special header position which fits perfectly the 3D block and can be used to present a large header image. The toolbar and logo will be shown nicely above the image. There is also an additional logo position in this template. Now you have the possibility to put a second smaller logo next to the Drop Down Menu.

Get Neo and join the YOOtheme club today.

Over the last couple of months we developed the new Warp 5.5 theme framework which is the new foundation of all our YOOtheme templates. In this time we have rewritten the complete Warp theme framework to make it more modular, flexible and also extendible. All templates from 2010 and 2009 are updated to run on the new framework. This means more than 20 templates are using Warp 5.5!

Currently we are very focused on our Warp framework and a lot of development is going on. With Warp 5.5 we updated the whole php code base. Now Warp is a platform independent CMS theme framework. This improvements on the framework level were very important to add more features in the future. This means you can expect more Warp updates soon… In this article we want to highlight some of the key features of our new Warp 5.5 theme framework. Enjoy!

YOOtheme is a well-known template and extension provider who helps you to create professional websites. But to make your website or interface design a real eye-catcher we got one thing missing: Icons! Icons are an essential tool to simplify user interfaces. We complete this with our beautiful and handcrafted icon sets for web and print projects. We got commercial icon sets and free stuff. Enjoy browsing through all the icons on our new icon club website!

We are very happy to present you our new icon set release. The Boxes Icon Set! We put a lot of effort in this release and we are proud that it is the biggest club icon set in our portfolio now! It contains 34 high quality icons in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16×16 to 512×512 pixels. This makes 272 extremely detailed icons which are handmade and optimized for each specific size. Of course vector PDF files are available so you can change the colors and customize the icons!

Spice up your websites, catalogs or shops with our new boxes icon set. Our Premium members will also get all the vector PDF files for easy customization and resizing. Have a look at this set and join our icon club today!

ZOO 2.1 come with two, free pre-installed apps: the pages and the blog app. Both are ready to use after the installation of the ZOO 2.1. All types, elements and layouts of the apps are predefined you can start using them right away. No configuring needed. Besides the ZOO component itself a item, tag and comment module as well as a search plugin are bundled in the download package. They allow a seamless integration into Joomla and provide a richer tool set to create your website. Go and grab your own copy of ZOO 2.1 and take it for a spin.

Today we want to bring you the complete social bookmarks icon set as freebie, including all sizes and even the vector source files. Using social bookmarks icons on your website has never been prettier. Easily share and bookmark content and spread it all over the world! We provide our social bookmarks icons with a high brand recognition, looking straight-lined and equally fresh styled. Of course they are designed to match with all our club icon sets.

This freebie features most popular web and social media icons, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google and many others. For each of them we created different color and shape variations to give you a wider selection of matching icons for your website. The whole set contains 47 high quality icons in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16×16 to 512×512 pixels. This makes 376 extremely detailed icons which are handmade and optimized for each specific size. The set also includes vector PDF files of all icons that are compatible with Adobe Illustrator and can be rescaled to any size without a single loss to the details.

So download, enjoy and and please feel free to Twitter, Digg or recommend them. Are you missing your favorite social media icon? – Tell us and we’ll see what we can do about it!