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Farewell Tumblr, It's Been A Blast

In late January we moved the Envato Marketplace blogs here to Tumblr, and it has been a blast. A crazy 4,006 posts later over seven tumblogs, we've come to appreciate Tumblr's speed and flexibility, its informal atmosphere, its variety of post types, its integration with other social media sites, and its bookmarklet that allows you to create Tumblr content from just about anywhere.

Many of you have found a home at Tumblr too, with 1,252 of you creating your own tumblogs and following us. If you'd like to give your new home a fresh coat of paint, you'll want to check out ThemeForest's Tumblr Themes section and pick out something that appeals.

But it's time for us to move on. A new unified blog called Envato Notes will be launched in the next day or so. The new blog will support marketplace authors, sharing tips and giving advice that will help you market yourself more effectively. It will also be a central place for the community to get together and keep up with the latest Envato news.

Besides visiting the new blog, make sure you're following ThemeForest on Twitter, hang out on the ThemeForest forums, and keep your skills up to date by regularly visiting Nettuts+.

See you around!

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The file of the day is Showtime - Business and Portfolio WordPress Theme by freshface.

"Showtime is a powerful WordPress theme made for your Business, Portfolio or almost any other kind of website. Showtime offers you a good amount of options. Front Page can be customized via unlimited widget areas, both body and footer. Sliders and Colors can be easily switched via my custom built FreshPanel. And much much more…"

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The file of the day is Urban Magazine - Newsletter & Alert Template by advolocaru.

"This is a highly customizable theme and can be used always for a community or blog sites."

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Subtle CSS3 Typography that you’d Swear was Made in Photoshop

"Thanks to text shadows, outlines, transitions, and even text gradients, we can now create cool typography that you’d swear had to be made with a program like Photoshop. Nope, all CSS3 baby! Let’s take a look in this video quick tip."

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The file of the day is BlauMail - Email Template, 5 colors, 3 layouts by webtunes.

"BlauMail is a modern email template with a nice modern look. With its compact structure and strong visual impact, BlauMail will help you deliver rich content to your users/clients. Send product updates, news, special offers and social events details. Highlight important content   by using the call to action buttons or other visual elements."

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7 Cutting Edge Web Design Trends (that Can Actually Improve SEO)

"As the worlds of web design and SEO merge ever closer, we've been seeing design-specific elements produce a positive impact on SEO for the sites that employ them. It's terrific news for SEOs who love design and are capable of and passionate about making it part of their repertoire. It's also great for designers who find that as they evolved from Flash designs to machine-readable CSS and separated markup from content, they've earned more links and more organic search love."

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The HTML5 Boilerplate

"The talented Paul Irish and Divya Manian, just yesterday, released what they call the “HTML5 Boilerplate.” The product of years of experience, this is easily the most comprehensive starting template for every new project that I’ve ever seen."

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The file of the day is Constellation complete admin skin by displayinline.

"Constellation is a powerfull admin skin for building advanced backends, both for desktop and mobile users. It provides a wide range of styles from data visualization to lists and calendars, all fluid and nestable. This skin is build on HTML5 and CSS3 , and is powered by jQuery for maximum user experience."

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I want something like Facebook. And don’t try to rip me off, I know that Facebook is free.

(via clientsfromhell)

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Beautiful Vintage Design: Showcase and Resources

"The vintage style is very popular in web design right now and has been mastered by many designers. Vintage-style designs typically include textures, colors and some items that give it that vintage feel. In this post we’ll showcase some excellent examples for your inspiration, and we’ll also feature some resources, like textures and Photoshop brushes, to help in your own vintage-style design."

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This week's featured item is Hype Wordpress Theme Blogs, Magazines & Portfolios by luckykind.

"Hype is the WordPress Theme for Blogs, Magazines & Portfolios! Built with lot of time, effort and heart put into it. You can trust the guy behind it’s development is always pushing to be and do things better. This theme has tons of options."

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Tuesday Total Textures #31

"Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I'll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week's textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection."

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50 Inspiring Examples of Texture in Web Design

"Our first post showcasing 50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs was a success and we received many nice comments and great feedback from you guys – something we love by the way. So, based on that and also to show you that textures are a hit and there is always something new popping up, we gathered this fresh list of textured sites. With this list you will be able to see that a great choice of texture can really help your design, from delicate and really subtle textures to strong and colorful ones, they are indeed versatile and stylish."

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Our current featured author here on ThemeForest is kayapati who joined in September 2008, has a portfolio of 166 items for sale and has racked up 3038 sales! View kayapati's Portfolio

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"Website for business coach and keynote speaker. Vintage style with scrolling homepage built on Wordpress."

Ken Mann's Transformology - HTML / CSS - Creattica

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Understanding the Z-Layout

"The Z-Layout is a great way to start just about any web design project because it addresses the core requirements for any effective site: branding, hierarchy, structure, and call to action. While it would be nearly impossible to claim that the classic 'Z-Layout' is the perfect solution for each and every website out there, it’s certainly a layout that’s effective enough to warrant inclusion in any web designer’s arsenal of layout ideas."

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The file of the day is Wipi Wordpress Theme V 1.0 : 4 in1 by sakari.

Minimal, clean and elegant.