Seasons Greetings,

Usually I don’t give status posts on site projects, however, the FrontPage has been dormant for so long now that it seems necessary. Firstly, I’d like to apologize to our userbase for the sparse activity on the FrontPage. We originally thought that adding the “Quick Picks” section would help bring a breathe of life to the FrontPage, but we have realized that in order to make this section of MacThemes as viable and vibrant as it’s “communal” counterpart (see: The Forums) that a greater amount of end-user integration is desperately needed. We’ve been busily toiling away at an update that we hope will bring the FrontPage back to life, creating a steady flow of traffic and more areas for end-user interactions to take place. We won’t be committing to any time-tables, however, we hope this post amplifies some key points:
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Leopard went on sale October 26th, 2007. Since then, talking about Mac themes has felt a little like talking about seeing unicorns, elves, and a beautiful mythical land where you could change the colors of your environment at will. Well, I’m finally standing in that mythical land again. I haven’t spotted unicorns, but I have been able to change a color or two, courtesy of the first app to hit the market, Magnifique.

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What’s all this, then?

If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve got a brand-spankin’ new layout for the front page. As you may have ventured from the lack of posting activity, we’ve struggled keeping the front page maintained with news on a regular basis, and it was about time we revisited our system to make things interesting for the people that love MacThemes and have made it so great for all these years. Here’s our solution in detail.

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