• Outer Spice Buzz

    In an industry that is so often plug-and-play, to find exceptional customer service and dedication to a product is remarkable... I am beyond thrilled with the product we will end up with, due in large part to Brian's willingness to go above and beyond and ensure a successful product. Keep up the good work (and thanks for everything

    - Stacey (The MMA Corner)
    Amazing themes, and customer service was beyond great. We will purchase themes from you anytime.

    - Lisa (Graphics N Jeneral)
    You are a legend! It is all up and running great. This is the first time I have ever used WordPress and bought a theme. You have made the process very easy and you have one very happy customer!

    - Danny (Men's Cover Model)
    I wanted to thank you again for all the great work you did for my website. It has received a lot of great comments lately and I even had a great website review in our local paper.

    - Suzanna (Seacoast Kids Calendar)
    You ROCK! Thank you so much for being so responsive. That's highly unusual in this day and age, and I just want you to know how much I appreciate how quickly you responded to our needs. THANK YOU!.

    - Lisa (Let My People Know)
    I've downloaded, modified, used, and generally learned many themes, and I have to say that this one is a pleasure to work with compared to some of the others. The site is clean, and Outer Spice is quick to respond and very helpful. The colors are very well chosen, and the ads are placed well. This is a great buy if you like the theme. I'm sure you'll be happy.

    - Marty (thebloggerspost via ThemeForest)
    [Socket is] one of the best WP themes (I just love the Aluminum skin!). Great work and definitely my next purchase. This theme is close to perfect!

    - Th30d0r3 (via ThemeForest)
    Outer Spice did a great job on our web site! Everything works the way we envisioned it. They have been very responsive to our needs, developed great solutions to some of our unique challenges and were a pleasure to work with. The site works smoothly, looks great and never crashes. We will definitely continue to use them for our current web site as well as on future projects.

    - Rodney (RTM Consultants, Inc.)
    [Socket] is a damn good template and will have saved me days and days over writing my own site. I love this theme - it's great.

    - TwistedKev (via ThemeForest)
    Outer Spice has played an instrumental role in helping consult and bring our ideas to life. The newly rebuilt and updated site gets rave reviews and helps us continue to sell work and grow our company. Outer Spice listens well, has vision and talent, and does great work!

    - Cory (True North Landscaping, LLC.)
    Good job, guys!! Other developers should learn from you how to do dropdown animations - they are PERFECT. Good luck with sales. I'm a perfection hunter, so I've noticed your themes.

    - _freshface (via ThemeForest)
    The professionals at Outer Spice Web Company did a wonderful job designing our website. They were very knowledgeable, listened to our input and responded quickly, turning out a website that really reflects our products line.

    - Karen (Knit Happy)
    Great work on the theme! I use a lot of themeforest themes, and yours is by far one of my favorites... clients are going to love it.

    - Stacey (Lawlis Creative)
    Just wanted to tell you guys what a beautiful theme you have created! I have purchased several themes because I was not able to find the one that would fit my taste. Your theme has everything I need.

    - Bill (via ThemeForest)
 
 
 
 
  • Launch Your Website
 
 
saturn

 
27
Jun

A few weeks ago I was approached by the manager of the tuts+ network of sites owned by Envato (the same folks who own ThemeForest and other marketplaces). I was asked if I’d be able to write a tutorial to contribute to a brand new site to be launched as part of the tuts+ network, called WPtuts+. It’s a tutorial site specialized for WordPress, and builds on the past success of the entire tuts+ network of sites. The site manager was looking for experienced WP developers to contribute some tutorials before the site launched so that when it did launch there would be some good content immediately available to users…

 

 
saturn

 
12
May

Our first theme was uploaded to ThemeForest on December 14th, 2009. Now, 1 year and 5 months later, we are celebrating 1,000 total theme sales! Check out our profile page on Theme Forest to see our stats. While you’re there, check out our updated profile page, and also take a look at the new Theme Forest site design…

 

 
saturn

 
2
May

After almost 5 months of development, Outer Spice is pleased to announce the official release of Continuum on the Theme Forest Marketplace! After just over 2 days it has garnered 41 sales and a five-star rating. We are also celebrating passing 800 total sales on Theme Forest, and hope to hit 900 very soon. Thanks for all your support during our development phase! Here are some Continuum details:

 

 
saturn

 
25
Feb

Envato is the parent company of many entities on the web, including Theme Forest and other such marketplaces, as well as the extensive and highly useful Tuts+ network of sites. They have their fingers in almost every facet of web development, including graphic design, website theme development, and coding. They used to have blogs associated with each of their 7 main marketplaces (Graphic River, 3D Ocean, Code Canyon, Flash Den, Audio Jungle, Theme Forest, and Video Hive), but they recently decided to combine everything into one blog called Envato Notes.

 

 
saturn

 
22
Feb

Caulk is one of our Wordpress themes available on ThemeForest. There are hundreds of applications of the theme out there, and each one seems to be pretty unique. Today we’ll take a peek at the website of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team.

 

 
saturn

 
18
Feb

It’s not hard to tell that Webdesigner Depot is a blog about design. Just look at the header, it’s full of vibrant colors and swirls and pencils and birds. But what really gives it away as a design blog is the abundance of Apple products nested within said colors and swirls. I count five total: a Macbook Pro, three iMacs, and an iPhone. You can never have too much Mac though, right? Yes. Yes you can. That being said, WDD is a great blog with a prominent spot in my Google Reader. It’s one of those blogs that inspires me and overwhelms me at the same time. And one of the benefits of being an avid reader is receiving the exclusive free icon sets from time to time, like Reflection. Here is an excerpt from WDD’s about page:

 

 
saturn

 
8
Feb

Socket is one of our Wordpress themes available on Theme Forest. Linkwell is a custom steel construction hardware manufacturer located in Southern China. What do the two have in common? You have probably already guessed: Linkwell is using the Socket theme for their new Wordpress-based website. It’s about 98% out-of-the-box with some custom modifications to the menu on the products page (multi-level drop downs were added). This is a good example of how much you can do with Socket without knowing any actual code. Linkwell uses a couple plugins, such as the contact form on the services and contact pages, but other than that everything you see on their website comes with Socket. Check it out! ».

 

 
saturn

 
27
Jan

First of all, we forgot to toot our own horn when we hit 700 total sales on Theme Forest. We have 733 to be exact. Caulk seems to be the winner of our two themes as far as the long haul goes. That sucker will not stop selling. We’re so glad people are finding our [...]

 

 
saturn

 
20
Dec

Very rarely I’ll get an email from a client who has purchased our Caulk theme on ThemeForest stating that they cannot get their sticky posts to display correctly in the top right panel. I check out their settings and sure enough everything is set correctly, and they have exactly two posts marked “sticky” in the Wordpress admin panel. I still do not know exactly why this happens, but I think it has something to do with a problem originating in their database from a previous theme and actually has nothing to do with the Caulk framework itself. In any case, here’s what’s wrong and here’s how to fix it:

 

 
saturn

 
7
Dec

We’ve been busy in our little corner of the galaxy over the past year. We know that you spend every waking moment anxiously wondering what we’ve been up to, so we’d like to show you some projects we’re finishing up, and tell you about some projects we’re working on right now. 2010 has been an exciting year for us. We’ve learned a lot about how to run a web development company. We’ve also learned that the more you make, the more you have to pay in taxes. Simply put: taxes suck. They’re almost enough to make us want to quit working at all. Almost.

 

 

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