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Casual, our free WordPress theme has a lot of fans. It's download counter is now in to the many tens of thousands, so it's about time we gave it a spring clean and provide a revamped upgrade to the original Casual and Casual premium theme.

Responsive web design brings a whole new set of interesting challenges and one I've been thinking about at Obox is the use of a responsive slider in our themes.

Personal blogging or producing a solid content strategy for your business can be truly rewarding when finding out how to win at blogging. Both can make you very happy and even give you freedom to pursue other things or just general monetary freedom.

All of our eCommerce WordPress themes are fantastic straight out of the box. By using the WordPress customizer options you can make quick and easy changes to make our themes your own.

Having spent time talking to some of our customers who run their own online shops and are using our themes I've put together a little tips post to help you take your shop even further and hopefully get you more sales.

Almost three years to the day, we teamed up with Posterous to design a set of themes for its service.

That's why we've spoken with the team at Posterous and we're proud to announce that we've ported the theme designs we created for them over to WordPress and are providing a super-easy step-by-step tutorial for exporting Posterous users' content and importing it into a WordPress installation with the choice of Obox designed themes which they had available on Posterous.

9 out of 10 new eCommerce stores fail. They can fail for a various amount of reasons from neglect, not enough perseverance or bad judgement. Starting any new business is not a walk in the park but to make it easier, we've put some quick tips together which you could action today to make your eCommerce store better tomorrow.

Sometimes you'll find the need to use a maintenance mode plugin like our free Launchpad Plugin on your WordPress installation when you're busy working away on your website behind the scenes.

If your website has been up and running for a while, Google and other search engines will be regularly crawling your website. If you're unsure as to what 'crawling' is, here's a definition;

Are you looking to re-do your business website? Now it is so much easier than ever before. With a Business WordPress theme you can be up and running in no time - in around a couple of hours.

I've made this guide specifically for those of you who are looking to change your business website theme or begin using WordPress for your business website. I'll be taking you through each step and show you how simple it is to go from no domain name to your business website online.

Over the past few days, Posterous has announced that its entire service will be shutting down since the team joined Twitter.

If you're a Posterous user, there is light at the end of the tunnel. You can export your content from Posterous and move it to a brand new WordPress install which would work perfectly with one of our WordPress themes.

If you're running your online store with an eCommerce WordPress theme or other software, it's important to know the key shopping dates for 2013. Shoppers start searching for the perfect gift for special occasions throughout the year like Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day and Christmas months ahead of time.