Inspire Well Premium Tumblr Theme

This morning my second premium theme, Inspire Well, finally went live!  Inspire Well is a flexible and modular premium Tumblr theme that is perfect for creative inspiration, photo/video blog for your new iPhone 4, designer’s portfolio, and documenting family life.

With Inspire Well 1.0 you have complete creative freedom in customizing your site and control over the unique grid layout that lets you post small, medium and large posts. With 38 options in the Appearance menu you can upload your own background, change the theme colors, adjust the layout, and define icon links to 20 popular social sites.  Inspire Well supports the full array of Tumblr functionality, 3rd-party support for Disqus, social sharing on Facebook and Twitter, lightbox for full-res post images and many more services planned in the future (free) updates.

Check out the primary demo site for Inspire Well as well as the demo sites showing how it’s used as a mobile photo blog, creative portfolio, and sharing family life.

Backburner 1.2 Release

The latest Backburner theme release includes the ability to upload custom header images (a highly requested features) as well as quite a few changes behind the scenes that improve performance and addressed bugs.

The theme is still only $19 in the Tumblr premium theme store.

Save Our Gulf

Tumblr is doing their part by changing the dashboard to “heard-of-BP-executive black” to encouraging users to donate $5 Save Our Gulf.  For every $5 donated Tumblr will be matching the donation.

Tumblr Staff:

As we’re all aware by now, one of the worst environmental disasters in recorded history is underway in the Gulf.

As helpless as you may feel, you can do something right now by donating to a Gulf protection group like Save Our Gulf, the National Audubon Society, or the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

To get all of you involved this week, we’re replacing Tumblr’s usual ocean blue with a new heart-of-BP-executive black and letting you donate without leaving your Dashboard.

Donating will also unlock the Limited Edition Black Dashboard as an account preference.

A Simple Request…

I absolutely love the Tumblr community and getting to know a lot of the people that I follow and follow me.  If you appreciate the things I share on this site and think others would like it as well, take a moment and recommend me for Tumblr Tuesday.

If you go as far as attaching a sticker to the recommendation I’ll buy you a drink if you’re ever in southern California - jmoore@newezra.com

New Tumblr Archives

Tumblr just rolled out a fantastic update to their archive page inspired by the Tumblr Mosaic Viewer by proto-jp.  It’s amazing how many great updates the Tumblr staff rolls out week after week—one of the many reasons why I love Tumblr.

Backburner 1.1 - New Share This Functionality

Backburner 1.1 was just submitted this morning for approval that is full of improvements, new features, and changes.  One new feature is the Share This tool below each post.  If you roll over the button you can copy the short URL, retweet using TweetMeme or share on Facebook.

In the upcoming Backburner 1.1.1 release I will be adding in support for Bit.ly which allows you to use their URL shortener and even roll your own shortener domain name with Bit.ly Pro.

Three Unique Backburner Styles

Backburner comes with options to select three unique styles in the Appearance menu.  Preview the styles at http://backburnertheme.tumblr.com/.

• Ash Style - Light version with dark desaturated blues contrasted with vivid blues
• Charcoal Style - Dark version with rich reds and light yellows
• Royal Style - Dark purple with rich reds and light blue.  Based on the custom theme on http://jonathanmoore.com

Backburner Theme

I am currently putting the finishing touches on a my first public Tumblr theme that’s based a 2.0 version my current theme.  In the end the theme will support every current theme functionality including custom pages, multiple authors, liked posts, and a ton of customization options that will allow people to fully customize the theme—down to switching between light and dark icon sets.