YourHead has been on the prowl for some super simple themes for a long time. A few weeks back I was looking over 2bitoperation and a couple themes really struck me. I immediately thought to myself, "Wow! That would be the perfect compliment to Carousel!" (yeah, my thoughts have hyperlinks)

Jordan over at 2bitoperation thought it was a good match too and so we've brought these themes right to the YourHead store, complete with some great bundle deals with Carousel and Henk's Carousel styles.

Keep It Simple
We knew that our first foray into themes would not beat Elixir and BlueBall at the game of producing wonderful eye candy, but that wasn't what we were after. Our aim was to find some themes that are so simple that they would be perfect for showing off some off bold content: Photo Albums, complex Blocks pages, and some of those great Carousel styles that Henk sent our way a couple days ago. Go check out the live examples (here and here) and I think you'll see that these themes let the page fade to the background put your content front and center.

A Bundle of Bundles
Well, we've gone bundle crazy. There are now a ton of ways to save your hard earned dollars, euros, and yen. I'll probably cancel all but one of these in a few days, but just to add to the fun of the Week of Carousel I'm going to leave them all active. You can Buy Carousel with just Henk's styles; you can get an even better deal when you add a theme; and of course, you can get the Mega Bundle and just buy every single plugin that we make and save 15%. Everyone seems to really like bundles, and I aim to please.

OK, so this one isn't so much Carousel related. But it will help you keep up with the rest of the week. A very nice user Bart Vosters sent me a great little widget with only one purpose -- keeping tabs on the YourHead Blog. I'm releasing it on my downloads page. Go grab a copy.

I'm not sure which strokes my ego more; having someone build a widget that is intended just to read what I write, or releasing it on my website and telling people to download it. Both seem remarkably egotistical.
But there it is... it's totally egotistical... but it IS kinda cool, no?

...and it will definitely help you grab that next version of Carousel at the end of the week.

So go grab a copy and never miss another YourHead release.

There is a little problem, though. It seems that it doesn't like to download all of the images. Why? I have no idea. There's a free plugin to the first person who tells me how to fix it. Two plugins if you fix it and mail it back to me!

I also mention that there's also another RapidWeaver fan widget. It has all the function of this one -- but much less ego stroking since it will read the blog of a bunch of the RapidWeaver developers and themers. You can jump over to the Elixir site and grab a copy.

What's up next? Let's see, I've got a plugin coming at the end of the week, styles yesterday. The only thing left is to release a couple themes I guess.
Keep your eyes on the new widget, they should land Wednesday or Thursday.

I've teamed up with a couple great designers to bring you a whole week of cool Carousel stuff. We're going to start the week off with new Styles from Henk Vrieselaar. In case you've been under a rock for the past month. Henk has been producing tons of new Carousel styles. We've commissioned him to produce some of his very best, extra great, super duper styles and bundle them up for us. What we have are some really classic styles with cool transparency effects. And there's some that will work really well when you're building that super cool animating photo album.

We've set up a page to show off all the new styles -- in a Carousel of course. Jump on over and check it out!

What's next up? A widget? You'll have to check back again tomorrow to find out.

New stuff is just about to land here at YourHead. We've got some fun new releases planned over the next week or so. And they're coming in all shapes and sizes.

First up there's a plugin release coming. It's not a new plugin, but we're adding features and squashing bugs in one of the favorites. Some of the features have been requested for quite a while and one of the bug fixes is in dire need so we're putting everything aside to get this out as soon as we can. It'll be a free upgrade so you might want to keep hitting reload until you see the announcement.

Next up are some new Extras, but not for Accordion. We've made some arrangements with some designers so that we can bring some new Extras to our web store, and maybe offer them in a bundle package.

And finally, we've finally found some themes that we think are well suited to some of our plugins. And through yet more back alley deals, we've managed to bring them into the YourHead fold -- but only for a limited time.
For a while now I've been hunting for themes that would be simple enough to give Blocks some room to really breath, and plain enough that your photos really jump out from the page. You would think simple would be simple to find, but it's taken me quite a while. Well I think I've found something pretty nice and we're going to bring 'em to you at quite a steal.

Keep your eyes peeled, subscribe to the RSS. You'll definitely want to see it.

Our page has an all new look. We've redesigned from the ground up. It's a new theme, with new content, and even a new bundle deal.

A New Bundle for New Customers
If you're a new customer coming here for the first time, then this bundle is for you. You can get a sweet deal on all the plugins and get 15% off every last one. But don't wait I'm probably going to come to my senses and change it pretty soon.

180 Degrees is Pi in radians.
Our new theme is 180 degrees in the opposite direction. We went from pure white with ice blue accents to bold colors and ink splotches. In 2007 YourHead is in the business of showing off your creativity, so it seems fitting that our theme shows off ours. Let us know what you think. Like it? Hate it? Found a problem? Does it look OK on your favorite browser?

We're not done yet.
Most of the changes so far have been skin deep. But we're planning a rolling redesign of much of the content too. We're aiming to make improvements each week.

Great things to come.
We have so many great things coming in 2007 that sometimes it's hard to know what to focus on. Updates, new plugins, and even more extras. Grab the RSS link (it's at the bottom of this page) and keep yourself informed.