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I'm glad that MangoOrange has come this far. When it first started, I envisioned it to be a blog where I share my interest on Web 2.0 to the world. However, as time went by, my commitment to my school, NUS, and my startup, Exoro, prevented me from keeping MangoOrange up-to-date regularly.

Today, I'm happy to announce that AlreadyHosting has acquired MangoOrange and will continue to run MangoOrange. Together with the acquisition, both i2Theme and i3Theme will continue to host under MangoOrange. The two themes originally started off as a modification over iTheme designed by Nick La. After the first modification, many fans of iTheme began to drop by MangoOrange and offer suggestions on how to improve it. I took their advice and implemented it. Slowly, it evolved into what it is today - i2Theme and i3Theme. To date, both themes have over 150,000 downloads, making it one of the most downloaded WordPress themes worldwide.

Lastly, I'm delighted that everything has worked out well. I wish Jonathon best of luck in bringing MangoOrange and both i2Theme and i3Theme to a new level.

Thank you everyone for your continual support for MangoOrange.

Warm regards,
Mickey

So what's new in i2Theme 1.1 and i3Theme 1.7?
Gravatar Plugin support
Giving new identity to your blog readers. It's a cool stuff to have. Enhance your reader to give their feedback as well. Hope you like it. You have to download Gravatar Plugin to enable this feature.

Pings are now separated (click to see the screenshot)
Yup, finally, it's separated. It even support the famous Paged Comments, of course, with a little hacked. Please download the plugin from MangoOrange instead. I have sent my modification and hopefully the author will include it in the future version. Till then, you have to use the hacked version. No worries, the changes are minimal.

WordPress 2.5 CSS Element support
The newly added CSS elements alignright and alignleft has been used to usually float images left and right of the post. Many having issue of no padding causing the image to stick closely with the text. No worries. It's all fixed now.

What's the status of the i2Theme and i3Theme?
Currently, there are over 58,000 downloads. Woohoo! Thank you everyone for the support. I will continue to work hard to try to cater for everyone's demand and suggestions on improving the theme.

New way to support MangoOrange...
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Today, on the April 1st, 2008, I would like to release the next big theme, i2Theme. It's not an April Fool joke. It's a real thing. If you don't believe, you can check it out here.

So why do I need to come out with i2Theme when original iTheme is made available by Nick La? Two reasons; Firstly, a request made by some of you, which makes me to ponder for a while. I did a check on the iTheme by Nick La that leads me to the second reason, no further development since version 1.1.

Thus, I spent a few nights transferring all the features I developed for i3Theme and put together a new theme, i2Theme. I believe it's going to benefit everyone who loves the mac-like design and prefer a 2 columns instead of 3 columns WordPress theme, i3Theme.

Hope you will enjoy it and if there is any feedback and comment, feel free to voice it out.

Thousand apologies. I forgotten to insert the "Site Admin" meta link in most of the themes. I only did it for Classic Center and Midnight Blue Center.

Please re-download the i3Theme 1.6 again. I have updated the latest copy. It's too troublesome for me to release a new version. My bad.

However, if your i3Theme is already version 1.6, you can just do a simple modification to the code. Just click on this forum link. There's a step by step guide.

If the link doesn't work, type the URL below into your browser. http://www.mangoorange.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34#p107

Many apologies...

Warm Regards,
Mickey

After much thoughts, I feel it's time for me to start a forum to properly support i3Theme as well as other future products and services. Comments have been rather inefficient in answering all the support questions. Hence, I would advise everyone to jump over to the forum for your questions on bugs as well as suggestions for improvements.

Meanwhile, if you have any comments, do continue to leave it here. This arrangement will definitely help me to facilitate the growing demands of support for i3Theme. I also hope all the i3Theme users can help out one another via this support forum as well. Thank you.

Update: I have re-upload the i3Theme 1.6 due to some bugs found. Thank you everyone for reporting the bug.

It's finally out, i3Theme 1.6. Sorry for the delay as I just moved into my new home in Silicon Valley with my newly installed Comcast internet line. As promised, I have added a few tasty visual elements and best of all, 4 additional colours for you to choose from.

Four new sexy colours

A picture is worth a thousand words. Download and see it for yourself

i3Theme Classic

Since every new colour i3Theme has a sexy name, I decided to call the original i3Theme, Classic. Sounds like the iPod Classic example.

New features for i3Theme 1.6

1. Coloured Bullets - Gone were the days of black, boring bullet points
   
2. Quote icon - Finally, there's a nicer way to present your quotes.
3. Site Admin - A direct link to access your administration page. Thank you famfamfam for providing such a wonderful icon.
   

25,000 downloads milestone

Thank you for everyone who continue to support i3Theme. This is another huge milestone for me. I will continue to bring more innovations in MangoOrange™. Something cool is going to release in March. So stay tune.

Our sponsors and supporters

Lastly, I would like to thank our sponsors for continue to support the i3Theme: webhostinggeeks.com, b4udecide.com and web-hosting-top.com. If you need any help with purchasing hosting solutions, check out our sponsored links.

Hope you like the latest release and do continue to provide me with your valuable feedback.

Currently, I'm busy looking for a nice, comfortable shelter and cars. That's should explain why I couldn't reply some of your emails and comments. I'm so sorry about that. Please give me a week more before I can start catching up with everything. Looking forward to bringing new and exciting things to MangoOrange™.

It will continue to be developed and supported by MangoOrange™. And all these could not have been possible without the continual support from i3Theme fans, supporters and sponsors - webhostinggeeks.com, b4udecide.com and web-hosting-top.com. To date, i3Theme has been downloaded over 20,422 times. Thank you very much for everyone's support again.

So what's ahead for MangoOrange™ in year 2008? I will continue to support and perfect the i3Theme and hopefully, new themes will be coming out in the second half of the year. Right now, for all of you who are reading this post, keep a close check in the next few days - more goodies for everyone to celebrate. I'm sorry that I can't give it out today, but I promise, you will love it.

Hope everyone will continue to support MangoOrange™ in the future by continuously downloading and updating your i3Theme. As long as there is a demand for it, I will continue to improve it.

Happy New Year and All the best in 2008.

Warm Regards,
Mickey Cheong

[credits: image taken from JupiterImages]

Here it is, the next release of the i3Theme, version 1.4. I'm sorry that it took quite a while for me to come out with this release as I was busy finishing up my project assignments as well as preparing for my upcoming final exam.

So, you might be asking, what's new and what's fix...

1. Availability of author credential of each post
   Now you will be able to see whose the author of the post. Thanks to Ken's request and donation.
2. Improved blog header title with better navigation information
3. Able to handle multiple rows of the sub-navigation page (click below to enlarge)
   
4. Able to handle 2 times (over 2000px in height) the current maximum number of items in the box
5. BUG FIXED: Wrong function name used, bloginfo() instead of get_bloginfo() [original iTheme code]

I hope you guys like it and continue to give me the support by downloading the latest i3Theme. More things coming up in December 2007. Keep a look out.

Lastly, kudos to i3Theme users.

Today, I'm very happy to announce that i3Theme has gathered over 9,500 downloads ever since it's first release on 5th May 2007. I have received many reviews and feedbacks about the theme and I'm glad that it has made quite an impact in the blogging arena. Some of them even expressed that because of i3Theme, they are motivated to do more work!

It's been a difficult time for me, juggling my new business, Exoro, studies as well as giving support for the i3Theme. I'm very thankful for those who have been patient with my slow replies and would like to apologize to those who had urgent requests but I couldn't attend to them. Nonetheless, it's all of you who have made i3Theme a great success.

I personally would like to thank the i3Theme donators: staticbrain, The Wood Whisperer and Qikflo. Their contributions have motivated me to continue to provide my best possible support for i3Theme. In addition, I would like to acknowledge Web Hosting Geeks, for its strong support for the i3Theme as well as the upcoming release. I hope all the i3Theme fans out there can benefit from the great reviews they have for web hostings when you are searching for one to host your wordpress with i3Theme

Besides all the thanking, I would also like to announce the release of the latest i3Theme v1.3. It has been fully tested with the major four browsers as well as the latest wordpress 2.3. It even supports tagging, the latest feature in WordPress 2.3. So go ahead and upgrade your blog to the latest i3Theme with no worries. Feel free to see the changes at the changelog.

Thank you for continuing to support the i3Theme and I look forward to your feedback. If you love the i3Theme and want to contribute to its development, feel free to donate! Thanks a million.

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