Nov 18
Here’s the best way to decorate your computer for the holidays. Brand Thunder gives you several ways to get ready for the Christmas Holidays whenever you’re at your computer and online with our Chrome, Firefox and Explorer Christmas Themes. You can grab one of our popular pre-made themes (with a trick to brighten your desktop wallpaper) or build your own Christmas holiday browser theme and include your own Christmas pictures for a truly personal touch.
Chrome, Firefox and IE Christmas Themes:
Traditional Christmas Browser Theme with Wallpaper Option
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Nov 16
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Win an iPad 2 in less than 5 minutes
You can win an iPad in less than 5 minutes. Sound easy? It is.
There is no purchase necessary to enter or win.
Just create your own Christmas or holiday browser theme using BT:Engage and share it with us – you’ll be entered to win. It only takes a few minutes. A panel of judges will select 5 finalists, then the public will vote on the winning entry. Enter by 12/15/11, finalists will be announced on 12/17/11 and winners announced on 12/23/11. First prize gets a new iPad 2, the other finalists will each receive a $25 Amazon gift card.
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Nov 15
Installing Firefox themes are an easy task for anyone to take on and shouldn’t feel overwhelming. The good people at Mozilla make it easy for anyone to install their own theme with a few simple steps. But first a quick overview of what “Themes” are in case you are confused.
A Firefox Theme is simply a skin that is designed to change the look and feel of your Firefox browser. The default theme for Firefox is a gray background:
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Nov 07
Firefox 8.0 is here! Sticking to it’s new(ish) rapid release cycle, Firefox is already pushing out Firefox 8 with Firefox 9 and 10 close behind. What’s new with Mozilla Firefox 8? Well, it looks like their are three key changes that should improve the end user experience.
- The first being that any add-ons bundled together under a third party add-on must be explicitly turned on by the user before they become active. So no sneaking in the back door anymore.
- Secondly, in Firefox 8, Twitter has become part of the search bar as one of the default search engines made available via the search text field in the navigation bar.
- And lastly, a bit of speed and memory is regained with the settings option to only load visible tabs, leaving the others to be loaded upon demand when they are activated. Sweet!
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Sep 09
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Browser themes are great engagement tools and a strong reason they’re popular with online communities. Keeping in touch and driving up visits to your site deepens your relationship with your community. Plus, advertisers love an engaged audience, so you’re already doing yourself and your profitability a favor.
There’s even more opportunity and it’s easy to take advantage of. Engagement in the browser theme leads to commerce as well as increase visits to your site.
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Aug 29
There’s a lot to be happy about with the latest 6.0 release of Mozilla’s Firefox Web Browser. They’ve improved their “Awesome Bar” or URL bar so that it’s more search intuitive. They’ve amped up security options so you can limit the amount of information the sites you browse are allowed to capture. They’ve made it faster. And they’ve even updated the few drop down tabs/menus they have with a sexier design.
As has been the case since the launch of Firefox add-ons, that gallery continues to grow rapidly – As do the options for custom Firefox Browser themes. Here are 6 new themes for Firefox 6 that you might want to check out.
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Aug 05
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The most frequent comment we hear from users new to browser design is “it doesn’t look like it did in the preview” and that’s because 60% of the time it doesn’t. This post will explain why and what to do about it.
Key Definitions
I’ll admit, we’ve got a long way to go in terms of UI with our free browse theme creator, and some of the descriptors we use are based on our own history with the product. That may not be so helpful to you. We’ll get better. For now, here’s what you need to know.
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Posted in BT:Engage, How-to Tutorials | Tags: brand thunder, browser theme, engage, Google Analytics, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, RSS, Web browser | No Comments »
Jul 27
Instantly create and share a “wallpaper for the Internet” that is part Persona, part toolbar and all engagement for small and medium businesses (SMB), associations, communities, clubs, families and friends
COLUMBUS, OH – July 27, 2011 – Brand Thunder LLC (http://www.brandthunder.com), Brand Thunder, the world leaders in browser themes and custom interactive browser themes for Firefox, Chrome & Internet Explorer, announced today the launch of the first do-it-yourself browser theme creator that allows anyone to easily design, build and share interactive browser themes for the leading Internet browsers. In less than three minutes, a community manager can have a browser theme that includes a logo, multiple background images, toolbar buttons and news feeds can be shared via an automatically created download page. Overview Video: Build and Share Your Browser Theme at Brand Thunder
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Jul 11
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There are several ways that you can customize the look of your browser when you’re using Mozilla Firefox to browse the web. There are different levels of personalization, which include both Firefox Personas and Firefox Themes. The changes that you’d like to make to the look of your browser will determine which type of adjustment you’ll want to make.
What is a Firefox Theme?
Firefox themes change the complete the look of the browser. You can change the
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Jul 08
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Backgrounds are tricky and the video doesn’t go into all the options and considerations you need to take. I’ll address more of these considerations in future videos, but for now – some of the key things you need to know to get the most out of your background images in your browser theme are
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