When we teased you with these previews a week ago, we mentioned that the themes would include some jQuery wizardry, as well as progressive usage of CSS3. To give you an idea of what we’re talking about, you can view Cobus’ new design which he launched over the weekend.

We’d like to think that considering that Cobus designed both Cinch & Slanted and that since he’s responsible for the front-end coding, you can expect some similar awesomeness from our tumblog themes. So click around his new site and start anticipating the awesome that we will be releasing soon.

So all of our subscribers who will get access to Optimize tomorrow, will have the opportunity to play with the new options panel & framework. For the rest, the following preview video will have to do the trick…

So with his new magazine-type design – titled Headlines – he completely took the team by surprise, as we didn’t know he was working on a new design. Whilst Headlines hasn’t reinvented any wheel, the team has been very impressed by the design and the feedback we received from the teaser we posted on Facebook seems to confirm our early positive feelings about the design. So let’s take a closer look at the new theme…

Headlines - Homepage

Headlines - Inner Page

As with all of Magnus’ designs, you’ll notice that his signature style comes to the fore in a very prominent manner. But you’ll also see that he’s tried to break that mould a bit and the most apparent deviation from his signature style, is the “around-the-corner” ribbons & navigation items. Generally though, Headlines has been designed on the same basis that has made Busy Bee & Fresh News our two most popular themes ever.

Layout-wise, we’re hoping to develop Headlines in a very customizable way. One of the most important features we’d like to include is the ability to effortlessly switch from a left sidebar (as on the mockup) to a right-aligned sidebar. The main reason we’re keen on this, is the fact that most of our themes seem to adhere to a content+left sidebar layout and we’re just hoping to mix that up a little (in the process further diversifying our magazine themes collection).

So what do you think? Features wish list? Specific functionality we should include? Shoot away with suggestions, feature requests, functionality demands etc. and we’ll try our best to evolve this theme into a real beauty when the time comes to release it.

Note: Keep track of the themes we’re working on, on our Themes in Progress page.

We can’t let a week go by without us showing you some new awesomeness, that we’ll be adding to our themes collection in the near future. And that awesomeness is probably compounded by the fact that it’ll most probably end up being a free release as well…

And Therapy should go down ever better, after you voted for another new, free theme – Rockstar (preview the beta here) – which will be available on WooThemes in the next 2 weeks. So that’s probably 2 new free themes, that will be bulking up our collection of free themes. Excited yet?

Before we show you what the theme looks like, here’s a little bit more detail… The theme was designed by Izuddin Helmi who also worked on the massively popular Irresistible, Meta-Morphosis (both free) and three Groovy Series themes. So based on that we wanted Izuddin to re-create some of that magic in Therapy (and another concept titled my.stream which we’ll show to you pretty soon). So this would be Izuddin’s 6 theme on WooThemes already…

With Therapy we wanted to produce a simple – yet extremely powerful, feature-rich & flexible – personal blog theme. Yes, you can download these for free elsewhere as well, but none looks so good and works as great as our themes do; so there’s always a gap in the WP community for another WooTheme. Therapy sports our rock-solid WooFramework backend and along with post image & video support, custom page templates & a bunch of custom widgets (including the awesome Social Profiles widget at the top of the sidebar), this is sure to be a winner.

Gagging to see the theme already? Here you go…

Therapy Homepage (Click to see full preview)

Therapy Single Page (Click to see full preview)

So what do you think? Looking forward to seeing the theme live? Anything you’d change perhaps?