Happy to announce: 12 more responsive Magento themes are now ready for Magento 1.8.1.0. This latest edition of Magento community includes several highlights:

• Tax Calculation Updates
• Functional Improvements
• Security Enhancements

Last week, we released the first batch of Magento 1.8 ready Magento themes, and now the second batch is rolling out comprising of 4 brilliant Magento themes: JM Siotis, JM Flannel, JM Mago and JM Jasmine. In total, we have upgraded all of our 2013 Magento themes so far to Magento 1.8. Woot woot!

How many times were you stuck with a decision in picking up right Magento theme for your online store? Having too many options, many beautiful Magento themes out there in the market, it's hard to decide which theme you should go for.

In this blog post, I am going to share 9 tips that may be of help to choose the right eCommerce theme for your online Magento store.

This October, our responsive Magento theme JM Gamestore is a big hit. Designed in a dark tone of color, with bold typography and cutting-edge blocks, JM Gamestore is dedicated for online games e-stores. The theme is packed with Mega Menu, Off-canvas layout, responsive design and many more handy Magento extensions.

What make it so special? Firstly, this Magento theme features a complete Halloween skin which promises to rock your site on this Halloween event. Secondly, the theme holds a variety of our innovative style and design in which we apply for the first time in this theme JM Gamestore.

Let’s get a closer look at this big fist theme of the year!

Everyone is different when it comes down to color choices. Some love red, and some just happen to hate it. For the last few years, we have designed theme and picked out all the “popular” colors in the family such as yellow, red, orange, blue, green, purple and pink for our beloved Magento geeks, hoping to cover the color preferences of everyone out there. But, does it cover all? No, even each color has its own shades.

Responsive Magento theme JM Aroma is a professional site makeover that brings coziness and wind of vintage into your eCommerce restaurant. You can easily show off your menus, and introduce your delicious dishes to visitors with JM Aroma.

Not only charms with the harmonized arrangement of imagery blocks, JM Aroma also rocks with functional features for the fully management over your site. There are up to 8 complementary Magento extension packed-in this responsive theme, including Mega Menu, JM Basetheme and JM Slideshow. Some plus that you will love: 4 bonus theme skins with different textured backgrounds, the alternatives for multiple languages and currencies, the animated Ajax loading more effect for Homepage.

Don’t forget to play before you pay - simply click on the Demo button and enjoy the live preview of our premium responsive Magento theme JM Aroma!

"The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it." - Israel Zangwill

If you ever love this quote, you would think again when you see JM Flannel Magento theme.

Our September responsive Magento theme JM Monsieur reflects the he-man points: decisive and frank. To express the masculine feeling, we use lots of white space with black lines and blocks. Classy yet dusty, resourceful yet straightforward, JM Monsieur is surely a great choice for anyone who is in search for a responsive Magento theme to win gentlemen's attention.

Responsive Magento theme JM SportsGear is well-suited for any eCommerce sites about sport apparel and equipment. The theme is unique with the flat design, bold typography, sleek grid layout and dynamic arrangement of promotional blocks.

Compatible with latest Magento version, JM SportsGear supports Off-canvas navigation for mobile devices and comes with 7 complimentary Magento extensions including Mega Menu, JM Basetheme, JM Product List. Not to mention 5 bonus theme skins and alternatives for foreign shoppers as well.

If you own an e-store targeting to energetic people who love sports and outdoor activities, responsive Magento theme JM SportsGear is surely a great pick for your eCommerce site.

Responsive Magento theme JM TravelGear is a versatile and professional site makeover for your eCommerce Magento sites, especially if you own an outdoor clothing & gear store.

To show off the dynamic and youthful wind, JM TravelGear comes up with the flat design, bold typography and dusty gamut colors. With a well-tuned placement of imagery modules and static blocks, you can easily present your content in an eye-catching and impressive way.

Besides the responsive web design along with Off-canvas menu for mobile device accessibility, JM TravelGear ships with 8 complementary extensions to boost up the functionality of your store. The spotlight is on JM ProductDeal, a practical tool to create and manage discount offers to your shoppers. This responsive Magento theme also supports 5 bonus theme skins along with the multiple languages translation and currencies alternatives as well.

As a Magento geek, you must already know that the latest Magento 1.8.0.0 is now available! With this version, Magento team has significant improves in functions, core performance and security. Name some of the improvements like: enhancement in tax calculations and security, better product quality and stability, checkout performance and much more. You can check the Magento 1.8 Release Note for more details.

So, what does it have to do with us? Keep up with the Magento development, we have upgraded the first batch of our 6 Magento themes to Magento 1.8 which are: JM Gamestore, JM Crafts, JM Monsieur, JM Sporty, JM Hawkstore and JM Lingerie.

Our Magento themes have gone through lot of changes in terms of design, responsive layouts, features and complimentary extensions. 4-years seems long but time flies when the desire to improve is strong. If you look at our first Magento theme and our latest one, you can appreciate how the user demand and availability of new technologies have impacted our deliveries. Skim through our Magento themes showcase, clearly there is a design evolution here. Back in the days our Magento themes were basic and simple with typical 3-column-layout, and now our themes are sophisticated and lively than ever.

In this blog, we are going to look back at each year and review remarkable designs represented by our picked themes.

We are glad to introduce JM Classy – our responsive Magento theme for online fashion stores. Here come some heads up to make JM Classy a great pick:

• Its classy design
• Responsive adaptation
• Packed-in essential extensions
• Handy theme customize tools
• Some more practical alternatives

Let’s dig in this responsive Magento theme more in details.

Our August responsive Magento theme JM Crafts is full with the romance of autumn, a perfect fit for any handmade accessories of crafts shop. This must be the perfect Magento theme for those who wish to impress their shoppers with the artistic and vivid feeling!

Technically, JM Crafts is fully armed with Magento extensions. Here comes the list: JM Slideshow for homepage product slideshow, JM Basetheme for smoother color customization, eye-catching category header including titles and graphics with JM Masshead and not to forget JM QuickView to serve the viewers at most convenience! Along that JM Crafts presents refreshing ideas for every traditional module.

JM Flannel - one of our best responsive Magento themes, released early this year has won many hearts. We reached out to JM Flannel members asking for permission to highlight their sites for the showcase and here are some of the Magento stores using JM Flannel. It is interesting to note that though JM Flannel demo is themed around camera store but members have easily adapted it for their products ranging from sportswear to electronics / laptop stores.

Hi adults, happy to introduce a responsive Magento theme for kids: JM Kidsland! This makeover promises to blow up the colors and fun to any kids stores. Lemme show you some more reasons to fall for JM Kidsland.

Let's zoom into responsive Magento theme JM SportsGear for eCommerce sports sites.

If you are in search for an organized and dynamic responsive Magento theme, JM SportsGear may help you make up your mind. Targeting to sports store for fitness equipment or sportswear, JM SportsGear can blow up the feel of youth and energy into your eCommerce Magento stores. Let me show you some more reasons to fall for JM SportsGear!

JM Hawkstore is one of our first Magento responsive themes inspiring by Street Life style. To blow the hip-hop feel, we use big flat typo with colorful blocks to make sure that your Magento store will stand apart among others. Don’t let JM Hawkstore look fix your prejudice: JM Hawkstore works with fruitful product ranges out of skateboards and sport stuff, along with fabulous impression, JM Hawkstore is armed with a wide range of powerful Magento extensions.

Now let us give you a quick glance on JM Hawkstore’s features!

Responsive Magento theme JM Leathercraft is a great makeover just-in-case you want something elegant and premium for your eCommerce Magento store! Let's see why.

JM Lingerie - responsive Magento theme for Magento lingerie store is the latest addition to our ever growing portfolio of responsive Magento themes. If you look closely, its not just a theme, it is feature packed and one should be able to get it up and running in no time. One of the important thing that we have been focusing is that the Magento store theme should be responsive, that means the Magento extensions used in the theme should support responsive layouts too. Well, JM Lingerie fits the bill perfectly. Another great feature is its JM Basetheme color customizer, which allows users to customize the theme colors easily, without having to hack the code. We have also upgraded Magento Category List extension for this theme. For more details on all our new Magento responsive extensions, check out our earlier blog post new Magento extensions.