Acumen

Acumen is a flexible, grid-based Magento theme. The sparse coloration and ornaments draw maximum attention to products, while keeping a clean and modern aesthetic throughout.

Fact: Acumen is the #1 Bestselling Magento theme on ThemeForest.

News flash!

Acumen 1.3.3 has approved by ThemeForest (March 19, 2012). It includes some sweet new features like:

• Snippets. Editable content areas managed totally from the Magento Admin.
• New button styles. Three sizes and two priority states to focus on important actions.
• Add to Pinterest. Social network integration.
• Better breadcrumbs. More visibility in catalog and product pages.
• Redesigned modal overlay. Fits better with Acumen’s new button styles.
• Redesigned product pages. Organizes complex info better.
• HTML5 input types. Improves usability on mobile devices.

See the full release details on the changelog: http://acumen-magento.gravdept.com/tour/changelog/#v1.3.3

Magento Compatibility

Acumen 1.3.3 is designed for Magento 1.6.2.0 Community Edition.

Note: Magento 1.7.0.0 Stable was released this week at the Magento Imagine conference (where Gravity Department was speaking). I’m testing with the new release now, and a free update will be published early next week.

Acumen is updated for every Magento Stable release — over two years of reliable updates:

• Magento 1.6.2.0
• Magento 1.6.1.0
• Magento 1.6.0.0
• Magento 1.5.1.0
• Magento 1.5.0.1
• Magento 1.4.2.0
• Magento 1.4.1.1
• Magento 1.4.1.0
• Magento 1.4.0.1

Store owners, developers, and design studios choose Acumen because it’s the best supported and most rigorously updated Magento theme available. Buyers count on Acumen updates to run their business, and they’ve never been let down.

Feature Overview

Acumen Custom Features

• 15 UI Widgets
• 13 Snippets
• 960 Grid System in every template
• HTML5 markup scrubbed clean
• CSS3 with Progressive Enhancement
• Language translation ready
• Large Promo + New Products + Featured Products sliders
• Mega Menu + Mini-Cart Hover
• Designed for customizations: includes override.css for easy upgrades
• Primed for Typekit / @font-face / Cufon web fonts

Magento Core Features

• Category (Grid & List View) + Faceted Navigation
• Product Page (with Related Products + Cross Sell + Reviews)
• Product types: Simple, Configurable, Grouped, Bundled
• Search Autocomplete
• Cart (with Up Sell) + Onepage Checkout + Multiple Address Checkout
• Customer Dashboard (with Order History + Reviews + Tags + more)
• CMS Pages (100% layout freedom with grids)
• Send to Friend + Wishlist + Gift Messages

Need more details? The Acumen Tour has you covered. Explore every aspect of Acumen’s development and see why it’s perfect.

#1. Quality Over Quantity

We focused on what matters: primary navigation, deep linking home page, manageable featured products, and seamless interaction. Still looking for color variations? Acumen supports over 65,000 via CSS . Acumen’s intelligent features are so natural, you’ll have to pay attention to notice them.

#2. Better Design

Acumen was made for clarity and organization. We shook up the visual hierarchy to highlight the most important information and removed the clutter. The result was beautiful catalog and product pages with prominent photography. Both checkout modes were streamlined for simplicity. View Acumen’s clean layouts.

#3. True Grid System

While other themes claim to implement grids like 960.gs, they don’t. Look at the markup for proof. Every template in Acumen was stripped of Magento’s structural markup and replaced with our flexible grid. See Acumen’s grid framework.

#4. Better Code

We followed Magento and Zend best practices when writing Acumen from theme fallback hierarchy to fully supporting multi-language translation. Every modification is annotated with comments, and the every frontend template’s markup was scrubbed for improved semantics and accessibility. That’s SEO gold. View our code practices.

#5. Better Performance

Acumen was built for speed. Our best ideas are implemented for reducing HTTP requests, applying cached JavaScript libraries, minimizing repeat data downloads, and loading resources modularly. It’s a little technical, but see how Acumen is optimized.

#6. Rigorous Updates

Acumen was a launch theme for the Magento category, and it has the most active development history. We’ve supported every stable Magento version with a full compatibility release (usually in ~1 week). Other themes are still multiple Magento versions behind. We’re streets ahead, view the changelog.

#7. Amazing Support

Read through the comments. We answer every question and problem within 24 hours, often much faster than that. We don’t ignore customers or bugs, and include a comprehensive Magento/Acumen installation guide with suggestions for server selection and store configuration settings to help you go live.

Release Notes

Version 1.3.3 (2012-03-19) — Snippets! Plus a massive number of optimizations!
Version 1.3.2 (2012-01-12) — Updated for Magento 1.6.2.0 + 7 new UI Widgets
Version 1.3.1 (2011-12-26) — UI Widgets! Big feature update!
Version 1.3.0 (2011-11-04) — Updated for Magento 1.6.1.0 compatibility
Version 1.2.9 (2011-09-09) — Updated for Magento 1.6.0.0 compatibility
Version 1.2.8 (2011-05-02) — Updated for Magento 1.5.1.0 compatibility
Version 1.2.7 (2011-03-29) — Bug fix in JS form validation
Version 1.2.6 (2011-03-17) — Bug fix for IE
Version 1.2.5 (2011-03-11) — Updated for Magento 1.5.0.1
Version 1.2.4 (2010-12-17) — Updated for Magento 1.4.2.0 compatibility
Version 1.2.3 (2010-08-15) — Updated Google Analytics handling
Version 1.2.2 (2010-08-13) — Updated for Magento 1.4.1.1 compatibility
Version 1.2.1 (2010-07-17) — Minor bug fixes for Magento 1.4.1.0
Version 1.2.0 (2010-06-22) — Updated for Magento 1.4.1.0 compatibility
Version 1.1.0 (2010-06-05) — Improved documentation, minor layout fixes, durable customization
Version 1.0.0 (2010-04-21) — Initial release