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Sep 14
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Business WordPress Themes

Posted by | Business, Wordpress | 4 Comments

When it comes down to using wordpress to power your business website there are not a ton of themes out there that actually make your site look like a website.. and not a blog. Fortunately I’ve come across these themes that actually do a great job at making your wordpress powered site look like you’re actually running a business. I’m really fond of Delirium, Concept and Benzo because they look a bit more sleek, clean and professional.

9 Now 11 Business WordPress Themes: Delirium, Revival, Solutions, Cubit, Concept, Octofirst, Benzo, Twicet, Quaon, iBlogPro, WhiteHouse Pro

Delirium WordPress Theme

Delirium WordPress Theme

Delirium Features:

  • Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8.x
  • 100% tableless css design.
  • Advanced typography.
  • Custom Login panel.
  • Advanced theme options panel.
  • Integrated blog.
  • Attractive front page slider.
  • Widget ready right sidebar.
  • 4 level page oriented custom dropdown menu.
  • Additional footer menu.
  • Additional full width page template.
  • Threaded comments.
  • CSS & XHTML valid.
  • Cross-browser compatible.
  • IE 6 png fix.
  • Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)

View the LIVE DEMO

Revival WP Theme

Revival WordPress Theme

Features:

  • Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8
  • 100% tableless css design.
  • Very lightweight and fast loading theme.
  • Easily manageable front page slideshow, with ability to place as many slides as you want.
  • Widget ready right sidebar and 2 front page bottom bars.
  • 4 level page and category oriented superfish dropdown main menu.
  • CSS & XHTML valid.
  • Cross-browser compatible.
  • Additional full width page template.
  • Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)

View the LIVE DEMO

Solutions Theme from Viva Themes

Solutions WordPress Theme

Theme Features:

  • Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8.x
  • 100% tableless css design.
  • Advanced typography.
  • Advanced theme options panel.
  • Integrated blog.
  • Front page slideshow.
  • Widget ready right sidebar.
  • 4 level page oriented custom dropdown menu.
  • Additional footer menu.
  • Additional full width page template.
  • Threaded comments.
  • CSS & XHTML valid.
  • Cross-browser compatible.
  • IE 6 png fix.
  • Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)

View the LIVE DEMO

Cubit WordPress Theme

Cubit WordPress Theme

Main Features:

  • The theme uses a FLASH LIKE javascript image transition at the mainpage only seen in flash before which suports an unlimted number of images.
  • Highly flexible admin area, you are able to edit every content from the wordpress backend
  • 6 different cholor schemes
  • Multilevel Dorpdown menu, Breadcrumb Navigation, Post Pagination
  • jQuery Lavalamp for main menu
  • Advanced comments with reply function
  • Ajax Contact Form
  • Unobtrusive Javascript, Fallback scenarios if Javascript is turned of by the user
  • Psd Files for every Skin, if you want to edit an existing Cubit Skin or create your own
  • Valid html/css, works in all major browsers (IE6,7,8. FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome)

View the LIVE DEMO

Concept Theme

Concept WordPress Theme

Main Features:

  • In 6 Colors uniquely styled themes (Blue, Green, Pink, Orange, Green, Dark Blue).
  • All Core Page Templates (Home, Content Page, Image Gallery, Blog Post w/ comments styling, Search/Results, 404, and a Contact Form)
  • Custom Admin Panel (Full CMS )
  • Clean, commented code
  • jQuery Lightbox
  • jQuery Homepage & Gallery Slider
  • Optional SIFR font rendering
  • Gracefully degrading code (for older browsers)
  • Layout PSD Files
  • All Sliced PSD files (for easy re-skinning)
  • Favicon Ready (just overwrite the browser icon with your own)The Custom Admin Panel features:1. Custom stylesheet selection (dropdown).2. Custom Logo entry.3. Turn SIFR on/off.

    4. Custom Homepage elements (callout box, feature box, blog feed).

    5. Custom Title and Subtitles on all pages.

    6. Navigation Link Control (header and footer)

    7. Custom footer copyright text.

View the LIVE DEMO or buy it.

Octofirst WP Theme

Octofirst 2 Theme features

  • Easy to customize
  • Theme options panel with color picker included
  • Custom write panels
  • Drop down menus
  • 4 sidebar-enabled areas for widgets
  • Portfolio lightbox gallery. you can have as many portfolio pages as you want. TimThumb generates the thumbnails automatically
  • Modular homepage design, full-width option available
  • Modular homepage slider (which can be replaced easily with a static image), full-width option available, can take flv videos as well
  • Clean & valid code, lightweight, optimized for speed
  • Functional Ajax contact form
  • Dark/light/rounded/square versions, as well as a bonus super-optimized theme version (which you are demo-ing now),designed to further reduce page load times. uses combined javascript files and CSS image sprites
  • Automatically rounded corners with jQuery in the rounded theme version
  • Cufon font replacement which won’t hurt your SEO
  • Free fonts used & included
  • All PSD source files included
  • Twitter plugin with xml file-based caching
  • When Twitter is off, a sidebar for regular content is activated in its place
  • Tested on the 2.8 WordPress branch and the current release 2.8.4
  • Styling for up to 5 levels deep threaded comments
  • Gravatar ready
  • Scissors plugin for easy image resizing
  • RSS feeds ready
  • jQuery improved, degrades gracefully when Javascript is turned off
  • Comes with a bonus full-width page
  • Localized in 2 languages: DE & IT; po files included so you can easily generate more translations if needed

View the live demo or buy it.

Benzo WordPress Theme

Benzo WordPress Theme

Benzo is simple and clean WordPress theme and comes with some nice features, like an image gallery, Youtube gallery, etc.

  • Video Gallery (Category based)
  • Image Gallery (Category based)
  • Image Slider
  • Pagination
  • Mootools Lightbox (Imagezoom & Slimbox)
  • 3 Page Templates: Single image page, gallery page, media page
  • Widgetready Sidebar
  • Mootools Dropdown Navigation
  • Theme Options
  • Google Analytics
  • Works with WordPress 2.8.4+

View the live Benzo demo or buy it.

Twicet WordPress Theme

Twicet WordPress Theme

Twicet Features:

  • Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless Design
  • jQuery Support:
    • Fading Portfolio/Item slider
    • Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
    • jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
    • Gallery Page with lightbox
    • Working ajax/php contact form
    • Newsticker
  • All PSD files I used are included
  • MANY Backend options to customize the Theme:
    • 5 Option Pages: general options, mainpage, portfolio, contact, blog
    • Highly flexible: for example the 3 content columns on the mainpage could be a mix of pages, posts and widgets, all administrated through the backendSame goes for portfolio footer
  • Extensive Documentation File included

View the live demo or purchase this theme.

Quaon WordPress Theme

Quaon WordPress Theme

Theme Features:

  • Works with WP 2.8+
  • 6 Color Schemes
  • Includes PSD Files
  • Has a Jquery Slider
  • Threaded Comments
  • Dropdown menus
  • And lots more!

View the Live Demo

iBlogPro

Really nice looking theme from called iBlogPro from Pagelines… Click here for details and Demo.

WhiteHouse Pro

Really nice looking theme from called WhiteHouse Pro from Pagelines… Click here for details and Demo.

This is not by any means a definitive list. I will be updating this post with more business wordpress themes in the future. Looking for more Premium WordPress Themes (view my post)

Mar 12
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Pivots of Change

Posted by | General | No Comments

Seth Godin has just posted a short but sweet article on pivot points of change.

When industry norms start to die, people panic. It’s difficult to change when you think that you must change everything in order to succeed. Changing everything is too difficult.

Simple examples:

  • Keep the musicians, but change how you make money (sell concerts, not CDs).
  • Keep making guitars, but make bespoke expensive ones, not the mass market ones that overseas competition has made obsolete.
  • Keep the punch press and the lathe, but make large scale art installations, not car parts.
  • Keep your wealthy travel clients, but sell them personal services instead of trips to Europe.
  • Keep the factory that makes missiles, but figure out how to make high-efficiency turbines instead.

These are some great points and make you think about your business in a new way.  After all things are changing, thousands of people are losing their jobs and they need to figure out a new way to support their families.  Thousands of businesses are going out of business and they need to find a way to redefine themselves, to stay in business.  Time are a changin.

How will you cope with the changing economy?  It’s time to be inventive.

Jun 13
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Knowing Your Customers

Posted by | Online Marketing | No Comments

Sonia Simone has written a great post “50 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew” that I thought I’d promote because it’s such a great article. I’ve listed some of the highlights below…

  1. Your employees treat me about as well as you treat them.
  2. I don’t understand a lot of the messages you send me. Can you make them clearer?
  3. The wealthier I get, the more I like free stuff.
  4. I don’t understand how to use your Web site, but I can’t admit that because it would make me feel dumb.
  5. Our relationship isn’t equal and it never will be.
  6. I hate salespeople, but I really like to buy things.
  7. I want you to do the hard work for me. Even better if I can get all the credit.
  8. I have the attention span of a goldfish. Go too long without contacting me and I’ll simply forget you exist.
  9. embarrassment scares me more than death.
  10. I believe I deserve much more than I’m getting.
  11. I don’t know what I want most of the time. You need to figure it out for me.
  12. It really is all about me.

If you knew, really knew, these 50 things about your customers, and acted accordingly, you’d gain their trust and even their love. After all, who doesn’t want to be loved despite all our flaws and embarrassing insecurities? The better you understand both the noble and not-so-noble secrets in your customers’ consciousness, the better you can serve them.

Read more.

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