Newline by ThemeForest

Dec 28th, 2011

Newline

Newline is among the WordPress themes from ThemeForest that are designed with professionals in mind. This theme has so many options on it that it is likely going to be too much for an individual user who only needs for one site. The theme, in fact, can be customized in so many different ways, that you could use Newline for several different clients without getting results that are far too similar for those clients to be happy with. The theme includes custom widgets, plenty of other enhancements and solid code that make it up to the standards of the most demanding professionals.

There are a custom widgets included with this theme. They include ones that allow you to feature your latest blog posts, ones that allow you to feature your twitter feed, video widgets, gallery widgets and much more. There are also two different portfolio layouts that you can choose from, so clients that have a need for a gallery on their site shouldn’t have any issues with what you’re able to provide for them. There are custom archives and categories that can be controlled by widgets, so you can display any content you want on the homepage automatically.

Google Web fonts provide over 200 different options for this theme. No matter what your needs as far as typography are concerned, you can be certain that your client will be happy with what you come up with. The theme includes effects that are powered by the popular JQuery library, and that means that any of those effects that are not compatible with your user’s browser will simply degrade and that you’ll be able to ensure your clients that there will be any embarrassing issues with the effects that you’re using causing problems with certain browsers.

There is a video guide used to provide you with installation information about this theme. This means that learning to install Newline takes a total of about two minutes and should be accessible, even to those who haven’t any experience working on servers. The theme comes with sample data included, so many customization jobs will involve nothing more than swapping out the existing data and including the data from your clients. There are plenty of features on this theme, but it’s easy to enable or disable them, so you never have to worry about adding more and more to a site simply to accommodate a use for every one of its many different features.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit themeforest.net .

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Boutique by Elegant Themes

Dec 28th, 2011

Boutique

The Boutique WordPress theme by Elegant Themes is designed with ecommerce in mind. It can be integrated with many of the most well known eCommerce plug-ins on the market, so you’ll be able to configure your shopping elements from a backend with which you’re familiar already. Using this theme otherwise is also very easy. It’s controlled from a backend admin panel, so it does a lot of the most tedious work for you and saves a great deal of time.

The Boutique theme is coded up to web authoring standards, so you can be sure that it will always display properly. This is vital for eCommerce sites because customers cannot trust sites that don’t function properly, obviously. The theme can include content like gravatars and widgets, if you wish, and there are quite a few conveniences that make it something suitable for those who operate their own sites.

The theme has a built in advertisement management feature. This means that you don’t have to insert advertisements manually and that all of the most common and most popular sizes can be accommodated. The theme has a tableless design, so you don’t have to worry about it displaying awkwardly in a browser that’s been resized down to a very small window.

The theme is provided with support and updates. You can download any fixes to the theme and you’ll always get the benefits of having the latest improvements made by the developer right at your fingertips. The theme is provided with unlimited color schemes, which makes it ideal for one particular group of customers: designers.

If you’re a professional designer, this theme will allow you to get an eCommerce site up and running very quickly. It would also allow you to offer more competitive pricing, as you wouldn’t have to compete on the basis of having to write the code that drives this site from scratch.

For a client on the WordPress platform, Boutique provides a way to monetize that platform and to, at the same time, do so without a huge investment of time. If you have an existing retail site running already, the features on this theme should be familiar to you and you shouldn’t have any trouble customizing Boutique however you want. If you’re a professional designers, that’s all true as well, with the additional benefit that this theme provides you with a way to get very complex sites done with zero frustration.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit elegantthemes.com.

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Platform Pro by PageLines

Dec 28th, 2011

Platform Pro

The Platform Pro WordPress theme by PageLines has a very innovative way of allowing you to customize the design. It is also designed to be powerful enough for designers who prefer to do things at the code level, making it suitable for a wide array of users. The Platform Pro’s most significant features, however, center on the way that you arrange the various elements of your site.

Platform Pro comes very plain out of the box. The layout is designed to be easily customized without you ever having to touch any of the code. Not only this, but you’ll have a lot more to work with than an admin panel with numerous options. This theme actually allows you to drag and drop page elements.

If you want to move articles, an image gallery or any other element of the page, you can simply drag it in the design interface and drop it in the section of the page where you want it to appear. You can also adjust column widths and the other aspects of the site by dragging instead of by coding. This entire site can be customized at any level by those who have zero technical knowledge of how to change the look and feel of a site. For those who operate on the level of the code, however, the functionality and control is not diminished.

The concept behind Platform Pro was to create a theme that allows non-professional users to get a professional look. Professional users, however, were also considered in the design and all of the code is easily accessible. If you can read CSS like it was your native language, you’ll be able to use your abilities to their maximum capacity with this theme.

For those who want a WordPress theme that provides a professional result with minimal hassle, Platform Pro is very suitable. For those who want a good canvas to work from that allows them to weird all of their technical wizardry, this theme will also provide excellent results.

The drag and drop technology that PageLines includes in Platform Pro makes it an excellent choice for sites that have to get up and running fast. The minimalistic design of the theme makes it an ideal choice for those who want a site that is unique and interesting and that lends itself to extensive customization, by code or drag and drop.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit pagelines.com.

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Sky by Elegant Themes

Dec 28th, 2011

Sky

Sky is a theme that will likely appeal to personal users the most. It has a very laid-back design to it and combines the best of professional design considerations with the most personable of the features that you’d find on users sites. The theme comes with so many professional features, however, that it would make an excellent choice for somebody who has a site that is essentially personal but that is also monetized through various means and that, therefore, needs to keep up with a professional appearance.

Sky includes a large image slider in the middle of the page. This is the most prominent feature that visitors will see when they arrive. This image slider is designed in a clever way that allows you to add a lot of content to it without slowing down the visitor’s computer. Instead of preloading all of the images in the slider, the site only loads them as they are requested. This makes everything much smoother when visitors come to take a look at your site.

The theme is ready for advertisements, as well. There is a feature built into the backend of this theme that you can control from the admin panel. This feature allows you to rotate advertisements without having to deal with any of the code involved. The theme is also provided with support for threaded comments, so you can make certain that you have a healthy community on your site, in addition to a healthy commercial venture.

You can visit this theme on any of the modern browsers in use and you’ll find that it displays correctly. If you want to make changes that you can’t make from the backend, the code is all up to web authoring standards, so those who understand programming won’t have to figure out something that wasn’t done correctly to begin with. The theme also includes the PSD file used to create its look, so you can alter it as much as you wish.

Most of the users of this theme, however, will likely find it to be a great choice and will find all the customization options they want within the control panel. Sky has some great conveniences for nonprofessional designers. The theme will resize thumbnails for you, any changes you make can be made without you having to learn the code to affect them and the theme comes with updates, so you’ll always be working on the latest version available.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit elegantthemes.com.

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ShapeShifter 2 by ThemeForest

Dec 28th, 2011

ShapeShifter 2

ShapeShifter 2 is a theme designed around one of the most common challenges that modern web programmers face. There are a host of different screen sizes between the many different devices that people use to browse the web these days. ShapeShifter 2 is designed to accommodate this by instantly adapting to different screen sizes. If you want to try it for yourself, you can take a look at the demo on the ThemeForest site to get an idea of how it works. This alone should make it interesting to professional designers, but it still has more to offer.

The theme comes with all of the elements that you’ll need to build a site. This includes lightbox enhancements, form elements, effects that will gracefully disappear if somebody is using a browser too old to support them and all of the rest of the features that professionals have come to expect from this designer. The theme is also provided with its own templating feature, which makes it easy for you to come up with innovative designs for your interior pages. The theme also comes with enhancements such as dynamic sidebar space and plenty of areas that are set up for widgets.

This theme comes with the original, layered PNG file used to create the design. This means that you’ll have access to the design elements of this theme at the most fundamental level and that you don’t have to worry about not being able to make changes due to restrictions in the backend control panel. That backend control panel, however, is exceptionally powerful and should allow you to make most of the changes to the design that you’ll need to customize this theme. The theme also has code files that are completely up to web authoring standards. You’ll have no trouble navigating the CSS or HTML files for this theme.

Variable skins, extensive documentation and more put this well within the realm of professional themes. The theme is also provided with enough convenience features to make it suitable for people who aren’t exactly professionals but who have enough web design skills to want to do their own work on their theme. This is a powerful, reliable and fun theme that professional designers and personal designers alike should enjoy, particularly if they’re concerned about being able to accommodate the different screen sizes that people use to access their site and the rest of the Internet.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit themeforest.net .

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Duotive Fortune by ThemeForest

Dec 28th, 2011

Duotive Fortune

Duotive Fortune is a complex WordPress theme with a lot of options. This makes it suitable for professional designers who are putting together sites for clients and who need a flexible theme that they can use as a starting point. This theme has enough features packed into it that it might be a bit too much for somebody who is only putting up one site. If you love the process of web design, however, and you like to change up your own site a lot to keep things interesting, Duotive Fortune may have a lot to offer you.

Duotive Fortune goes a bit farther in terms of providing options for color than do most WordPress themes. It starts with offering you a selection of no less than 30 different color schemes that you can apply from the backend control panel. If you need more options than this, you can go ahead and create your own using the color chooser feature. You can also use the front page manager feature to get your homepage looking exactly the way you want very easily. This level of flexibility makes it a good choice for a designer but also great fun for an amateur user.

There are 13 custom widgets included with this theme. This allows you to choose from between 13 easy ways to include interesting content on your pages and to make certain that your site stands out as being professional. The theme is also provided with plenty of different options were typography is concerned. If you’re worried about people not being able to read your site, Duotive Fortune can help you out by offering enough choices were fonts are concerned to ensure that anybody will be able enjoy your content.

Duotive Fortune has the features that professionals will demand and plenty of fun features that amateurs will appreciate. It’s a well-designed theme in terms of looks and features alike, so you’ll have plenty to keep you busy and the options are all good ones where changing the look and feel are is concerned. This theme is provided with the source files and the original PNG, so you’ll be able to make changes at more fundamental levels if you need to, but the look of this theme should keep you happy and should be a great option if you’re planning on using one of ThemeForest’s offerings as a way to build client sites.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit themeforest.net .

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Brand New by ThemeForest

Dec 24th, 2011

Brand New

The Brand New theme is a sophisticated offering from ThemeForest. It’s got a lot of features packed into it and many of them are highly variable where the changes that they allow to the site are concerned. This makes it suited for professionals who need something that doesn’t lock them into one design for a site. The options are tightly integrated with WordPress 3.0 features, as well, so those who are familiar with the platform shouldn’t have any trouble figuring them out, even if those users are amateur designers.

The Brand New theme allows you to use custom post types to get your pages looking the way you want. You can use portfolio posts, client testimonial posts and “our team” posts to make sure that your content goes exactly where you intended. The theme is provided with a fixed layout, so anything you add to the page won’t end up being crowded out or in an awkward position due to someone changing their browser size. The theme has configurable page templates, so you’ll always get the look you want.

There are 14 microtemplate files in this theme that allow you to get very detailed with your customizations. They also allow you to avoid having a chain reaction because of making one change to the template that results in unwanted changes to the overall pages. This theme has 6 different areas that you can add widgets to and has 7 customized widgets included with it. There are plenty of shortcodes, as well.

Search engine optimization concerns are taken into consideration with this theme, as well. You can change the pages to ensure that they get indexed properly by the search engines and to make sure that you don’t miss out on any traffic because of coding errors. All of the code that makes up this theme, in fact, is up to web authoring standards, as is the case with everything that ThemeForest puts on the market.

This theme is a great tool for pros. Amateurs who are very involved with the design of their site should find plenty to love, as well. The theme includes the original source files, so you’ll have full access to make change to any element required. You’ll also find that adding your own widgets is a snap. This theme even supports child themes, so there is very little that you can’t do with Brand New.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit themeforest.net .

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Coda by WooThemes

Dec 24th, 2011

Coda

Coda is a serenely beautiful Magazine theme, ideal for those who want to project an image of class and elegance into their online magazine. The fully widgetized homepage and striking scroller make Coda the ideal theme for all your publication’s needs.

Coda’s tagline (“Elegance is not the end”) says it all: besides its undeniable good looks, Coda packs a lot of social punch with social features left, right and center and unique timeline and tag pages. If you are in the fashion, culture or photography business, Coda’s elegant looks, widget flexibility and social potential will fit you to a tee.

Designed by Kirstin Pauk and released in June 2010, Coda shows a classic inspiration paired with the soundest SEO mind. The prime real estate of Coda’s homepage is taken by a slide show, which displays your top news to the best advantage with oversized images and a large font which will make your headlines pop. This slider is powered by jQuery.

Coda features a unique “like this” voting system so readers to single out their favorite articles and posts with just a click. Many WooThemes include a ‘timeline’ template that displays a historic archive of posts and Coda is no exception, but its timeline is different because the elegant display of post date, title and number of comments also includes a column with the article’s number of votes.

Articles in Coda are designed to make the most of social interaction: besides the voting option, readers are also prompted to share your news on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and other social networks with just a few clicks. Commenting is encouraged with a tab system that allows readers to see the article or all the comments about it.

Coda’s ten color schemes have classy Italian names with delicious colors inspired by nature: the default scheme is aubergine, cream and light grey, and other schemes available are oceano (in beautiful shades of sea blue) and erba (grass green and hay.) For further customization, Coda allows you to set a different background color or even upload an image of your choice.

Coda’s fully widgetized homepage can take full advantage of WooThemes’ custom widgets, and the designers recommend using Twitter, Flickr, Ads and the latest/Most Popular post accordion to make the most of the magazine’s layout and social interaction possibilities.

To sum things up: Coda has lots style, many widgets, seamless social integration, an irresistible comment system and a built-in popularity ranking for posts. If you are in the market for a magazine theme, look no further – Coda is what you need.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit WooThemes.com.

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Unite by WooThemes

Dec 24th, 2011

Unite

Unite is a hyper-social Blogging theme for bloggers who are all about reaching out and generating discussion. Unite mimics Tumblr’s flexibility and media savvy for WordPress, and it is a powerful tool for incorporating media, discussion and interaction with a mere click.

The blog design itself is minimalist yet eye-catching, with large images leading up to an introductory paragraph before the “more” cut-off. Unite seamlessly integrates with your music, photos and Twitter, prompting readers to engage and relate to you by displaying a running tally of what you are snapping, tweeting and listening to.

WooThemes designer Rogie King spared no efforts when designing the superb commenting system, which uses a state-of-the-art AJAX commenting module to catch comments and allow readers to write back not only at you, but also at other readers who commented before – all they have to do is add @ to address their comment to the right person. The groundwork for a vibrant community blog is right here, all you have to do is provide interesting topics and let your readers take over the discussion.

Unite is ready to do all the work for you when it comes to posting media content: images, audio, video, links, quotes and notes can all be added easily, and the theme will handle them automatically (or as WooThemes like to say, “auto-magically”) according to media type.

If you like to blog on the go, you will love the AJAX-powered (and WooThemes exclusive) QuickPress feature, which allows you to type, format, enhance and post directly from the dashboard. This function is ideal for spontaneous bloggers or for those who blog about time-sensitive matters. Don’t waste a single second getting your posts out, so your readers can start commenting on them at once!

Like other WooThemes blog themes, Unite has the spectacularly convenient Timeline, an easy to navigate archive that displays your post titles by date accompanied with their comment count. Reading through your archives should be extra easy to new readers thanks to the AJAX load that adds more posts at the end of the page without the need to reload.

Unite offers a rainbow of color themes: a crisp an easy to read black, white and blue default; a stylish “book” theme in neutrals and red, and 11 more color schemes with either a white or a dark grey background. Unite’s 3 widgetized areas include a number of custom WooWidgets and can be fully customized.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit WooThemes.com.

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ShowyCase by ThemeForest

Dec 24th, 2011

ShowyCase

ShowyCase is a portfolio theme with extensive options. This makes it a great choice for professional designers. The theme has features that allow a designer to alter it quite radically from its default design, but to do so without having to deal with the hassles of touching the source code. The theme has so many different options built into it that no one should have a hard time figuring out how to change it around in ways that make it into something much different than the downloaded design. If you design for a living and do a lot of portfolio sites, you’ll likely be very pleased with what this theme has to offer.

There are light and dark skin color variations on this theme. There is also a completely customizable background that offers you unlimited ways to get your theme looking exactly the way you want. The nine included page templates allow you to choose between a couple of different designs for all the major page types, including the portfolio pages, of course. There is also a contact template that comes with a form and with Google Map functionality, so a good deal of the programming needs for any professional site are taken care of out of the box with this theme.

This theme has over 30 shortcodes included with it. These make it easy to add or remove content from the pages and you don’t have to worry about being a programmer to get the job done in this regard. You’ll also find that there are extensive options where typography is concerned, so you can make sure that your site or your client’s site is readable and comfortable to look at. This theme even has a selection of different image sliders, so it’s easy to make sure that the site looks unique and offers visitors something that won’t remind them of every other site on the web.

The ShowyCase theme is a great choice for a professional designer. If you’re not a pro, you could use this theme for quite a while and keep changing your site around using the admin panel features. If you like to have a site that keeps your visitors interested by offering new presentations quite often, this might be something to consider. There are a lot of ways that you could make this theme shine and, even in its default design, it’s quite impressive.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit themeforest.net .

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