Longpage by ThemeForest

Feb 4th, 2012

Longpage

Longpage was designed as a way to present products or services to visitors. The theme has a classy design, but one of the standout features is the fact that it is very easy to alter in terms of how it looks. In fact, this theme uses a backend technology called MVC, which separates the HTML design from the PHP. You don’t have to know anything about working with source code to make changes to this theme. If you’re a professional designer, however, you’ll appreciate how well laid out it is and how convenient it is to make changes to the looks.

Longpage lives up to its name. The design of the page is centered on the concept of using a long, scrolling layout rather than many different pages to feature products. There are plenty of different ways that you can use this theme to feature your products. For example, there is a video gallery feature that allows you to put dynamic content up that will really catch the eye of your visitors. There is also a selection of image galleries that you can use to show off your content.

The theme is completely compatible with skins, and the designer is coming up with new ones all the time. This theme is designed on HTML5, so you don’t have to worry about proprietary issues causing compatibility problems with certain devices. The theme includes enhancements such as sliders, social networking icons, widgets, and much more. Everything on this theme is styled, so you can affect changes that alter every instance of the page’s elements and don’t have to worry about changing anything around individually. This is a great timesaver for professional designers and amateur designers alike.

The features on this theme make it suitable for professional designers who are building sites for businesses or other clients who will be very concerned about the image that they project. The ease-of-use features, however, make this an ideal choice for amateurs who need something that will allow them to get a great site without having to hire a professional designer and take on the attendant costs. The theme is very attractive and the page format, defined by its great length, makes it something a bit different than most of what you see now on the Internet. If you’re interested in a theme that offers you something truly new and innovative for your site, take a look at Longpage.

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

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Airlock by ThemeForest

Feb 4th, 2012

Airlock

Airlock is designed to provide you with a way to getting easy to configure home page up and running very quickly. The options are many but, overall, they’re all provided in a sensible way that allows you to achieve the same goals. The theme comes with a regular license, so you can use this to develop sites for clients if you’re a professional designer. It’s compatible with WordPress 3.2+ and has some nice options that make it something that professional designers may want to add to their inventory of resources.

This theme includes a dark and light option that allows you to instantly change the look of the page between a black and white version. The theme also has features that are driven by HTML5, such as the video player, which means that you don’t have to worry about anybody’s device not being able to display that content correctly. The theme is provided with 14 custom widgets that you can use to modify the page and to include any content that you want. This gives this theme quite a few options and, because they are all built on compliant code, you don’t have to worry about utilizing any of those options causing problems with people’s browsers.

There are forms included with this theme and they all have validation features included with them, as well. There are also three packages of social icons that you can use to reach out to people on those powerful networks. There is a drop-down menu feature that ensures that your search engine optimization efforts will get maximum use. The theme is also ready for Google Analytics, so you have the ability to very closely and accurately monitor the traffic on your pages and to make changes to your content as needed.

Demo data is included with this theme, so customizing it starts by simply swapping out the existing theme data and replacing it with your own. Most of the features are controlled from an admin panel, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with source code on a regular basis to make changes. The theme includes the original PSD files used to create the looks of the pages, so you can change these in a photo editor if you want to make more extensive changes to the look and feel of your theme. There is a great deal of documentation included, as well, so nothing will be a mystery to you as far as getting this theme to work correctly is concerned.

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

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Estate by WooThemes

Feb 4th, 2012

Estate

Estate is billed as “The most advanced real estate theme for WordPress”, and one look at its list of features will show this is no exaggeration. If you are in the Real Estate business, make Estate the new home of your company, and those properties will fly out of your hands.

More than just a theme, Estate is a development built on the WooFramework. It introduces the WooTheme exclusive “Properties” management facility, which takes WordPress to a whole new level and allows users to search for properties according to any combination of options (price, location, number of rooms, and many more.) Estate also features seamless integration with Google Maps, so prospective clients can check out their prospective neighborhood and print out directions to visit the properties they are interested in.

The prominent Featured slider displays your best properties at the top of the home site, with extra large photos drawing attention to your choicest pieces of real estate. The “regular” listings also feature oversized photographs and a wealth of information, neatly organized thanks to small icons representing house facts such as construction area, and number of beds and baths.

Estate does a lot of the work for you: the intelligent page templates detect if you have included images, a Google Map or a virtual tour, and automatically fits them to the layout without your having to lift a finger. And another nice touch that comes as a default in Estate is an eye-catching cloud displaying the most frequent locations and property features.

When it comes to looks, Estate can be customized to match your corporate colors: you can choose among nine color schemes with just one click.

Like all WooThemes, Estate includes many powerful features including an image-resizing script that automatically scales your pictures to fit into the template, a .po file to make translating your entire site a breeze (it even supports the WPML plugin!) and of course WooThemes’ powerful backend, which lets you modify, customize and control without ever having to see a line of code.

Estate is no mere WordPress theme – it is a comprehensive, powerful, persuasive web solution for your Real Estate business. Because of its powerful engine and special design features, Estate has a higher price than regular WooThemes and does not include two free themes. However, if you stop to consider Estate’s capabilities and how it will be closing sales all on its own, you will agree with us that it is money well spent.

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

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City Guide by WooThemes

Feb 4th, 2012

City Guide

City Guide is a business theme geared for directory-based WordPress websites in general, and for touristic city guides in particular. If you know all about your town and want to share it with the world, this theme is just what you need: geotagged posts, custom content and Google maps integration will make your city the next hot holiday spot.

But tourism is not all: you can use City Guide to keep track of places of worship and activities from your church, build an online shrine to your favorite restaurant chain (Waffle House comes to mind,) create a road-map for a specific community with signposts towards restaurants, shops and landmarks that are of particular interest to your tribe. Bird watchers, fitness fans, vegans – the sky is the limit when it comes to what you can do with City Guide.

If your site will indeed be a city guide, you can use the Home Page Featured Module to display a Google Map of the area with lots of highlights pinned on it. If you will use City Guide as more of a community or special interest guide you may use an image to establish at a glance what your site is all about.

The main feature of City Guide is decidedly its Google Maps integration: all of your posts can be geo-tagged and managed according to their location. The blog post editor has a custom map panel and there are also sidebar map widgets – basically, if you need a map for any reason, you can easily add it right where you want it. Geotagged posts will also feature a physical address and location details.

WooThemes designer Sam Brown gave City Guide a whopping six widgetized zones, for maximum use of the powerful Woo Widgets such as Twitter feed display, a Popular Post tabber, Flickr photo streams and of course AdSpace banners for those who wish to monetize their site.

City Guide is highly customizable: besides featuring six color schemes in juicy colors it allows you to tinker with the stylesheet and customize the site’s looks to your heart’s content.

Besides all these unique features, City Guide also comes with the standard exclusive WooTheme features, such as thoroughly tested cross-browser compatibility and compliance to web standards, powerful SEO options, Woo Custom navigation for complete control over your menus, and a backend options panel in the dashboard that allows for deep customization without ever having to directly alter the site code.

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

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AskIt by Elegant Themes

Feb 4th, 2012

AskIt

AskIt is a purpose specific theme from Elegant Themes. The theme allows you to adapt the WordPress content management system to be used for a question and answer site. If you’re familiar with some of these sites, the basic design is that anybody can ask a question and users can submit responses. Users can then rate each of the responses so that the asker can determine which one is likely the best reply to their question. The asker, of course, can determine this for themselves, as well.

Because this is a membership driven site, it includes membership sign up and question submission forms that allow you to capture visitors. Having this part of the programming taking care of can reduce the cost of such a site considerably. There’s also a built-in voting system that allows users to determine which answer they think is the best. In short, you get a fully functioning question-and-answer site right out of the box without ever having to contact a professional designer to take care of the programming work for you. This is an incredibly significant offering in terms of reducing the cost of such a site.

This theme comes with advertising management features and thumbnail resizing features built into it. These are great features if you plan to use your question and answer site as a part of your corporate web presence but not as the principal site. You can easily include advertisements for your main site with the advertising management feature or, if you prefer, you could include advertisements from entirely different sites. The thumbnail resizing feature simply makes it easy to upload images in that you don’t have to upload separate copies for each individual size in which the image needs to display.

Localization, easy control from a backend control panel and other professional features make AskIt a very compelling option. Having a site like this constructed from scratch would cost a great deal of money, in the vast majority of cases. Having the ability to instantly put up such a site, change between several different color schemes, have users signed up and ready to go within minutes of the site opening and being able to take questions right away on top of it all is incredibly convenient and valuable. If you’re looking for a fast and easy way to get a question-and-answer site going, Elegant Themes nailed it in this theme. It’s easy to use, attractive and designed to the highest standards of professionalism.

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

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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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