Where To Find Professional WordPress Themes
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July 2, 2009 by Steve Peachey
Filed under Blog it!, Designing YOUR Site
Your Website Needs A Professional Look…
OK here’s the skinny… Free WordPress Themes just don’t cut the mustard! There I said it! Don’t get me wrong… there are some freebies out there that look very good… but there’s more to a theme than just looking good, and none of the freebies have any SEO features built into them
You’re in business and you need functionality for You and your visitors. The way your site presents itself says a lot about you and how you do business. 1st impressions are EVERYTHING!
You also want your theme to have “SEO friendly” features to get more traffic coming to your site.
Listed below are the design services where I’ve bought themes and templates or have had personal experience with the designer… most of their themes are designed with the professional Internet Marketer in mind.
STUDIO PRESS THEMES
I use Brian Gardner’s Studio Press themes here on Best Internet Business.com (screenshot shown below). I started using his themes upon the recommendation of some professional friends. I use the Lifestyles theme on Best Internet Business, albeit highly modified now. My average visitor duration increased after I started using his themes.
Brian’s themes come with uniquely-styled homepages, archives, section and post pages. I particularly like the ‘newspaper’ look and feel of the Lifestyle Theme homepage, on which you can display recent posts from categories of your choice, in any order you like, which is infinitely preferable to the endless 10-post homepage scroll on most blogs. The primary and secondary top navigation bars allow you to highlight pages and categories that you particularly want your visitors to see and visit.
I really like Brian’s themes – primarily because his designs are fresh and well designed and better yet, they encourage visitors to poke around the site longer.
Studio Press has a GREAT support staff and forum which is priceless when you’re needing help.
You can visit Brian’s StudioPress theme site and check them out at the source.
WOO Themes
Woo Themes was formerly Premium News Themes by Adii. Pictured below is the Fresh News Theme which was designed and coded by Magnus Jepson.
One of the great things about these themes is that features such as Flickr, Feedburner and banner ad management are fully integrated.
WooThemes offers Wordpress themes in the following categories:
* Business
* CMS
* Magazine / News
* Personal Blog
* Portfolio
To see the themes themselves and everything that is included with these themes, Visit WooThemes
WP Remix
Flexibility and ease-of-use are what struck me first about the WP Remix theme for Wordpress – especially regarding the ability to choose and change page and sidebar designs directly from the WYSIWYG editor.
After the weeks and months I’ve spent doing the work to create my own category pages and related sidebars, this feature alone sets WP Remix apart from other Wordpress themes.
If WP Remix sounds like your “Cup O’ Tea” please Visit WP Remix
FAT CAT Designs
Debra Scott is one of my Heros and you can read why here on my Fat Cat Designs Article
Debra Scott will custom design your theme for you.
She uses Wordpress for the platform… but from there… the sky’s the limit!…
She’s great at putting YOUR ideas into a viable working theme
Did I mention she’s my hero?
Don’t be taken back by the whimsical appearance of her site…. she’s just showing off some of her artistic and technical talents. If you want a custom professional looking theme… believe me, she knows how to “take care of business”!
Pardon, the pun it was intentional.
Please visit My friend Debra at Fat Cat Designs
Copyright © 2009 Steve Peachey
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