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Your resume is a snapshot of you, what you can do, what you’re good at and what you wish to accomplish in your career. Thankfully, we live in times where the internet can allow us to present all that information with some style.
Lots of people are using web based resumes as a calling card and as a showcase of their work. Here are 8 amazing themes that work with WordPress to present your work, talents, skills and more online!
8 WordPress Themes That Will Get Your Hired!
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WordPress theme designers are under the same kinds of market pressures that any other seller is under.
How do we sell our themes in a huge, competitive market?
How do we stand out from the hundreds of other themes and developers?
The designers of both paid and free themes have three choices to make. They can either innovate, build upon previous successes, either their own or others’, or they can follow trends.
Sometimes trends are good, or fun, like putting bacon in everything, but nonetheless probably bad for you.
Sometimes trends are just embarrassing, like mood rings or acid-washed jeans. (I’m dating myself.)
What makes a WordPress theme sell like hotcakes? Is it an abundance of features, a striking design, a balance of both or perhaps, at times, could it simply be attributed to a trusted brand name or designer?
The WordPress theme economy is easily worth millions of dollars a year and does not show signs of slowing down anytime soon, especially as we see the platform becoming more responsive and easily adapted for the mobile web.
Every now and then I’ll come across some fascinating data relating to WordPress, such as the 20 Compelling Statistics that Represent the Dominance of WordPress that I covered back in April. I’m a bit of a sucker for stuff like that, and I know that many of you are too.
Which brings me to this article. The folks over at HackerTarget.com have been very busy analyzing the top 1 million websites (as ranked by Alexa).
They uncovered some rather interesting information relating to WordPress sites and theme usage specifically, which I would like to share with you.
Free vs. Premium
WordPress 3.4 is out and if this is the first you’re hearing about it you should seriously reconsider your news sources and reading lists.
You know what, WordPress 3.4 is great. I’ve been doing that thing you’re not supposed to with it for quite some time, which is to say I’ve been enjoying nightly releases. And yes, I really tried to make that sentence sexual but it just didn’t work out, OK? OK.
WordPress originally began life as a blogging platform but has grown to be a Content Management System (CMS) and is now so popular, that it is now used by thousands of companies and corporations.
Many thousands of free themes of differing purposes and quality have been released to the public, but yet during the last few years more and more developers have popped up selling premium WordPress themes, but are they worth the money?
Personal Users vs Business Users
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Today, gazpo.com released a nice new, clean and highly customizable news theme, silverOrchid. This free magazine WordPress theme is available from the WordPress theme directory. If you are trying to fit a lot of content into your site’s real estate, you may want to give this theme a download. It makes space for lots of images and headlines, and provides plentiful widgets and socially interactive features.
The SilverOrchid theme is for use with WordPress 3.3+. Its most notable features include:
Custom Menu support
Featured Image Support
Extensive Theme Options – Custom logo, favicon and banner upload, custom CSS code, tracking code
Testing your WordPress theme across different browsers can be a daunting task. You may have the latest versions of most of the most-used browsers on your computer, however it is worth testing previous versions too.
Traditionally you would have to use a different installation of an operating system on a virtual machine or another computer in order to test; these were inconvenient methods. There are now other methods to test different browsers effortlessly.
Web-based Solutions
I recently had the opportunity to interview Emil Uzelac of ThemeID, the developer of the massively popular Responsive theme for WordPress. Responsive is hosted in the WordPress Theme Directory and has surpassed 100,000 downloads in just 3 months, making it the most popular free theme available on WordPress.org. Emil was kind enough to chat with us about why the Responsive theme has been so successful and what’s next for him in collaboration with the team at LabZip. Read on to find out how Emil’s approach to support and customer service has made his theme the most popular one in the WordPress.org theme directory.
Happy Friday, everyone! Today I thought we’d take a look at a free WordPress responsive theme designed especially for bloggers. I think you’re really going to enjoy this one. Meeta is a beautiful theme, created by the great folks over at WPMZOOM.
The Meeta Theme Features:
Responsive Layout – will adapt to fit any screen resolution from desktops to mobile devices
Custom Headers – easily change the representative image in the theme top header section
Easy Customization – includes a theme options panel to easily change the colors for various elements from the theme
Custom Page Templates – including archive, full-width, slideshow, etc.
