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I get Pinterest. I really do.
I don’t use it, but I definitely get it. Its a social network for sharing images (duh). When you think about it, it’s rather crazy that someone didn’t come with it sooner. We all missed out on a great opportunity guys.
As an aside, it’s interesting that I chose to link to Pinterest above. I would never do that with Facebook or Twitter. I guess it’s a second class social media citizen in my eyes.
In the past year, the number of Responsive Themes available for WordPress has exploded. And for good reason as it only makes sense to design sites optimized to the vast numbers of devices, browsers, OS’, and viewports that make up the visitors to your website.
Builder Theme is a premium WordPress theme foundation or framework by iThemes. iThemes Builder Theme launched on December 16th 2009. From the moment I saw the Builder theme (which was just before the launch during a preview webinar), I knew that I had found the last WordPress theme I would ever realistically need. Granted, Builder is not really the only theme to ever consider, it just happens to be one of my favorites. (Check out some of the other great themes available from WPMUdev as well.)
The Best Things about Builder Theme
What good is a WYSIWYG editing interface if it fails to show what your marked-up content really looks like? Many themes do not make use of editor styles, even though they’ve been available since WordPress version 3. Let’s cover how to:
Enable editor style sheets in your theme.
Tell your theme to acknowledge the editor style sheet.
Then port over your theme’s post CSS to make your editing screen snazzy (and correct.)
Editor stylesheets: an egg is an egg
With search engines now trumping newspapers in popularity, readers now get most of their information from the internet. Word of mouth via social networks is more valuable than ever. That’s why I’m excited about Politic. It’s a new political WordPress and BuddyPress theme that combines a clean government-friendly WordPress design with the power of BuddyPress community features like members, forums and groups. Having a social network of supporters can help your favorite campaign or cause expand, educate, and grow your supporters.
The Politic theme features:
Awesome design
Strong focus on user-experience, usability, and beautiful typography
Easily change colors via Theme Options
Presenting yourself online as a professional is quickly becoming far more important than the traditional paper resume. One of the fastest ways to create an online resume is to use a WordPress resume theme on your own domain. This gives you the advantage of being found by search engines for your skills and experience.
If you’re a photographer who also blogs and you’re on WordPress.com, look no farther than Mixfolio.
Mixfolio is yet another responsive theme — one of those trends that is also a Good Idea — meaning that regardless of the platform or device your content is viewed on, it will still look good, adjusting size and formatting to fit its point of consumption — and that includes images.
Equally impressive are:
A clean look with a judicious use of white space throughout the theme.
A tabbed presentation of metadata in Gallery view condensing information very nicely.
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.
