Artists, graphic designers, and photographers are taking their work to the Web. But what’s the most suitable (read: eye-popping) way to do so? If you ask us, the recommended platform would be WordPress. Just check out the features. There are just so many things you can do with the CMS (content management system) that will help you express yourself beyond words and effectively capture the attention of your audience, clients, fans, and followers. It’s in this light that we present to you once again a list of 42 awesome WordPress themes – this time, for visual artists, designers, and photographers. Hopefully, this will give you the edge you need to stand out from the rest of the pack. And, hopefully, this will deliver the stunning looks that you need to embody your work portfolio. Do you have a favorite WordPress theme that we missed? Let us know in the comments, Enjoy! Atlas WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Chocolate – Read the full article
Because our WordPress themes posts have been so popular, we’re bringing you yet another one. This latest list features 30 premium WordPress themes that are suitable for all business, regardless of size and industry. By “premium”, of course, we mean they’re certainly worth paying for. Of course, by choosing WordPress (our favorite CMS here at Lakeshore Branding), you already know you’re getting an awesome set of features. Whatever your goals are, you can leverage the platform to enhance cost-effectiveness, simplify your Web design, add customizations, and improve your social media and search ranking performance. A suitable theme completes the look – and gives you the competitive edge that you need to stand out in your industry. Think this list is awesome? Share it by tweeting, posting it on Facebook, bookmarking, commenting, or adding on to the list! If you have a favorite premium WordPress theme that we missed out on, please be sure to let us know and leave a – Read the full article
You want to get the most out of your money’s worth, but spending more does not necessarily mean getting the best. Especially when it comes to choosing corporate WordPress themes. WordPress, a platform that has always provided clients, social media and Internet marketers, entrepreneurs, and individual users with plenty of praiseworthy designs, offers great choices in Web design themes – and delivers great bang for your every buck. Display WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy BigFeature WordPress Theme $30.00 | Demo | Buy Dandelion WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Karma WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy London Creative WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy Velvet WordPress Theme $35.00 ∣ Demo ∣ Buy Mondeo WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Hermes WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Zillapress WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy The Network WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Catalyst WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Soulbop WordPress – Read the full article
Blogs are here to stay. (Call them “online magazines” if you’re not used to the portmanteau.) But gone are the days when you just signed up, went for the simplest blog theme or layout, added some cute Dear Diary posts, and suddenly had everyone finding you. These days, you’ve got to stand out. And standing out takes more than signing up for an account in your favorite blogging platform. (Our favorite, of course, is WordPress.) Go for something that will differentiate you – and which will also reflect your identity well. That’s why we came up with this list: to help you find the appropriate look of your WordPress blog, whether it’s a simple company news blog, a photo blog, an online magazine, a video blog, a friendly community for your fans and followers, a social media hub, or a tumblog. If you like this list of online magazine / blog-friendly WordPress themes, share the love by tweeting it, posting – Read the full article
So you’ve e-Commerce’d your site up. (Hopefully with Magento, our favorite.) And you’re ready to roll. The homepage is ready. The product shots have been Photoshopped to perfection. The design and the color schemes look very cool (ahem, an aesthetic term) and you’ve set up your checkout process with a secure third-party payment gateway. That’s it, right? Well – not if you haven’t dedicated as much effort as you already have to your product pages. Here’s a list of awesome tips for turning your product pages into awesome sales magnets: Optimize it. This, really, is a given, since you want the search engines to find you as easily and as often as the human visitors do. Great ways to make your product page SEO-friendly include: avoiding duplicate content and duplicate URLs; writing up unique and compelling text descriptions for each product (don’t just copy the manufacturers’ descriptions); and editing this content in a way that makes it relevant to your – Read the full article
Blogging doesn’t involve just writing: it involves promoting your content and making it rank for relevant search terms, too. Don’t worry if you’re not a technical expert or SEO rock star: like in most areas of Internet marketing, there are tons of ways to improve your performance in SEO-focused blogging, and it sounds a lot easier than it actually is. If you’re not quite convinced that you should have anything to do with SEO when blogging, just remember that getting people to your site who are already interested is much easier than the kind of cold, hard sell tactic used by most traditional outbound marketers. So drive those visitors to your site. Here are 4 tips to improve your inbound Internet marketing tactics with a blog: Write Creative Headlines Write blog headlines that will drive clicks on Twitter. Think from a user perspective; there are 60 million tweets sent out each day. Getting people to click on your URL from – Read the full article
The following are some simple web marketing integration ideas that can accelerate your campaign efforts – and business. Share messages on several channels The first step in integrating all your Internet marketing efforts is to tell a message repeatedly across various channels. Let’s say you have a new product to announce. Make sure the news is on your website’s news page as a link to media coverage or as a press release. Re-communicate the message in your blog (in a conversational tone) and have it posted on your Facebook page, tweeted on Twitter, and E-mailed to the opt-in e-mail / subscriber list. In addition, you might want to showcase the news in your website’s home page, as a form of attention-catching headline or ticker. The truth is that customers will not get access to your information in the same way. They all have their own preferences, after all. By amplifying your message on several online marketing channels, it makes it – Read the full article
Do you know that it takes just 24 seconds to improve your SEO ranking performance? Well, not really. We made that number up because the number catches attention. But catch your attention we certainly hope we did, because this SEO tip we’re about to give you can definitely go a long way in getting you more – and more relevant – search engine traffic. And yeah, they might take about 24 seconds or less to complete. What are title tags? To put it simply, title tags are the document titles required in all HTML/ XHTML documents. The term “documents” includes your website or blog. Ideally, your title tags will be used to help identify the contents of the pages of your website or blog. The HTML code that defines the title of your HTML documents follows a certain format. Let’s take the Lakeshore Branding blog – http://www.lakeshorebranding.com/company/blog – as an example. <head> <title>Chicago Marketing Blog | Internet Marketng | SEO – Read the full article
