These days, you can’t call yourself an entrepreneur or a marketer without any knowledge of how to use the Internet to drive your business. That’s why we here at Lakeshore Branding keep pushing WordPress – because it’s an awesome tool for anyone wanting to establish themselves online. It’s a semantic personal publishing platform with focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. So, whatever your title is – small business owner, online retailer, Internet startup founder, online marketer, social media guru, new media advertiser, affiliate marketer – you’ll find something valuable and unique in the way WordPress works. But to change the way WordPress looks? That’s what this list of WordPress themes is for. We picked out a number of the best business and marketing WordPress themes so that you won’t have to. With this list, we also hope you’ll be able to enhance the ease and efficiency of your WordPress experience. If you find a favorite business or marketing WordPress – Read the full article
From humble, open source beginnings, WordPress now powers over 61 million sites worldwide. The extent to which it has grown in popularity not just for bloggers but professional designers and developers is evidenced by Smashing Magazine recently launching an extended, dedicated WordPress section. I’m currently one of these working in web design in Chicago. The Project I recently had a very simple project of launching a blog with a small shopping cart installed in time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup held in New Zealand. Wait-of-Nation.com went live a little over two months ago. The Client With a background in PR/Advertising my client was well versed in getting himself out there, which in a country of 4.5 million people really isn’t that hard to do. He had a good product (sports blog of the most popular sport in NZ), with a niche message/ slant (“Home of New Zealand’s crushing expectation” – that the All Blacks – the National team – – Read the full article
We believe that there is a WordPress theme for everyone, no matter if you’re using the platform as a tool for managing your creative portfolio, your personal blog, your e-Commerce site, your online magazine, or your business / corporate website. Today we have handpicked a bunch of WordPress themes, with a variety that’s wide enough to meet your needs. (You’ll even find that there are themes here for mobile users – of smartphones, iPads, and other tablets and devices.) They do, however, stand out for a common quality: it’s a list of 52 easy-to-use, elegant, and simple WordPress themes. Yes, usability is the name of the game this time around, and we hope you’ll be able to find the theme that’ll make your WordPress experience a breeze. Love this post? Found a favorite? Don’t hesitate to let us know by leaving a comment below. And do feel free to spread the love by tweeting the list, sharing it on Facebook, – Read the full article
Over the course of the last few weeks, we have been handpicking a bunch of WordPress themes that we hope will help you come up with the best and most efficient design possible for your WordPress site. Recently, we created a list of wedding WordPress themes, which is great not just for wedding suppliers, but also for those who want to keep an online chronicle of all nuptial-related things: photos of the bridal dress, the official wedding video, albums and accounts of the bachelor party and bridal shower, that sort of thing. Today, however, we get a little bit more serious. By that, we mean we’ve created a selection of the top WordPress themes for professionals – whatever the industry, wherever the location, no matter the size. If there’s anything that unifies these simple WordPress themes together, it’s a design philosophy that inspires pros to get things done. Functional, feature-rich, elegant, and versatile, these professional WordPress themes aren’t going to – Read the full article
Sometimes, here at Lakeshore Branding we get some odd requests. We have had clients that ask us for help on wedding blogs and where to go for some online wedding themes. In response to these requests, we created WordPress Wedding Themes, a blog dedicated to showing you some of our favorite WordPress wedding themes. First, here’s our take on a few crucial attributes to What makes a good wedding blog. Follow the link for a more in depth take on the criteria. 1. Photography- Good photography is essential. In an ever advancing world of High Definition, Bush League photography is unacceptable 2. Content- Nothing professional required here. Genuine, from the heart diction will make a wedding blog stand out. 3. Wedding Site- We’ve all seen the outdated web sites that look like they’re still hosted by Angelfire or Geocities. While you also don’t need the most cutting edge web page, don’t settle. WordPress is the white knight of DIY websites. 4. Have Fun!- Call Captain – Read the full article
According to Greg Makuch, an 18-year proprietor of a Canadian hosting service web company, blogging has become a very important means of marketing products and services these days. Along with that, it is also effective for building your niche in the marketplace. Out of the many blogging platforms out there, WordPress has made a name for itself as being a very reliable and highly customizable means of creating an SEO-friendly blog. Here are some steps you can take to help improve your marketing endeavors with WordPress and increase the effectiveness of your search engine optimization efforts: Make sure that your meta information is correct for the best search engine optimization. WordPress is set to a default for meta titles that is not fully optimized for search engines. By downloading the All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress it is simple to customize all the meta titles so that they include the keywords you are marketing right up front. Be sure – Read the full article
We talk to small businesses and startups all the time that are looking for affordable solutions to build a really sweet, easy to use website. In this post we have compiled 81 high-quality and premium business WordPress themes. We have spent countless hours searching for stunning, user friendly, business oriented WordPress themes. If you think this post is awesome make sure you save it on Delicious you can Digg it or let your followers know on Twitter. If you have a favorite theme that we missed please be sure to let us know and leave a comment below, Enjoy! Vision WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Chalong WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy WP Pro Real Estate 2 WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy WP Sharp WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Collection WordPress Theme $30.00 | Demo | Buy Luxuos WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Creator WordPress Theme $45.00 | Demo | – Read the full article
An ever-expanding set of WordPress themes also guarantees that you look the part. If you’ll notice from the last few weeks, we’ve been creating lists of WordPress themes that we hope will reflect your business identity as well as complement your branding strategy. Today? We bring you another list: this time, it’s a set of 45 Business WordPress themes. We think they’re all awesome. If you have a favorite, let us know by leaving your comment below. We hope you’ll also share the list to others by tweeting the list and posting it on Facebook. Kids Toys WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy Radial WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Smoke WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Hotel Classica WordPress Theme $30.00 | Demo | Buy Sport and Grunge WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy Cars Dealer WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Child Care Creative WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy – Read the full article
