Promote Your Startup with Feature Pitch for WordPress

If you are lucky enough to run a startup, you are familiar with the numerous challenges that you have to face to run your venture more effectively. One of the biggest challenges for startups is find a way to promote their products while staying within your budget limits. It’s easy to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a killer website, but if you can’t get a decent return on your investment, your are going to be in trouble soon.

Feature Pitch is a cool WordPress theme for startups that lets you create landing page, product pages, and mini-sites without having to spend thousands of dollars on design and development. All you need is a good web host, a good product, and you are set to go.

WooThemes is known for creating some of the most flexible themes for WordPress. Feature Pitch is no different. You can easily change things around and customize the theme to fit your business needs. The WooThemes Framework Backend makes it easy to customize your theme without having to right your own code. You get a main feature section to promote your top product or your main pitch and a few mini pitches to promote your product’s features or other products. Just think about it. If you replace the box with an iPhone, and the mini features with iPhone features, you are going to have one heck of a landing page. So it’s easy to apply this theme to almost any product.

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The theme comes in 9 different colors and is fully optimized to be video and social media ready. You also get the stand image re-sizer and Gravatar support with this theme as well. What I like about this theme is that it’s page based, meaning that you will have more control on how your home page is displayed. Adding videos to your theme is not that hard either. Best of all, the theme is optimized for search engines and comes with page navigation and breadcrumbs.

All in all, Feature Pitch is a very decent WordPress theme for startups. It’s designed to help you promote your startup products and gain exposure for them. And you don’t have to spend a fortune to get your hands on Feature Pitch. Great way to go live with a product fast.

25 Best Magazine WordPress Themes

In good old days, if you wanted to create a killer magazine portal, you were going to have to spend a decent amount of money to get the job done. And let’s not forget that managing content was much harder before WordPress became what it is today. Starting and expanding a magazine portal is not a easy job, and it could cost you a bit of money on itself. So if you want to get it done fast, your best hope is by adopting WordPress and picking up a good magazine WordPress theme. Not all magazine themes are created equal. Some are better in handling images while others are more SEO friendly. Either way, you want to get the theme that comes with the right balance and lets you get your job done fast. Here are 25 cool WordPress themes for magazines that let you get the job done fast:

Imperial: is a highly flexible theme that can be used for any type of website. Comes in 2 colors (dark, light) and is very easy to customize.

Yamidoo: a very flexible and easy to use theme that lets you set up your news portal or magazine in just a few minutes. Easy to manage content using this theme.

Massive News: Massive News is a cool portal theme that lets you add your content and start your own magazine website fast. It’s SEO friendly, and the back-end is designed to help you customize your theme without writing code. (more…)

Bring Twitter Discussions To Your Blog with Tweetboard

If you have been on Twitter lately, you have probably all those Alpha Testing requests by folks who are hoping to get a chance to test out tweetboard. So what is tweetboard anyway? It’s an innovative application based on Twitter platform that lets you bring the power of Twitter to your WordPress blog. If you thought your users were engaged with your blog before, you are going to love how they interact with tweetboard.

Tweetboard grabs your latest Twitter updates and adds them to your website. Tweetboard sits on the top of your WordPress blog (as a slide-in) as it’s a script and not a plug-in. Your readers can then use the board to communicate with you and comment on your posts. The conversations are shown in a nested format, allowing you and your users to get more out of your discussions.

What I love about tweetboard is the fact that it can drive lots of traffic to your blog. Every time someone decides to get involved in a conversation on your tweetboard, a link to that conversation is posted on their Twitter account. Depending on the topics you discuss on your blog, you could get lots of free traffic from your readers and tweeps. Your conversations are posted on Twitter using posted.at and inreply.to domains, so your twitter friends know what they are reading.

Ultimately, tweetboard is an innovative Twitter service that lets you bring the power of this great community to your blog. Tweetboard is so easy to install, and it doesn’t add too much load to your blog. Best of all, it gets your users engaged and can bring you lots of traffic. It seems like a no-brainer to me.

Build a News Portal with Journal WordPress Theme

One of the main strengths of WordPress platform is its effective content management. Whether you want to create a humongous portal or just a small blog for your daily thoughts, it’s all easy to do with WordPress. And you won’t have to pay a dime to take advantage of this amazing software. As long as you use the right theme for your blog/portal, there is nothing you can’t do with WordPress. Journal is one of those themes that is designed to help you create an attractive portal fast. It’s designed for journalists and anyone interested in creating a professional looking news portal.

Journal looks awfully close to those top news portals that you see everyday. It’s very clean and makes it easy to promote your top news on your home page. The code is search engine friendly as well which means you get the most bang from your efforts. What I like about this theme is that it’s so flexible. You can easily customize it. Best of all, you get 10 color schemes to help you create your unique look and feel.

The theme is fully widgetized. You get 4 modules in your footer that you can use to promote all kinds of things. The theme is ad ready as well, and you can promote your banners at the bottom of your footer too. And let’s not forget the image resizer that makes it so easy to display images on your blog without too much fuss.

Overall, Journal is a great solution for those who are interested in starting a news portal. The code is clean, and the theme comes equipped with everything you need to build a good looking news portal fast. Best of all, you get many color themes to choose from to customize the look and feel of your blog. If you are an aspiring journalist or just love the look and feel of news websites, Journal is a good option to consider.

Create Your University Website with Education Theme

When choosing a premium WordPress theme, you want to a theme that is well-designed, highly optimized for search engines, and very flexible. The whole purpose of purchasing a premium theme is to save money while getting your hands on a theme that you can use to build your business with. Education is a WordPress theme for higher-education institutions and universities that lets you do just that. You can easily customize it and add your content to it. That’s what you should expert from a well-designed premium theme for WordPress.

Education not only supports text but video as well. You can easily embed your YouTube content on your website (use it to display your introduction video). You can also add your images to your featured section at the top, which your users slide through. What I really like about this theme was the way text is used on it. If you know anything about SEO, you would agree that having text in prominent places can help your search engine rankings a bit. With Education, you get text in the right places.

Education Theme comes ad ready. Your RSS feed is displayed at the top of your theme, making it easy for your prospects to sign up for more updates. And one shouldn’t forget about the dynamic menus you get with this theme.

All in all, Education theme is a great solution for those who are interested in building a university website. If you are a small college or just starting up with your institution, Education Theme can save you a whole lot of money and time. Another great theme by StudioPress.

Create Your Photo Website with ePhoto

I don’t have to tell you how easy WordPress has made creating highly dynamic websites. While a lot of folks use WordPress for blogging, you can also use it to display your artwork online and get the exposure that you deserve. Thanks to themes such as ePhoto, you don’t have to spend a fortune to get online fast. Premium themes are not only cheap, but they are easily customizable, and you don’t have to start from scratch either.

ePhoto is a very dynamic WordPress theme designed for folks who are interested in creating an image heavy website. The theme can support a blog and a photo gallery. You can easily upload and add your photos to this theme. The thumbnail re-size makes it so easy to put your work on your site in a presentable fashion. You can easily promote your best work in the featured section of your site. You also get two very attractive color schemes to choose from.

ePhoto comes ad ready as well. You can easily sell ad space to advertisers or display sponsored ads. The theme also integrates a rating system for your artwork.  That is a great way to let your users get more involved and rate your best works. The theme comes with a valid code and SEO friendly as well. So you can count on getting some free traffic from search engines as well.

Overall, if you are a photographer or an artist hoping to get online fast, ePhoto is a good option to consider. It will only cost you $19.99, and you get a few other premium themes with it as well. Perhaps the most affordable way to start your own photo gallery online.

10 Best WordPress Themes for Gaming Portals

Building a gaming portal with WordPress couldn’t be any easier these days. If you wanted to develop a portal for gamers just a few years ago, you’d have to spend thousands of dollars on your portal design and content management system. These days, with WordPress and gaming themes that are out there on the market, you can put your gaming portal up in a flash. When choosing a gaming theme for your portal, you want to pay attention to design, underlying code, and your theme’s flexibility. A theme that is well-designed, comes with a search engine friendly code, and is easily customizable is ideal. Thankfully, there are many themes that fit the criteria.

If you are looking to start your gaming portal, you should give themes a serious consideration:

eGamer: eGamer is a cool dark theme to set up a professional looking gaming website fast. You can easily add games, your images and videos and rate games. It’s very dynamic and easy to get a handle of.

GameMaker: another impressive dark theme for gaming portals that lets you add your own videos, manage your shoutbox, and add your content easily.

On Demand: a highly flexible and dynamic theme for WordPress that lets you review and rate games and let others rate them as well. You can also feature the popular games on your home page.

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