Hostme theme: one of the most stylish hosting themes we have tested. It is highly dynamic. It has 80+ custom style short-codes and 10 custom widgets.

Hosting Pro: hands down the best web hosting theme we have tested. It is highly customizable and has a set of widgets to help you promote your business more effectively. The domain checker widget is a big plus.

WebHosting: one of the few themes designed specifically for web hosting businesses. It has 5 colorful skins and a powerful back-end. It takes advantage of short-codes and has multiple page templates.

Phenomenon theme: a highly customizable theme for hosting businesses. It has 34 shortcodes, 4 custom widgets, and 6 widgetized areas. It has dummy content to get you started quickly.

Epsilon Theme: it can be used for hosting and regular business sites. It has a clean design with focus on conversion.

HostingSquare: a highly customizable theme for WordPress. Adding your plans and testimonials to your site easier.

Fremium Saas II: designed for any business that offers multiple pricing tiers. It can work great for your hosting or any other service related business.

FreshServe for WordPress: a pretty impressive theme for SasS businesses with 8 color skins, 26 short codes, and multiple custom widgets.

Not all the above themes are designed specifically for web hosting businesses. At the same time, they can be easily modified to fit their needs.

Which one is your favorite?

Reaction can be used for corporate portals and blogs. The theme gives you 6 CSS styles to choose from with multiple backgrounds. Reaction is one of the most widget-friendly themes on the market. It has over 60 widget places, giving its users the chance to move around their content to get the exact effect they need on their site.

The typography and layout of this theme is among one of the best we have seen among premium themes. The Fusion Menu is all powerful and is a nice touch. Reaction has a clean code and is compatible with most major browsers. The content and style settings of your theme can be changed from the options page. You have the option to modify what shows up or stays hidden on your site. Under the style tab, you get to choose your main style, the color for your links, and settings for your background and fonts.

There are many premium themes that work great on desktop computers but underperform on mobile devices. Reaction for WordPress has it covered here. Users can modify how their website will look like on mobile devices under the “iPhone” tab.

Reaction for WordPress may take a bit of time getting used to. For small blogs, it could be a bit of an overkill (simply too powerful). At the same time, if you are planning to start a killer portal and want maximum flexibility as far as your content layout and site design, Reaction is worth a serious look.

Start a wiki: Wikibase is an awesome WordPress theme that turns your WordPress site into a wiki. It has multiple styles and features to make it easier for your employees to contribute.

Create a forum for employees: managing an internal forum is another way to keep your employees involved in your organization. These types of websites can be used to gather ideas and feedback from everyone involved in your business. gForums is the theme that turns WordPress sites into forums.

Stay in touch with partners and clients: EmployeePress turns your WordPress site into a customer relationship management system. Great way to stay in touch with employees and clients.

Create an internal Q&A platform: WP-Answers is a powerful plugin that turns your WordPress site into a Q&A community. It comes integrated with Twitter and Facebook if you decide to use them.

Build an information management system: if you own a fast growing small business, you want to make sure you have a system in place to appropriately manage your business information over the long run. KnowPress is just the theme for that.

Any suggestions?

Bring your corporate presence online: themes such as Nova allow businesses to go online and start connecting with prospects and existing customers more effectively.

Start a Knowledge Base: creating an information management system for your business can help you and your team stay on the right track and save some time in the process. Thankfully, there is a theme for that.

Gather feedback from your customers: every business needs to keep up with its customers and provide them with after-sale support. Themes such as Feedback Engine make creating a support system easy for businesses.

Create a Wiki: Wikis are great for businesses to communicate internally or externally with their customers. WordPress wiki theme is one of many themes you can use to create your own Wiki with WordPress.

Promote your services: whether you have a membership website, multiple pricing plans, or multiple products to sell, Saas theme lets you build a professional looking site around your business model.

Manage contacts and employees: Employee Press is a unique WordPress theme that allows you to communicate more effectively with your employees and partners.

Share your events with the world: if your company runs events on a consistent basis, you can use Diarise or Events to share your events with the world and let people add your events to their calendars.

Create mini portals for your products: need to create a mini portal, promoting multiple products on your WordPress website. Productz is one of many theme just for that purpose.

Start a job board: while businesses share their job listings with top job sites such as Career Builder, they also post them to their own job boards. Thanks to job themes for WordPress, you can implement such a feature on your own website.

Go flashy with your business site: do you need a flashy portal to promote your goods and services online? Qualifire is an awesome theme just for that purpose.

Add a portfolio to your business portal: your website gives you the chance to share all your work with the world. A decent business portfolio theme can make the whole process that much easier.

Prepare for the launch of your new product: Launch theme is a simple to use theme that businesses can use to keep their fans excited about your new products.

Make your business site mobile friendly: themes such as Hybrido allow businesses to target their mobile users and expand their reach.

Start corporate blogging: every serious business needs a business blog. You don’t have to do your blog yourself, but your business blog needs to be representative of what your business is all about.

Use WordPress for your non-profit organization: one does not have to go broke to build a high quality and good looking website for a non-profit business. You can always start with a simple, affordable premium theme such as Charity.

Make your portal look professional: WordPress is not just useful to small businesses and startups. More established businesses can use themes such as Kustom to develop highly attractive business portals.

What are your suggestions?

Panacea is one of the most flexible themes that we have tested so far. It is designed specifically for portals, so you are not limited just to blogs if you decide to pick this theme up. The theme does have a professional look and feel to it. More importantly, it comes with a powerful set of features to allow you to customize its look and feel without messing with your code. The backgrounds rotator manager is quite powerful and makes your website more dynamic.

Panacea enables its users to customize the way their content is laid out and looks. It does have a color chooser that you can take advantage of to find the right colors for your design. The Gizmos tab provides you with ways to deal with older browsers, custom titles, and much more.

Panacea is not for the faint of heart. It packs a lot of punch but is very simple to get started with. The developers do offer a theme launcher to help you set up your website and get it going without spending time downloading files one by one.

Panacea has over 60 collapsible widget positions, giving you the flexibility to move your content around and manage it more effectively. Gantry Framework, which is used to develop Panacea, is one of the most impressive ones we have tested. The menu icons are a plus. Panacea is iPhone friendly too.

Panacea is a professional looking and flexible theme for small businesses. It has one of the best back-ends we have tested and makes your life easier customizing the design and layout of your website. You don’t have to be a programming genius to get the most out of this theme.

deSignum theme has 4 color schemes (green, red, blue and grey). Its jQuery image slider gives you the chance to promote all your products and services more effectively. You can customize your slider’s behavior from the back-end.

The action bar is helpful too, giving you the chance to guide your visitors and show them more ways to explore your products and services. Adding testimonials, features summary, and any awards you may have gotten to this theme is straight-forward. deSignum does take advantage of short-codes, meaning that it’s much easier to customize.

The back-end is quite impressive and gives you everything you need to customize the look and feel of your website without touching your code. Background customization is also supported.

deSignum is customizable, pretty attractive, and easy to deploy. If you own a business site that is lacking in terms of look and feel, deSignum could serve as a good make-over for your website.

eConsultant: one of the underrated themes around. It has a very clean look and feel to it and is customizable. It has plenty of settings for you to change. The featured slider on the front-page is nice.

Bizpress: one of the best looking business themes on the market. It works for consultants, small businesses, and even established ones. It takes advantage of jQuery and has 4 skins. Bizpress is social media friendly too.

The Professional: a very sleek theme for consulting businesses. It has 4 color schemes for you to choose from and is compatible with all major browsers. It’s pretty image friendly too.

Freelance: a child theme based on Genesis theme framework. It is designed specifically for consultants. The fact that it’s clean and SEO-friendly makes this theme a good option for any small business owner.

Consultant: it has everything one would need to bring a consulting business online. It has 5 color schemes and can be localized as well.

Specialist: a super flexible theme for small businesses and freelancers. It has a fully customizable front-page and even more impressive back-end.

Denovo: works great for both established consulting businesses and those who are just getting started. It’s dynamic and is optimized for conversion.

Media Consult: a pretty theme that can be used for a wide variety of websites (business and other topics). It has 8 skins and 4 custom widgets. It has a portfolio gallery too.

Agency: a clean, professional looking theme for small agencies and independent consultants. It’s built upon Genesis theme framework and is easy to customize.

iBlog Pro: it does look a bit like Apple’s home-page, but you can always add your own contact, upload your social media accounts, and share your products with the world.

What are your favorite WordPress consulting themes?

deVision is very clean and comes with 4 different color schemes (red, blue, green, and grey). The featured content slider on the home page lets business owners share their best products with the world. You can embed an image or a video in this section to make the best first impression. This theme is localized and available in 3 languages, so it works for local and international businesses.

deVision comes with an easy to use set of custom widgets to help you further customize your website. It also has a simple to use options page that you can take advantage of to make small changes (e.g. uploading your logo). The lightbox plugin used in this theme makes it much more attractive.

deVision is a quite solid business theme for small businesses to take advantage of. I would love it if the theme had more color options, but if you know your CSS, you can make your website look the way you want. deVision makes it easy to take your business portal online in an affordable fashion.

Here are 15 WordPress themes for startups that should give you some ideas:

Display 3-1 Business: one of the most dynamic themes around for start-ups and small businesses. It’s pretty flashy and can be used for all types of start-ups.

Productz: can be used to promote your existing and upcoming products. It has a pretty clean look and feel to it. Comes with 6 color styles and supports videos too.

Corner Stone: takes advantage of WebSharks framework for WordPress to bring your visitors a more dynamic experience. It is easy to customize and is social media friendly.

Inspire: another theme for start-ups that has a homepage with a featured area powered by jQuery and can be used to promote multiple products.

BizPress: a no nonsense business theme that is multimedia and social media friendly. It has 4 color styles and a jQuery slider to get you started on the right foot.

eConsultant: an attractive theme that targets consultants and free-lancers. It can be used by other types of small businesses too. It is easy to customize.

Bizz Folio: a super attractive and dynamic portfolio and business hybrid theme. It has 5 CSS styles and 4 page templates. Very image friendly too.

Squared 3: perfect choice if you have a more established start-up and want to promote multiple products on your home page. It has 12 color schemes too.

Enterprise: one of the most flexible start-up themes for WordPress. It’s built upon Genesis framework for WordPress and can be easily enhanced (with minimal investment).

Small Business: combines a blog and a portfolio to give you maximum flexibility when preparing your start-up website. It has over 20 options in its options panel.

Eco Pro: the perfect choice for green start-ups. The developers behind this theme will donate 10% of their earnings to the environment (which helps). Best of all, it has a matching bbPress theme that you can purchase on the side.

Denovo Business: a jQuery powered and professional looking business theme that can be used by start-ups and more established businesses.

Diarise: designed for those of you who have an event-based business or want to share your upcoming start-up events with the world.

Acosmin Biz: drop down menu? Check. jQuery slider: check. Highly powerful back-end: check. It looks pretty attractive too.

Office Space: if your start-up generates many news/products, and you want to share them all with the world, Office Space is a solid theme for you to try.

Which of the above startup themes do you like the most?

Enterprise for WordPress has a very modern look and feel to it. But don’t let the looks scare you. The theme is designed for anyone who’s interested in taking their business live with minimal effort. It already has a decent look and feel, so you won’t have to start from scratch when customizing your site’s design. Enterprise Theme is clean, dynamic, and very good in handling images.

Since the theme is based on Genesis framework for WordPress, you are going to have much more flexibility and an overall easier time customizing it. The framework is optimized for performance in more ways than one. So all the themes based on it will have all those benefits.

Enterprise comes with a featured section that you can use to make a good first impression on your visitors. You can add more sections about your business under this area. That could include your testimonials as well. This theme also comes with multiple templates to give you flexibility as far as what you can add to your website.

Enterprise theme may not be the fanciest theme around, but it is clean and very easy to use. You won’t have to read a 100 page tutorial to get it to work. It’s a nice starting place if you are looking for a business theme to pick up and customize to your heart’s desire. Decent for small business and startups.