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Some of you must have noticed we’ve changed the look of ‘The Webmaster’s Blog’. Earlier I was using the ‘Premium News’ theme from WooThemes, and now I’ve changed to ‘On The Go’ theme from Elegant Themes.

Elegant Themes are one the best WordPress Designers in the market. All of their themes are just beautiful. And what makes them best is the price they ask. With Elegant Themes, you can get all their themes in just $20/year, while with others its hard to get even a single theme in $20. You can check their gallery here.

I chose this theme because I like the casual look and beautiful sketches when I saw the preview of this theme. Lets hope you also like the theme.

Tags: General, Themes

Latest free themes for WordPress

Raman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:58:02 +0000

Here is the latest installment of some fresh and beautiful WordPress Themes for FREE.

1. Nowhere

2. Small Window

3. Wooden

4. Communication

5. Club Card

6. Frank Incense

7. Unembellished

8. Presented

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Domain parking theme for WordPress – Launchpad

Raman — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:36:32 +0000

If you have been planning to start a good-looking wordpress blog but have registered domain only and working on your wordpress theme or if you want to change your theme yourself and at the same time don’t want to lose your visitors, then here is a great theme for you – Launchpad. Its a lot better looking than the ugly ads from your registrar, which convert your domain into an ad-farm.

Features:

Theme Options Page
Integration with FeedBurner
Professional design and typesetting
GPL Licensed—it’s free and you’re free to mess with it.

Instructions:

Using LaunchPad is simple, it installs like any other WordPress theme, but there’s a couple of things you’ll need to get ready beforehand.

Get a FeedBurner ID and Feedmail

For a theme that incorporates FeedBurner to build subscriptions before you’ve even started blogging, this one is necessary. Signing up for FeedBurner is easy and you were probably going to do it anyway. Visit FeedBurner.com and follow the instructions there. Once that’s done, login and visit your account page.

All you’ll need is the name of your FeedBurner feed address. That’s the text after “http://feeds2.feedburner.com/”. Copy it into a text file somewhere for easy reference.

While you’re here, sign up for Feedmail. Click the publicize tab and look for the Email Subscriptions link under services (as I write this, it’s the 4th item). Follow the setup instructions there—but don’t worry about pasting any code anywhere, LaunchPad does that all for you.

Credit has to go to Nathan Rice for showing me how to do this with his beautiful theme Elegant Blue. Thanks, Nathan!

Write your Welcome Post

When someone subscribes to your new blog with RSS they will be able to read any published posts. You don’t want them reading your “Hello World!” post. Write a simple introduction to your new blog that outlines it’s genesis and your goals so your new subscribers will have something to read.

Set Theme Options

Simply copy your feed name into the options page …

… and You’re Done! You’re ready to launch your blog with LaunchPad!

Tags: Themes

Best Tech Themes for WordPress

Raman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:02:23 +0000

If you have a WordPress blog related to “Technology” and you are looking for best quality WordPress Tech Themes for FREE, your search ends here.

Here I’ve compiled some “Tech Themes” for WordPress with “Free to Use” license.

I. Tech World

II. Pad Mess

III. Techpress

IV. Digital Playground

V.Tech Dream

VI. Tech Blue

VII. Tech Green

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VIII. NewTech Pro

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IX. Gadget Scene

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X. Techno-02

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XI. TechGadgets Galore

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XII. Computer Blaze

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XIII.World Hosting Magazine

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XIV. Winpress 7

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XV. CreativeCell Mag

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XVI. iPhone Creative Magazine

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XVII. Netech Magazine

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Tags: Themes

Best free Games Themes for WordPress.

Raman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:26:52 +0000

Building a Games Blog with WordPress as a platform can be a great way to earn money as well as gather and share your information about various games.

After installing WordPress, finding a WordPress theme matching with the genre of of game can be difficult sometimes. So, here I’ve compiled the list of some great Games Themes that are available for FREE.

With these Games Themes you can build a real professional Games Blog.

I. StarCraft II

II. Super Mario Land

III. Counter Force

IV. Warcraft WoW

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V. Mario Bros

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VI. GamesBlog

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VII. Gamers Target

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VIII. Final Fantasy

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IX. Gamer Theme

X. GameLife

XI. Pool Game Theme

XII. Atari Command

Tags: games themes, Themes

Affiliate Marketing theme for WordPress.

Raman — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:33:47 +0000

Affiliate marketing is one of the popular methods of making money online and is having lots of competition. Thats why you require something attractive for potential customers to come to your affiliate page and buy through your affiliate link.

These days there is increasing trend of using WordPress to develope affiliate site, and using attractive themes for landing pages, increasing their chances of conversion. Here comes the role of Affiliate Theme. It helps you create attractive and professional looking affiliate site using WordPress for content management.With WordPress and Affiliate Theme you will be able to create, manage and customize your affiliate sites within minutes saving your precious time for promotion of your affiliate sites.

Unique Features of Affiliate Theme -

A premium
WordPress theme exclusively designed for creating affiliate sites or
landing pages.
Easy to customize and lost of options. Change colors, fonts, header graphic, navigation style, and even page layout from the theme option panel.
Comes with 6 in-built homepage layouts and 3 inner page layouts.
You will get more than 30 unique header graphics that are suitable for different niches.
Built-in color-pickers for changing the colors of everything without touching any codes.
Better and easier Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Fully optimized theme for PPC campaigns.
Easy integration of tracking scripts.
Lifetime access to affiliate resource center, which is fully loaded with valuable resources.
Theme support forums.

Its most powerful feature is Theme Options Panel. It will enable you to control or change everything, from site layout to colors and from site logo to custom header. Don’t worry it is created in such a way that even a person without any prior knowledge of CSS, HTML and PHP can use it to build great affiliate sites. And if you are a developer, the clean theme codes will make your customization work even easier.

Affiliate Theme is first theme for WordPress,developed for the sole purpose of Affiliate Marketing. So if you are serious about Affiliate Marketing and wanna give a high boost to your affiliate earning you should dfeinitely grab Affiliate Theme.

For any queries and more details, visit here.

Tags: affiliate marketing, Themes

Latest Premium WordPress Themes from StudioPress.

Raman — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:50:02 +0000

Studiopress is one of the leading name in the world of web-designing especially the WordPress Themes design. In addition to theme designing, they also provide sevices for logo designing, setting up wordpress blog etc. Here are some latest Premium Themes designed by Studiopress for WordPress.

1. Agent WordPress Theme

Latest version: 2.0
Release date: 2/5/09
Tags: three-columns, fixed-width, white, gray, black, red, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Agent Theme Demo
Purchase

2. Album WordPress Theme

Latest version: 2.0
Release date: 2/5/09
Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, blue, brown, gray, purple, red, rust, sepia
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Album Theme Demo
Purchase

3. Black Canvas WordPress Theme

Latest version: 1.0
Release date: 11/1/08
Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, black, gray, white, blue, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Black Canvas Theme Demo
Purchase

4. Church WordPress Theme

Latest version: 3.0
Release date: 1/31/09
Tags: three-columns, fixed-width, white, gray, black, red, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Church Theme Demo
Purchase

5. Chrome WordPress Theme

Latest version: 1.0
Release date: 11/1/08
Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, black, white, gray, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Chrome Theme Demo
Purchase

6. Corporate WordPress Theme

Latest version: 1.0
Release date: 2/20/09
Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, black, white, gray, blue, sidebar-widgets Widget-ready:
Yes Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Corporate Theme Demo
Purchase

7. Lifestyle WordPress Theme

Latest version: 3.0
Release date: 1/31/09
Tags: three-columns, fixed-width, white, tan, teal, purple, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Lifestyle Theme Demo
Purchase

8. Tubular WordPress Theme

Latest version: 1.0
Release date: 3/17/09
Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, black, gray, white, green, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Tubular Theme Demo
Purchase

9. Metro WordPress Theme

Latest version: 1.0
Release date: 2/4/09
Tags: three-columns, fixed-width, white, gray, black, purple, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Metro Theme Demo
Purchase

10. Streamline WordPress Theme

Latest version: 2.0
Release date: 3/30/09
Tags: three-columns, fixed-width, white, black, blue, sidebar-widgets, threaded-comments
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
View Streamline Theme Demo
Purchase

Tags: premium themes, studiopress, Themes

6 Classic Magazine – News Premium WordPress Themes.

Raman — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:01:59 +0000

Continuous evolution is occurring in the field of wordpress themes. Most popular theme stylee these days is Magazine/News style.

Here are some classic Premium Magazine-News themes for WordPress.

1.Newsport

Newsport is a stylish magazine theme aimed at those who want a more professional feel to their site. It includes a well laid out front page that showcases all your news with images, and also a cool category news feed on the side so that all content of your site gets to shine.

Unique Features:

Integration of breadcrumb navigation to increase the usability of your website;
4 widgetized areas (left sidebar, footer 1st-3rd column)
5 custom Woo widgets (Flickr, Quote, Search, 125×125 ad, Feeds)
11 great colour schemes to suit your site identity.

DEMO
PURCHASE

2. Foreword Thinking

Foreword Thinking is a neat 3 column design with a “table of content” magazine-styled home page. This theme comes bundled with a moveable sidebar, a customizable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colours for specific areas of the design.

Unique Features

A custom home page with a “table of content” designed blog section, featured posts and two available page modules that can be set in the theme options;
Randomizing colour styling for featured posts and date blocks with colours editable in the theme options.
A completely widgetized sidebar with 7 custom widgets that you can use;
Ability to interchange between a left and right sidebar;
10 different styles to choose from

DEMO
PURCHASE

3. Busy Bee

Busy Bee sports a stylish design that will support large amounts of multimedia content. You can definitely use it for a magazine / news site or just for your personal blog, since the out-of-box features allows you to truly make this theme your own and adapt it to your content.

Unique Features

Sexy drop down menu’s for both the page & category navigation;
The most ad spaces (9 in total) ever included in a WooTheme;
Can easily be used as a personal blog with Twitter feed (screenshot);
Easy-to-integrate options for your Adsense code, which will replace the standard image banners;
A completely widgetized sidebar & footer with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required; and
13 amazing colour schemes to choose from!

DEMO
PURCHASE

4.Open Air

Open Air can serve as both a magazine-style design or a stylish personal blog. The subtle use of gradients, borders and separating lines gives the theme a very polished and stylish feel, whilst the built-in video player is sure to be a hit for most users.

Unique Features

An unique homepage layout, with a beautiful grid structure that keeps your content looking fresh and appealing;
The ability to switch the look / layout of the homepage between a content-heavy magazine view (see demo) or a more individually-focused personal blog design (view screenshot);
A super-sexy and non-obtrusive video player, which will aggregate all of your videos into one, easy-to-use-space;
A completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required.

DEMO
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5. Live Wire

Live Wire is a magazine-type WordPress theme that is packaged with an impressive variety of designs and colour options that should make it appealing to just about any type of web publisher. It’s theme option’s panel entitles even the most novice of users to customize it’s flexible layout.

Unique Features

Three different Live Wire designs, each with different colour options to choose from.
Unique styling for the main featured articles & secondary articles on the homepage;
The middle column on the homepage displays the latest content from all your categories, thus emphasising all the most important content and increasing the time users will spend on your site; and
Multiple homepage layouts.

DEMO
PURCHASE

6. The Gazette Edition

Gazette Edition is arguably our most sophisticated-looking theme to date, whilst the trendy featured scroller makes it very unique. The clean, white layout with professionally designed content areas are perfect for users that’d like to run a community newspaper website or a product showcase.

Unique Features

A beautiful MooTools featured slider on the homepage to add a touch of class to your website;
Lavalamp jQuery animation for top navigation; and
Multiple homepage layouts which allows you to give your site a more of a magazine or blog feel.

DEMO
PURCHASE

Tags: magazine-news themes, premium, Themes

5 Beautiful WordPress Premium Themes for FREE from Woo Themes

Raman — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:34:44 +0000

Here are some Premium WordPress Themes dveloped by Woo Theme and which are available for free.

1. Irresistible

Theme Features:

Use as a standard blog or use the customized homepage layout, as shown in our demo, that you can activate via our options panel.
As always, Irresistible is built on our very popular backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options;
Integrated banner ad management;
Seamlessly integrated video player;
Widgetized sidebar, with some Irrestible-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar; and
9 different colour schemes to choose from…

DEMO
FREE DOWNLOAD

2. BlogTheme

THEME FEATURES :

As always, BlogTheme is built on our very popular backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options;
A Twitter header banner showing your most recent tweet.
A nifty accordion sidebar, which displays only the content that the user decides to display;
Widgetized sidebar to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar; and
5 vibrant colour schemes to choose from…

DEMO
FREE DOWNLOAD

3. Typebased

THEME FEATURES:

As always, Typebased is built on our very popular backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options;
Integrated banner ad management;
Widgetized sidebar, with some Typebased-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar; and
5 different colour schemes to choose from…

DEMO
FREE DOWNLOAD

4. Snapshot

THEME FEATURES:

Two different theme layouts / capabilities to allow you to switch between a photoblog / portfolio showcasing your own work or using Snapshot as a design gallery (ala BestWebGallery);
Three uniquely, different colour schemes which can be tweaked from the backend; and
An integrated theme options page (to change your logo or add your Google Analytics & Feedburner account details) and custom write panel, which has become indicative of the WooThemes-way of developing themes.

DEMO
FREE DOWNLOAD

5. The Original Premium News

THEME FEATURES:

Featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display / hide the posts;
The layout supports all three of the most popular web ad sizes i.e. 468×60, 300×250 and 125×125;
Animated horizontal drop-down menu’s for category navigation.

DEMO
FREE DOWNLOAD

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