It comes with a normal version and an updated dropdown menu version! But, you have to be aware, that dropdown version is slightly different than normal menu version, because Cufon font replaced can’t be applied to Homepage

It comes in 5 colour variations!

Tested on Firefox, Opera, Safari on Windows, IE6 and IE7 , works great.

All versions are in fully layered psd files (check screenshots to see structure of psd) It’s complete webpage!

Features:

• Tableless layout
• jQuery usage (jQuery cycle on home page, animated Client area on top)
• Cufon font replacement
• 5 colour versions (green, red, orange, dark, blue)
• XHTML 1 .0 Transtional
• Layered PSD
• Help file and step-by-step installation guide.
• Advanced Theme Panel Options
• Customization without touching code
• 3 Page Templates

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Main features:

• Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless design
• Multiple templates:
  • Home Page jQuery Slider
  • Static Page
  • Mail Blog Page
  • Blog Detail Page
  • Portfolio
  • Contact Form Page
  • Error page
  • Nicely formatted comments, images, tables, all major HTML tags, etc.
• jQuery Elements:
  • Homepage banners slider
  • Nice Gallery using lightbox
  • Dropdown Menu Navigation
• Simple Administration:
  • You can easily add, remove or reorder unlimited homepage slides
  • Header and footer modification using widgets
  • Static box widget on internal pages
• Everything is well documented
• PSDs are included
• Dummy data export included

Template is also available as PHP /HTML version.

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There are 4 different professionally designed and unique styles. There are 2 stylish Portfolio/ News/ Featured Item sliders that are great to emphasize and present your products. The PhotoShop files are easy customizable and well organized.

4 different styles included:

• Light
• The dark
• Grunge
• Note Paper

It is very easy to change between the styles from the admin panel.

2 jQuery image sliders included:

• Accordion image slider
• Fading image slider

It is very easy to add, remove and sort images for the sliders in the admin panel!
It is very easy to change between the sliders for the different pages.

4 Dynamic sidebars included:

• page sidebar – a sidebar for pages
• blog sidebar – a sidebar for blog page and blog posts
• home sidebar – a sidebar for home page, alternative home page and non-blog posts
• contact sidebar – a sidebar for the contact page

7 different page templates included:

• Home page
• Featured Posts Page (Alternative Home page)
• Portfolio page – contains portfolio items with images and lightbox preview
• Blog page
• Contact form page – contains a working AJAX contact form with validation and a separate contact sidebar
• Default template – a page with sidebar
• Full width page – a page without sidebar

3 bonus plugins included:

• The latest posts plugin- specially designed for this theme which allows posts from selected categories to be excluded
• Portfolio items plugin- displays the latest portfolio items images in the sidebar
• Categories loader plugin- lists all the categories, you can exclude some of them

All the plugins are used on the demo, you can check them out there!

Key features of the template:

• 2 Featured Stylish Images Sliders
• Multiple Dynamic(widget aware) Sidebars included
• Multi-level drop-down menu support
• 3 bonus plugins added
• Easy to translate
• Highlighting admin comments
• Tableless Design
• Advanced Admin Panel
• Works and looks similar in all major browsers: IE6 , IE7, IE8 , Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome
• Working jQuery/php contact form with validation
• 9 PhotoShop Files included
• Very descriptive help file with screen shots and examples

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This is a premium WordPress theme with 5 pre-made skins including a dark theme and textured background theme. The theme is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The PSD files included have been customized to allow fast skinning.

• Valid XHTML Strict and CSS
• 2 slide show options: jQuery cycle and Gallery View
• Superfish Dropdown Menu
• PSD files included
• 5 pre-made skins
• Contact form with dynamic javascript validation
• Portfolio with themed preview windows
• 2 different themed administrative login options
• Compatibility (IE 6, IE 7 , IE 8 , Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome)

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Newscast is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins:

Key features of the template:

* Valid XHTM Strict1.0, tableless Design
* Multile Page Templates
* Automatical Image resizing for Thumbnails
* Contact Form and News Submission Form
* PSD files included
* Extensive Documentation Included

* jQuery Support:
* 3 different Portfolio/Item slider, supporting unlimited items
* Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
* jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
* Sleek Image preloader
* Working ajax/php contact form
* Working ajax/php news submission form

* Backend Options for:
* both Menus, the Slideshow, Sidebar, Footer, Mainpage, Contact Page, News Submission Form etc
* Sidebar: set the sidebar to either use 2 small or 1 big sidebar
* Sidebar Widgets: You can set unqiue widget areas for each page or category
* Custom advertising Widget
* Custom Sidebar News Widget

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Its a minimal design with a nice modern feel that comes with 5 different colour schemes and the ability to easily create your own.

features include homepage banner slider, navigated post slider, customized portfolio page, lightbox effect, auto image resize, automatic image attachement and many more!

Theme Features

• homepage banner slider
• navigated post slider
• customized portfolio page
• lightbox effect
• auto image resize
• automatic image attachement
• 5 colour schemes

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Our friends over at Unique Blog Designs have just announced a premium wordpress theme called UBD Moneymaker, and its free!

That’s right, 100% free.

The UBD Moneymaker Wordpress Theme is not just any ordinary theme – it has special functionality that you tend to only see in premium Wordpress themes.

For example, the UBD Block Ad Plugin is built-in – you do not need to install it separately. This is also true for the social bookmarking functionality and several other sidebar plugins.

Not comfortable editing your theme’s source code? Fear not! The theme also features a built in “Theme Options” panel which allows you to integrate Feedburner, MyBlogLog Recent Readers, and the 468×60 in post banner ad. You can edit all of this stuff without ever touching a single line of code! How is that for ease of use?

A Theme Options panel makes theme enhancement much easier for people not comfortable editing source code. We are happy to announce that all future UBD Designs and Wordpress Themes will feature the Theme Options panel for maximum ease of use.

UBD Moneymaker Theme Features & Benefits

• Fully Widget Compatible (drag and drop your preferred selection of sidebar elements)
• Built-in UBD Block Ad Plugin (manage and automatically rotate your 125×125 banner ads)
• Additional ad management for the in-post 468×60 advertising banner

Theme Options panel allows you to integrate Feedburner and MyBlogLog recent readers code – all without touching a single line of source code.

• Built-in social bookmarking functionality
• Search Engine Optimized and cross-browser compatible
• Wordpress 2.5.1 compatible
• Free to use on as many sites as you would like!

Usage Agreement: This theme is free to download and use on as many sites as you would like. That being said, UBD would appreciate if you left their credits in the footer.

You can download a copy of the Theme here!

It is extremely easy to use and set up. The homepage has a place to feature a single most-attractive product and the theme is easily integrated with a postratings plugin. It has a custom widget to easily display ads in your sidebar.

Theme Features

• Valid coding
• Featured content throught sticky posts
• Archive page template
• Fully working ajax Contact form
• 3 predefined styles (Green, Blue, Red)
• Postratings integration
• Auto Image resizing

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Written by WordPress veterans Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr, Digging into WordPress is 400+ jam-packed pages of everything you need to get the most out of WordPress. WordPress is great right out of the box, but unless you want an ordinary vanilla blog, it is essential to understand the full potential of WordPress and have the right tools to get the job done.

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Digging into WordPress is perfect for WordPress users in the beginner to intermediate range, but contains plenty of great information for the advanced user as well. If you have any level of experience working with web design or WordPress, this book is written to help you take WordPress to the next level.

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For some individuals, blogs are their projects of every day living, as they talk about their daily episodes as well as make tribute to friends and family. Furthermore, blogs assume a profound meaning written to compose and assemble political statements, endorse a product, supply information on research, and even offer tutorials. Any subject that are of your interests, you can be sure that someone has written a blog about it.

Blogs are now being written by musicians, politicians, sports figures, novelists, newscasters as well as other known figures. It is this blog fever that has raised controversy. The fact that anyone can compose and regarding any subject matter under the sun, complaints about certain write-ups are an issue. In a lot of blogs, names are being mentioned; do bear in mind that although you are entitled to write anything that interests you in a blog, you have to be very careful and take in a lot of responsibility. Do not make any statements which can become controversial; or else, be very prepared.

Why a Blog?

1. For personal acquaintances, relationships and hobby. A person can write a blog about his daily activities, what’s going on with his life as his way of telling his family and friends the things that goes on in his life. Likewise, one may also write a blog just so he can express what he feels about himself, or about a certain subject matter that is of interest to him.

2. Topical. Some blogs are committed to a precise topic, like computer hardware or politics. These are frequently read like magazines.

3. For marketing. Corporations are too, into blogging; when well written and implemented, this kind of blog can be a powerful instrument for business communications, forming eagerness and anticipation regarding their products and services offered, or used as tool within the company, keeping employees well informed about company issues and news.

Why someone else’s software?

A lot of Web designer and creators will laugh at the belief and idea of utilizing the software of someone else. This is can be correct especially when each software greatly differs from the particular requirements that a client may have. Yet on the other hand, when it refers to a Weblog software, there is no reason for apprehension in the use of a package that is pre-written, as most packages were developed through years of study; not just knocked together over a couple of days.

In addition, one may study its feature set. For a developer, it would take a lot of time and effort to write and compose from “nothing at all” every single feature in the Weblog software packages of today. For most people, a blog is there for the main reason that chooses to publish or make known your literature and texts on the Web, so you want to spend your time more on writing than coding.

Hosted Services

If one wishes to start broadcasting on the Web, yet does not have web hosting, one can consider looking into a hosted service, which includes Blogger, TypePad, Live Journal, and more.

These services are operated or handled for an individual, so there is no need to concern one about technical upkeep of one’s Weblog; instead, one can concentrate on his blog’s appearance and content. In just minutes, after signing for an account, one can readily start his own blog. Many such services are offered free, such as blogger. TypePad charges a minimal amount for monthly service fee.

Self-Hosted

When one has Web hosting on hand, or is eager to buy hosting, in which one feels that the advantage will prevail over the problems of keeping up your own blog connection and installation, then you may want to take into account a package that is self-hosted, which includes Movable Type, Textpattern and WordPress.

Other hosting companies did construct the process of installation easier, permitting installation with just a click from a control panel that is browser-based. It is important that you check with a hosting company so you can view if this function is offered. Similar to hosted services, some self hosted packages are made available either for free or for a certain fee which is dependent on the type of package that you choose as well as the basis why you are using it.

Blogs / “weblogs” or blogging are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a “blog” is a personal, unedited, and authentic journal meant to be shared in an online community. Blog site is a place where bloggers can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.

Blogs are made to welcome the insights and opinions of all and therefore, should not be written to sound intimidating and too formal. This kind of blog is a sure way to put off the readers. In the basics of blogging, conversational tone would be more appropriate to reach the desired audience.

Blogging is all about individuals reaching out to other individuals. Having a blog has its own set of advantages:

• Freedom of Expression. If you want people to hear you out and give their own opinion, this is the best way to create a line of communication

• Networking is at its best. Having a blog is a good platform for exchanging genuine ideas from consumers to you as marketer of a certain product. Sound opinion and point of view is better than just showing the price quote
• Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to advertise products, a refreshing change from the traditional advertising outlets and it is cost-effective
• Gauging public opinion on products and services. The key is nice and catchy titles with new ideas presented in your content. This is an assurance of quick and repeated responses from your readers. Blogs is an excellent spot for the exchange of ideas between the seller and the consumer. Good for measuring public opinion regarding services and products, even political and business matters alike
• Useful tool for internal communication. This will help your company to build a knowledge-based community of employees. Also good for harnessing employee relations and identifying human resource issues in advance
• Other benefits like search engine optimization (SEO) will help your blogs to be seen often by as many people as you wish. This is very good exposure for your products and services

Many blog hosting services are available on the Internet. But the basic question is which one of the services will be the best to start off your business blog program? Business people are usually clueless to recent technological innovations which would help them maximize their marketing potentials. For these beginners, it is best to study first the services offered by blog hosts. An ineffective business blogging program may damage marketing opportunities instead of enriching them.

A company may decide to do the following depending on its capacity and needs:

1) Host their own blog service,
2) Pay someone else to host the service, or
3) Setup a “blog aggregator page” and ask the employees to select their blog hosting services individually. There are paid and free services available for individuals.

For business blogs, they are required to have the latest blogging features; if not, this will prevent them from maximizing their marketing, public relations and SEO potentials.

Keep in mind that blogs should have the following basic essentials:

COMMENTS. Welcoming comments provide opportunity for dialogue. In business blogs, they are a good customer feedback mechanism. This helps develop better customer relations based from loyalty and trust. Blogging is an innovative way to converse with your customers.

TRACKBACK. This helps in maximizing company and product exposure. Through this service, consumers can get back to you for more posts and updates without the difficulty of locating you. If your blog is popular in a specific online community chances are links going back to your blog site are everywhere online, other blog sites or even websites.

CATEGORIES AND TAGS. These both help in classifying blog searches for ease of navigation and on site search. Categories act as libraries because it classifies posts by subject matter such as business, distance learning, e-commerce, online auctions, etc. Tags, help in the classification, especially in the blog search engine Technorati. Possible customers and new clients locate blogs about certain topics of interest by just clicking the tags.

RSS FEED. Really Simple Syndication is the feed from your blog that is sent out over the internet, and collected through the various newsreaders and aggregators.

If your company is to establish a business blogging program, considerable options should be made available by the hosting companies shortlisted for the services. Free blog hosting services are popular but they are much appropriate for individual online journals. Paid blog hosting services offer unlimited packages best for your company’s needs. You may want to suggest checking out some blogs that use the host first, read and examine their layout and design. Another important thing to consider is a reliable technical support the host has.

After, choosing the blog host, a team should be ready to plan the design and structure of the blog: The team should:

• create a style that meets the needs of the audience;
• establish an open, credible tone;
• schedule weekly updating of blog – ideally, a few times a week;
• include weblinks of other website and blogs;
• blog post should be in the “first person;”
• focus on the business blog objective; and,
• maintain an honest, engaging conversational quality.

Remember, whatever the look, style and content found on your blog is a reflection of you and your company.