Today I want to showcase a very nice, clean and good corporate template for business blogs. The theme is on a WordPress platform and it definetly shows the active blog visitor all your nice features have to offer. With a clean blue and white color pack Rushhour is one of the best blog theme additions to have on your corporate business.

Rushhour Features

The main features I want to point out are the very nice content slider on the frontpage the custom category templates that you can use in your testimonials and your portfolio and the three widgets (a 125 ad widget and the 2 tabbed ones).

The theme comes in 2 colors: green and blue. You can set up aditional color options by editing the well commented stylesheet file inside the theme.

Support

As well as I might like a well developed wordpress theme, some of them lack the wigetizing option or the cross browser suport. RH has it all, it is widget ready, it has cross browser support, SEO optimized and gravatar ready.

Other theme options

RH comes packed with the best suport for end user editing. It has a great admin theme option page, a admin ad and banner management section and is code ready for any plugins you use (Twitter for wordpress, WP pagenavi, Easy Contact, Lightbox).

I hope you will buy and download this theme because is a great work and it fits perfectly inside your corporate business.

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Today I decided to give something new to our readers. A simple, clean and free Photoshop WordPress PSD that you can code a actual WordPress theme. With a light grey color palette, a featured post slider and some great tahoma tipograpy, GodLike is trully a theme you can use.

If you want it coded into a actual WP theme, please say so with a comment. Only the people who comment will be able to download it, so spread the word and give some love to this great theme.

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A Joomla based web theme always comes in handy when you need it. It doesn’t matter if your are using it for a new Joomla based design or to get some nice visual inspiration, you are in a win-win situation. These themes are always a good start to a great Joomla website.

In this article we present 10 best of the best Joomla themes which you can install and use in your personal or commercial aspects of design. Note that some of the themes require a subscription before download and not all of them are free. but the exceptional design makes those few dollars worth while.

Stop bugging, here are the themes

JA Teline III

A magazine style vibrant framework that supports multi layouts + multi modules, blocks; iphone & handheld support, full based div span code, cross browser support and many other features.

Moxy

Moxy is the September 2009 release from RocketTheme. A great design for a Joomla 1.5 theme including a RokQuickCart Integration that enables you to have a automated shopping cart preinstalled, SEF Optimised Layout, Custom Fonts, Complex Typography and more.

Finance

A stunning business theme released by GavickPro. This is the perfect theme for you if you want to start a business based Joomla website. Some of the features are tableless design and 100% css based, 10 Predefined color themes, fully compatible IE7+, Firefox 2+, Firefox 3, Flock 0.7+, Netscape, Safari, Opera 9.5, Chrome and more.

Microblog Plazza

A user microblogging theme theme based on the fact that user can register and have their very own blogging page that they can write, leave statuses and receive comments from other users.

Shopper Frenzy

A clean and nice theme based on the popular Joomla component VirtueMart. This template has everything you would ever need to start or redesign your online store! It comes packed with tons of goodies, custom column widths, six preset styles, 23 module positions, 4 module styles and more.

YouTutorials

A great YouJoomla based design perfect for tutorial based websites. With Mootools sliding tabs, 3 amazing color styles, 19 module positions and more.

Crystal

The music style based Joomla 1.5 design by Yootheme. A nice music based Joomla theme with the new Yootheme Warp5 template framework a muti-column dropdown menu with fancy effect and many more.

JA Raite

A vibrant template that features color and vision to inspire and uplift people. The clean lines and sharp edges surely make the template look streamlined and more attractive.

Mynxx

Mynxx is the first ever RocketTheme template to incorporate the popular Joomla ecommerce / shopping component, Virtuemart. This integration is applied in a variety of platforms, such as modules, a custom virtuemart theme and template coding.

Dugg Plazza

Create your own a Digg-like site with Joomla.

So these are some of the best Joomla themes you will find. Keep in mind that these themes require a payed subscription and are not free. The benefits are that you can download ALL of the provider`s themes once you subscribe.

Having a internet news magazine sometimes is a pain in the mouse-pad so, here are 8 of the most successful, great, slick and customizable WordPress news themes you could get. These are great templates created by some of the best wordpress designers. Besides that, WordPress is perfect for a online web editorial or news magazine, you can give users the ability to comment, submit news, give feedback and it`s great to establish a online authority.

Visual WordPress theme for passionate bloggers

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The theme provides a easy way of editing the content as well as the look of the template structured in thumbnails and excerpts. The layout is designed is such a way for the users to scan the whole page and choosing what article to read.

Here are some of the features of the Visual WP Theme:

• Three built in color schemes and and a very flexible skinning system that allows you to create your own skins, while keeping the layout intact. And you can do it in under 5 min!
• Very clean and simple artice carousel, allowing you to bring back some of your favorite articles or the articles you really want your users to read.
• Easy way to edit the categories that should be part of the main menu, the category blocks featured on the homepage as well as the posts that should show up in the Featured Articles section.

Black Aperture WordPress News Theme

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A perfect all-in-one news and review WordPress theme created specially for video game specific news. You can use this for any online gaming review and news website. With great features like unique featured posts showcase, dynamic image resizing and many more make this the solution to a gaming website.

Some other great features:

• Custom built theme settings panel
• Default 3 column layout changeable to 2
• Both sidebars are widgetized
• Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots

Quickrise WordPress news theme

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A perfect news magazine wordpress theme with 4 color design options. Some of the features include multilingual support, custom styling and color schemes, full control over the elements and many more. This would fit perfectly into any editorial wordpress website.

Here are some of the other features of the theme:

• Valid XHTML and Valid CSS codes
• Unobtrusive Javascript/jQuery code
• Neatly organized theme files

Our magazine WP theme

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A modern, clean and organized wordpress theme perfect for any online magazine, online community or user networking and interactions.The theme has 2 color variations, a slider for headline news, auto image resizing, advance theme option and the ability for users to submit news.

Check out some other features of the theme:

• JFlow – Slider using jquery
• SuperFish – Dropdown menu
• User Link Feed – Readers can submit links

Sofa theme the news WP theme

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Professional wordpress news theme widget ready (sidebar+footer). Some of the features include easy logo switch + other graphic elements, valid, clean, commented CSS and much more.

Here are some other features of the theme:

• 2 columns + sidebar
• XHTML 1 .0 strict
• Easy settings via WP Admin panel

Hawaii wordpress theme

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Perfect for a travel or vacation blog, this exotic theme illustrates the content best trough its layout. Some of the features include drop-down navigation, automatic tabbed widgets, sidebar child-page navigation like a CMS and many more.

Here are some of the other theme features:

• FlickrRSS plugin integration
• Handy footer area with extra links
• Slick looking comments with Gravatars

Image Hunter WP theme

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Nice looking image collecting WP theme. Perfect for online portfolios and image showcase websites. Some of the features include theme admin panel, AJAX menu, 6 advanced color schemes and many more.

GamePress online gaming news theme

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Full news and reviews wordpress theme, fully featured perfect for any online editorial website. Some of the features include threaded comment support, drop-down navigation, integrated support for Google Analytics and many more.

Over the past days, the team @ RocketTheme released a great and cool free Joomla Theme. Afterburner is the fastest Joomla theme ever produced, it has no load bar, and it pops right in front of you like a surprise. It`s very lightweight, very clean with great features for increased usability. Also it is SEO ready by a refined main column that shows first in the code so that the SE bots can crawl it first.

Fast loading Joomla Template

Performance is a key aspect in RT theme development so single image and compressed CSS make Afterburner the most fastest Joomla template in business.

SEO Optimized

Main column refeinment make Afterburner`s main column apear first for search engine crawling. This makes indexing faster and better.

Color Variations

8 distinct inbuilt style variations, Light and Dark, to maximise the possibilities when using the Afterburner template. All Controllable by template manager parameters.

Download

If you want to download Afterburner you can do it so from the RT Webpage.

Ever wonder why others are so successful when building a WordPress template? Well the answer for that is simple, they build it for a cause, and most of the time they build it because they want to give something useful to promote their work. Follow closely on how to impress others by building a killer WordPress template.

Tip #1: Preparation

Prepare in advance what you want to build, make a sketch and try to be very very original. Use the illustrative images and original phrases. Write everything down on a white paper within steps.

Tip #2: Brainstorming

Try and figure out what you need to do that no one has ever done before. Start thinking ahead of the competition and think what are they missing.

Tip #3: Building the theme

Try and don’t rush it, get creative and take your time with it. If you speed it up it will end looking bad. Try and refine every aspect you find a little weird. But in the same time stay original.

Tip #4: Build your idea of a great typography

Typography is one of the most important aspects of your blog, so pay attention to it, also you can follow Mark Boulton’s steps on creating the best typography: Five simple steps to better typography.

Tip #5: Firebug, a tool I can’t live without

Whenever I find a great design, I want to find out about what markup are they using so firebug makes my life easier. You can download the Firefox firebug plugin here.

Tip #6: make your blog stand out with icon sets

Icon sets make your blog more full of life so I tend to use them in almost every design I make. Email icons, RSS, social networks and more icons will make your design to be more user friendly and fun. you can download 35 of the best free icon sets over at SmashingMag, but I tend to use the PI Diagona Pack.

Tip #7: Design your blog header

The first thing a user sees on your blog is the blog header, so it is a very important piece of the theme. be shure and make it as representative as possible. Also you can download some free blog header design here.

Tip #8: Improove your design with the ultimate hacks

Again, SmashingMag compiled a list of the most awesome WordPress theme hacks that you can implement effectively in your wordpress theme.

Tip #9: learn hot to build a WordPress theme option

You can follow any of these tutorials that I compiled into a list, and find out how you can effectively build a custom theme options page. This tip only applies when you are bound to sell the theme or you are sharing the blog with a more inexperienced person.

Tip #10: Embed everything

Make it easy for yourself right from the start and try to embed every application you could benefit a link from, like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, the RSS Feed, and so on. I tend to insert my links first before I convert my static CSS site into WP.

Hope you liked these tips, I often use them when I`m developing stuff. Now if you don’t know how to make a WP theme check out this post: WordPress mockup tutorials the best.

1. First off you need Adobe Photoshop, I wont go further in this subject, and if you cant get it there is always a free version called GIMP.
2. The next step is to get a test server on wich you can test your WordPress template on the process of making, trust me you wil make a lot of refreshes. I often use xammp, its free and usefull.
3. Firefox is a must in every man woman and child who surfs the net, so use it often on your wordpress projects.
4.You will need an empty wordpress template, or a stripped to the bone wordpress template where only the semantic code is present, but the style is up to you. I use in all my wordpress template development projects the Starkers wordpress template by Elliot.
5.If you are a beginner, then you need some advice, and a previous post of mine will help you make a wordpress template.
6.Sometimes I need stock and vector images and the best place to get them is bazaardesigns.com
7.Now you need to make your wordpress template accesible, like getting a wordpress theme options page
8.Last thing you need to do is get your template into the wordpress template directory with you link in the footer, and with a few hundred downloads a day, well you do the math and BANG! instant SEO .