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Easy but effective Wordpress Premium Theme?

by LoveGrowth
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I have decided to use a premium wordpress in order to build my small business website. Problem is I don't have any experience CSS or anything else.

There are many options but the winner will be the one that is simple enough for me to figure it out, has great SEO features, allows me to add third party coding such as google calender or analytics, and also looks professional.

I have been looking through lots of posts but haven't come across anything that would answer these questions.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Tiffany
#easy #effective #premium #theme #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author spesialis
    try this

    Themes | WooThemes
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    None of the "premium" (read: not free!) themes pimped above are better in SEO than the default TwentyTen that comes with the WP package!
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  • Profile picture of the author spesialis
    that's true

    there's no out of the box SEO solution, you still need to tinker with it (And sometimes install All in one SEO pack)
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  • Profile picture of the author EvaBrown
    I think it's not a problem to download WP SEO plug-in and install it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
      Originally Posted by EvaBrown View Post

      I think it's not a problem to download WP SEO plug-in and install it.
      Most ignorant WP theme authors think that SEO is best left to plugins. However, there are certain things that can't be done via plugins and those are the responsibility of the theme coder.

      Unfortunately, users select themes based on nice images on the frontend... instead of looking into the code. Although I don't blame them because the majority of the theme authors don't know any better, either.
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      • Profile picture of the author Linda_C
        Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

        there are certain things that can't be done via plugins and those are the responsibility of the theme coder.

        Unfortunately, users select themes based on nice images on the frontend... instead of looking into the code. Although I don't blame them because the majority of the theme authors don't know any better, either.
        Hahaha. You are SO right. Back before wordpress was available, I used to moan about why, oh why, so many programmers write sloppy code. There is programming (javascript/php/etc) , there is clean (and compatible) html coding and there is visual design (layout/graphics). 3 different animals. They need to play nice together.

        And no, W3C compatibility is not the same as browser compatibility. Many think it is. Not so.

        Most people using WP don't know any of the 3, much less compatibility, so they defer to pretty images. They go by how it looks. Like buying a car based on how it looks instead of what's under the hood.

        Some of the top end "premium" themes have such sloppy code that all the seo plugins in the world don't make the difference that streamlining the code and using 2 plugins can make.

        Spot on.

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  • Profile picture of the author liza86
    Premium WordPress themes have become a very good way for up and coming designers to provide services that they are passionate about. Free WP themes have a flaw or two, or they are not complete and every blogger that wants to get a professional blog going will eventually go for a premium W theme. One of the best things about premium themes is they often contain advanced features that are not found in free themes. These features allow you to show off your features articles, place your Twitter updates in your sidebar, and integrate your Feedburner link for both your feed and email updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author commercee
    artisteer works pretty good, you can design your own
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  • Profile picture of the author chooch
    I've been using the Socrates theme. It's easy to work with.

    If you want to see an example....shoot me a PM.
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  • Profile picture of the author iuditg
    Try using themes from themeforest.com

    They are cheap as well as the designs are awesome. There are few themes which comes with build-in SEO customization
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  • Profile picture of the author LoveGrowth
    So does anyone know of a theme that has good clean coding but also looks good enough to be used as a professional business site?

    I have checked out almost all premium themes I have come across from thesis to elegant themes and most mentioned here, however just as I suspected some has pointed out that some of these premium themes have sloppy coding.

    I guess I am looking for something I can use as someone who is not very familiar with coding in order to setup a nice looking professional website but could also trust the coding is good and clean.

    EvaBrowth - I will check out those themes but would like some information about them (not promotion stuff, information coders and designers who know this stuff would say).
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  • Profile picture of the author x0boy0x
    Well, may be you can try web2feeldotcom ... they offer very good wordpress designs..
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  • Profile picture of the author locpicker
    Why not check ours out? SEO is built into the framework and we should be able to make it to your liking.

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  • Profile picture of the author krempy
    what about Thesis?
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