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The top marketers are using Wordpress these days because its easy and the utility that can be performed with their template tag structure. It seems like everybody is looking to move towards a magazine-style Wordpress theme.
Besides just looking professional and complex, these type of themes allow you to promote more of your content than a traditional blog-style Wordpress theme.
You may also want to take a look at 16 Best Free Recommended Wordpress Themes For Wordpress 2.8. The following is a list of free magazine-style Wordpress themes.
1. Arthemia
Arthemia – Demo
2. Premium News
Premium News – Demo
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Filed under: Themes Comment
Just because it is free does not mean we should stop perfecting, tweaking, and adding content to it. We have been testing and working on our latest squeeze page template, Attractive Squeezing.
We have already updated the package for new users, and handed out links to already subscribed users. So take a look at it now, and see if you can utilize in your marketing campaign.
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The beauty of Wordpress is the ability to create such complex websites, with little to no actual coding knowledge. Wordpress plugins allow you to personlize, customize, and enhance the look, feel, and flow of your site. While you do not want to flood your site with every plugin you come across, there are a few plugins that are a must for every Wordpress user.
1. All in One SEO - This plugin allows you customize the head tags and meta tags for each individual post. This will help improve the search engine optimization of your site. [Download]
2. SEO Smart Links – Do you get tired of linking the same keywords everytime? With this plugin, you can specify keywords and what they should link to. You can also choose to link to other articles within you site automatically, which helps your SEO as well. [Download]
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Obviously because the core of this site revolves around using various creatives to enhance our marketing techniques, it is somewhat recommended that we all know a little something about web design. While that does not mean you have to know how to make a site from scratch to finish, it will benefit you drastically to at least get a good idea of whats going on or how to edit somethings here and there.
Interesting fact… most web designers have little to no former training (including myself). Does that make us special (we like to think), but, in all honesty, learning how to create websites and other similar creatives is actually incredibly easy. It really just takes some time to play around with different templates, and see what changes what. Eventually you get a good idea on what works, and the rest just follows.
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Have you ever noticed that many popular sites have some sort of mascot or image that represents their brand. It is usually some type of animal or creature. Unlike a typical plain text logo, these creature looking images always seem to pump up the brand more.
While they look nice, it can be pretty hard to create these icons, but, once again, something you can’t do others can. The following is a list of free creature-based icons that can be used to liven up your site.
Manto Smiley Icons
Feed Me Animals: RSS Icon Set
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Whenever you try to sell something online, the payment company you are dealing with usually requires you to have a couple things. At the same time, you always want to focus certain parts of your site with bold distinct images.
The problem is if you can’t design or don’t have the resources how can you meet these requirements and highlight various aspects of your site?
The following is a list of high quality icon sets related to eCommerce.
Weby Icons
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I remember way back, when I first started creating and designing websites. Back then everybody was satisfied with just using Notepad. Now there are tools and software to make every task much more efficient and somewhat automized.
FTP Program
Designers use FTP programs to directly connect with their hosting. Through these programs you can upload and download several files at once.
FileZilla
SmartFTP
CoreFTP
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Why would it matter what the build of Wordpress is? Almost every time Wordpress releases a full on update they usually add some new template tags, codes, or other strings that don’t work anymore or they created some new stuff that is much more efficient.
If you are planning to build your site around a theme, then wouldn’t you want that one to have the most bells and whistle that it could? The following is a lit of some of the best free themes that I recommend to use with Wordpress 2.8.
Blog Themes
One Room – Demo
Fusion – Demo
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