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Awesome and Quite Different Wordpress Themes

2010-03-06 11:50
OK I have to admit that I started tripwire magazine on the Joomla CMS platform. I did so because I had experience with Joomla and really found it to be an excellent and very flexible free tool for publishing content online. I did realize though at that time that Wordpress simply had better themes for starting a magazine style blog. Also Wordpress is much simpler and efficient for creating posts fast and have better support for tags and categories. So I decided to move from Joomla to Wordpress quite early and I still think it was the right choice. Joomla should not be underestimated though and must be on the list of candidate tools if you plan to build a new website. One of the premium theme developers that I remember well from working with Joomla is RocketTheme. The quality of the Joomla themes created by RocketTheme is amazing and I just realized the same is true for their Wordpress themes. This post gives an overview of RocketThemes latest development for Wordpress. What makes these Wordpress themes interesting RocketTheme originally comes from the non-blogging business and have created themes for business websites since 2005. I think this is one of the reasons why Their themes are different and seams to have an unique look and feel. As an example I want you to take a look at the menus that are far more flexible and advanced than in traditional themes for Wordpress. The design of the menu really goes into the detail and the menu are aware of what page youв re on and show it. This is great for usability. The theme generally have very nice front page designs and allow you to customize a lot without coding. As you will see below the themes have been created with flexibility in mind. This representation of how site designers can add content to areas of a page is very common for Joomla but not for Wordpress. Lets take a closer look at the Themes Nexus Its primary focus is that of style control, allowing for quick, simple and wide reaching changes of the theme 8217;s styling with a few template parameter toggles. The front page layout of Nexus is really awesome and takes Wordpress to a new level. SEF Optimised Layout Custom Fonts New Theme Settings Page Fusion Menu RokTabs Widget RokStories Widget RokBox 10 Preset Styles - Light / Dark Variations Widget Hilites 26 Widget Positions Fully translatable Stylish, Professional Typography IE6 Warning Message FF3.5, Opera 10, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid Demo Support tripwire magazine: Affiliate link Affinity The layout of the template has been constructed differently to the norm. A typical WordPress template, in regards to the mainbody source, will load the left column first, then the right column and finally the main column (where your main articles are loaded). Affinity takes a different approach and loads the main column code before the left and right columns. Therefore, this template loads in this order: Header, Menu, Showcase, Main Column, Left Column, Rig...
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