I just discovered the Socrates WordPress Theme. It is less expensive than other premium themes (a single license is only $44), and it comes equipped with some neat tools right out of the box that make it so easy to create a website, you can do it from nothing to full blown website in less than 10 minutes (they have a video at socratstheme.com )
The uniqueness of this theme is the built in header images creator. It has over 100 quality images and you can then enter the title of your wordpress blog, your tag line, and then completely customize the text. You also have a background tool. This stops the site from looking like every other site on the Internet as there are 1000s of combinations. Along with the purchase come WordPress Tutorials
It’s super easy to build your own custom navigation, and pick from a number of color schemes (or create your own). With Socrates, not only can you control all the links on the primary navigation bar, but there are also give you three
optional navbars. At the top right, bottom left and bottom right.Layout wise they don’t get to crazy, but in the end aren’t you going to go with a one to two sidebar layout anyway? There are some special areas at the bottom of the blog you can customize.
Out of the box you have built in integration with Google adsense, and Clickbank affiliate products.
If you want a license for all of your websites its only $77.
There is also free upgrades which is good as they are adding more SEO features in a new release coming soon. It is the brain child of Dan Nickerson (Clickbank Expert) and Joel Comm (NY Times Bestselling author of The AdSense Code, as well as Click Here to Order: Stories from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs, and Twitter Power.)
Today I have a video to show off a software that I am really excited about. I’ve wanted a software like this for years, and I’m so glad this exists. It’s called Artisteer, and it allows you to create a wordpress theme from scratch in minutes.
You can customize every aspect of your worpdress theme. Choose your colors, your layout, the location of items like categories, etc, your header, your buttons, your menus, and on and on and on…
In making a video for the podcast, I typically try to keep them under 5 minutes. This is an almost impossible feat as this software has so many features (but I gave it a shot). The best part of this software is its price. You can download a trial version for free. If you like (and how can you not if you work in WordPress), you can buy the “home” version for $49. There is also standard version that regularly sells for $149 (NOTE: I ACCIDENTALLY SAY $129 in the video it’s normally $149) and you can buy that version (during this introductory offer for $99.95 The standard version will have the ability to output to Joomla, and drupal (in the future), it also has a library of textures and glares, and you can export to CodeCharge Studio. If you’re not working in WordPress it also exports as XHTML+CSS (so you can work with Dreamweaver, etc).
According to their FAQ, when it comes to selling themes created with this product, “Yes, as long as you do not include Artisteer photo objects within your header (Header -> Foreground Photo), as those objects are licensed from a 3rd party only for your own use. You may re-distribute any other designs you create, including those with Artisteer header background photos (Header -> Background) and your own photo objects.”
I just discovered the Socrates WordPress Theme. It is less expensive than other premium themes (a single license is only $44), and it comes equipped with some neat tools right out of the box that make it so easy to create a website, you can do it from nothing to full blown website in less than 10 minutes (they have a video at socratstheme.com )
