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Free WordPress Business Themes – Designs for your Corporate Site

November 29th, 2011

There are so many great WordPress themes, it’s hard to know where to start choosing from.

WordPress is a great platform for corporate sites, but when it comes to business, you really need to choose your design wisely. Generally speaking, business owners and corporations should hire a professional WordPress developer, but if the budget’s tight, and you want to do it all by yourself, choosing a free business theme for your WordPress sites is a way to go.

Also, don’t forget – a good, cheap hosting is also necessary when you build your own WordPress site.

Here are some good looking, high quality, free business themes for your WordPress site.

Free WordPress Business Themes

Academia

A very clean and elegant free WordPress theme. Designed originally for academic institutions, this theme can easily be used by businesses and companies.

Academia free WordPress theme

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BizWatch

A high quality free Business WordPress theme. This theme is equipped with an easy to use options page. You can upload your logo and favicon. The homepage features a built-in posts slider.

bizwatch free business wordpress theme

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YourBusiness

Clean and with warm colors, YourBusiness is a great free WordPress theme for a small business or a corporate blog.

yourbusiness Free WordPress Business Theme

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RealEstate XL

This WordPress theme presents a professional design, light colors and theme options. It’s ideal for real-estate businesses, but you can put it to use for other niches, as well.

real estate free wordpress theme

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WebPro

Leaning more towards the traditional design, and with stronger colors, this free WordPress theme can be used for a corporate site or a blog.

webpro free wordpress theme

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SimplifyBiz

A sophisticated, strong WordPress theme. Although the maker claims the theme is no longer supported in the free version, you can still download and use it for free. This theme has navigation supports dropdown features as well as adding short description to parents menu, a portfolio slider, 3 services panel page, featured video on sidebar and a lot more.

simplybiz free corporate business theme

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Heliumfied

Super-sleek and impressive, this free WordPress theme has has 5 color schemes to choose from and the Featured Content section is easily manageable via the admin panel.

helium free wordpress theme

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5 High Quality Free WordPress Themes

March 18th, 2010

In the world of WordPress, FREE doesn’t mean poor quality or problematic. Wonderful WordPress themes are all over the net – and they are free to download and use. When you need to create a professional-looking site, the theme has to look clean, sharp and impressive. There are plenty of those themes around, many of them are free.

Here are 5 top quality FREE WordPress Themes:

iCandy

Gorgeous Theme packed with tons of features and options. Custom header image, changeable background color, flexible sidebar width and location, paged navigation, widget ready. Nice and elegant WordPress Theme.

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Bueno

Another great WordPress theme by WooThemes. Some features: A clear & concise grid-based design, very easy to customize; Integrated banner ad management Widgetized sidebar, with some Bueno-specific custom widgets; 7 different colour schemes to choose from
and more.

Preview Bueno

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MonkeyPR

A very impressive WordPress theme, which looks premium. Has a bold design, big header and a prominent look.

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GoodTheme Lead

Very clean, professional-looking WordPress theme. Among the features: -five color schemes; two-column layout but with two-column content section and triple sidebar; six widget areas; automatic post thumbnails; dropdown pages and categories menu and much more.

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Blue Diamond

A two column theme with a nice featured post feature in grey-blues and blue coloured backgrounds and foregrounds, with web2.0 style using lots of gradients and 3 dimensional effects.

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Google Buys Picnik

March 2nd, 2010

Google continues its latest shopping spree. This time it’s Picnik, an online services that offers photo editing tools.

Picnik is integrated with photo-sharing services like Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket and the photo album components from Facebook and MySpace. Google intends to preserve and advance those partnerships. Picnik users will be glad to hear that the service continues to be free, and that no changes have been made to their accounts.

Here’s what Picnik’s blog had to say about it:

…we’ve just been acquired by Google! What does this mean for Picnik? It means we can think BIG. Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found. Under the Google roof we’ll reach more people than ever before, impacting more lives and making more photos more awesome.

Picnik was founded in 2006 and has about 20 employees. It will remain in Seattle but move to Google’s offices in that city.

Picnik’s site attracts almost 40 million visits per month, with each visit lasting an average of 17 minutes.

Other Popular Photo Editing Tools

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Photoshop Celebrates its 20th Year

February 2nd, 2010

It’s hard to imagine our digital lives without Photoshop, or more precisely – the concept of easy, available digital image processing. Nowadays, Photoshop is a heavy monster of a software, packed with features the average user doesn’t even know about, but it’s still synonym with image processing. Well know the expression: “It’s Photoshopped”, exclaimed when an image looks like it’s been tampered with.

There are many good, free image editors out there, but Photoshop still hangs on to the crown. These days, the software turns 20 years old, and it’s time to look back and reminisce.

WebDesignerDeopt published a great post, with info and screenshots from the history of Photoshop. You can really appreciate the evolution of this image processing software in this post. Very cool!

The History of PhotoshopClick to enlarge

Interesting Photoshop Links

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User Interface and Realism

January 22nd, 2010

This is a truly wonderful post by Lukas Mathis about UI, realism, icons and usability.

People are confused by symbols if they have too many or too few details. They will recognize UI elements which are somewhere in the middle.

[ Read Realism in UI Design ]

The trick is to figure out which details help users identify the UI element, and which details distract from its intended meaning.

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