Ikarus, the King of All Premium WordPress Themes!
Sep 10, 2008 Layout/Design
The KING of all premium WordPress themes!
And it’s available for FREE!
In search of great themes to blog about and probably use it on one of my blogs, I stumbled upon wpthemespress.com which offer great WordPress themes, including the IKARUS Premium Theme. I thought it was a paid theme but apparently what the theme author means by premium is a great, elegant layout.
The theme author spent over three months of developing the theme to assure a well-developed theme for the WordPress community. It has over 2,000+ user selectable variations and options all managed from the admin area.
It has several great features:
- 4 homepage layouts to choose from, Blog, Magazine, List or Magazine List
- FlickRSS
- Theme options page and help page in admin
- Custom values integration for featured images and video
- Content Gallery (on or off) Slideshow or static header image with link
- Featured Sidebar post (on or off)
- Popular content rating
- Recent posts, comments and feedback
- TagCloud
- Clean Page Nagivation (wpNavi)
- Color coated “read more” buttons
- Author thumbnails for comments
- MyAvatars
- Valid CSS and XHTML coding
- Live theme preview in admin area
- Related posts on post pages
- Next and previous posts
- Comment Rss
- Cross browser support: IE, FF, Safari and Netscape
- 6 125×125, 1 header 468×60, 1 footer 468×60 banners all managed from theme admin area
- Feedburner integration
- Feedcount
- Logo as image or text (controlled from admin)
- 10 color variations to choose from for header bar, widgets, post titles, links and footer
- Set global image alignment
- Set your own global header and font styles
- Set global font size
- Switch layout between left and right
- 3 Columns
- Widgets 2 columns
- Tons of custom pages built in, search results, links, archives, pages, categories, comments, author pages and more.
- CSS multi-level drop down page menus across header
- MooTabs slider box
- Featured YouTube Video post
- Social bookmark tools on pages and post pages
- Comments on pages
- Admin area links in frontend when logged in for easy management
- Tons of custom typography styles like: highlight, different heading styles, code, span, download, numbers, pre, ordered and unordered checklists, speech bubbles, blockquotes and more.
This theme is perfect for magazine websites, community portals, and even ordinary blogs.
Popularity: 22% [?]
8 Free Ways to Promote Your Blog
Apr 13, 2008 Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips
Promotion is the most important way to get traffic to your blog that even SEO giants agree with. There are different ways that you can promote your blog.
1. Submit your site to web directories
Web directories were the first source of traffic for websites, before the power of search engines was discovered. In fact, Google started out as web directory. Nowadays, the importance of web directories is on building quality links highly valued by search engines.
2. Promote your site through writing for article directories
Article submission is a good way to generate relevant links to your website. Be sure to include your links on your resource box. Article submission is said to have a viral effect. If your article gets noticed, other website owners of similar niche your article is about, they will post it on their websites, giving you links.
3. Advertise your site.
Entrecard is an innovative way to advertise your website. It gives the smaller blogs to get noticed. You can take advantage of the free advertising offered by AdGridwork.
4. Be social. Read the rest of this entry »
The power of social networks such as Twitter, Stumble Upon, YouTube, etc. are now exploited by webmasters and internet marketers to promote their website or products.
Popularity: 19% [?]
Tags: Google, Methods of website linking, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design and Development, Web search engine, Website, YouTube
