The WordPress Mobilepress plugin instantly provides you with 2 options for a simple but very effective mobile WordPress Theme. It has built in features to integrate with mobile advertisement servers so you can display ads on your mobile site as well.

The new WordPress theme for iPAD was released by Automattic & is designed to make your WordPress run website compatible with Apple iPAD. This theme is built on HTML5 & it supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad.

Click here to download these 2 free Apple iOS Device plugin & theme.

The design & the purpose of the Avon Marketing Theme is done by experienced affiliates & retailers of Avon & Amway, including some of the most experienced beauty consultants who are looking for a design that would help them market, promote & sell their products from their own website.

Click Here to Read More of Avon Marketing Theme.

The design is simple & elegant & the color scheme appeals to soft goods like cosmetics & beauty products. It is very easy to use & does not require any training. All you need to do is to add your product descriptions, images, videos like any other post and the Avon Marketing Theme intelligently displays them in a combination of magazine & coupon style.

The design is customizable from the home page & is very fluid in case you want to adapt this design for any unique feature of your specific business. The organic search results are better given that the theme is optimized for such searches. In addition, the design includes multiple widgets across the layout that could be used for advertisements or any additional ad-hoc content.

Click Here to View a Live Demo & Download the Theme Now.

While many of these techniques described in the  post should be done by technical people, there are a lot of quick modifications, like low hanging fruits, that you can do all by yourself, which can help you improve the WordPress website load time dramatically.

In the above, our customization led to a 50% reduction in a WordPress website’s load time! How did we do it?

Here are some Easy Do It Yourself Tips to Improve WordPress Load Time:

• Clean Up Code – Remove Code Comments, White Spaces, Line Breaks & wasted spaces in all the template files that cause the template file size to increase
• Clean Up CSS Files – CSS files define the styling of the website & determines which images to use as part of the template. We always find a lot of images that are referenced in the CSS are never really used or do not exist. You can safely delete such references or styling information that you do not need
• Use Thumbnail Images – many designers use various sizes of the same large image file to suite various design layouts. A great example is a magazine layout where designers display the same image in different sizes. The best way is to use WordPress’s Thumbnail Sizes that are of smaller sizes, instead of resizing the original image with a “Width=” or “Height=” parameter
• Eliminate Ads that Take Longer to Load – if you are showing advertisements, then this is one place to look at for improving the website load time. Ads, without any doubt, slow down websites
• Avoid IFRAME – IFRAMEs tend to load an external website onto your website. It is like loading multiple web pages inside one. Naturally the loading time increases considerably if you use too many IFRAMEs

In the website that we recently customized, the load time improved from over 16 secs in one scenario to below 3.5 secs in the best case. However, the client felt the need to have an extremely high resolution, large logo image on the website. The final results were still an impressive 4.5 seconds.

These are 5 Easy to Implement DIY Tips that you can implement on your WordPress sites. These are also standard part of our WordPress Customization Services where we try to optimize business websites running on WordPress.

Can a Website Design Really Make a Business Profitable? Yes, and here is how.

• Set Yourself Different – unlike free themes that are used by almost every other blogger, a premium quality creative website design is for the serious few who want to demonstrate that they mean serious business
• Themes designed for your Customers – your website is for your customer. A premium quality design, like our WP Marketing Themes & WP Shopping Themes, are designed with simplicity & usability of your end customers in mind, making it easy for them to do business on your site
• Effective Calls to Actions – each business has its own patterns of how users behave on the website. A generic theme is not designed for your specific users, while our Creative WordPress Themes for Small Businesses are completely developed for a specific niche market
• Simple but Effective – unlike free WP themes that are available to show off designer’s ability to create images, premium quality WordPress Themes for Small Business only focus on the essential features of a website design that add value to your business & eliminates anything that are not essential
• Business Themes designed by Professionals – our small business websites begin with usability studies, understanding how customers interact with your business via a website. Thus, our premium small business WP themes are built with the guarantee that they make your website visitors happy, providing them with the tools & copy that they need, where they need them

In a small survey of our small business customers, we heard plenty of great feedback about how the Creative WordPress Themes for Small Business has radically transformed the way they ran a business website. These themes are clean, simple, fast loading, highly optimized for organic search results all of which go a long way to make their online business profitable.

For example, marketers in the video games business expect people in the younger age groups, from all over the world, looking for the latest in specific categories of video games. This behavior is very different from people visiting dating websites or people who frequent financial or debt relief websites, where they tend to spend more time reading, reviewing & interacting with the content.

Customization Helps Making Business Websites Profitable

When customization is driven with business goals, they tend to drive more profits for your business. Since each affiliate marketing website is focused on a niche marketing area, customizing the design helps to address those design gaps that appeal to the specific behaviors for that niche market.

Customization also helps you optimize the designs further for better organic searches, by eliminating design elements that do not appeal to your customers & by adding the ones that do. Videos, pictures and advertisement positions are 3 key elements of the design whose effectiveness vary tremendously with the niche markets.

Shopping Theme Designs also offer immense opportunities to customize & increase the overall effectiveness & efficiency of the websites by designing the website elements that appeal to your specific customer groups. For example, if you are selling health products, more than pictures, videos are known to influence buying decisions. On the contrary, if you are selling kid’s products from your affiliate marketing site, multiple product images perform better than either copy content or videos.

For more on how to customize your Niche WordPress Marketing & Advertising Theme, click here for our Creative Customization Services.

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The Top Diner WP Theme is very flexible & can be easily customized to add your personal touch to your business website. Apart from using the widgets on the website, you can also customize the design to add videos, customer testimonials & social networking tools to make it more effective.

The Top Diner WP Theme is completely customizable from the Themes Option page. You can design the elements on the home page as well as use the widgets to add custom content, promotional banners, discount coupons or advertisements.

This creative WordPress theme for small business includes 2 templates that would help you run marketing campaigns, email promotions as well as search marketing all from one website. The templates are also designed bearing in mind that restaurants need to distribute coupons in the most effective ways.

With the Top Diner WordPress theme, you can do all your coupon distribution & social marketing with just a single website. You can also integrate your subscription & auto responder tools into this website & start measuring the success of your email campaigns too.

Click Here to View Live Demo & Download WordPress Top Diner Theme Now.

Here are 5 of the top creative customization tips that we have implemented for our Restaurant WP Theme customers:

Click Here to See a Demo & Download the Restaurant Theme.

1. Add a personal message in the form of a video – you can easily create videos with your computer’s webcam if you do not have any camcorder handy, but a personal message from the restaurant owner is one of the most sought after customization requests we have gotten
2. Add photo or video samplers – although the Restaurant WP Theme makes very good use of teaser images, you can also use short videos as samplers. The videos could be from the chefs talking about the nutritional values or from a happy customer!
3. Run recipe classes online – this is a great customization to beat competition in the local market & gain popularity internationally if you have the means to supply worldwide. Recipe classes could get you to offer videos on the website or sell DVDs, eBooks etc opening up a whole new marketing & business channel
4. Integrate your Facebook Fans on your Restaurant Theme – this is a rather easy customization. The Restaurant WP Theme has widgets on the sidebar as well as on the home page footer to help you add your Facebook Fan profiles & images to your website. By default, the Restaurant Theme includes your Twitter & Facebook profile teasers to get started with your social marketing programs
5. Add advertisement spots – the Restaurant Theme, being a business theme, is not meant to contain external advertisements. You can include advertisements on the widgets. We recommend that before you add any advertisement that you ensure it adds value to your business

Some of these customization tips are very easy to implement if you are familiar with the basics of how WordPress CMS works. You could also reach out to us for our help with customizing your Restaurant Theme for your business (click here for Customization Service Details).

Whether you are planning to set up your restaurant’s website for the first time, or planning to redesign it, you must review the Restaurant WordPress Theme now. This creative WordPress Theme works great for a wide variety of restaurants, gourmet food businesses, confectionery shops & delis.

Click Here to Read Features & See a Live Demo of the Restaurant WordPress Theme.

The creative design is based on the most widely used restaurant websites like those of Applebee’s, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts & Pizza Hut & includes the most usable elements from these designs. The focus, as with all the other creative WordPress themes we publish, are simplicity, easy of use & functionality. Your customers would find it easy to find the information they are looking for easily.

Maintaining the Restaurant Theme is also extremely easy. While the entire theme can be configured from the theme option page, you can also customize it further to add your own flavor to the design.

To read more, Click Here for Features, Demo & Download.

You need a special software that will simulate the same environment of an Apache Server with a MySQL database on your computer. XAMPP is a free open source software that will do just that.

The process of setting up XAMPP & WordPress on your local computer is quite easy & well documented. There are 4 steps before you could get started with customizing WordPress Themes on your local PC yourself:

• download & install XAMPP on your computer from Friends of Apache website
• configure XAMPP so that WordPress could work on your local PC
• download WordPress CMS system from WordPress.org
• create Themes quickly with the Drag & Drop Theme Generator & modify & test out customized themes on your local computer before you host them on the live website

There are a lot of documentations on how to set up XAMPP on your PC. The best, step by step guide on installing XAMPP & configuring it for WordPress is available in this article Using XAMPP for Local WordPress Theme Development.

Once done setting up, the best way is to use the Drag & Drop WordPress Theme Creator to generate the basic structure very quickly. Using this tool will also help you avoid being caught up in semantics & php programming. It will also help you create the basic theme in minutes so that you can spend more time in customizing them.

When you have customized your theme, save them on your computer & FTP them onto your web server to start using it on the live website.

From all of us at Creative Themes Design team we wish our readers, subscribers, partners & customers a Very Happy & Peaceful 2011 ahead!

2010 has been extremely exciting for us designing & customizing WordPress Themes for marketing & advertising websites. Though we started late in the year, 2 of our major accomplishments in 2010 are:

• launching our Creative Themes Design website for customized services for small businesses
• specialized services for marketing & advertising WordPress themes for affiliate marketers, online sellers & freelance bloggers

2011 brings in new challenges & opportunities for us. We will continue to focus on making small business websites more profitable through customization, optimization & mobile adoptions. We will also release business specific creative WordPress themes – restaurant & food business, hobby & toy business, handicraft business, video games download websites are some our key focus areas for the year.

We also welcome your suggestions on newer themes & business opportunities. Feel free to email us with your suggestions.

Once again, wish you a Happy New Year ahead!