Christmas Website Templates

Holidays oblige and we feel in need to post a reminder that at the following link you'll find an amazing collection of Christmas Templates to create a website with the Santa look.

Among them you'll find Web Templates for online Christmas Gift stores powered by Magento, osCommerce, CRE Loaded, ZenCart, or even a WordPress installation supercharged with WooCommerce, to make sure you have all your products on display for this Christmas Season.

What makes it even more attractive is that if you join the 1001 Templates Affiliate Program you'll earn up to 30% from all the sales generated through the links placed on your website or newsletter. You don't need to be a genius to realize that if you just register as an Affiliate and buy a Template for yourself, you'll be effectively getting a sizable discount out of your commission. Neat,  eh? Hurry up and take advantage of it by joining the 1001 Templates Affiliate Program now!

And since we have been invaded by the brotherly spirit of Christmas, if you happen to be on a tight budget, have a look below where you'll find an superb collection of Free Christmas Website Templates put together by Design Your Way. Yes Free, as in Free Gift from Santa.

Visit Design Your Way website for links.

WP Pro Real Estate 3 Responsive WordPress Theme

The WP Pro Real Estate 3 Responsive is a very powerful WordPress Theme that has been specifically designed to showcase listings and that comes loaded with all the expected features needed for that type of functionality. Apart from Real Estate the Theme can also be easily adapted for sites that display other kind of listings such as vacation rentals or automotive sales.

Some of its features include:

Full WordPress Support
HTML5 & CSS3
Unlimited Skins & Patterns
Drag & Drop Homepage Builder
Flex Slider with Touch Support
Widget Ready Homepage
Powerful Custom Built Listing Mapping
5 Custom Page Templates
Contact
Full Width
Left Sidebar
Sitemap
Agents
14 Custom Widgets
Adspace – Use this widget to add any type of Ad as a widget.
Agent Info – Use this widget to display your listing agent information, can only be used in the Listing Single sidebar as it relies on listing information for content.
Agents Other Listings – Display your agents other listings, can only be used in the Listing Single sidebar as it relies on listing information to function properly.
Blog Author Info – Use this widget to tell your audience a little bit about your company and all the awesome things you do! Optional Gravatar, and Read More link.
Broker Info – Use this widget to display your brokers information.
Contact Info – Use this widget to display your contact information.
Flickr – Use this widget to populate photos from a Flickr ID.
Follow Us – Use this widget to show your social profiles.
Latest Posts – Use this widget to display your latest posts.
Listings – Use this widget to display your listings from any taxonomy and tag combo.
Listings Agent Contact – Display an agent contact form. Can only be used in the Listing Single sidebar as it relies on listing information for content.
Listings Search – Use this widget to display the advanced listings search form.
Search – Use this widget to display the blog search form.
Tabs – Use this widget to display Latest Posts, Recent comments and a Tag cloud.
Twitter – Use this widget to display your latest tweets.
Translation Ready! Full Localization support
Unbranded AJAX Powered Admin Options Panel
40+ Custom Google Fonts
50+ Pre-defined Background Patterns
Custom User Profile Fields (Profile Image, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Phone, Fax, Title, & more!)
SEO Optimized
Video Support (add videos!)
Built-in Breadcrumbs
Built-in Print This Post, for beautifully printed articles
Tweet this, Google +1 & LinkedIn Share
Child Theme Creator
Two Custom Menu Locations (Main & Footer)
Lots of Shortcodes
Extensive Documentation

'The Vistas', a Real Estate WordPress Theme

'The Vistas' is an splendid Real Estate WordPress Theme by Gorilla Themes that comes with every feature you may ever need to set up a fully functional Real Estate website.

'The Vistas' Real Estate WordPress Theme comes out-of-the-box with the following features:

• 5 color styles
• Grid layout for home page
• Property slider showcasing the agent’s featured properties
• Single or multiple agents administration with customizable permissions that allows them to modify and delete their own listings
• Compatible with all markets
• Currency and metrics selector
• Google maps integration with Street View
• Dynamic search custom setup with the option to build your own search module and change labels and values
• Optional MLS-IDX search integration with dsIDXpress subscription to display your listings and build your IDX MLS search widgets
• Live MLS data direct integration with search engine friendly URLs
• Search engine SEO optimized indexable pages
• City-Neighborhood combo for location search allows your users to pick one location and all sub locations will display only for the selected item
• Facebook widget
• Setup Fields module with modifiable labels and values of the search administration

Click the link below to view a Live Demo and purchase 'The Vistas' Theme:
The Vistas Real Estate WordPress Theme

Next Generation WordPress Themes

FrogsThemes has released its Next Generation Collection of WordPress Themes for 2012. These WordPress Themes are designed and built with creatives in mind. Highly customisable Themes accompanied by detailed documentation and excellent Technical Support that will allow you to create stunning websites with no coding knowledge required.

FrogsThemes are releasing a new theme every month. As a sample we have picked the recently released 'Autos Pro' Theme you can see below and that comes packed with the following features, all accessible from the administration back-end:

• Fully Customisable Front Page
• Car Details Page
• Car Listing Page
• Blog Listing
• Bulk Listings Upload Feature
• Customer Enquiry Form
• Custom Car Search Form
• Car Showcase
• Featured Homepage Panel
• Manufacturers Custom Post Type
• Car Image Galleries
• Video Gallery For Each Vehicle
• Upload a Custom Logo
• Automatic Image Resizing
• Social Network Integration
• WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus
• WordPress 3.0 Featured Post Thumbs
• Built-In Google Fonts Library
• Multiple Widget Ready Areas
• Custom Shortcodes

More Information:
FrogdThemes

Templates for Business Websites

No one will doubt these days that having a website promoting your business is the single most important piece of marketing you can invest on. And probably one of the cheapest as well. For an affordable price tag websites can be as complex as you want them to be, from a simple brochure-like site with a few contact details and perhaps a Google Map, to complete e-commerce Content Management Systems where you can actually sell your products across the globe.

All websites, as far as web design and development are concerned, can be divided into two main areas, presentation and functionality. Of the two, presentation is arguably the most important, because it is what your visitors will get their first impression from, and what will ultimately convince them to further explore the site and engage with whatever you have on offer there. It is estimated that visitors make up their minds on whether to stay longer within the first five seconds of landing.

By choosing the right template businesses can create a professional-looking web space quickly and painlessly, that can be further customized if desired with the help of web designers and web developers. And if you're using a Content Management System such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, etc, functionality will always be there, scalable and extendable with the use of specialized plug-ins that can turn your website into any type of web application imaginable.

Among the biggest advantages of starting up with a pre-made template are that you can choose the one you like from a huge library like the ones we offer below. Most of the time clients don't have a clear idea of what kind the layout, but they know what they like when they see it. By seeing them in action it helps to visualize what they would look like when applied to their own websites, resulting in tremendous time savings.

The other main advantage is that they can be applied without need for high technical knowledge, and in many cases most basic options such as changing logos, headers, sidebars or footers can be tweaked from within a user-friendly back-end. In those cases, experience with HTML/CSS code and website development are not required, and most people with average technical skills are able to perform some basic personalization of their websites.



Later on, if you outgrow the basic business website type, you will probably want to have some unique features and design elements which will attract visitors. In that case you will also benefit from having chosen a Content Management System with a pre-made template, because they can be further adapted without too much difficulty.

Anatomy of a WordPress Theme

WordPress developer Joost de Valk has created the very useful infographic you can see below as a reminder of what the anatomy of a normal WordPress Theme looks (or should look) like.

Click on the infographic to see the original post at:
https://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/

Also check out Anatomy of a Theme by Make WordPress Training

Guerilla WordPress

Guerilla WordPress installs out are sites which use WordPress in such an unconventional way that it's almost impossible to recognize them as WordPress sites.

Here's a few of Alex Walker's favorite incognito WordPress sites, courtesy of SitePoint Design View :

Spotify

WordPress as a cloud-based music service
Spotify is one of the largest streaming music in Europe, currently offering over 8 million tracks for play. Clearly this is a serious web application with some enterprise-level technology powering it.

Nevertheless, Spotify chose to skillfully weave all this beefy tech muscle back into a WordPress content management system.
Wheels are not for the reinventing.

Mashable

WordPress as a Daily Tech Newspaper
Mashable's rise has been even more amazing than that of WordPress. Originally conceived in 2005 as a showcase for Web 2.0 mashups, the site has evolved to overtake the likes of Gizmodo and Engadget in the hypercompetitive tech/gadgets/social media news arena.
Mashable's biggest problem has always been exposing its best content. As it publishes so frequently, often valuable, timely content can sink before it ever gets a chance to gain traction.

Mashable's latest theme tries to tackle this by using Facebook, Twitter and Digg to bubble its trending stories back to the surface. It seems to be working, as Mashable is currently second only to Huffington Post on Technorati's list.
Thankfully, Mashable has backed up its open-source credibility by releasing this most recent WordPress theme to the general public.

Icon Dock

WordPress as a graphics candy store
Icon Dock is a online store for purchasing web icons and UI elements.
As you might expect from a site trading in graphical goodies, the visuals are lush and lickable. It also has a rather sexy, ever-present, drag-and-drop shopping cart system.

It's fun, easy on the eye, and well executed.

DrippinginSunshine

WordPress as a portfolio site
DrippinginSunshine is Alister Lane's personal portfolio site.
As you might expect, there's a lot of competition in the "WordPress as a portfolio" category, but I like Alister Lane's unique take on the idea: natural, photorealistic textures and floating, unboxed content flowing behind a fixed footer.

I think this is a consciously untrendy but memorable design.

UGSMag

WordPress as an Undergroud Hiphop Glossy
Like the music it chronicles, UGSMag looks handmade, edgy, layered, and streetwise. The cover page design uses the rule of thirds to present each new article as a graphical card.

This is a very original, engaging, and non-WordPressy design.

TextureKing

WordPress as a resource library
Forgeting about its WordPress foundation, TextureKing is a really useful site in its own right, offering hundreds of free, high-resolution texture images carefully sorted into a dozen or so categories.

It's simple, neat, and easy to navigate.

Alex Walker is the Editor of the SitePoint Design View

Real Estate WordPress Themes and Plug Ins

Below some Real Estate WordPress Themes:

Real Estate WordPress Plugins:

Great Real Estate WordPress Plugin:

A real estate content management plugin for WordPress.
Here’s a live demo:

• My real estate site – demonstrating the Featured Homes widget configured in Basic mode, highest price first
• My listings index page – the default output, plus the Featured Homes widget configured in Text mode, sorted by title
• A listing detail page with all the bells and whistles turned on
• A video someone posted on YouTube demonstrating the user interface

Screenshots of the admin screens:

Admin Main

Admin Listings

Admin Settings

Edit Listing (1)

Edit Listing (2)

Edit Listing (3)

Featured Homes

Featured Map

My Yahoo!

Requirements

WordPress 2.8 installation (please use version 1.2.1 if you are running WP 2.7.x). For additional functionality, you may wish to enable one or all of the third party plugins listed under Features below.

Features:

• Integration with NextGen Gallery plugin for listing photos
• Integration with WordTube plugin for videos.
• Integration with FPP-Pano plugin for 360 VR photos.
• Integration with DownloadManager plugin for PDF attachments such as brochures.
• Integrated Google Maps pinpointing the listing location.
• Easy form-based entry of listing data – right on the Edit Page screen!
• Customizable starter templates for your listings index page and for the actual listing pages.
• Tab-based access to property description, gallery, videos, panoramas, maps, and downloads.
• Gracefully handles users with JavaScript disabled as much as possible.
• No Branding option for use as link in MLS – restyle your page to hide the navigation elements.
• Featured Listings widget or template for your front page or navigation bars. Includes three display options: thumbnail and text, text only, and a map of all your listings.
• Pre-designed templates for use with Feed Wrangler plugin to automatically feed your listings to Trulia, Zillow, and Google Base. Plus a custom RSS template for My Yahoo! and iGoogle supporting listing photos.

http://www.rogertheriault.com/agents/plugins/great-real-estate-plugin/

Simple Real Estate Pack for WordPress

Simple Real Estate Pack is a package of real estate tools and widgets designed specifically for real estate industry blogs and web sites. The plugin includes mortgage and home affordability calculators, closing cost estimator, live mortgage rates, Trulia and ALTOS statistical charts, local schools, local rental median rates and google maps embedding functionality. Optionally, Simple Real Estate Pack can function as an extension for Great Real Estate (GRE) plugin, and will add new mapping and other features to the GRE if it's installed. Take a look at live example of this plugin at ScottsdaleHomes.com.

Included Features

1. Calculators [Video]
   
   
   • Mortgage Calculator (widget and shortcode)
   • Affordability Calculator (widget and shortcode)
   • Closing Costs Estimator (widget and shortcode)
   
   
   
2. Schools [Video] - shortcode widget provides a list of schools within selected location (via Education.com API). Can group schools by type, grade level, school district or zip code.
3. Live Mortgage Rates via Zillow API (widget and shortcode).
4. Rent Meter (widget and shortcode) - provides median rental rates for selected zip code via Rentometer API.
5. Market trends [Video] and statistical graphs/charts via Trulia.com and ALTOS Research.
6. Embed Google Maps [Video] with a click of a mouse with grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations, banks, golf courses and hospitals (optional) within 3 mile radius of the main marker (via Yelp API).
7. Publish Yelp listings [Video] (shortcode) within 3 mile radius from a specified point into you content. Grouped with tabs by business type (i.e. grocery stores, restaurants etc.).
8. Walkscore via walkscore.com - available as an extension to GRE as well as via shortcode.
9. Extension of GRE plugin [Video] (optional) - mapping local grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations, banks, golf courses and hospitals within 3 mile radius of the property. Includes property location, contact information, ratings via Yelp API., as well as financial tools and statistical charts.

http://www.phoenixhomes.com/tech/simple-real-estate-pack