Color Labs Project, the creator of the extremely popular Arthemia CMS theme, has finally released their anticipated follow up theme for small businesses.  This new design, the ArchiePlus theme, offers a terrific CMS design for small businesses and a number of features as well.

Here is what we’ve learned so far about the ArchiePlus theme:

ArchiePlus Business Theme

You can view the live demo of the ArchiePlus theme here.

ArchiePlus Theme Features:

• Simple and Professional – Your front page will show what matter the most. Keep your readers updated by showing the latest headline and posts, in a very fancy carousel on the front page.
• WordPress as Content Management System – ArchiePlus is a premium theme for WordPress. Unleash the power of WordPress as a web content management system (CMS). Compatible for WordPress 2.5 and up!
• Theme Administration Panel – You’ve got no idea about PHP, (X)HTML, and CSS? No need to worry about all the complicated commands and manage everything from the theme administration panel.
• Cross-Browser Compatible – Designed to meet the latest W3C standard compliant, renders perfectly in Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. W3C CSS and XHTML valid.
• Gravatar: your Global Avatar – Show your true identity and keep your blog personal by getting your visitor’s globally recognized avatar (Gravatar) popped up in the comment section of your posts.
• After-sales Support and Free Upgrade – No need to worry if you experience any problems during the installation process. Purchase packages include a free after-sales support. Contact us and we’ll get to help you.
• Auto-thumbnail your Old Posts - Forget the time-consuming manual thumbnail generation, even the old-fashioned Post Custom Fields. Thumbnails across the theme will be assigned and generated automatically. Simply upload an image and add it to your post.
• Web Hosting Requirements – A nice web hosting service, the mighty WordPress 2.5+ installed, and the very common PHP GD Library at your web server.
• Banner & AdSense Management – Configure ad banners on your website. Simply upload, assign, and add hyperlinks. Also, you can get your Google AdSense banners displayed, hassle-free.
• Analytics and Feedburner – Burn your feeds with Feedburner and manage your blog statistics using Google Analytics. Simply enter you Feedburner URL and Google Analytics ID in the theme administration panel.
• Accordion Sidebar – Accordion sidebar makes your sidebar looks simple, even if you have a very long list of widgets. Easily drag-and-drop widgets and place any widgets on sidebar section. Download WP available sidebar widgets and have it right away at your blog.
• Keep it Personal and Updated – Twitter integration allows you to show your latest tweets on the front page, adding a bit of personal touch to your website. You can arrange how many tweets you want to show on the front page.

ArchiePlus Theme Prices:

• Single-Use ($70.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($240.00)

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Gabfire Themes have become a staple in the WordPress CMS community, and their latest release is no exception.   Their newest release, the Dust theme, is their first content management system theme designed specifically with small businesses in mind.  With the Dust theme, you’ll find a homepage designed to feature your business, while internal pages are built to support business blogging, giving your small business everything it could need for a web presence. 

After speaking directly with Mehmet of Gabfire Themes, here is the design and features we’ve gathered on this new Dust theme:

Dust Business CMS Theme

You can view the live demo of the Dust theme here.

Dust Theme Features:

• Translation template
• Integrated comprehensive theme settings page to tweak layout through admin dashboard.
• 5 colors schemes
• A nice AJAX slider for featured section
• Search engine optimized

Dust Theme Prices:

• Multiple-Use ($59.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($179.00)

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When I look through the CMS themes available at Woo Themes, the ones that catch my eye all seem to be from the same designer, Magnus Jepson, one of the co-founders of Woo Themes.   In addition to designing the theme that Woo Themes website actually uses, he has also done a brilliant job of making some great designs that are available for WordPress users to purchase.  

The latest release from Woo Themes, named Coffee Break, is a new CMS release by Magnus, and this time it was built with small businesses in mind.    Here are the details we’ve been given regarding this new CMS design:

Coffee Break Business Theme

You can view the live demo of the Coffee Break theme here.

Coffee Break Features:

• A home page featured slider showcasing specific pages that have been enabled in the back end theme option’s panel
• “Mini features” section available on the home page to present the website visitor with a list of services or benefits of your company/product. Again the pages listed here are specified in the back end theme option’s panel
• A completely widgetized sidebar with 7 custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required
• 11 amazing color schemes to choose from
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, color scheme etc. for the theme
• Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
• Custom Page Templates for Archives, Full Width Page, & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments

Coffee Break Prices:

• Multiple-Use ($70.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

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Bonus: Woo Themes is currently offering a special deal for CMS Themes readers.   You can now get any Woo Themes design FREE when you purchase any design using this link.  You will be prompted to select the second theme of your choice when you go to checkout.

As the market for CMS themes continues to grow, it is good to see some designers continue to push themselves to innovate and release quality designs.    One of the better CMS themes to be released in the past month is a new business or education theme called Academy.

Here is what we know about the new Academy theme:

Academy CMS Theme

Academy CMS Control Panel

You can view the live demo of the theme here.

Academy Theme Features:

• Featured Slider on Front Page
• Custom translations of all blog areas
• Breadcrumbs Navigation (fully customizable)
• SEO Options
• Excerpts / Full posts Option
• Inbuilt Pagination
• Header / Footer Scripts Management
• Custom Control Panel
• Embeded AdScript Support
• Child Pages Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
• WP 2.7 full compatibility
• Auto Image Re-size
• Custom Logo
• Google Analytics Ready
• Gravatar Ready
• Feedburner Ready
• SEO Optimized Code
• ully Widgetized (7 spots)
• Feedburner Email Subscribe (widget)
• Sidebar Image Stream via Flickr (widget)
• Popular Posts (widget)
• Twitter Stream (widget)
• Text with Button (widget)
• And much more..

Academy Theme Prices:

• Single-Use ($49.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($149.00)

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There has been a shift in the premium themes market lately, and I have to say I’m really liking it!  We are starting to see more focus placed on high quality business themes, which are not only great for small businesses, but they are also great for building web portals, selling products, etc.   Because of the flexibility of business themes, I have to say that I hope we continue to see more and more of these types of themes released!

One of the recent releases is the Suit theme by Natty WordPress.   Here is what we’ve learned so far about the new Suit theme:

Suit Business Theme

You can view the live demo of the Suit theme here.

Suit Business Theme Features:

• Built-in color and background settings.
• 3 additional page templates (Archives, Sitemap and full width)
• 6 additional widgets and 9 different widget spaces
• A completely widgetized sidebars with special widgets, developed by NattyWP
• Comfortable and simple managing of banners and AdSense in the blog using special NattyWP widgets
• Built in Theme Options panel, available through WordPress Admin, for the detailed set up of your theme
• Image Resizer, automatically creating thumbnails for blog posts
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments.
• Threaded comments support
• Unique settings of the theme enable to change the font size and color, color of links, background image, header image, etc. Thus, the customization doesn’t require any knowledge of html and css. You will be able to create your color scheme in no time at all
• You can choose whether the full post should be displayed, or it would be a short outlay
• Thanks to the additional widgets you can use Twitter, Flickr, Feedburner and so on

Suit Business Theme Prices:

• Single-Use ($45.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

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Looking for a 2-column business CMS theme for your website or blog?   The Business CMS theme by Natty WordPress is one of a few options currently available for small businesses.

Here are the details provided by the designer of the Business CMS theme:

Business CMS Theme

You can view the live demo of this theme here.

Business CMS Theme Features:

• Page-based homepage
• Built-in color chooser
• 3 additional page templates (Archives, Sitemap and Fullwidth)
• 7 additional widgets
• A completely widgetized sidebars with special widgets, developed by NattyWP
• 4 different styles to choose from
• Built in Theme Options panel, available through WordPress Admin, for the detailed set up of your theme.
• Image Resizer, automatically creating thumbnails for blog posts.
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments. Threaded comments support.
• Comfortable and simple managing of banners and Adsense in the blog using special NattyWP widgets.
• Business theme Features
• Featured News Tabber
• Optimized for WordPress 2.7+ version
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS Valid
• Fully compatible IE7, Safari 2+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+
• CSS Based Design
• 24/7 support

Business CMS Theme Price Options:

• Single-Use ($45.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

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