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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The PremiumThemes.net has really down a great job of offering a variety of premium WordPress themes.   Scattered among their growing selection of WordPress themes is a few very nice CMS themes, including the new Snippet theme. 

The Snippet design combines a bunch of styles into one versatile template, offering a little something for photo bloggers, businesses, and of course those looking for something to manage their content in the popular CMS format.

Here is the design and features included with the new Snippet theme:

Snippet Magazine Theme

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

Snippet Theme Features:

• Fully customizable front page
• Custom Control Panel
• Localization Support
• Excellent Support
• Theme Guide & Tutorials
• PSD File Included
• Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Ad Monetization
• Search Engine Optimized (SEO)
• Widget Ready with custom widgets
• Valid, Cross browser Compatible

Snippet Theme Price Options:

• Single-Use ($59.00)
• Multiple-Use ($159.00)

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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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Business WordPress themes seem to be where designers are placing much of their focus lately, and the result has been a number of very solid business CMS themes.    One of these recent releases, and also one of our favorites, is the Nostra business theme by Natty WordPress.

Here is the information provided by the designer of the Nostra theme:

Nostra Business Theme

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

Nostra Theme Features:

• Page-based homepage
• Built-in color chooser
• 3 additional page templates (Archives, sitemaps and Fullwidth)
• Featured news tabber
• 7 additional widgets
• Completely widgetized sidebars with special widgets, developed by NattyWP
• 6 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.
• Featured news tabber
• Latest news
• NattyWP Flickr
• NattyWP Banner – With Banner widget you will be able to set up and configure banners on your blog. it supports all popular formats – - 728×90, 468×60, 234×60, 120×600, 160×600, 120×240, 336×280, 300×250, 250×250, 200×200, 180×150, 125×125. It is user friendly, as its operation can be understood intuitively. Thanks to it you’ll be able to set a banner of any size at practically any place of the blog, which will optimize and increase advertising benefits.
• NattyWP Adsense – Adsense widget is an analogue of the Banner Widget for placing sets of Adsense advertisements on your site. It supports all popular formats used by Adsense – - 728×90, 468×60, 234×60, 120×600, 160×600, 120×240, 336×280, 300×250, 250×250, 200×200, 180×150, 125×125.
• NattyWP Combo 125×125 banners – Combo widget has been designed for running the popular banner format 125×125. this widget enables showing 4 different 125×125 banners.
• NattyWP Latest news – widget allows you to add Blog news to sidebar.
• NattyWP Twitter – Twitter widget allows you to display your latest Twitter posts.
• NattyWP Feedburner Subscription – widget allows you to add Feedburner Subscription
• NattyWP Flickr – widget allows you to add photos from your Flickr profile.
• 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

Nostra Theme Price Options:

• Single-Use ($45.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($150.00)
• Also available with the Natty WordPress theme club!

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Business themes that provide a “store front” for your business on the homepage (but allow blogging on the internal pages) have really grown in popularity over the past six months.   It has gotten to the point that most designers offer 1-2 of these types of themes just to fill the demand.

One of the better designed business CMS themes we’ve run across is the Easy Touch theme by Natty WordPress.   This theme gives the buyer an impressive homepage, but still allows you to grow your web presence through blogging on the internal pages.

Here is everything we’ve been able to learn so far about the Easy Touch theme:

Easy Touch Theme

You can view the live demo of Easy Touch here.

Easy Touch Theme Features:

• Fully widgetized theme
• 6 different sidebars
• Featured articles module
• Embed video from 23 most popular websites
• 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.
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments. Threaded comments support.
• Comfortable and simple managing of banners and AdSense in the blog using special NattyWP widgets.
• 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

Easy Touch Theme Prices:

• Single-Use ($45.00)
• Developer’s Pack ($150.00)
• Also available with the Natty WordPress Theme Club

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