Visit: High FX Media.com

Site Type: WordPress

Theme: Business Theme. Business Theme is a premium theme available on Themeforest.net. This is an eye catching design with an automatic slider on the home page. A slider like this provides a mechanism to quickly display much more content than a completely static page. A visitor can quickly understand what your site is about and decide whether to investigate further. I like this theme a lot and chose it for my primary site because of the modern design, the colors and the eye pleasing graphics. The author used great colors and subtle shading and boxing to define page areas.

This theme has some fairly complex technical installation issues. Setting up this theme wouldn’t be described as simple.

Modifications:  Create a new logo and installed it. Edited the background to include my heading (Featured Web Sites) in the slider. Compressed the background images used for the header, slider & main content areas. I’m not sure why, but the theme author never compressed these images. The page load faster with compressed images. Removed borders around the menu items. Edited the PHP code to use two custom fields for images. The author used the same image/custom field for all image displays. The images were displayed in different ratios (1.5:1 & 2:1) causing image distortions. One custom field is used for the slider images and another for Portfolio images. Set up sidebar widgets. Created a graphic for the Free Premium WordPress Theme sidebar widget. Added a link to the Privacy page in the footer. Last but not least, I modified the main content area below the slider. The author had current blog posts showing here. I wanted static information so I changed the PHP code to include two HTML files.

Plugins: All in One SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress, Exclude Pages from Navigation, Google XML Sitemaps, Maintenance Mode, pageMash.