10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There are a lot of WordPress themes out there. Whether you're looking for a souped up, paid premium template or a free alternative, it seems everyone and their grandma has created a tweak on the basic two-column or three-column WordPress model. While it can be a little daunting to sort through the many options, the explosion of available templates is a healthy sign of a vibrant, sometimes prolific, design community. Picking a theme for your blog can be much like picking the right pair of shoes. Have a look through our picks, and do let us know if there are any personal favorites we missed in the comments. 1. Think of this as small business 101. 2. Colourise is a nice choice for edgier, more graphics-based companies. 3. Makisig is a little more corporate with cleaner lines and more conventional design choices. 4.

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Free Wordpress Layouts | download my free wordp... 10 Free Drupal Themes for Small Business This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With the emergence of excellent open source content management systems (CMS) in recent years, a business seeking to develop a professional online presence rapidly at a reasonable cost is a reality. Drupal, an open source CMS used by large corporations and governmental organizations such as CNN, AOL, WhiteHouse.gov, Harvard and many others, is a wonderful option for businesses needing a powerful website without the typical costs of having one made from scratch. It's highly customizable to your needs, and with the thousands of free Drupal themes out there, you can build a site that will impress your customers. This is a collection of free Drupal themes that are suitable for small businesses. 1. This cleanly designed Drupal theme is built specifically for e-commerce sites. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

100 Favourite Wordpress Themes : Desperate Curi... Posted byadmin Over the past five years WordPress has gone from strength to strength and seen a huge increase in community developers and followers. This of course also extends to WordPress theme development. Themes are now being turned out on a daily basis, but for the non-coders among us, out of the hundreds of themes on offer, only a select few are worthy of using on our blogs – not only in an aesthetic sense, but also more importantly in terms of functionality and adaptability. If you’re like me, when you look for a new theme you think customisation and after almost three years of blogging and tinkering with a fair amount of WordPress themes, I’ve built up a kind of repertoire, which I’ll share with you below. 1 – School’s In Session Theme by Nuwen | Live Demo | Download (*Note* Nuwen has currently removed downloads while fixing bugs in the theme. Theme by Guillaumeb | Screenshot | Download 3 – Simple Red Theme by Fen | Screenshot | Download 4 – Dark Red 5 – Road to Heaven 6 – Red Business

Welcome to Apache Hadoop! 10 Steps for Successful Social Media Monitoring Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company's blog. Recently I wrote about the differences in social media monitoring and measurement, as well as the importance of doing both. However, taking the first step to actually start monitoring can be daunting. And then what? How do you engage? I've developed these throughout my career and as part of my regular listening, participating and contributing to the space. 1. Why are you monitoring? Having an end goal in mind will help you target your resources correctly, select the right tool for the job and be more effective in the end. 2. Social media is relationship and conversation media. 3. 4. 5. To expand on the previous tip, you need to develop a crisis management plan. 6. 7. 8.