Nick Pierno

13 Best Business WordPress Themes – February 2012

Nick — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:13:17 +0000

Further to my recent post about the 6 best free WordPress Themes for small businesses, here is a full collection of the best WordPress themes for a business website for early 2012.

Swatch

This remains the best free, business-ready WordPress theme I’ve seen to date. If you don’t want to spend any money, but want a premium theme, Swatch is probably your best bet.

Download Swatch!

Akita

HTML5 and CSS tableless design, responsive design for all screen resolution sizes, option to turn special stylesheet that targets tablets and mobile devices off or on, and an unbranded Theme Options Panel.

Download Akita!

Olya

Olya is a colorful, versatile business portfolio theme, all the while its layout being completely responsive. It is packaged with an informative homepage template with loads of optional modules, as well as a custom team archive and contact page. A portfolio section is available to highlight noteworthy work.

Download Olya!

New Business 3

Unlimited Color Skins
Unlimited Layouts
Valid HTML Code
Multicolumns Portfolio and Blog
Video Documentation

Download New Business 3!

Buro

Buro is a beautiful business theme designed by Juanma Teixido with a responsive layout to display your website content optimally at all resolutions and browser widths, and on all media devices. A perfectly responsive building block for a web designer’s next project.

Download Buro!

Config Multipurpose

ThemePunch’s debut WordPress theme release is a highly customizable, multipurpose theme that fits for various kinds of businesses.

Amongst a long list of features and capabilities, this theme has a custom admin panel (see screenshots in the features section of the item preview).

Download Config!

Empire

Empire is a multi-functional business theme with clean typography & coloring and subtle box shadow styling. It has a customizable slider, uniquely styled widget regions, a portfolio section for products or galleries, and a team page template.

Download Empire!

Powered

Powered is a modern business and portfolio WordPress theme that serves as a simple yet powerful solution for all sorts of corporate/agency websites. Whether you are looking for a theme for a small business with just a few services or a larger business with many more services/projects, Powered is a good solution.

Download Powered!

Statua

Statua is another theme designed by Chris Rowe which is aimed at photo enthusiasts who want to use WordPress to show off their photos and galleries in a stylish fashion. The theme makes use of JavaScript sliders and alternative layouts to make it easy to setup and customize.

Download Powered!

DWA

DWA is a powerful business/corporate/portfolio & blog premium WordPress theme jam-packed with features.

DWA has 9 custom widgets, sortable portfolio and featured slider custom post types, full width featured slider, custom contact form, sitemap template, and much more.

Download DWA!

Canvas

Canvas is one of my favorite themes in existence!

Every element of Canvas is highly customizable through our options panel, so you can make the design, layout and typography exactly like you want. If you are after a highly customizable blog design or just a starter theme for your next client project, then Canvas will most definitely work for you!

Download Canvas!

Veles

Powerful WordPress theme designed in a clean and minimalistic style. This Theme is very flexible, easy for customizing and well documented, approaches for personal and professional use. Based on 960 grid system with 24 columns. Follow me to be notified for future updates!

Download Veles!

Simplicity

Simplicity is a business theme that is hugely customizable with a clean layout, featured home page slider, and custom post types for testimonials, portfolio items, mini-features and slides. Make this theme your own and completely configure your home page how you want.

Download Simplicity!

Best WordPress Wiki Theme – Build a Wiki using WordPress

Nick — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:16:31 +0000

Wikeasi is an intuitive Wiki Theme for WordPress that will enable you to start a beautiful, easy -to-manage Wiki for any purpose!

This template is extremely intuitive and simple to set up, with lost of options to make WordPress bend to your will. Anyone can build an amazing Wiki in mere minutes, whether you have experience with WordPress or not!

Download Wikeasi!

How To Edit Page/Post Content on your WordPress Website

Nick — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:43:40 +0000

Log into your WordPress administration panel using your assigned user account and url (usually yourdomain.com/wp-admin, or similar)
Using the navigation on the left, click Pages
From the list of pages, select the one you wish to edit
Now you will see the editing screen with an HTML/Visual editor containing the page content – Make sure you are using the Visual tab (unless you would like to edit the HTML code)
Modify or add content as desired – Note the familiar formatting options: Bold, Italics, Lists, Links, etc.For even more formatting options (Headings, text color, etc.) click the Kitchen Sink button
When you are satisfied with your edits, click the blue Update button (Publish, if it’s a new page or post) to the right of the content box (if you like, you can also preview pages using the Previewbutton above the update button)

That’s it! If you require additional support in managing your content, please forward inquiries to nick@nickpierno.com.

Nick & Linds’ New Year’s un-corking

Nick — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:46:23 +0000

“Fails” of 2011 – Compilation

Nick — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:54:17 +0000

Possible mass exodus from GoDaddy as their statement supporting SOPA makes the rounds

Nick — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:25:18 +0000

At the moment of writing this, the top link on the front page of Reddit (a popular social news site) is a thread condemning GoDaddy (a major domain registrar) for their apparent support of SOPA. With over 10,000 “up-votes” and 1126 comments (and counting), GoDaddy’s statement seems to have struck a serious cord with the techies and IT folks who largely compose Reddit’s audience.

The Reddit thread, titled GoDaddy supports SOPA, I’m transferring 51 domains & suggesting a move your domain day, is garnering some significant support of it’s own.

I’m currently a GoDaddy customer, but have never really felt great about the company as a whole. They are notorious for blasting users with up-sells every time they try to register a domain, they have incredibly junky interfaces and tools, their hosting service is terrible and they rely on sex and sleaze to drive their advertising. The owner, Bob Parsons, has also been called out numerous times for his extreme right wing ideals. He also faced down some elephant hunting controversy awhile back. All in all, I wish I had listened to my gut and kept away from GoDaddy, but their ubiquity led me (like many others) to overlook the discrepancy in values in favor of reliability and business longevity.

Silly us. I’m not looking forward to the chore of moving my 30 or so domains from GoDaddy to another registrar, but in light of current events – I think I’m going to have to grab my pitchfork and jump on the bandwagon.

The consensus around the web, and particularly in the aforementioned Reddit thread, is that Namecheap is the ideal alternative – with a solid history and lots of satisfied customers. After a look around, I’m inclined to agree with the consensus.

Reddit has rounded up, and voted on, the best albums of 2011

Nick — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:24:52 +0000

1 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming – M83 – October 18th on Naïve Records
2 Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes – May 3rd on Sub Pop
3 Bon Iver – Bon Iver – Jun. 21st on Jagjaguwar
4 El Camino – The Black Keys – Dec 6 on Nonesuch Records
5 James Blake – James Blake – February 4th on Atlas
6 Take Care, Take Care, Take Care – Explosions in the Sky – 26 April 2011 on Temporary Residence Limited.
7 The King of Limbs – Radiohead – Feb. 18th, self released
8 House of Balloons – The Weeknd – March 21 2011 – Self released
9 Camp – Childish Gambino – November 15th on Glassnote
10 Strange Mercy – St. Vincent
11 Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Cliff Martinez and Various Artists – September 27th on Lakeshore
12 The King is Dead – The Decemberists – January 14th on Capitol
13 Burst Apart – The Antlers – May 10th on Frenchkiss
14 w h o k i l l ~ tUnE-yArDs – April 19 on 4AD
15 Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will – Mogwai
16 Bad As Me – Tom Waits – October 24th on Anti
17 The Hunter – Mastodon – Sep 27th on Reprise
18 Father, Son, Holy Ghost – Girls – Sept. 7th on True Panther
19 Wasting Light – Foo Fighters – RCA Records, April 12
20 Nine Types of Light ~ TV on the Radio – April 11 on Interscope
21 21 – Adele – February 22 on Columbia
22 Gloss Drop – Battles – June 6 on Warp
23 Watch the Throne – Jay Z & Kanye West – Aug. 8th on Roc-A-Fella
24 Torches – Foster the People – May 2011, Columbia
25 Cults – Cults (In The Name Of | June 7)
26 The Rip Tide – Beirut – Aug. 2 on Pompeii
27 The Whole Love – Wilco
28 Passive Me Aggressive You – The Naked and Famous – March 15, 2011 on Republic;Edit: People have brought it to my attention that this album originally came out on September 6, 2010 under the label Somewhat Damaged. I should have known that, sorry folks.
29 Let England Shake – PJ Harvey – February 11th on Vagrant
30 David Comes to Life – Fucked Up – June 6, 2011 on Matador
31 SBTRKT – SBTRKT – June 28 on Young Turks
32 Hot Sauce Committee Part Two – Beastie Boys – April 27 on Capitol
33 In The Mountain, In The Cloud – Portugal. The Man – July 19th, 2011 on Atlantic
34 Jamie XX & Gil Scott-Heron – We’re New Here – February 21, 2011 + XL
35 Yuck – Yuck – Feb. 15th on Fat Possum
36 Tomboy – Panda Bear
37 Within and Without – Washed Out – July 11 on Sub Pop
38 Zonoscope – Cut Copy
39 Days – Real Estate – Oct. 18th on Domino
40 Kaputt – Destroyer – Jan. 25th on Merge
41 TRON: Legacy Reconfigured – Daft Punk – Disney Records
42 Ceremonials – Florence and the Machine – Oct 31 on Island Records
43 Kiss Each Other Clean – Iron & Wine – January 25th on Warner Bros./4AD
44 Wounded Rhymes – Lykke Li – February 25 on LL/EMI
45 Circuital – My Morning Jacket – May 31st on ATO
46 nostalgia, Ultra – Frank Ocean – Feb. 18 Self-released
47 Metals – Feist – October 4th on Cherrytree
48 Simple Math – Manchester Orchestra – May 9th on Favorite Gentlemen Recordings
49 Black Up – Shabazz Palaces – June 27, 2011 + Sub Pop
50 Parallax – Atlas Sound – Nov 7 on 4AD
51 Smoke Ring For My Halo – Kurt Vile – March 7 on Matador
52 Section.80 – Kendrick Lamar – July 2nd, 2011 – Top Dawg Entertainment
53 Rome – Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi -16 May
54 Andrew Jackson Jihad – Knife Man
55 The People’s Key – Bright Eyes – February 15th on Saddle Creek
56 Go Tell Fire To The Mountain – WU LYF – June 13th on LYF Recordings;EDIT: Fixed release date!
57 Underneath the Pine – Toro Y Moi – February 22, 2011 + Carpark Records
58 Angles – The Strokes – March 18, 2011 + RCA, Rough Trade
59 Making Mirrors – Gotye – 19th August on Eleven
60 Heritage – Opeth – September 13th on Roadrunner Records
61 Era Extraña – Neon Indian – Sep. 13th on Inertia
62 Dye It Blonde – Smith Westerns – Jan, 18 2011 Fat Possum
63 Suck It And See – Arctic Monkeys – 6th June on Domino
64 Welcome Reality – Nero – August 12th on MTA
65 Civilian – Wye Oak – Mar. 8 on Merge
66 Reptilians – Starfucker – March 8, 2011 on Polyvinyl Records
67 Slave Ambient – The War on Drugs – Aug. 16th on Secretly Canadian
68 Weightless – Animals as Leaders – Nov 8 Prosthetic Records
69 All Eternals Deck – The Mountain Goats – March 29 + Merge Records
70 Major/Minor – Thrice – Sept 20 on Vagrant Records
71 Return of 4Eva – Big K.R.I.T. – March 28th, self released
72 The Year of Hibernation – Youth Lagoon – Sept 27 2011 – Fat Possum
73 Undun – The Roots – December 6th, 2011 (Has been streaming on NPR past week or so) – Def Jam Records
74 Belong – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
75 Hello Sadness – Los Campesinos! – November 14th on Wichita
76 Empros – Russian Circles
77 Inni – Sigur Ros – November 15 on XL
78 The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues – Between the Buried and Me – March 31st on Metal Blade
79 Biophilia – Björk – October 10 on One Little Indian
80 The Big Roar – The Joy Formidable – January 24, 2011 Atlantic Records
81 Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
82 Space is Only Noise – Nicolas Jaar – 31 January 2011 on Circus Company
83 Grace for Drowning – Steven Wilson – September 26th on kscope
84 England Keep My Bones – Frank Turner
85 English Riviera – Metronomy – April 19, 2011 on 101 DISTRIBUTION
86 A Dramatic Turn of Events – Dream Theater – September 13, 2011 through Roadrunner Records.;Edit: Fixed formatting.
87 Showroom of Compassion – Cake – January 11 on Upbeat Records
88 Thank You, Happy Birthday – Cage the Elephant – Jan. 11 on RCA
89 The Colour Spectrum – The Dear Hunter – June 14th on Triple Crown
90 Ravedeath 1972 – Tim Hecker – February 14, 2011 + Kranky
91 Mirror Traffic – Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
92 Scurrilous – Protest the Hero – March 22, 2011 + on Vagrant Records in the US and Underground Operations in Canada.
93 Eye Contact – Gang Gang Dance – May 10, 2011 + 4AD
94 Odd Soul – MUTEMATH – October 4, 2011 on Teleprompt/Warner Bros.
95 Relax – Das Racist – September 13th on Greedhead Records
96 Wildlife – La Dispute – October 4 on No Sleep
97 Conditions of My Parole – Puscifer – October 18, 2011 – Puscifer Entertainment
98 Goblin – Tyler, The Creator – May 10, 2011 on XL Recordings
99 Isam – Amon Tobin
100 Take Care – Drake – November 15, 2011 on Young Money
101 Deconstruction – The Devin Townsend Project – June 20th on InsideOut Music
102 Grouplove – Never Trust a Happy Song – September 2 / Atlantic
103 Dive – Tycho – November 15th on Ghostly International
104 Smile – The Beach Boys – November 1, 2011 + Capitol
105 Ceremonials – Florence + The Machine
106 Oneirology – Cunninlynguists – March 22 QN5 Music
107 Wild Flag – Wild Flag
108 Build a Rocket Boys! – Elbow – March 4 + FictionRecords/Polydor
109 John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves – June 28th on Ribbon.
110 Megalithic Symphony – AWOLNATION – March 15 on Red Bull Records
111 House of Balloons – The Weeknd – March 2011 – mixtape on the-weenkd.com
112 Looping State Of Mind – The Field – October 11th on Kompakt
113 D – White Denim – 24 May on Downtown Records
114 Wild Beasts – Smother – May 9th on Domino
115 13 Chambers – Wugazi – July 13th 2011 + Doomtree
116 Life Fantastic – Man Man – May 6 on Anti
117 Ritual Union – Little Dragon – Jul. 25th 2011 on Peacefrog Records
118 Endgame – Rise Against – March 11, 2011 – Interscope
119 Green Naugahyde – Primus – September 12 on ATO Records.
120 Replica – Oneohtrix Point Never – Software [november]
121 Join Us – They Might Be Giants – July 19th on Idlewild
122 London Sessions – LCD Soundsystem – January 25th on Virgin
123 Departing – The Rural Alberta Advantage – March 1st on Paper Bag Records/Saddle Creek Records
124 On the Water – Future Islands – October 11 on Thrill Jockey
125 Glass Swords – Rustie – October 11th Warp Records
126 Cole World: The Sideline Story – J. Cole – September 27th, Roc Nation
127 Minecraft-Volume Alpha – C418 – March 04
128 Spiritual State – Nujabes – Dec. 3 Hydeout Productions
129 Exmilitary – Death Grips – April 26th on Third Worlds
130 Apocalypse – Bill Callahan
131 Skying – The Horrors – 11th July on XL Recordings;Can’t believe my top album from this year hasn’t been posted yet!
132 Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me – Touche Amore – June 7th on Deathwish
133 Gangs – And So I Watch You From Afar – April 29th on Richter Collective
134 Suburbia: I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing – The Wonder Years – June 14th on Hopeless Records
135 Friendly Fires – Pala – May 24 / XL
136 Unto the Locust – Machine Head – Sept. 27 + Roadrunner
137 Arabia Mountain – The Black Lips – June 7th – Vice Records
138 Velociraptor! – Kasabian – September 16 on RCA
139 Vows – Kimbra – Aug 29 Warner bros.
140 The Year of Hibernation – Youth Lagoon – September – Fat Possum Records
141 Conatus – Zola Jesus
142 Seeds – Hey Rosetta! – February 15th
143 ALERT: HIPSTER DETECTED
144 The Devil’s Walk – Apparat – September 27 on Mute Records
145 Alpocalypse – Weird Al Yankovic – June 21, 2011 on Volcano Records
146 Only in Dreams – Dum Dum Girls
147 One – TesseracT – March 22, 2011 on Century Media Records.
148 Little Hell – City and Colour – June 7th on Dine Alone
149 Mine Is Yours – Cold War Kids – January 25 on Downtown