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Free Advanced WordPress Themes Colourise

Published on April 28, 2008 in 2 column, 3 column, Announcements, Business blog, Design, Free WordPress Themes, Google Adsense, New Releases, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Theme Viewer, Themes, WP, WP Templates, Web 2.0, Web technology, WordPress, WordPress Templates, WordPress themes, corporate, free, free WP theme, free css templates, free templates, headsetoptions, professional template, resources, web design, white, widget ready and wordpress skins. 1 Comment

Here’s a really neat advanced full-featured WordPress theme that will rock your world.

Free Magazine Style WordPress Theme Colourise

This theme come pre-packed with the following features and more:

  • Advance theme edit options to edit colors, fonts, header and more without touching the CSS. All from the WordPress admin panel
  • Featured-regular posts to distinguish the important posts from others
  • Coded to be Search Engine Friendly (optimized)
  • Second level, conditional and dropdown menus and no set up required
  • Tabbed JavaScript sidebar widget
  • Sidebars that are widget ready and pre-styled for Google Adsense and affiliate ads
  • Stylish comments area with customizable colors

Demo and Download

Test run the theme | Download a copy

The theme is free for personal use, we urge you refer to the license section below before downloading if you plan on using it commercially or otherwise. The theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.3.3.

Authors, License and Credits

The theme was a collective work by MandarinMusing WordPress Theme and Headsetoptions Web Design based on a free template by Erwin Aligam

The theme is released under a combined CC and GPL license. The CSS (stylesheet) and images are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, while the rest of the theme files are released under a GNU GPL License. What this means is, if you are to use this CSS/images to redesign, you are required to link back to the theme authors in the footer. You can make any changes to the php files any way you like. However, we prefer you leave the credits for the theme intact to help users find this theme easily. You are not allowed to redistribute this theme in part or whole. Contact us if you plan on using it commercially or if you have any special needs.

Free Support and Paid Customization

Like all of our over 100 themes, this theme too is supported for free. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for WordPress themes support and queries.

For customization of themes or web design projects, visit Headsetoptions.org. You may view, download and test run more of our Free WordPress themes at MandarinMusing.com.

Enjoy it!

Free Web 2.0 Icons

Published on April 27, 2007 in Blog Tools, Feedburner, Icons, RSS, Technorati, Web 2, Web 2.0, YouTube, blog design, delicious, free, graphics, images, web design and web sites. 19 Comments

Web 2.0 Icons

Cool 3-dimensional interesting new Web 2.0 Icons in both PNG and ICO formats! Download here.

G-Consultant Free New WordPress Theme for Corporate and Personal Blogs

Published on April 20, 2007 in 2 column, 2007, SEO-friendly Template, Theme Viewer, Themes, WP, WP Templates, Web 2.0, WordPress, WordPress themes, classic template, floral template, free, free WP theme, free css templates, g-consultant, personal blog, professional template, white and widget ready. 2 Comments

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G-CONSULTANT: Download | Test run | Support

2 Column, Pink, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Left sidebar, Floral Header, Personal Diary, Personal Blog WP Template

G-Consultant is a subtle and soothing, sleek and professional, pink and white, 2 column, “widget ready” WordPress theme with a left sidebar and a Web 20 look by headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing, based on a design by templateworld.com Professional, Elegant, Floral, Web 2.0 Template, for personal or corporate blogs.

Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized web design projects.You may view, download and testrun more of our themes here.

Please do spread the word if you like our themes!

Free Web Hosts: Spammers’ Paradise

Published on March 13, 2007 in Tokelau, Web domains, free, spam, spammer, web host, web hosting and web sites. 0 Comments

spamSpammers need more websites than you and I do, to avoid being filtered and blacklisted by email service providers, anti-spam programs and Internet service Providers.

Free Web Hosts are more likely to be used by spammers always hunting for multiple sites to escape registration costs.

Tokelau, the South Pacific island nation’s websites are offered for free and makes the domains risky. Save yourself from spam, viruses and spyware by avoiding the world’s riskiest web domains:

No. 1: Tokelau (.tk)
No. 2: Information (.info)
No. 3: Samoa (.ws)
No. 4: Romania (.ro)
No. 5: Commercial (.com)
No. 6: Business (.biz)
No. 7: Russia (.ru)
No. 8: Network (.net)
No. 9: Families and Individuals (.name)
No. 10: Slovakia (.sk)

FREE SEO Website Evaluation: Rank Better now!!

Published on March 2, 2007 in Alexa, DMOZ, Google, How to's, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Technorati, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web technology, crawl, free, increase page rank, keywords, metatags, ranking, tips and tricks and web traffic. 8 Comments

Here’s a quick checklist of tips on improving site traffic (in no particular order):

  1. Submit URLs to search engines and web directories to start the ranking process: Technorati, Google, Alexa, DMOZ.
  2. A good domain name and targeted meta tags can help improve search engine rankings. Keep your tags relevant to your data.
  3. Check your site validation from time to time.
  4. It would not hurt to keep a banner ad of search engines on your website to boost your own ranking.
  5. Trading links and advertisements with other web sites similar as yours will bring you more web site traffic.
  6. Linkbaiting will tempt viewers to place links to your website from other websites. One of the most important features of site engine optimization is to find a way out to attract all potential viewers. Common ways are providing information, humor, or digging in controversy.
  7. Post your ad on free classified advertising sections, free link sites, free yellow pages directories, free bulletin boards, basically use every FREE opportunity.
  8. Pay close attention to the statistics regarding unique/repeat visitors, length of stay of each visitor, number of hits, traffic ranking, search keywords, most popular pages of your site and so on. Restyle and grow your blog/website accordingly.
  9. Search engine spiders are unable to read images. If you have text on an image, make sure it gets highlighted with a mouseover, else the content is meaningless for search engines.
  10. Check how your website looks in different browsers and check for different screen resolutions. Make sure your pages don’t take too long to load. Aesthically pleasing, easy to navigate and content-rich websites are likely to get more hits and repeat viewers.
  11. Start networking, both online and offline through social and business networking sites, online communities and forums, discussion and chat rooms which fit your personality and business models.
  12. Think globally, if your site has a universal appeal, the better. If you are familiar with other cultures and people around the world, use that experience to optimize your links.
  13. If you are a good writer, submit your articles to e-zines: goarticles, ezinearticles, ideamarketers, contentdesk
  14. Show interest in other people’s work and leave comments or feedbacks. Good comments usually open doors to your own site.
  15. If you have a business, do make a newsletter for your clients and keep them updated about your latest offers. Even if you are not a business owner, you need to constantly add to your viewers’ curiosity. Be creative.
  16. Set up a survey/opinion poll on your website. Ask questions which are irresistible and compel your audience to vote. Ask for reviews of your own work and share your opinions with others too. Communicate freely with your target audience.
  17. Observe what your competitors are doing and act ahead of them.

And of course don’t forget to write a blog on this topic yourself!!