Best Corporate WordPress Themes May 2013

Here are a few of our current picks for awesome corporate themes for 2013:

Shift Flexibly Creative WP Theme

Time to make the big Shift from your cold and stiff corporate website into a highly creative, extremely customizable, responsive theme WordPress theme – Shift Premium WordPress Theme. This theme includes 12 homepage layouts to choose from. It’s drag & drop enabled feature also allows users to easily arrange, enable/disable sections according to their specific needs or tastes. Each section is customizable, with the option to change background colors, background images even the image position within each section. It is WooCommerce enabled, bbPress ready, retina ready, and fully responsive. This theme was built using the Bootstrap Framework.

Lounge

LOUNGE Premium WordPress Theme is a high quality professional WordPress theme for modern business or interactive creative use. Its clean and professional looking layout creates that sense of reliability and trustworthiness necessary in business. Amazing features include: 4 fluid AJAX animations (can be turned on or off), unlimited Parallax pages, unlimited sliders & slides to each page using two types of built-in sliders, fully responsive, modular shortcodes, and highly intuitive and friendly to use framework.

Co-Worker

CoWorker is a responsive flexible multi purpose theme built for a business, portfolio, corporate, agency or any other kind of website. Salient features include: fully responsive and retina ready design, 12 premium sliders, 30+ page templates, tons of shortcodes including a shortcode generator, 6 header options + menu styles, custom widgets, and many other features to help you redefine your website’s brand.

Moxie

Moxie Premium WordPress Theme is a blend of style, creativity and power. This powerful WordPress theme allows you to take control of your content and build the website you need with the content you want. Creating your own signature website is easy with features such as: Mega Menus, Dynamic animations with Slider Revolution, Drag and Drop feature using Visual Composer, Contact Form Builder, a built in Template System, and so much more.

Stark

Stark Premium WordPress Theme is a highly customizable multi purpose WordPress theme designed by 3 elite Themeforest authors (Damojo, Themepunch, Thunderbuddies) to give you a mega WordPress theme that leaves nothing else to be desired. Quality plugins such Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, Isotope Image Grid Plugin, and FancyBox 2 Lightbox plugin, are just some of the top-notch features included in the premium WordPress theme.

Useful WordPress Utilities to Start the Year Right


Give your WordPress site a tune up to keep it running smoothly with these helpful WordPress utilities. Remove forgotten spam comments, beef up your site’s functionalities, or simply improve the overall browsing experience of your audience, and give your website a little TLC. Check out these utilities to see which ones will work for you.

Smart Cleanup Tools

Smart Cleanup Tools is an easy to use, powerful plugin for database cleanup. With this plugin you can remove data that is no longer in use or not needed like trash, spam, or orphan posts and comments. It can help you restore database overhead and speed up database operations. This plugin supports WordPress multisites, and it has few tools designed for Network administration.

Easy Post Google Fonts

This plugin allows you to use over 600 Google fonts (even multiple fonts) in one post or page. You can specify every page element and tell it which Google font to use. No flash required.

The Countdown Pro

Add countdown functionality to your content or your sidebar area with The Countdown Pro powered by jQuery. Features and options include: date picker, expiry url, expiry text, date format, custom labels, custom callbacks, template styles, and so much more. It also comes with a shortcode generator and a multi-instances sidebar widget.

Interactive World Maps

Create as many interactive maps as you want (world, continents, countries, regions, states, metropolitan areas) with Interactive World Maps. Add and display colored regions and display them as regions or with colored markers. Useful for travel websites, multinational companies, NGOs, infographics and many other applications.

Ajax Translator Revolution Dropdown WP plugin

This user-friendly translator plugin is based on the highly rated AJAX Translator Revolution Lite jQuery plugin this time with an easy dropdown menu. Translate everything or select sections, show languages flags and names, remember visitor’s selected language.

Sugar Event Calendar for WordPress

This is a simple, lightweight event calendar plugin with just enough features you need for event management on your site. Neat way to keep visitors updated with scheduled weekly, monthly, yearly recurring, or new events and activities on your site.

17 Awesome Adobe air apps for designers

One fine day I was trying to fill in an important official form online on my Mozilla Firefox’s browser. After spending about half an hour I reached the last few questions of the form. One question there asked me to click a checkbox to answer but I could see no checkbox on the screen. After wasting a lot of time reading the instructions and every possible detail over and over again I asked for advice from my friends. One person told me that I should try to refill the form on Internet Explorer. I tried it and now the checkbox appeared and I successfully completed and submitted the form online.

The problem just described occurred because the form was designed to work especially for Internet Explorer. You see, designing an application for all systems is tedious as one has to tweak the runtime code again and again to make it compatible to work with different systems. Here is where Adobe AIR jumps in. If an internet application is designed using Adobe AIR then it will automatically work for all systems and browsers.

Technically speaking:

“Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash and Flex technologies, and Action Script to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on a broad range of devices including desktop computers, netbooks, tablets, smartphones, and TVs. AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver®, Flash Builder®, Flash Catalyst®, Flash Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems.” – Adobe’s website.

Adobe AIR has a wide array of apps that can help designers design better applications. Below I have selected 17 of them.

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The Basic Web Page Structure – HTML5 List of Tags


You can think of an HTML page as a series of containers. After an opening statement that defines the type of page to follow, there is one large element, the <html> tag, that contains the two primary structural elements, and <body>.

HTML documents consist of a tree of elements and text. Each element is denoted in the source by a start tag, such as “<body>“, and an end tag, such as “</body>“. (Certain start tags and end tags can in certain cases be omitted and are implied by other tags.)

Here’s how the basic essential code for an HTML5 web page looks:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Title of document goes here </title>
</head>
<body>
Visible text goes here…
</body>
</html>

Before we can fully appreciate what these containers or placeholders do to our webpage we need to know how they function. Below is a list of HTML5 compliant tags we can use to study and familiarize ourselves with as to the description and function of each tag. Let’s do a little exercise. As you go through the list, pick a web page (any, even this one) and right click on it. Select “view page source” and try to find the tags listed here and look for them in the page source. Try to classify which ones are basic tags, formatting tags, image tags, and so on. While you are at it, challenge yourself to decode the code. Have fun!

<bdi> Isolates a part of text that might be formatted in a different direction from other text outside it
<mark> Defines marked/highlighted text
<meter> Defines a scalar measurement within a known range (a gauge)
<progress> Represents the progress of a task
<rp> Defines what to show in browsers that do not support ruby annotations
<rt> Defines an explanation/pronunciation of characters (for East Asian typography)
<ruby> Defines a ruby annotation (for East Asian typography)
<time> Defines a date/time
<wbr> Defines a possible line-break
<datalist> Specifies a list of pre-defined options for input controls
<keygen> Defines a key-pair generator field (for forms)
<output> Defines the result of a calculation
<figure> Specifies self-contained content
<audio> Defines sound content
<source> Defines multiple media resources for media elements ( and )
<track> Defines text tracks for media elements ( and )
<video> Defines a video or movie
<nav> Defines navigation links
<command> Defines a command button that a user can invoke
<header> Defines a header for a document or section
<footer> Defines a footer for a document or section
<hgroup> Groups heading elements
<section> Defines a section in a document
<article> Defines an article
<aside> Defines content aside from the page content
<details> Defines additional details that the user can view or hide
<summary> Defines a visible heading for a details element
<embed> Defines a container for an external (non-HTML) application

Don’t forget that WordPress uses PHP but PHP is a server-side technology (runs on a server) that dynamically generates the HTML that will be sent to the browser (IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome). HTML is whatever you view on a website.