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GoGreen – Twitter-ready, Free Magazine Wordpress Theme

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:08:56 PDT

Many people are talking about ecology and the importance of going “green”. Also, there is no theme released today without being integrated with Twitter, so here is what i thought, let’s take the ecology theme and the twitter icon (by Smashing magazine) and make a truly sleek wordpress theme that will suit any blog and niche. I am happy to introduce you to a new magazine style – GoGreen. All the required plugins are included in the download. Twitter Ready, widgets ready and as always absolutely free to use. Enjoy the theme and please don’t remove the design credits.

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Heal The World – Eco Friendly, Free Wordpress theme

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:29:42 PDT

Today, on Michal Jackson’s final ceremony, many people around the world are going to hum the famous “heal the world” melody. So do we, and we adjusted the release of Heal The World theme for today. This is a very eco-friendly, inspiring and easy to use theme. The theme is ready for thumbnails, no need to actually upload special image, they are automatically pulled into the thumbnails but if you do wish to work with the right size use the key “Thumbnail”. Ready for widgets and compatible with all browsers.

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Junona – Download Free Magazine Style Theme with Sliding Gallery

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:01:00 PDT

Unlike most of other free wordpress themes available currently on the market, this theme has an in-build sliding gallery, which means it doesn’t rely on any third-party plugin and will never break, get outdated or have any security issues. Featured post is enabled by default and there are 7 widgets area to chose from, you can add your own advertising space. Required plug ins are Twitter for Wordpress, Cumulus and Automatically limit posts (all plug ins are included with the download).

License: As always our themes are absolutely free to use but please respect the designer credits are the footer.

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Amler: Free Magazine-Style Automotive Wordpress Theme

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:54:23 PDT

After a several requests to release another automotive wordpress theme I decided to finally do it and hope those who ask for it are going to love it as well. After the release of “Orly“, “Porsche Light” and “Cars Power” — Amler is here, a much more advanced variation of previous themes, this design will automatically pull images from your post and turn them into thumbnails, you will also be able to add 468*60 standard banner to the header, Adsense skyscraper and 125*125 banners to the sidebar as this theme already was designed to enable advertising features. Widgets ready, 3 columns, easy to edit and modify if needed, ready for Feedburner. Enjoy the theme and please remember that this layout was released under the Creative Commons 3.0 license, you are free to use it as long as you don’t remove the credits.

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Download Twelve 125*125 Web 2.0 Banner Templates

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:27:49 PDT

12 Fully layered 125*125 banner templates in PSD format, suitable for any kind of advertisement. All the 12 banners for the price of $2 altogether, ideal for people who want to have 125*125 high quality banners but don’t wish to pay much or have little knowledge with Photoshop. Sold exclusively on Evato’s marketplace.
Feel free to use them for both personal and commercial projects as long as you don’t directly resell them. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of work, I cannot provide support with editing these files. The PSD file is detailed and layered so you won’t have a problem tweaking it. Enjoy!

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Flow – Super Neat, Original and Premium Quality Magazine Theme

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:15:17 PDT

Although this theme is primarily beautiful thanks to the Function icons, this theme has a lot of unique qualities. You will need the Twitter for Wordpress and Limit posts Automatically plug in to make it work. Thumbnails are working with default Thumbnail custom field. The theme is ready for 200*200 advertisement space which can be used for Adsense banner or your own custom banner. As you can see, this wordpress theme is ready for all the major social bookmarks both from front page and inner pages. Elegant yet very modern design, pleasant olors scheme wit hwood and ornaments will make this layout suitable for practically any niche of magazine style blogs.

I hope you will enjoy this design and even though our free themes are offered without support, please drop a comment if you have any question, I will do my best to reply asap.

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“Loretti” New, Free and most of all – Elegant WP Theme

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:52:13 PDT

I am happy to offer you my new wordpress theme – Loretti. You are going to like this theme because it’s both neutral and yet — very trendy. Allowing you to feature a featured post, offering a stylish top navigation tabbed menu and all this is accompanied by high quality graphics. Theme Key Features of this magazine style theme:

Ready for Widgets
Lightweight, optimized for fast loading.
Ready for thumbnails in posts – no need to create custom fields, images are pulled directly from post (if there are any)
Tested on Wordpress 2.7+
Compatible with IE7, Firefox 3, Opera and Safari
Ready for Gavatars
Custom admin panel for easy maintain your blog’s appearance:

switch between logo image and text
enable featured posts and how many posts should be displayed.
choose where to display the sidebar

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Don’t Repeat My Mistake When Choosing A Hosting Service

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:43:31 PDT

As you know, toptut.com has moved from one web hosting service to another — already 3 times. Coming a long way from a small shared account to a powerful dedicated server, I learnt a lot about what one needs to think off, when picking a hosting service and here is what I can share.

As we live in the era of blogs and CMS, bandwidth isn’t really an issue anymore since it’s cheap and mostly left unused in hundreds of GB’s, something we couldn’t even dream about 5-7 years ago. There are much more important things to be taken into account, for example — other user’s satisfaction… Believe it or not, but there is nothing like honest feedback from other people who used a certain host because they also needed their disk space, bandwidth, quick support and after a short or long-term test drive, they are able to recommend or warn you.

So, where can you get honest reviews? Surely you are not going to rely on the “testimonials” posted by a mythological “John D.” on web hosting site’s sidebar! You need something sincere and genuine. For me, webhostinggeeks.com has always been the ultimate source of hosting service reviews. Instead of making a comprehensive research on each and every host (which is what I did back in 2006 when toptut.com was launched), in just a few clicks you can see all the best web hosts sorted from best to moderately-good.

Each and every one of us has different needs, some are interested in cheapest possible shared hosting, others want to go with green hosting and support the environment, while people like myself need the most powerful dedicated server out there. All you need to do is follow the sidebar navigation on webhostinggeeks.com to choose the top rated service.

You will also find plenty of useful articles dedicated to web hosting, which will tell you why having a reliable host is so important and how can you make money with web hosting. If I knew all these things a few years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and trial-and-error tactics.

So my point is, if you are a beginner webmaster considering to start your website on a quality (even the cheapest but paid) host, or — if you are unhappy with your current hosting service and thinking of migrating to a better server, I strongly recommend to use webhostinggeeks.com in order to avoid wasting time and money on a low quality service. Do your homework, see what others recommend, learn which host meets your needs and what bonuses or special deals you can get if you chose them. Good luck!