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15 Impressive WordPress Job Board and Classified Themes

Cosmin — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:00:44 +0000

Just recently I started to see the beginning of a new trend among popular websites and blogs. As you may have already figured out, I am talking about the job board and the classified options featured in their blog content. Either we talk about Mashable, SmashingMagazine or DesignrFix, this feature is much appreciated by everyone because it helps thousands of web designers, online developers and writers to find a job they like in just few minutes.

Of course, this is also a good opportunity to build a business system and get some serious profits too. In fact, thinking about the low costs of creating such a site, makes me try it right away. Like I said, the process is quite simple and WordPress can be a great platform on which to develop such a site. The next step is getting a theme that fits your needs, a suitable host and everything’s pretty much done!

So, if you want to build a job board or a serious classified website, these are the best options for WordPress

Job Board Themes

These are usually the type of themes having special features such as user profiles and message posting along with few details about each profile.

1. JobRoller

Price – $99

One of my favorite themes in this list and it isn’t just because of the looks, but also because JobRoller includes features like Facebook integration, resume database, auto-resizing for images and also an advanced advertising support.

Top Features

Customized Login and Register Pages
Job Listing Wizard
Automatic Job Pruning

2. JobPress Pro

Price – $119

Classic job seeking website look but with lots of images and ergonomic looks. It also has advanced search integrated and featured listings along with resumes and a nice payment gateway.

Top Features

Integrates with Facebook and LinkedIn
Featured Listings
Payment Gateway

3. JobJockey

Price – $69

I like this theme because it comes with a responsive design which in today’s web is vital! You also have standalone dashboards for employers and job seekers which can easily help you transform your website into a social network / job seeking website.

Top Features

Responsive Design
Register as Job Seeker or Employer
Customized Dashboards and Profile Pages

4. Job Board by Templatic

Price – $65

Is a very professional theme created by Templating focusing on offering job seekers access to content in a jiffy. It also has an advanced search and auto-expiring jobs feature active.

Top Features

Manage Coupons
PayPal Payment Support
Auto-Expiring Job Posts

5. JobBoard by FThemes

Price – Free

A nice looking minimalist theme with great SEO support and a featured content with slider on top. It keeps the classic look of the blog, but it also has a nice logo and color scheme.

Top Features

Supports featured content
Minimalist design
Banner support integrated in admin panel

6. The 9 to 5

Price – $35

Nine to Five comes with multiple color schemes and support for payments using PayPal along resume uploader which can help increase profile view rate.

Top Features

Supports Different Currencies
Salary and Benefits
Maps Integration

7. Njobsboard

Price – Free

A classic WordPress theme keeping the focus on job posting and the search function of the site. Still, the theme keeps active the blog look so if you are a fan of blog-type job posting, then you are in luck.

Top Features

Quick Install
Lightweight Design
Easy Configuration

Classifieds Themes

If what you have in mind is a website like Craigslist, then these are the themes that fit best for you.

8. OpnPress

Price – $35

This theme was created based on the Yellow Pages concept. It is very easy to use and it also simplifies the submission forms making it easier for users to generate content.

Top Features

Built-In Deposit System
Google Maps Integration
User Panel

9. Classifieds

Price – $35

Is a simple theme focusing on the search aspect transforming your website in a Google like site for job search just with featured content and categories.

Top Features

User Dashboard
Coupon Manager
Classified Inquiry

10. eList

Price – $39 for 76 themes

A very visual theme created by ElegantThemes. It is very effective offering users the option to customize the looks of the site entirely right from the page using an advanced design editor available only at ElegantThemes.

Top Features

Unlimited Color Schemes
Ads Ready
Smooth Design

11. wpClassifieds

Price – Free

Simple, minimalist yet very nice looking. It has a random ads on top and some featured categories displayed on the main page. Thanks to it’s simplicity, is very easy to customize it.

Top Features

Valid Code at W3C
Fixed Width
Custom Widgets

12. Listings

Price – $200

One of the most professional themes in this list. The theme was created by WooThemes and it manages to recreate the feeling that you get when viewing Craigslist, just that it goes using a much more modern manner.

Top Features

Custom Homepage
Custom Single Post Theme
Google Maps Integration

13. ClassiPress

Price – $79

Works great with WordPress and also with the BuddyPress extension making it easier for users to create profiles and manage them. It’s filled with tons of boxes and spaces for you to add content at a glance.

Top Features

Multiple Color Schemes
Five Widget-Enable Sidebars
Two Different Homepage Layouts

14. Classifieds PremiumPress

Price – $80

Is one of the most popular themes created by PremiumPress. Classifieds has a minimalist design, yet it is wrapped in a nice modern cover that makes everyone desire it.

Top Features

Design Editor Integrated
Membership Packages
SEO Friendly

15. Autotrader

Price – $40

Like the name suggest, Autotrader is a lightweight theme dedicated to car classifieds. Of course, you can use it for other purposes too thanks to it’s flexible design and very customizable layout.

Top Features

Add to Watchlist
Supports PayPal Payments
8 Different Page Templates

The Real Pinterest Clone

Cosmin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:14:07 +0000

Not long ago we talked about how you can build a website like Pinterest and how to adopt it’s features using a WordPress theme. Now, I am extremely pleased to say that I stumbled upon another amazing way to help you recreate the looks and the feeling that the popular pinboard offers to us.

Social Pinboard is the name of this application, and unlike other clones like Cogzidel or PinterestClones, it comes wrapped into one of the most flexible and powerful CMS’s out there offering you all of the resources and tools that comes with it. Social Pinboard is an all in one pack extension created for Joomla users by Apptha, the company responsible for many incredible online apps and tools including the Pinterest WordPress theme described in our article and lots of extensions designed for Joomla or Magento.

Is Social Pinboard Good For You?

Like I said, the “Social Pinboard” is based on Joomla which is the second most popular content management system out there offering you a large community of developers, thousands of free and premium extensions and a highly comprehensive platform for you to manage content in a pleasant way.

The main idea behind “Social Pinboard” is to make the customization process much more accessible for everyone bringing fun along with it’s user friendly interface. In order to enhance that experience, you also get an admin management integrated in your Joomla installation that will handle the customization process in just minutes.

Another thing worth mentioning is the potential that Social Pinboard has for your business. It can sustain an unlimited number of images on it’s pinboard and at the same time has very attractive self marketing options too. At the moment, image bookmarking is the hottest trend among web startups so it can be a real income generator even for newbies.

The Authenticity of Social Pinboard

If you are familiar with the Pinterest interface, then you will notice that Social Pinboard offers the same structure, post formats, menu and even the same features designed to let everyone repin, like or comment on each picture available on the site. One other great thing about the Social Pinboard is that the login/sign up process are available through the main website or using the social websites Facebook or Twitter.

Along with these features, the extension also brings the “classic” pinning panels available in each registered user account and profile.

Marketing Potential Behind Social Pinboard

This is undoubtedly the main reason why I chose to turn my attention to Social Pinboard. The extension comes with a giant list of features to help you create a marketing strategy, in fact you will see that over the time Social Pinboard will market itself passively.

Passive marketing is like the greatest dream of every entrepreneur out there, so the fact that you get this on Social Pinboard is simply amazing. In simple words, Social Pinboard is a one of a kind money maker! How does it do it?

Integrates Social Media Profiles

For starters, like I said earlier, Social Pinboard incorporates a login/registration system based on two of the most popular social media website out there – Twitter and Facebook. In simple words, Social Pinboard will enable fast registration using these two and with it, will give the users possibility to promote your website to their social media friends in just seconds.

Invite Only System

Another great thing is that Social Pinboard has a system similar to Pinterest that requires invitations. This way, you will manage to attract loyal members to your site referred by their friends whom they trust most. The system is still active on Pinterest and it is considered one of the top marketing strategies out there and it’s responsible for over 20 million registered users on Pinterest.

Profiles

The profiles on Social Pinboard come with a minimalist and lightweight design that is easy to manage letting everybody share their favorite images and videos while creating a good looking output. These kind of profiles will keep your visitors connected to each other and allow them to share content in a jiffy. Not to say about the styling available and the cool thumbnails!

Repin and Like System

The repinning process is what makes things go so well in the Pinterest world. Repinning will allow every user on your website to share a certain image with the entire website via his profile in just seconds. This way, the user will add a description and some of his thoughts to that image creating fresh content for your website.

There’s no need for me to tell you how valuable this can be for your online business because everybody knows that search engines love fresh content.

Social Pinboard vs Other Similar Solutions

As I mentioned earlier, I choose Social Pinboard because of it’s great marketing potential which is unique and can’t be compared with other software on the market, but that’s not the only thing that I appreciate at the extension. Making a comparison between Social Pinboard and other popular solutions made me find out that they are also great, but they lack some essential features which can be found in Social Pinboard:

1. Authenticity

2. Pinning Bookmarklet

3. Social Integration

4. Advanced User Profiles

5. Great Support and a Trusted Company Behind

So, if you like the Social Pinboard extension for Joomla you can get it now at Apptha for just $249 along with a free installation and free support for the first 6 months.

22 WordPress Themes to Help You Create a Professional Online Resume

Cosmin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:42:25 +0000

When talking about WordPress, people usually see blogs, online magazines and all sorts of websites specialized in publishing articles, featuring images or approaching different subjects. The truth is that thanks to it’s minimalist yet professionally designed structure, WordPress has become a platform that can handle anything from heavy portals, blogs to portfolio websites or professional business cards/Resume websites.

You probably wonder why would you need a complex CMS such as WordPress to handle your online resume or business card when you can use a plain HTML file for it. The reason is obvious! WordPress can offer you a large repository filled with plugins, themes and tons of tools to help you manage content in a prompt manner because let’s face it, an online resume must be updated from time to time, doesn’t it?

Besides that, WordPress is easy to comprehend, fast and secure and it can be updated in a matter of seconds without requiring any technical knowledge and it’s recognized by many professionals to be the best solution for a modern online resume.

Bellow we collected a list of the most elegant and professional resume/business card themes of all times. All of them come with a friendly perspective that everybody will find majestic and astonishing. So, if you want to make a good impression, take a look at these amazing themes.

Cascade

Price – $20

I chose “Cascade” to be the first theme of this collection because it has some of the most impressive animations that I’ve ever seen created in jQuery + the amazingly beautiful color scheme and professional looks which made this theme simply amazing.

Business Card

Price – $39 Whole pack of over 80 themes

A simple, minimalist and highly professional theme designed by ElegantThemes. The theme has a navigation menu positioned on left. It also has 5 different color schemes and a fully functional gallery.

Precision

Price – $20

Precision has a very pleasant design which makes you believe that you are browsing an actual magazine. Besides that, the theme has a very nice image animation available on images, menu and the actual content.

Bizz Card

Price – Free

A nice business card theme available for free and premium too. The theme offers a content-wide image and a flick photostream along with a nice dropdown menu at top.

Circlus

Price – $25

The theme has a nice approach using circles instead of classic menu buttons and adding lots of jQuery animations making you feel like using an actual PC OS.

Creative Zodiac

Price – $35

Besides the fact that it looks astonishing and incredibly professional, Creative Zodiac is preloaded with jQuery and lots of fancy technologies to make your vCard look brilliant.

Get Hired

Price – $18

A classic curriculum vitae transposed in a modern looking WordPress theme. Of course, the theme adds the social media buttons, the community sections and lots of color schemes.

Impress

Price – $20

This theme embeds the classic looking business card into a very friendly and extremely colorful background that surprise pleasantly any kind of audience.

Ipseity

Price – Free

Is a minimalist WordPress theme created by John Saddington, a popular vCard creator.

Profile

Price – Free

Is a lightweight theme intended for small presentations, business and personal online business cards or resume for that matter.

ZeeBizz Card

Price – Free

A “funky” free business card style theme available in the classic layout on two columns.

Storelicious vCard

Price – $

An extremely professional and creative vCard theme available for a personal and commercial use. The theme also has a featured section on bottom filled with jQuery animations.

MyResume

Price – $39 for whole collection of over 80 themes

Yet another brilliant theme created by ElegantThemes team. The desire for authenticity makes this theme to look like an actual paper pinned on a board offering a large number of features and color schemes, of course.

The Digital Business Card

Price – Free

This is another great theme created by the expert in vCards John L. Saddington. In fact, he and his theme became quite popular after CNN interviewed him about the online vCards.

Visiting Card

Price – Free

Is a free professional “panel like” WordPress theme that offers your visitors a great look at what you are, what you do along with a nice list of ways to contact you.

Zwin

Price – $25

This theme has a responsive design making you look good on PC, mobile and tablet devices too. Besides that, Zwin offers an ergonomic environment filled with lots of animations.

ShapeShifter

Price – $30

If you plan to add lots of info in your business card, then this theme is highly recommended for you because it can handle a lot of content in a elegant manner. Besides that, ShapeShifter will impress your audience with lots of animations and sliders.

MiniCard

Price – Free

A professional theme with vCard/hCard support making it very easy for you to configure it from it’s admin panel.

Vue

Price – $35

The theme includes a set of over 7 different skins and color schemes, 2 homepage sliders and unbranded theme options.

Minisite

Price – $25

Is an advanced 4 in 1 portfolio/business card theme combining the classic looks of a personal blog with a minimalist resume like page.

SuperSlick Card

Price – $20

Extremely easy to customize SuperSlick to your own preferences thanks to it’s 7 different skins and the different types of navigation (icon menu/text menu).

Sharp

Price – $25

An impressive looking theme powered by Ajax technologies based on a menu that looks like a butterfly which is animated and very lightweight.

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21 BuddyPress Themes to Help You Build a Brilliant Social Site

Cosmin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:00:24 +0000

Just recently we realized that we didn’t have the chance to talk about BuddyPress at all, so here’s a bit about BuddyPress and why it is the best in the industry.

BuddyPress is a free, open-source content management/extension for WordPress which was developed by Automattic as a result to their desire to offer WordPress users the chance to create a professional social community without having many expenses and without needing any programing skills.

Just like WordPress, the extension got extremely popular and new developers joined the community just in just days since it’s launch. Even though is not very old in the industry, BuddyPress community has managed to build a tremendous database of plugins and themes, so without a doubt more posts about the platform will come soon.

In fact that’s one of the main reasons why BuddyPress will offer you everything you need and more, not to say the fact that is based on the most stable and popular CMS of all time.

Right now just take a look at these premium and free themes and see why BuddyPress is the best social CMS out there.

1. Mingle

Price – $45

A complete WordPress theme with support for the latest BuddyPress version. Mingle has a very elegant and modern portal look that helps you integrate all the social functions in a image-friendly way. Besides that, the theme has an advanced admin panel along with layout management so you don’t need to write any code at all, but customize it effortless.

2. ReviewIt

Price – $45

Like the name says, is a theme that offers great layout support for review-type posts along with GD Star Rating. You can add custom review tags and pages and also have custom post types. ReviewIT comes in 2 color schemes – a dark one like in the screenshoot and a lighter one.

3. Custom Community

Price – Free

This is probably the most professional free BuddyPress theme I have ever encountered. Custom Community also has a premium version available at ThemeKraft for $69.

4. Salutation

Prince – $50

You can use it for a corporate type of website hosted on WordPress or BuddyPress. Salutation offers a very clean design and great ergonomics. The navigation embeds jQuery with nice animations and every user can create a fully customized design of the theme using the menu on right.

5. Huddle

Price – $50

Huddle is the ironic name because this great blue theme has a layout which organizes the content very nice and it is in fact user friendly offering them an experience similar to which you have when you visit sites like Facebook or LinkedIn.

6. Garden

Price – Free

A theme that fits very well for nature and retail related websites. As you can see, Garden is mostly brown, but with a very creative background and with lots of animations too.

7. DynamiX

Price – $45

One of the most popular BuddyPress Themes out there and for good reasons. DynamiX offers a very creative and innovative “decomposing” slider along with lots of content tabs and a featured section on main page. Just like ReviewIt and Mingle, DynamiX gives you the chance to create your own fully customized post types and pages.

8. Game Portal

Price – $45

For those who might think that Game Portal is all looks, they should know that this incredibly lightweight theme comes with a comprehensive design kit too. Among the most popular features, Game Portal brings a suite of shortcodes and four sidebar positions, not to say about how social friendly it is.

9. NiuKita

Price – Free

Has a very modern look that makes you believe you are in a Cosmic battle. It comes in a classic blog style, but it also has lots of social friendly gadgets including Twitter stream and the in-BuddyPress stats.

10. Score

Price – $45

This is yet another Review theme brought by the creators of ReviewIt design. This time though, we talk about a design similar to RottenTomatoes website. Just like ReviewIt, the theme has rating system and a unique homepage with tons of featured content options.

11. Feature!

Price – $45

It has support for WordPress with BuddyPress and also for forum platform BBpress. Feature has a nice looking and ergonomic slider on homepage and also an advanced panel on left that lets your users create their favorite design of the website.

12. SuperMassive

Price – $45

The name describes best this theme which is huge! SuperMassive contains over 40 Shortcodes, five distinctive skins, Flash, HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo players included. Besides that is a pro, unique theme which has a very beautiful, elegant look.

13. Gratitude

Price – $45

One of my favorite themes created by the experts at ZenThemes. Gratitude is one of the single themes with responsive design and it stands out with it’s lightweight design and professional, modern layout.

14. Bruce

Price – Free

Yet another great theme created by Milo from 3OneSeven. The theme has a clean look and a layout that was designed to support a website with a lot of content.

15. BuddyBoss

Price – $59.95

Highly professional theme designed especially to fulfill the need for a design similar to most popular social media websites out there. As I said, BuddyBoss embeds the members data in a very friendly manner with every possibility.

16. Frisco

Price – Free

A minimalist design that has lots of great potential. In fact Frisco is mostly used as a framework for the default theme available on BuddyPress called BP-Default.

17. Solitude

Price – Free

A classic good looking BuddyPress theme with loads of content boxes for you to display featured content on home page.

18. Buddies

Price – $45

A cool ZenThemes design which incorporates all BuddyPress functions in a social friendly manner. The theme is extremely lightweight and also responsive so that no matter what device your visitors use, they will experience the same beautiful layout.

19. Ines

Price – Free

A clean grid based BuddyPress theme which fits best for retail websites or blogs. The theme also has lots of animations created in jQuery.

20. Speed

Price – Free

The name brings lots of details about what this theme is about. You can use it for other niches too, but sports fits best.

21. Cosmic Buddy

Price – Free

A nice theme brought to you by the BuddyPress community at BuddyDev. Cosmic Buddy manages to create a bond between fun and entertaining with the business and pro.

65 Stylish and Lightweight Responsive WordPress Themes

Cosmin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:23:37 +0000

I know that many of you are not familiar with the “responsive design” term so to make it simple, responsive web design or RWD is the one specialized in creating W3C and CSS3 queries coming in fluid proportion so that the final design can easily adapt to any device no matter of it’s size and resolution. Also, in some pro themes you will see that they implement flexible images too.

We all want to keep the same design for the desktop version of the website, the iPad version and the iPhone and mobile one because the design is a very valuable way of branding, but in most cases we decide to implement another mobile version just because we are afraid that it wouldn’t be fast enough. No worries, though because the responsive themes in this list are extremely light-weight, but also very creative so you will finally be able to have speed and beauty on all devices out there.

You can also take a look at our collection of Free WordPress Themes Designed for Mobile Devices also if you want to optimize the speed of your website check out the: How to Make Your Website Faster Than Speedy Gonzales Tutorial.

Grizzly

Price – $35

Sideways

Price – $35

Origin

Price – Free

Sheeva

Price – $35

Apex

Price – $35

Webzine

Price – $35

Stilo

Price – $35

Jigsaw

Price – $35

Agenci

Price – $35

Project9

Price – $35

Angular

Price – $35

Website

Price – $35

Construct

Price – $35

Propulsion

Price – $40

Prometheus

Price – $35

Swix

Price – $35

Notebook

Price – $35

Size Mttrs

Price – $35

Quickr

Price – $35

Zig Zag

Price – $30

Sentence

Price – $35

Constellation

Price – Free

Twenty Ten Responsive

Price – Free

Locus

Price – $30

BangKok Press

Price – $35

Akita

Price – $35

Mixfolio

Price – Free

Lucky Times

Price – $30

Alyeska

Price – $35

Lulu

Price – $35

Swagger

Price – $35

Modernize

Price – $35

Styx

Price – $35

XO

Price – $35

Bounce

Price – $35

Barely Corporate

Price – $30

Responser

Price – $35

SimpleMarket

Price – Free

Reaction

Price – $35

Shape Shifter

Price – $35

Aware

Price – $35

Skeleton

Price – Free

Super Skeleton

Price – $35

Flare

Price – $35

View

Price – $30

Ari

Price – Free

Office

Price – $35

Century

Price – $35

DailyPost

Price – Free

Rawa

Price – $30

BonPress

Price – Free

Leon

Price – Free

Pronto

Price – Free

Blaskan Dev

Price – Free

TumblePress

Price – Free

Basic

Price – Free

iTheme2

Price – Free

Yoko

Price – Free

Whiteboard Framework

Price – Free

Flexible

Price – Free

Slate

Price – $35

Orion

Price – $
79

Rewrite

Price – $35

Respo

Price – Free

100+ Tutorials To Help You Create A Professional Business Card

Cosmin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:50:35 +0000

You know that saying “A business without a business card is not an actual business”. Personally I believe that having a professional business card shows your interest in details which usually makes your clients trust your business. That’s why, I believe that a business with a crappy business card is not one that cares about the customer.

The list is quite large, so in order to save some loading time we excluded images from tips and tricks for business cards section. Just click on image to get the biz card tutorial and on title for tips.

TIP – For a better and faster navigation between the cards, we recommend holding the CTRL button while clicking the links. This way, the link will open in new tab keeping you in the list too.

Design a Professional Business Card

These tutorials will walk you through every step required for creating a professional business card. All you need to do is to be patient and you will the business card you desire in less time then you might imagined.

Mockup Business Card

Colorful Biz

Dark and Slick Business Card

Abstract Callum Design

Design a business card in photoshop tutorial

Color Dodge Design

Stylish Business Card in Photoshop

Simple Blue – Neil Dawson

Grungy

Fusion – How to Set up a Business Card

Metallic Business Card

HV Patter Business Card

Blue Visiting Card

InDesign Tutorial

Minimalist Modern Card

Create a Sophisticated Business Card Ready for Printing

Nebula Business Card

Collis Ta’eed Business Card

Professional Biz Card

PS Hero Business Card

Exonet Illustrator

Simple Blue-Grey

UPrinting

Creative Ice Card

Cool Grunge Business Card

Basic Card Design

Professional Card With Modern Background

Unusual Presentation

Octotuts – Vintage Style Business Card

Chris Spooner Printer Ready

Illustrator and ABC Professional Business Card

Visibility

Uprinting – Illustrator Tutorial

Tomas Lauranivicius

Striped Business Card

FlashMint – Stylish Card

Photoshop Nerds

OurTuts – Jeans Business Card

Dr. Ho.ro

Bloom Web Design – Cool Print Ready Business Card

AnimHut – Grungy Biz Card

Michael Locke – Web Consulting

Graphic Designer

Hassan Akbar

NBC Solutions – InDesign Tutorial

Six Revisions

Swiss Inspired Business Card

Cartoon Friendly Biz Card

Colorful Vibrant

Old Grudge

Scott Citron

Multicolor Business Card

Sleek Business Card from Scratch

Sim Biz Card

Molten Chocolate

Red Business Card

Chris Print Ready Business Cards

Calendar Business Card

MacGeeks Minimalist Biz Card

Stunning Mesh

Abstract Bokeh Card

Simple Creative Blue Business Card

Mary Smith Designs

HandMade

Vintage Ness Controller 8 Bit Biz Card

Simple Good Looking Business Card

All-Mash 8 Bit

Architect Business Card

Alien Business Card

Basic

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HTML5 vs Flash – Which One Has Cooler Video Players?

Cosmin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:31:42 +0000

Is no secret that we support the new technologies that come with HTML5, but at the same time we care about Flash too. After all, Flash player was here first and brought us incredible things that we couldn’t have imagined. Still, there’s time to approach new, innovative and the one that requires least from our resources and time, right? HTML5 does that for us because it requires no actual third party plugin and it is most certainly the most mobile friendly technology available too.

We don’t want to influence your opinions about the two of them and that’s why we gathered 20 video players created using both technologies. Test them all and see which one fits best with your needs because after all there’s a matter of preference and one can fit better than other in different situations.

Check out each of the examples and find the one that’s best for you. Click on title for more features and purchasing and on image to get the live preview of the element.

Flash Video Players

Flash players are recognized to be very interesting and user friendly giving you a large suite of features to help you view videos, add subtitle, add effects and basically everything that is customization. Bellow are some nice previews of this.

Video Roll

Available for $20

One of the most elegant video player in this list. Video roll allows you to display a fancy video gallery which can be displayed in multiple formats – static, wheel, flipper, complete etc.

Video Player With Editable Subtitles

Available for $20

What’s great at this video player is that it comes with a built-in subtitle editors. You can add, synchronize and edit every subtitle that you add on this video while the video is playing.

Video Player + Ads

Available for $15

A simple yet elegant video player which comes with the standard menu, but it also helps the ones interested in business by offering support for advertising.

XML Creative Player

Available for $12

This video player is simple, but it supports YouTube and everything is done without you having to edit any flash file in XML.

YouTube Video Player

Available for $15

Like the name says, this flash player will help you embed any kind of YouTube video into a nice gallery along with a menu that allows others to embed your video.

Smart Video Player

Available for $10

If you are looking for a light-weight Flash powered video player, than this is the one for you.

FLV/MP3 Media Player

Available for $12

As you can see, the player is very modern and good looking, but instead of displaying the image menu, it displays a text one.

Simple Resizable Media Player

Available for $10

Video size can be a big issue if your visitors come from all sorts of devices with different resolution. This player will resize your videos automatically.

HTML5 Video Players

HTML5 Video players are more popular not especially because they come with fancy features, but more because they are lightweight and easy to adopt on mobile devices of any kind. One other benefit is that you will be able to buy a cool professional and highly customizable HTML5 video player for as low as $5.

Vplayer

Available for $7

A very cheap and minimalist video player. If your main goal is the speed, then is a great idea to buy this video player because it is also very easy to customize.

YouTube SEO Playlist

Available for $10

SEO is very important even if we talk about videos. This player will help you embed videos in a nice gallery which will be loved by search engines.

MediaBox

Available for $15

Very nice looking media player where you can embed images, music or videos. Just like a desktop app, the player will display what item is playing currently and a nice dropdown menu.

Video Music Box

Available for $8

This player is fed with YouTube videos which are transformed into music files right inside it.

jQuery HTML5 Player

Available for $5

A lightning fast video player created just to fit the need for a simple video player which does just the main things.

Video Gallery

Available for $18

Another great video gallery, but this time we talk about one that is fed with Vimeo videos. Just like the flash one this comes with a nice scrolling effect too.

34 Pinterest-Like WordPress Themes

Cosmin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:17:06 +0000

Everybody knows how fast Pinterest has grown and how it has become the hottest tech startup of 2012 and in just few months of it’s existence it has managed to hit the 11 million registered users milestone. This is the fastest growing website in all times, so I guess it is only obvious to want to recreate a website following a similar path. That’s why we created the “Ways to Build a Pinterest-Like Website” article, but we still need to add some WordPress flavor, right? I know that many of you can’t break up with WordPress and nobody can’t blame you for that.

WordPress is a simple, light-weight platform and at the same time is the one providing top mods and customizations, so I think is the right thing to go with it in this project. For those I gathered best collection of WordPress themes to help you create a site just like Pinterest. The list is quite solid, so I am sure you will be able to find something to fit your requirements.

Beauty, professionalism and style would be best 3 words describing these themes. There are both free and premium themes, but I’m sure a small investment is nothing when it comes to creating an innovative, fun website, right?

Apptha

Premium – $59

This is most definitely the most Pinterest-Like theme in this list. Apptha really manages to combine the elements you can find on Pinterest and it also gives you some of the features available in the image bookmarking site.

Graphic

Free Theme

One of the most innovative free theme that comes from Dessign team. It is special because of the way posts are aligned in the page along with a featured section available in the middle.

Gridnik

Premium – $30

Nice theme, pretty close to the Pinterest design, it comes with a great rollover fading effect and it also comes in multiple colors.

The Narrow Way

Premium – $49

Is a combo theme containing 2 of the main themes created by SuperThemes.org – TNW Evo and TNW Lite both of them based on an advanced visual customizing tool.

Gridline

Premium – $35

Either you choose to showcase your portfolio or to blog using a lots of photos, this theme brings a very pleasant aspect to your blog or website. What makes it special is the fading image effect and highlights. You can see all main posts and those that come are in the shadow.

FolioGrid

Premium – $48

Minimalist theme with a nice mouse rollover effect and a cool loading content element.

iPhoto

Free Theme

Brilliant free theme created by TutsPress Team. It has an animated way to show next content along with cool fading effects on each photo.

AutoFocus

Premium – $25

One of the most popular Grid themes available in this list.

Exhibit

Premium – $35

A clean design which comes in 2 different skins – one light and one dark.

Zoho

Premium – $35

It has over 16 different background patterns to fit with your style, 5 blog layouts and social media features integrated in an advanced control panel.

PinPress

Premium – $69

One of the most similar looks to Pinterest. PinPress is simple, neat and comes with a professional set of features to help you create a one of a kind image bookmarking website in no time.

Daily Notes

Premium Pack – Only $39 for 84 Themes

Simple, elegant and it comes in 3 different skins. The nice rollover effect makes us believe we are browsing an actual book.

Imbalance 2

Free Theme

If you are the kind that likes very minimalist solutions, then Imbalance is perfect for you. This theme is extremely lightweight, but at the same time comes with a powerful structure and is very ergonomic

Hypergrid

Premium – $35

You like to see just thumbnails like on Pinterest, but you want them to be same size and look good within a modern design? Well, then Hypergrid is the theme for you.

ecoStrips

Premium – $25

ecoStrips creates a dynamic wall that arranges itself beautifully based on the user’s screen size. The theme has become quite popular lately.

TheStyle

Premium Pack – Only $39 for 84 Themes

Is a theme created by the guys at ElegantThemes and I guess there’s no need for me to tell you how great their themes are. TheStyle recreates Pinterest’s design + a nice highlight effect followed by a very modern layout.

Reflex

Premium – $35

Is a dynamic grid/portfolio WordPress with a powerful theme management tool and 9 color schemes.

Photum

Free Theme

Probably the best free replica of the popular image bookmarking website.

Bookcase

Premium – $30

Very user friendly portfolio theme which fits perfect for a web designer, photographer or video maker.

Grid Portfolio

Premium – $30

Like all the themes from Dessign team, this is a very clean and minimalist grid theme.

Gridler

Premium – $30

It supports multiple post formats and it brings the cool Tumblr style posts into a very modern WordPress theme.

Aperio

Free Theme

This theme looks almost the same as the first version of AutoFocus theme. What is great is that you can get the “first” version of Autofocus for free.

GridLocked

Premium – $40

Grid based WordPress theme which supports layout shuffling and post format making Tumblr fans very happy about it.

Evolutive2

Premium – $49

A slick and cool WordPress theme designed by SuperThemes.org . The theme comes with an advanced Ajax-powered loader which makes browsing fun and easy.

NoteBook

Premium Pack – Only $39 for 84 Themes

A nice multimedia theme which looks like Pinterest. The theme embeds lots of new technologies including HTML5 and CSS3 animations.

Pronto

Free Theme

Translation of Pronto is quick and this is how this theme treats content making it accessible in a very lightweight form.

SideWinder

Premium – $35

One of my favorite designs in this list. It manages to create a fusion between modern and elegant while keeping attention to ergonomics and bringing important information in main-screen. It is based on dynamic vGrid Plugin.

Minimal Dessign

Free Theme

Like the name says, this is a simple grid-based WordPress theme which looks like Pinterest, but with a different structure.

FlexFolio

Premium – $30

A dark version of Pinterest with lots of hexagonal elements making it more modern and futuristic.

Sliding

Premium – $70

I have to mention that this theme only works 100% fine if you have the WooCommerce Plugin installed. This is a plugin created by WooThemes for eCommerce websites powered by WordPress. Don’t worry because the plugin is free and you can get it here.

gRID!

Free Theme

Is a typical minimalist, yet very elegant Pinterest-like WordPress theme which has a pleasant layout + a section for featured posts which can be seen on the left side.

Helios

Premium – $35

Elegant theme which can fit perfectly fine in websites dedicated to photography or portfolios.

Shaken and Stirred

Free and Premium Versions

The theme is just like Pinterest just is available on blue. You can get Shaken and Stirred Lite which is available for free or get the premium version which comes with some few special features.

Modern

Free Theme

Yet another beautiful free WordPress theme that looks like Pinterest and comes from Dessign.

Cluster One

Premium – $49

Yet another amazing grid style theme from SuperThemes.org team!

25 jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials to Help You Build Apple-Like Designs

Cosmin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:00:19 +0000

Lately we talked a lot about HTML5 and the new revolution that comes with it, but we forgot on mentioning jQuery, an essential element that bonds with HTML5 and brings us so much joy and beauty in our daily web experiences. jQuery (the write less, do more JavaScript library) is responsible for those fancy sliders, the animated menus and pretty much every cool motion-friendly element that a web page has while keeping things clean and light-weight.

Combining all of these brilliant techniques with CSS3 makes things even more interesting and if we add some of that unique Apple flavor to the design, we obtain a marvelous result making everybody happy and at the same time embracing the future.

1. Create iPhone Unlock Screen

Helps you create a nice iPhone desktop along with embedding the “Slide to Unlock” menu which works perfectly fine. This tutorial combines XHTML, CSS and a bit of jQuery to give the amazing iPhone touch and design.

2. The New Apple Slideshow Gallery

You know that Apple has had tons of sliders available on the Apple.com website and all of them brought great designs and innovation in the industry. In this tutorial, the guys at Tutorialzine managed to recreate one of the latest designs and explained it to you step by step in a nice jQuery tutorial.

3. Create iPhone Retina Effect

Even when it comes to magnifying content, Apple manages to arouse our interest and to be honest is a pretty cool effect that you get on Safari. This tutorial shows you how to do that exactly using jQuery and some CSS in XHTML.

4. Create Dock Like on Leopard

I’m sure that this tutorial will make happy many of you because I’ve seen people looking for the cool dock and how to add it on Windows desktops, mobile phones and even on websites. Now you can embed it with ease in your website and you can also add some other great functions to it too.

5. Recreate The Mac book Menu-bar

You know that menu-bar available on top of your Macbook and also on Apple.com? Well, now you can create that and use it on your website along with it’s great Apple design.

6. Breadcrumbs Like Apple.com

Breadcrumbs are elements that make navigation on a site much more easy and fun, and as you probably know Apple has one of those too. In fact, even Devstand has one of them. In this tutorial you will learn how to build a replica of the one available on Apple.com .

7. Apple’s OS Menu

If you are familiar with Mac OS, then you will know how this jQuery plug-in looks like. Basically, what jqDock does is to increase the icons size on rollover just like the native dock available on Mac.

8. iPhone-Like Toggle Buttons

You know that on and off icon switcher available on iDevice menus? Well, this iToggle transforms that menu into a web-based application and let’s you embed it in whatever application you wish along with the nice smooth Apple design.

9. iPhone – iPad Scrolling Effect

You know that touch and drag motion available on iPad scrolling effect? Well, this is exactly what this tutorial helps you to do, but this time in a web interface by clicking and dragging.

10. Complete jQuery UI for iPhone

This is a Google Code project designed to help you rebuild the iPhone and iPad user-interface along with their functions in a web-based environment. The project contains detailed info about jQuery, download page and Wikis to help you go through every step with ease.

11. Build iPhone’s Springboard

A great tutorial brought to you by CSS-Tricks website to help you build a replica of the iPhone Springboard containing natural effects and click-able icons

12. iPad-Themed jQuery Slider

A nice looking and filled with effects jQuery slider integrated within the iPad smooth look just like a frame.

13. Apple Login Form With 3D Transformation

Just a simple login form containing the popular shiny Apple-Like background. Keep in mind that the form doesn’t contain any additional PHP code so it does nothing. The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you how to make the design only. What’s even cooler at this form is that when you click on “Forgot?”, the panel spins and gives you the password recovery options.

14. iPhone’s Contact Book

Is an exact replica of the iPhone Contact Book. This even comes with a Top indicator which changes character letter while scrolling (Just like the iPhone) based on whatever person you want to “call”.

15. Create iPhone-Like Passwords Fields

You know that magnifier when you type passwords, the magnifier which shows you just the last letter in your password? Well, that is exactly what this tutorial show’s you how to make + a button which allows you to see the entire password.

16. Build Shiny Knobs Control Using jQuery

Yet another brilliant tutorial from Tutorialzine! This time we talk about the specific shiny buttons with controllers.

17. Fancy Apple-Style Slide Navigation

This menu is based on the original Apple.com menu, but unlike that one, this menu comes with some cool animations too. The menu will show a slide-out image while rolling over an item in the list with slide-in and masking after rolling out.

18. Recreate Mac’s Leopard Desktop

We talked about the cool jqDock with magnifying icons on rollover, but this time we have some more interesting features along with windows and gadgets which can be easily moved based on preference.

19. Slick Content Slider

A fancy elegant slider for content that comes with a sliding bar so that you can choose how fast you switch between products or elements of the site.

20. Make an Apple-Like Splash Screen

Apple has always got an interesting way to feature their products making you focus on what really matters. This tutorial helps you make the exact same thing by offering a intro with fading text before the actual show.

21. Search Suggestion Like on Apple.com

Just like Google, Bing and many other major search engines, the Apple website comes with a search suggestion tools which helps you find things more easily. This jQuery tutorial helps you create a replica of that search-suggestion.

22. Downloads Menu Effect

Inspired by the Apple.com Download section. You can see that when you roll over a main category, the menu expands and unveils submenus.

23. Apple-Inspired Flash Preloader

The attention to details is what makes things great, right? Well, even if most people don’t actually care about customizing and improving the preloader looks, Apple does and you can use that too.

24. Floating Elements

Fixed elements are of great use especially when you launch a new product or you have a piece of content which needs maximum audience. This makes elements stay where you place them even if people scroll down through content.

25. iPod-Like Drilldown Menu

A nice user friendly way to browse through deep hierarchy menus. This helps users to focus on whatever they search for and access it fast just like on iPod devices.

26. Tipue Drop

This is a menu created by the guys at Tipue. The search menu is pretty similar to the one available on Apple.com and you can also download it for free.

Ways to Build a Site Like Pinterest

Cosmin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:28:30 +0000

Pinterest, the hottest tech startup of 2012 is also the first website ever to hit the 10 million monthly visitors in such a short period of time. Besides that, Pinterest is still using an invitation only registration system which has managed to gather over 5 million active users and become one of the leading traffic sources for many important websites.

Considering this amazing success of Pinterest among image bookmarking websites, it is only obvious that people are interested in building a website with similar functions. That’s why I tought it would be a good idea to give you some tips on how to do this properly even if you don’t have any programming knowledge at all.

I’m not saying you should start plagiarize Pinterest or similar websites, but approach a image bookmarking system. These tools, themes and mods will help you start this in a nice manner.

Pinterest-Like WordPress Themes

WordPress is the most popular content management system and it seems like there is already a large number of developers interested in adding Pinterest-like features to WordPress. Among these we have some talented and dedicated web designers too. I have a feeling that soon enough the web will be filled with themes similar to Pinterest, but until then, check out these great themes:

The Narrow Way

Is a fusion between two previous WordPress themes – TNW Evo and TNW Lite, both combining a easy to navigate grid design. You can download this great theme at SuperThemes.org

FolioGrid

A theme that brings innovation in the portfolio-type WordPress themes. FolioGrid is very flexible and it fits on many niches including photo sharing websites.

Evolutive2

Yet another brilliant theme created by the super guys at SuperThemes.org . The theme embeds LTE technologies which gives you a better WYSIWYG experience. The theme is premium and you can buy it for $49 or you can test their free version called Evolutive-Lite.

AutoFocus

A special design created to serve the photographers with a user friendly navigation and a way to display images in multiple sizes without disturbing the website look in any kind.

Imbalance 2

Like the name says, this theme was designed to bring the contemporary chaotic, yet very intriguing modern design. If you are looking for a minimalist and light-weight style, then this is the right solution for your Pinterest-Like site.

TheStyle

Is a brilliant WordPress theme created by the popular WordPress theme developers at ElegantThemes. You can get this theme and tens of others for just $39 by joining ElegantThemes

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Shaken and Stirred

This great theme is available in 2 versions: one lite which is free for use and the other one is premium available for $50. Both of them are highly customizable and they embed the Pinterest style along with some mods that can help you save bookmarks much more easily.

You can also check our full list of Pinterest-Like WordPress Themes

Pinterest Clones

Some web developers took action on building pinterest scripts so even if the site is pretty new, you have lots of options for building your image bookmarking community in no time.

Cogzidel

A team of expert web programmers specialized in creating scripts of the most popular online websites. In their list is Groupon, Yipit clone and even a neat clone of the popular cloud storage website, Dropbox.

PinterestClones

The name says it all. This is pretty new project recreating Pinterest in detail. You get great support, it is the most stable platform out there and it also brings all the features available on Pinterest.

Drupal

One of the most popular content management systems available along with WordPress and Joomla. Drupal has always placed great emphasis on developing cutting-edge web technologies for their members.

Joomla

Like Drupal and WordPress, Joomla benefits from having a large web community established many years ago. The script is free and open source and that makes it very malleable and developer friendly. You should know that developers at Apptha created a complete Joomla extension called Social Pinboard.

Get a Coder

This is not always the cheapest option, but still…it is a good idea to use talented web professionals to help you with solving this matter. Either if you choose a specialized website like eLance or just a site like Craigslist, you can get a pretty good ROI. For instance, on Freelancer.com this guy has posted a job in which he requires a WordPress theme design similar to Pinterest.

Some other great sites for posting freelance jobs are: eLance.com or Guru.com . All of these sites can provide you high quality and insurance that you will get your project done in time thanks to their professionals. If you want to get even more opinions or job offers, then is a good idea to pay a visit to DigitalPoint Forums which is always eager to help you with whatever web job you might have.

With that being said, I really hope that you will build your Pinterest-Like website soon because this industry is expanding quite fast. Also, remember to pay a visit from time to time on our Pinterest tag because we post there frequently and you might find useful tools for your campaing.