Articles about Website Design

There’s loads of places to find free Wordpress themes, the best is probably the official Wordpress Theme Gallery. You name a topic and there is undoubtedly a royalty free theme available to suit.

Our own talented studio head, Karen Rubado, designed this theme for the Online Marketer blog, and we figured we might as well make it available for others to use too…

Download Online Marketer Wordpress Theme

Here’s a screenshot:

We have a few customizations live on this site which we’ve had to remove from this distribution so that it will play nicely with an out of the box install of Wordpress, but we hope you’ll agree it is a nice, simple, and clean theme…and of course it is pretty well optimized for SEO :)

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the zip file and extract the contents
2. Upload the extracted folder to the /wp-content/themes/ folder
3. Log into your Wordpress admin, navigate to the Design administration section and select the Online Marketer theme
4. Go and make a cup of tea to celebrate because you are all done

Leave a comment here if you have any questions. We’ll try to answer them as best we can, but please understand that we can’t promise to provide installation or customization support beyond informal Q&A :)

“Netconcepts took away the headache of getting the site built so I didn’t have to manage it too closely.”

In March 2008 Blair Peach, Director of Marine Electronics launched their new ecommerce website, designed and built by Netconcepts, with the aim of shaking up the recreational marine industry online.

With many marine related websites in New Zealand being a “jack of all trades” by selling everything from ropes to wrenches, Marine Electronics differs by targeting the recreational fisherman and boat owner by being a price competitive specialist in marine electronics.

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Big news broke in the search engine world last week…Flash files (.swf) can now be indexed by the major search engines. Flash developers will be rejoicing, but at the risk of being a killjoy I’m not sure this is really worthy of celebrating…

The news broke last week, but honestly it feels like more of a PR exercise for Adobe than any real break though in the search friendliness of Flash. Our recommendation is still to use Flash only for rich media, and leave content and navigation to HTML, which will always do a better job.

The announcement actually opens more questions than provides answers, and here’s a few reasons to remain cautious… (more…)