I recently tested a Premium WordPress theme, that I have had my eye on for awhile, the theme is named WPRemix. Besides I had heard so much about Remix that my curiosity had finally gotten the better of me. The purchase price $75.00 for a single use license was in line with most other themes also claiming to be “Premium”.
 
At the home site for WPRemix the marketing hype makes some pretty bold claims, that I was eager to put to the test. Here is the main tagline’s claim to potential customers:
 

Bundled with more than 50 strategically designed & coded custom static page templates, the theme enables everyone to publish small sites in minutes saving weeks of time and maintain top notch standards-compliant quality.”

50 Different templates

50 templates, that’s right 10 Home Pages, 20 Inner site Pages, 5 Gallery type pages, 5 product pages and 5 miscellaneous specialty pages. If you do the math, that comes to actually 45 pages. with some fudging of the numbers, I guess you could also include a Blog Page which WordPress creates and a Contact page which  a plug-in might also create bringing the template count up to 47 total, still shy 3+ templates of “more than 50″.
 
Though technically not pages, the theme also ships with 4 headers, 6 sidebars and an optional footer. If you counted these additional files the total template count rises to 57. This small caveat is only an observation that I made and not so critical a point considering that most other WordPress themes come with only a “Home” page and a “Blog” page. The shear number of templates that Remix includes is where it’s true strength lies. It’s not just the number of templates, but the careful selection and design that went into them.
 
As you study the templates closely, the subtle considerations that went into the layout and extensive CSS cross-browser compliant styling becomes apparent. With Remix it is difficult to create a new page style or design that has not already been included. This translates directly into a shorter site development time when creating new websites. The diversity and flexibility of the CSS styling is as if someone poured out a large box of “LEGO” parts on the floor in front of you from which anything imaginable could be created. Anyone that has designed more than a few websites will tell you to never re-invent the wheel. Cutting and pasting CSS snippets of code here and there is common practice when coming up with new site designs.
 
Because WordPress provides a WYSIWYG visual design tab under which to work, a false sense of simplicity can develop for those who know little of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). And this as it turns out is the biggest complaint regarding the Remix theme. However, it is all a matter of perspective as to how valid this complaint is. WordPress by default fosters an industry attitude that anyone who can read and type can design a website. This simply is not true, otherwise there wouldn’t be an HTML tab just to the right of the visual tab in the WordPress editor. Obviously as human beings we all tend to ask for more than we can digest once we gain enough knowledge to be dangerous.

Anyone who expects to be adding rich media such as audio and video to their sites in WordPress should also be prepared to get their feet wet with at least a basic understanding of CSS and HTML. I have seen discussions on the support forum mention that the theme is better suited for experienced developers. I don’t entirely agree with this statement. If you use the theme templates as they are, without imagining all sorts of things you would like to do but don’t possess the knowledge to accomplish, a perfectly presentable professional website can be created by most end users. Still, The theme is a great time saver for those who understand CSS and a bit more daunting for those who may need to brush up on their CSS and HTML.
 
Of course, all of the standard bells and whistles one would expect to find are present and accounted for in the functionality of the Remix theme. RSS Feeds, Subscribe by FeedBurner email forms, sharing and bookmarking, a site search field, Testimonials and much more. There are unique specialty pages that provide for tabbed and slider presentation of information. You will be hard pressed to imagine much more than has already been thought of in Remix.

One last important observation regarding this theme is, Remix is the only theme that currently offers a “Website” with a “Blog”. When you check out other themes you will notice that they will typically only have a “Landing/Home” page and a “Blog” page. I have designed sites using Remix that have actually been “De-Blogged”, as stand-alone websites. This capability alone, should give even the most discerning potential customer a reason to look at Remix a bit closer, before making any other theme purchase.
 

Support Forum

Finally, the Remix theme has a support forum which stands behind the product. I found the forum support a bit different than most other forums. It seems to be modeled more after a private technical support forum than an open discussion format where any and everything is discussed. This has never prevented me from getting answers to my questions regarding the theme. I actually observed response times of less than an hour in many instances when a question had been asked. I noticed that the moderator will tactfully redirect you to support links if you do not ask questions directly related to the theme, i.e., do not expect to get support for setting up Google Analytics at the Remix forum.
 
For anyone looking to shorten website design time and the most bang for the buck, you might want to check out the Remix theme. It is long on choices and options and maybe a bit longer on learning curve as well. But for those willing to learn a little CSS and HTML, the return on the investment is well worth the effort.

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Many marketers and bloggers (for Instance) tell about the importance of social media, and one of the most important social media services is Twitter. But social media has a habit to be very time consuming. And as you know, time is money.

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Cashrevelations presents 3 effective and time saving Twitter marketing tools – to help you to become a more effective marketer with the help of social media. Two of them (Ifttt and Commun.it) are still in Beta stage.

3 Innovative Twitter Marketing Tools

Tweriod – Get to know when your Twitter followers are online the most
Tweriod is a free twitter tool that helps you make the most of Twitter by letting you know the best time to tweet. This will allow you to tweet during the times when it is as most effective – very valuable for online marketers.

Ifttt – Put the internet to work for you
Put the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure: if this then that. Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).

Commun.it – Community Management for Twitter that Makes a Difference
Commun.it dramatically improves the way you build relationships and discover leads on Twitter! It helps you to build meaningful, personal relationships through social media while focusing on your highest-value relationships.

The Twitter Tools presented here in this article are not in any particular order – and Cashrevelations is not by any means whatsoever affiliated with any of the authors.

The year 2011 has been a very turbulent year – I would like to go so far that I call it the Year of Satan – at least on the personal level. First a stroke, and that alone is enough to take someone out of business, since it is one of the major sicknesses. But it went well, without any physical complications (thank God, for that).

The second big disaster, was a divorce. If I had been abled to choose between those two disasters – I would choose stroke, anytime. Divorce is a nasty thing – a very painful event in the life. And I am sorry to say that this blog has been suffering from those disasters. I simply didn’t have the strength and inspiration enough to write as much as I wanted.

But however, I begin to feel better now, and make plans as usual – next year I will concentrate more on visual parts of web design (photo, graphics etc.) and I hope to make some more basic tutorials for absolute HTML beginners.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all kind of people who have supported me through all those disasters – thank you for all encouraging words, thank you for all letters and mails – thank you for everything. A special thank to my former wife – because she is what she is.

And to everybody, A Very Happy New Year!

Facebook fan pages are a great tool if you are a marketer or anyone else who needs to reach out to a lot of people with your message. The problem is that most Fanpages look a bit crappy and boring – design is not easy always.

Wix offers a collection free and great looking Facebook Fanpage templates. They are simple and easy to use. The first you need to do is to sign up for a Wix account. After that you can choose a template for your project – You can even modify the template to suit your needs.

This tool is easy to use, but if you still not understand, Wix has a lot of step by step tutorials, with instruction videos on how to use this application.

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The video above describes how to integrate the templates with your Facebook fan page, a relatively simple operation with the help of Wix Facebook application.

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If you have decided to start building a website you are about to embark on a wonderful journey that offers you tremendous amounts of benefits. Follow our simple advice to quickly pull your market value up, and get your message out to your clients faster.

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In the video above, Stefan Mischook (he built his first web site in late 1994) give you some additional tips, and insightful thoughts on some of the many Internet Marketing phenomenons, but also some advises about starting a website based business.

Be User Friendly

The first thing you will want to do is work on designing your website to be as user friendly as possible. If the users cannot find information they are looking for they will quickly loose patience and head off to another site. The key is to place the most relevant issues at the top of the page, and design a link system that is easy to follow.

Getting Some Visitors

Now that you have established your site, it is time to get the word out. One of the easiest ways to do this is by setting up a system that can keep your potential clients interested through something they already use – Social networking sites! It is very easy to distribute your site to large groups of people through social networks. One message that everyone can see is much faster than having to send out messages to everyone separately.

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Another way to bring prospects to your site is by designing your site to take advantage of Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Read up on the easiest ways to get this implemented on your site, and you will see a rapid increase in visitors, because the search engines will see that your website offers quality information that people are interested in learning about.

Understand What Your Visitors Want

Install some form of visitor tracking technology, that way you will gain better insights into the type of people who are coming to your site. This will give you an edge when it comes to tailoring information. You will be better able to fit their needs. In the end, the returning visitors will be most cost effective and you will begin to gain customer loyalty. There are many different internet applications and scripts available to help you achieve these goals. It ultimately comes down to your preference whether you wish to use a commercial product or an open source alternative.

Make A Newsletter

Another way to keep your visitors coming back is by establishing a quality newsletter. Send out your newsletter to anyone who is willing to receive it. All you have to do is simply install a small piece of scripting on your site to allow them to subscribe. If you choose to do an email campaign, sending a monthly letter usually works best. Having an RSS feed is another way you can generate newsletters without having to do anything extra. As soon as your content is updated, the RSS feed registers it as new information on the clients end.

Final Words

While there are many other ways to generate returning visitors to your site, you will find that just by implementing these easy ones will drive incredible results to your site almost immediately. With just a small investment of your time, you can begin to take advantage of the massive online world that is available to you.

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If you try to build a list or just sell a product, you can with advantage use landing pages or squeeze pages, you can find them all over Internet, but Cashrevelations have a landing Page Package with a lot of templates and under two years you can also get help with setting them up – it is practical if you fell unsure about HTML or are an absolute beginner in Internet Marketing. You can find the URL to those landing pages below.

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How much time and money do you spend designing and creating sites? Have you ever tried to build a membership site – then you know the extremely irksome problems with plugins that never seem to work or are simply incompatible with your theme. If you’re like most marketers, you’d spent ages and incurring expensive costs (and nervous system) to design and create your Internet marketing sites.

Here’s what’s probably happening:

1. You either try to design and create sites yourself
2. Or you outsource them to a designer and/or programmer

And the results are:

1. Typically results in poor quality, since you’re not a designer to begin with.
2. Usually costs you quite a bit of money.

Both first and second solution take quite some time to finish. You might say that the second solution is fast since you outsource the work to professionals who know what they’re doing. But the problem is – you are not their only customer; they have a dozen other customers to serve, plus the back and forth communication between you and them means it’s going to take some time for your site to be completed to your liking.

So what’s a marketer to do?

There is a faster solution – Profits WP Theme

In the video presentation below you can see how simple and fast you can build a membership site with this theme. And it is cheaper too, compared with the two time consuming and expensive solutions above (do it yourself, or outsource to a designer).

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With this WordPress theme you can create a protected, multi-level membership site (it can also drip-feed content), product launch pages, one-time-offer pages, sales pages, squeeze pages, legal pages, thank you pages, and more in mere minutes – and why make it more complicated than it is?

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There are many solutions you can choose from if you for some reason want to change the default WordPress commenting system to something more dynamic, fresh and, not least, fun. On the market there is plenty of functional and enhancing WordPress plugins, some of them more useful and effective than others.

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In this article Cashrevelations.com presents 4 alternative and complete WP commenting systems that we have considered to use for this blog – although, so far at least, we believe in keeping things simple (and avoid solutions with a lot of technical finesses that confuse people and slow down page loading) and for that sole reason we still use the good old original WordPress commenting system and it works without problems – but sometimes I feel tempted by a cool system like Livefyre for example.

Alternative WordPress Commenting Systems

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1. IntenseDebate Comment System
IntenseDebate is a feature-rich comment system for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and many other blogging and CMS platforms. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation easy. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments.

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1. DISQUS Comment System
The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus – making commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community. The plugin seamlessly integrates using the Disqus API and by syncing with WordPress comments

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1. Facebook Comments for WordPress
This plugin integrates the Facebook commenting system (new, old or both) right into your website. If a reader is logged into Facebook while viewing any comment-enabled page or post, they’ll be able to leave a comment using their Facebook profile. Supports custom styles, notifications, combined comment counts, recent comments.

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