Web Design, Web Development, Digital Marketing

Michael Neely

Check out these WordPress themes for your website!

Have you decided to build your business website on WordPress? Have you decided that you would like to manage your own websites yourself? Great! Here are some of my favorite resources for “do-it-yourself-er’s” and developers-in-training. One of the major benefits of using WordPress for your website is that you can build a great website and not touch code at all. After all, that’s how I became a web developer. I had a WordPress website and wanted to make some design changes. I learned a little CSS and I made it happen. Now, I can build a WordPress theme from a napkin drawing and make it awesome!

Check out some websites I built in my portfolio.

StudioPress Themes

StudioPress themes from Copyblogger are some of my favorite themes. Recently, WPEngine acquired StudioPress, but I still highly recommend these themes built on the open source Genesis framework. I got lucky when I found them and strayed a little to see what other themes are out there. I even coded a few themes of my own. Then I went back to StudioPress as my choice for premium WordPress themes. I love their widgetized homepages and they are so easy to set up. You can easily customize your WordPress website by tweaking a little CSS (for those who are open-minded to writing CSS). This site is also running on a StudioPress theme called Business Pro (although it’s from SEOThemes, but available from StudioPress) and I love it!

Note: I neither created nor developed any of these themes.  These are my favorite themes to work with. Why, you ask?

  1. Theme stability- The people at StudioPress code their themes within official WordPress code standards and W3C validation.
  2. Real lifetime customer support- If I have an issue or a question about one of their themes I get an answer within 24 business hours.
  3. Versatility- Genesis child themes are 100% customizable by adjusting the CSS. You don’t need to get involved in the PHP (in fact, it discouraged with these themes because it is completely unnecessary.

Try the Genesis framework and child theme that you and your business goals today. You’ll love what you can do with your new website!

Want to hire me to build your website? Prices start at only $1500 and the themes are free!