Building a successful blog has many key elements, one of them is a great design and layout. Now not all of us are design savvy and could easily end up with a horrible looking blog. Luckily we have blogging rockstars like Adii to provide high quality themes with feature packed back ends.
Adii released three new premium WordPress themes, the Live Wire series : Live Wire 2.0, Live Wire Edition and Live Wire Style. The prices start at $99.95 for a single license (website), go up at $149.95 for all three themes and two licenses and if you need to use them on an unlimited number of domains you’ll have to pay $249.95 (includes all three themes).
Here is a list of the features you get when you buy a Live Wire premium theme:
- Automatic Image Resizer (requires PHP GD Library to work)
Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery
Built-in Gravatar Support for Authors & Comments
Author Profiles & Archives
Featured news section
Video Panel (for use with Flash videos)
Navigation Dropdown Menu‘s
Sidebar Tabbed Box
2 different homepage layouts (featured section)
Widgetized sidebars
Integrated Banner Ad Management (easily switch this on / off)
Integrated Flickr & Feedburner
The three themes are all magazine-like but I’m sure you could use them on your blog even if you don’t want to start an online magazine. For example, an ideal place to use the Live Wire themes would be on a blogs network. We all know branding is important and having the same elements present is a must for blog networks.
I had the chance to see all of the themes in action and I really liked what I saw. Functionality is great but kept simple with a clean layout and sweet features.
One of my friends bought the developer’s package for his network of blogs and told me that his RSS subscribers increased by 20-percent and readers started to make more and more comments on his articles. This sounds like a great deal so if you want yours, go ahead and buy it now.
