Business Themes 10/28/11

Your sitting there thinking about your new look for your brand new business, or even established business. You want that fresh-good-looking corporate look. We took that into consideration when we created this Top 10 WordPress Corporate themes list. This time we did look into all the features a theme had, but we based this list mainly on the looks. Of course we highlight all the fancy little gadgets that come with each theme…

 

Curvo

Curvo surely is defined by its name. Italian for “arch” or “bend”, Curvo bends all the possibilities for a great looking corporate website.

The prominent feature of the Curvo theme is the ability to change the contours that are featured in your sites interface. Though only for aesthetic purposes, the curves can be distorted into various options like curved in, curved out, or shredded. I personally found it fun pilfering with the possible combinations of shapes you could make.

It has a horizontal interface that conveniently adjusts automatically according to your browser size. You can also put any image, video, or image slider virtually anywhere in your site.

The theme package includes unlimited sidebars, unlimited blog pages, unlimited portfolio pages, an array of gallery types, lightboxed videos, comment form with validation, and a Captcha field plug-in for spam safety.

For quite a small price, you’ll get the jump start your business needs.

Suerte

From Italian, we find ourselves with a Spanish word for “lucky”. The thing that caught my eye when I saw Suerte was its image slider headliner which somewhat resembled a View-master, the toy that you could have used as a kid where you view stereoscopic images of various animated movies. It claims to be the first one on WordPress, so imagine if your company is among the first ones who can feature this rotate slider. The concept is very unique though it could have used a little more sharpening.

It is one of the most flexible corporate themes out there because it offers a limitless ground for creativity. It offers unlimited color schemes which can match every hue you think best represents your business. Sidebars and accordion sliders are also limitless. It offers 14 different page layouts you can fully customize.

People from Suerte are courteous enough to include a video tutorial on how to build your site. You’re lucky.

Ventura

One of the most modern corporate themes available. Its featured slider innovation, which they call ‘inception sliders’ is very fancy yet very functional. The inception features what I would describe as pull-up windows, which quickly displays a piece of information on either your blog, portfolio, products, employees, testimonials, or static marketing information. This would be very entertaining and essential in providing information to your clients.

The Ventura theme offers three kinds of homepages (Inception, Nivo, Video) and by far, Inception is my choice when it comes to innovation and functionality. Plus, the Inception slider is unique, other companies would have used the classic Nivo, jQuery or video slider. You want to stand out don’t you?

You can choose from 7 skins or 10 backgrounds to stick on your page – which is pretty plenty for a corporate theme. You can also choose from 6 type fonts.

Interactive, fully functional, and flexible – the Ventura theme would be a great arsenal.

inFocus

inFocus is the best selling corporate theme in Themeforest, with 6354 sales. It offers the most flexible options in web development which features a very user-friendly advance admin panel which are handily divided into 10 portions of creation.

At first glance of the inFocus theme, it looks pretty dull and simple, but it seems that functionality trumps over beauty. Its simplicity could have been the reason many purchased this theme. Adding to its arsenal is its very extensive library of skins, over 100 shortcodes, massive backend options, diverse layout options, 7 custom widgets, and a dedicated support team that is ready to lend a helping hand in the propagation of your site.

The package also includes 93 PSDs (yes, 93) which covers anything you need in designing your website from color themes to every logo or button on your site. The inFocus theme offers a huge space to work on, and a lot of tools to hammer down the ideal website for your company.

Mondeo

Mondeo has an extensive library of skins for your slider, so you can choose which is best appropriate for your business. It features 4 innovative slider options: Piecemaker Slider 3D, Accordion slider, Cycle slider, and Roundabout slider.

Mondeo is the most feature rich corporate theme in WordPress and providing an extensive admin panel which allows you to: modify your theme, customize your homepage content, customize skin with 5 kinds to choose from, or choose from 15 backgrounds, customize your font style and choose from over 150+ Google fonts, choose from 2 header layouts and 3 footer widget options, and customize post types.

Mondeo also features forum support on their product which is very convenient especially for those who are not really inclined into web development. The Mondeo theme are not only suitable for corporate site, but for portfolios as well because of its prominent slideshow. I even see this theme be used for real estate websites.

Stunning

The Stunning theme lives up to its name. It simply is stunning for a corporate theme. The first thing you would notice, which goes also with other websites today, is its homepage slider. This theme features two jQuery type sliders namely, the dual slider, and the Aivah slider. If I had to choose form the two sliders, I’d definitely go for the Aivah slider because it simply looks better with its widescreen appearance and simpler interface. Beside the two image sliders, you can opt for a video slider too.

Its archive/blog pages look equally stunning, simple, and organized – three things one would want for their website. The Stunning theme comes with a built-in HTML5.

It also offers an options preview when you visit the Stunning demo page, so you can actually experience how easy it is to customize your site’s body texts, header and footer backgrounds, layout options, etc.

Designville

The Designville theme is best suitable for ‘light’ businesses – something that pertains to or sells products for families, women, and children. It offers 13 different skins of very refreshing hues which is perfect for family-oriented sites.

Like every other corporate theme site, it offers an extensive array of homepage sliders, and of all the themes I’ve seen, this is the only theme that actually has a no-slider option. Don’t feel like sharing pictures? Designville’s the theme for you. But of course, whenever you feel you are ready for an image slider, you can always choose from four options: Nivo, Gallery, Cycle, and Simple.

Simple yet very rich in features essential for building your ideal site. This theme’s prominent feature is its extensive jQuery effect options for the homepage slider, gallery slider, virtually unlimited drop down menus, etc.

It is also one of the available themes that are compatible with all the latest browsers today.

Openhouse / Automotiv

2 themes for the price of one. The creators of this theme explained why these themes are bundled into one: Themeforest didn’t allow them to sell the themes separately because they look the same. Indeed, they look the same and they only differ from their respective niches: the Openhouse theme is specifically made for real estate, Automotiv made for car sales. These two themes couldn’t be more specific.

These two themes are rich in features like WP 3.0 support, fully localized translation, updated themes options screen, active theme updates, unlimited color schemes, and Google street view, just to name a few.

The feature I really liked which I thought would be essential for these kind of websites would be the included loan calculator plug-in which would be very handy for potential buyers.

The creators are also willing to modify these themes into ay listing/directory site that appeals to your product other than homes and automobiles – RV sites, cellphone company, dog breeder – you name it, they’re willing to help. These two themes would prove to be very flexible according to your company profile, and the theme developers are more than willing to lend a hand.

Unite

This theme is remarkable for being clean and crisp, which allows any visitor a clutter-free browsing. Its user-friendly interface will make sure that visitors will keep your site busy.

This theme only includes 5 preset themes which includes one dark theme, and one textured theme. It features QuickSkin for fast and easy design customization. This same feature allows you to change how your site looks anytime whenever you feel like doing so. Its Superfish dropdown menu feature allows full customization in matters like keyboard accessibility, drop shadows, and time delay on the drop down menus.

The most requested feature on this theme is its unlimited blog page capability, but the lack of included customizable pages is a downer. It only offers 6 pages for customization: full page, multi-column, blog, portfolio, contact form, and administrative log-in.

Judging by the overall appearance of the Unite theme, I see this ideal for medical companies, lifestyle websites, or portfolios.

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