Theme Forest: Web Template Service

Theme Forest is a web template design service that allows you to purchase a design or theme with a license allowing you to use the theme for a business or service based web site. Essentially this is for those people who know how to code really well in HTML, but doesn’t feel strong in the designing portion of web design. Or in contrast it can be for the web designer to plan out the theme of the website while being able to get a web programmer to make the web site functional for those as well. One of the many talents this site offers is WordPress themes. However, for those of you who have ever used WordPress should know installing a new theme as easy as dragging and dropping the theme in a new older location. So if you’re in need of a web template of theme for your website, give theme forest a try.

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Five CMS Platforms

Today we are going to be looking five CMS platforms that are free to use and available to you. So you might be asking to yourself, “what is a CMS platform?”. Well to put simply, CMS stands for Content Management System. This allows for users to easily modify their blogs or sites with not a lot of coding experience. However in this case, these are platforms that allow people to code and design their own themes and workable workstations for the applications usage. I was going to make this a top 5 kind of thing, but I realized that would only make people choose between what the top three were. So I thought telling you five would give you some variety to go check them out. I hope you find this somewhat useful, and have a nice day.

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What is WordPress?

The WordPress.com service recieves 131 million unique visitors a month.Did you know that WordPress is the most popular Content Management System on the web? 15% of all sites online use it to serve up content to their users.

WordPress is a Content Management System that uses PHP to connect to a MySQL database and retrieve & edit the contents of it.

Basically it's ready-made a piece of free software that makes doing a complicated task (creating, editing and retrieving database entries) much more user friendly by offering a GUI for working with it.

The benefits of using a CMS over standard html files are many, the main one is the ability for users to create content without the need to know html or css code, in fact you don't need to know any code at all!

There's even more reasons for you to choose WordPress over plain html. A CMS is dynamic, makes large scale and site wide edits easy.

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Responsive Web Frameworks - Bootstrap

When it comes to creating a website these days you're seriously missing a trick if you don't build a responsive design. Mobile search and interaction is at an all time high and it will only keep growing. 40% of mobile users admit that they just up and leave a site if it isn't optimized for their device. That's a staggering amount of visitors to lose but you won't lose them if you have a responsive site.

Bootstrap - an awesome front end framework

One of the main benefits of starting with a framework is because of the speed that sites can be developed with it. You're not starting from scratch, the frame has been built for you already. One of the most popular frameworks to choose from is Bootstrap.

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Responsive Web Design [Infographic]

In this day and age people have grown accustomed to having internet access on all of their devices. Some of the time you might be using the internet on your laptop other times it might be a phone. The difference in screen sizes between the 2 devices is huge.

Website owners and designers need to pay attention to the fact that people visit their site using a variety of devices, particularly business websites, because if they don't they will be losing readers and customers. Responsive web design has been growing in popularity rapidly recently and many are claiming 2013 to be the year of Responsive Design.

What is Responsive Web Design?

Responsive design is serving the exact same page to every visitor but the design and layout of that page responds to the size of the viewport. Every piece of content on a responsive site adapts to how it's being viewed  -  be it a desktop PC, a mobile phone or even a TV.

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