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One could argue that every year the WordPress platform gets better and better, and 2011 was no different with the release of three major updates: WordPress 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. We have seen the addition of post formats, advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries, an improved import and export system, the introduction of an admin bar, distraction-free writing mode, revised dashboard interface, drag and drop uploader and much more.

As always, it’s theme developers who are taking advantage of these new features and pushing WordPress to do things that no one expected it to do. Today we would like to share with you 25 more of our favourite WordPress themes from the last 12 months. Included in the list are themes for personal blogs, photography websites, businesses and communities. There have been so many great designs released this year that this list could have extended to over 200, so please don’t be offended if your favourite design didn’t make the final 25 :)

2011′s Top 25 Themes

1. Daily Post
FREE

A simple yet beautiful free design from WPLook that was created for personal blogs. It was designed using HTML5 and CSS3 and due to its responsive design it looks great on portable devices such as phones and tablets too.

Post formats are supported and through the theme options area you can define your social media profile URLs and modify some basic SEO options.

Info & Download | Demo

2. Pink Touch 2
FREE

Designed by WordPress developers Automattic, Pink Touch 2 is a great looking single column blog design with beautiful typography, unique designs for post formats and custom header and background. Although the blog doesn’t have a sidebar, there are three widget areas in the footer. This simplicity is what sets the design apart from many alternatives.

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3. PhotoClick
FREE | $4.99 For Premium Version

A feature rich design that was created for photography websites and personal blogs. It has great typography, shortcodes for styling content and its one column design is perfect for displaying large images.

The theme is free to download however for only $4.99 you can get an additional colour scheme (grey), custom widgets, banner integration, more theme options and the original layered Photoshop PSD file.

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4. ProReviewTheme
Single License: $37, Multisite License: $67, Developer License: $127

An advanced WordPress theme that allows you to create an Amazon or Clickbank affiliate review site in seconds. All products can be rated using the popular 5 star rating system and the theme helps push traffic to affiliate sites by prominently displaying links to the product website.

It has been optimised for use on mobile devices such as tablets and through the theme settings area you can change basic style settings and modify the header. Arguably the best affiliate design for WordPress released in 2011.

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5. FaultPress
Regular License: $100

Working in a similar way to their help desk theme SupportPress, WooThemes FaultPress design turns WordPress into a fully functional bug tracking system. It allows you and your team to monitor the progress of your project through milestones. Tickets can be raised by users to allow you to track what needs to be addressed.

It also features a great messaging system to allow users and developers to communicate with each other effectively and it has been optimised for use on mobile phones and tablets.

Info & Download | Demo

6. The Navigator
Regular License: $40

The perfect theme for a travel website. Utilising Google Maps, The Navigator shows a map of the world in full screen. Every trip (post) is noted on the map using a pin. Details of each location are displayed in a content box at the left hand side of the page whilst an image of the location is displayed in the background in full screen.

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7. Delicioso
Regular License: $35

Perfect for restaurants, Delicioso displays a large image slider on the home page to showcase your dishes. It comes with 6 colour schemes and its own unique shortcodes to help style your content. There are also dedicated blog, gallery and menu templates.

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8. PixelPower
Regular License: $35

A responsive WordPress theme that has a clean minimal styled design. With support for all post formats, PixelPower is one of the best options available for personal blogs. It also comes with 1, 2 and 4 column portfolio templates so should prove popular with photographers and designers too.

It is optimised for use on mobile devices and it includes dark and no-CSS child themes too.

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9. Continuum
Regular License: $40

Boasting over 200 theme options, Continuum is one of the most feature rich designs released in 2011. It comes with 5 custom sliders, 11 custom widgets, 19 unique sidebars, 68 custom shortcodes, 6 colour schemes and 28 pre-selected backgrounds and 8 page templates.

It also has an in built ratings system that supports 5 review types: movies, music, video games, books and products.

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10. Grido
Regular License: $39

A responsive Tumblr style theme from Themify that supports all WordPress post formats. The sidebar can be placed on the left or right or be removed altogether. You can also set 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns of posts to be displayed.

Coded using HTML5 and CSS3, it comes with a lightbox gallery, 9 post gradient colours and 7 colour schemes. It also has child theme support.

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11. Rockwell
Regular License: $35

Packaged with one of the best looking theme options areas we have seen, Rockwell is a versatile design that is suitable for portfolios, business websites or blogs.

In total there are 43 category templates, 20 single page templates, 10 page templates, 30 shortcodes and 6 colour schemes. There are also 3 different home page sliders, 3 different styles of top navigation menus, a slider manager and much more.

Info & Download | Demo

12. Announcement
Standard License: $70, Developer License: $150

It’s becoming very common for couples and families to create websites to celebrate important events such as weddings, graduations or the arrival of a baby in the family. The Announcement theme was created specifically for events such as these.

Everything is displayed on one page. When a user clicks on a section in the top navigation menu the page scrolls to the appropriate area on the page. Visitors can also leave comments at the bottom of the page. It also includes a photograph slider and you can choose between 1 and 3 columns for your content. There are several preset layouts for evens such as births, graduations and website launches. A baby statistics grid is also included.

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13. Sofa Shoppr
Regular License: $40

A cool eCommerce design that works with PayPal, 2CheckOut and Authorize.net. Orders and stock inventory can be tracked in the back end and featured products can be rotated at the top of the home page. There are 8 built-in widgets and 3 different layouts for the home page.

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14. Studio8
Regular License: $35

A minimalist photography design that comes in white and black colour schemes. Images are displayed in the background in full screen and it is optimised for use on tablets. Videos are also supported though what many photographers will love is the ability to upload hundreds of photos at once using the themes built-in gallery management system.

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15. Stereotype
Regular License: $32

A clean looking one page portfolio design that was created using HTML5 and CSS3. It comes with 4 colour schemes and is optimised for use on mobile phones and tablet devices. Featured images, videos and galleries are all supported and the contact area has Google maps integration.

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16. Daily Deal
Standard License: $89.95, Developer License: $179

Given the success of daily deal websites such as Groupon and Living Social, it isn’t surprising that a lot of imitation scripts and templates have been released. Daily Deal is one of the best available. The design turns your WordPress website into a full functional daily deal service.

Each deal shows the length of time left before the deal expires, the savings you can make and the number of items sold. Several payment gateways are supported to allow sellers to upload their deals directly with no fuss, and there is a newsletter form built into the home page design that supports MailChimp and Feedburner.

Info & Download | Demo

17. Morning
Regular License: $69

A visually impressive magazine theme that comes with blue, dark and light colour schemes. Posts and pages can be shown in full width or have a sidebar placed on the left or right hand side of the page. It has fantastic video support and images are automatically resized so that they fit into the design correctly. One of the best looking magazine designs released this year.

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18. Handmade
Regular License: $30 ($50 on Obox website)

A warm theme that was designed with arts and crafts, cooking and clothing websites in mind. It has a great looking home page that displays large featured images of your latest blog posts. The included gallery makes it a good choice for anyone who wants a welcoming blog design.

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19. Lucky Times
Regular License: $30

A responsive design for blogs, portfolios and online magazines. The developer allows you to download the Photoshop PSD file for free before you buy to see if the template is suitable for your project.

It sports a unique columned menu design at the top of the page and bizarrely no home page template. Instead, users of the theme can build a homepage design using short codes. The theme has great typgography with Google Fonts support and it a great options panel that lets you customise the header, footer, colour scheme and blog and portfolio templates.

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20. Me Gusta
Regular License: $35

The self proclaimed ‘user driven content sharing system’ uses a Facebook-like system that allows visitors to vote for the posts that they like. Posts that get a lot of votes are deemed ‘Hot’ and can be listed in your sidebar or your home page (instead of new posts). You can also make posts ‘Not Safe For Work’ for adult related content.

Me Gusta has great Facebook integration too. Users can register and login using their Facebook account and you can replace the default WordPress commenting system with Facebook comments directly from the options area. With good support for post formats, Me Gusta is great for a content sharing website or a personal blog.

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21. Huddle
Regular License: $50

A community design for users of the popular BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. It features 6 custom page templates, 9 custom widgets and a blog template that supports featured images.

Even though BuddyPress and bbPress had major updates during 2011, support for the plugins has been lukewarm at best from developers. Huddle is certainly one of the best options available if you want to create a community website using WordPress.

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22. SocialLike
Regular License: $30

Another Tumblr style blog design that has support for all post formats. It could also be used as a portfolio as it has 4 great looking gallery templates.

It includes 22 background images, unlimited colour options for text using a colour picker, 25 fonts for headings and 9 for body text and an unlimited number of colour options for your post icons. Content can be styled using over 40 included shortcodes and you can publish any type of post directly from your iPhone using the Express App.

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23. DK For Photography
Regular License: $35

Another versatile photography theme that supports a full screen rotating image gallery in the background. There are 4 home page layouts to choose from, 10 page templates, 6 gallery templates, 7 custom widgets, lots of shortcodes and support for password protecting your galleries.

Whilst some photography designs consider the blog template unimportant, DK For Photography has a beautiful blog design that integrates Facebook and Twitter voting buttons into the post area perfectly.

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24. Humble
Regular License: $35

A powerful WordPress theme that can be used for just about anything. The first thing that you will notice about the theme is the unique polaroid style slider on the home page. It’s a great change from standard featured post sliders.

The homepage can be styled using shortcodes which allows you to create a near unlimited number of layouts. Additionally the theme includes support for 19 fonts, 5 custom widgets, over 80 shortcodes and 4 portfolio layout designs. You can also change CSS settings directly via the options area without having to touch the style.css stylesheet file itself.

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25. Lightning
Regular License: $35

A beautiful business and portfolio WordPress theme that allows you to create an unlimited number of layouts using a visual drag and drop interface (this costs $25 if you buy it separately as a WordPress plugin). This allows you to create portfolio pages, columns, sliders, tabs, galleries and much more.

Info & Download | Demo

We hope you enjoyed this list of further theme faves from the year we just left. As always, we would love to hear what your favourite WordPress theme from 2011 was. Feel free to let us know about it in the comments, or leave your opinions on some of the featured themes that you may have used yourself.

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Navigation menus are a very important part of every website design. First and foremost, they help direct visitors to the main areas of your website, regardless of what page they are viewing on your website. They also point search engine robots in the right direction (though some flashy navigation menus aren’t that SEO friendly).

Today we would like to show you 50 beautiful navigation menus; ranging from simple ones that hide discretely at the corner of the design to full blown menus that take up most of the header. No matter what type of navigational menus you tend to favor, we hope that there is a little inspiration waiting for you in the designs below. Enjoy :)

Nicely Navigated

1. Alexarts

A great looking home page that has 4 large balloons as a navigation menu with each balloon floating up whenever a visitor hovers over it.

2. Blogger Bake Off

A traditional horizontal navigation menu that integrates with the website design beautifully.

3. Small Stone Recordings

One of the coolest navigation menus on the web. Each section of the site is featured as a dial or button in the recording unit at the top of the page.

4. Loodo

A good navigation menu that is based upon a traditional board game.

5. Jeff Sarmiento

A colourful vertical navigation menu. The background colour and icon that is shown when a visitor hovers over a link is different for every page.

6. Fabrica De Caricaturas

A great looking home page which features a navigation menu as labels at the left hand side of an A4 piece of paper.

7. Genes Sausage Shop

At first glance it looks like a regular vertical menu but when you look closely you will see that the designer has made the menu resemble the ‘specials’ chalkboard like you would see in a butcher shop.

8. Robin James Yu

The square bubbles that are placed around the navigation menu items are placed around the site in other areas. It’s a simple design but it fits in well with the site.

9. Polar Gold

A stylish flash horizontal navigation menu. Sleek and simple.

10. Madison

A grungy style navigation menu that turns red when you hover over a link.

11. Tennessee Trains & Byways

Don’t let the discrete menu at the top of the page fool you; Tennessee Trains & Byways is in contention for the largest drop down menu in the world. :)

12. Innovative Imaging Professionals

A colourful flash menu that lists the various site pages on top of a photo.

13. Carsonified

A cool horizontal navigation menu that fits in well with the groovy Carsonified design.

14. Fantasy Cartography

A fantastic home page from old mapmaker Robin C. Kuprella. The areas of the site are linked directly on the home page map. Clicking on a link will change the content in the central content box.

15. Bully Entertainment

A great menu that features hand drawn icons for each section of the site.

16. Indubitablee

Beautiful hover actions and well designed sketched icons makes Indubitablee a breeze to get around.

17. Power To The Poster

A practical design in which all menu items, and any links on the page, turn red when you hover over them.

18. Fundo Los Paltos

A good looking wooden style navigation menu that shows a leaf icon whenever you over a menu item.

19. Yellow Bird Project

A simple but fun menu that integrates well with the cartoon design of the rest of the website.

20. Pure Grips

A good looking clean corporate style horizontal menu.

21. Carbonica

A simple vertical menu that shows an arrow and drawn circle when you hover over the item. Strangely, not all menu items have this effect.

22. Chris Jennings

Colourful bookmarks are used as menu links at the top of a torn piece of paper in this cool looking vertical navigation menu.

23. Time For Cake

An elegant drop down navigation menu. Perfectly fits both the design and subject of the site.

24. Amazee Labs

Another simple yet beautiful horizontal menu that we felt was worth taking note of.

25. Guga Fit

A cool navigation menu which changes the links from blue to green when you hover over them. Simple but effective.

26. Ferocious Quarterly

A ribbon style menu that shows page links on different levels.

27. USU Students Association

A great looking vertical navigation menu. Bold and attention grabbing for such a simple design.

28. FA Design

A stylish menu that looks great over the full screen image changing background.

29. Biola Undergrad

A basic horizontal navigation menu that works well with the colourful design of Biola Undergrad.

30. C & C Coffee

A fun flash based menu that playfully dangles links from the top of the page.

31. Helmy Bern

An interesting menu that wraps the menu links around a torn piece of cardboard.

32. Crumpler

An image based navigation menu that features social media integration.

33. B & Q

Each category shows dozens of website links under it. It’s a great example of how you can still make a website with hundreds of pages easy to navigate.

34. From The Couch

A simple vertical drop down menu that integrates well with the blog design.

35. Get Me Fast

Many of the graphics in the background are links in this fun header design.

36. Eye Bridge

A graphic based menu that shows a circle around the page text when you hover over it.

37. CampLuxe

A clean professional looking naivigation menu. An easy addition to the showcase.

38. NickAd

Probably not the most practical menu available but certainly one of the coolest. The NickAd page remains mostly blank apart from a small logo at the top left and bottom right of the page. Your cursor changes into a star when viewing the page. If you click on the page a horizontal menu will appear that will let you navigate the site.

39. Envira Media

A great looking eco-style vertical navigation menu.

40. XHTML Cafe

Another good example of an interactive home page. The top menu and and many elements of the home page design are all clickable.

41. Design Bombs

A minimal design that integrates with the Design Bombs website look and feel perfectly.

42. Paolo Cavanna

A unique navigation menu that is implemented on a cool one page design.

43. Surf Station

A minimal vertical navigation menu which increases the size and weight of the menu link selected.

44. Racket

An innovative navigation menu that fits in well with the website’s unique design.

45. CL Designz

A fantastic design that is unique, colourful, fun and practical…oh my.

46. Keith Cakes

A simple horizontal menu that uses beautiful calligraphy.

47. Carbon Made

The background colour of every page is different, however the colourful navigation menu remains the same.

48. Manic Design

A scrolling vertical navigation menu that moves the cursor as you scroll down the page.

49. HydroHolistic

A fun horizontal menu that displays a descriptive pop up of each page when you hover over a link.

50. Space O Technologies

The cartoon font fits the cosmic style of Space O Technologies perfectly. This is a one page website so the menu colours change depending on what section you are looking at.

Thanks for checking out the various navigation menus we collected to feature for you. Hopefully you found a little inspiration along the way. What are some of your favorite solutions to site navigation? Feel free to leave us your thoughts below.

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Whilst Joomla and Drupal are popular amongst website designers, WordPress is by far the number 1 used CMS in the world. Which is one of the reasons that WordPress themes are seen as such a hot commodity these days in the design world.

It’s popularity amongst design firms could explain the vast number of premium corporate designs that are available for WordPress. Gone are the days when a corporate template came with nothing more than a basic options page and a contact form. Today’s designs come with beautiful home page sliders, portfolio templates, eCommerce support and well developed blog pages. Due to this versatility, business designs can be used for just about any type of website.

Today we would like to show you 50 of the best premium themes that have been released in 2011. We hope you enjoy the list :)

The Themes

1. LeanBiz
Regular License: $39 a year for theme membership

A slimline business theme that features a great looking slider on the home page. The theme comes with 5 portfolio templates, a gallery template, contact form, sitemap and full width template.

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2. Webly
Regular License: $39 a year for theme membership

Another ElegantThemes business deign that features a prominent slider on the home page. Several custom page templates are included as well as 16 unique shortcodes that allow you to style your content more easily.

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3. Folo
Standard License: $39, Developer License: $59 (Buy 1 get one with both licenses)

An HTML and CSS3 business and portfolio design that helps you promote products and services to customers. There are over 21 layout options, 9 different colour schemes and lots of custom widgets.

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4. Suco
Standard License: $39, Developer License: $59 (Buy 1 get one with both licenses)

A beautifully designed business theme that has a great home page slider. There are several different layouts to choose from, it supports post formats and it is optimised for use on mobile devices.

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5. Tisa
Standard License: $39, Developer License: $59 (Buy 1 get one with both licenses)

A responsive business design that looks great on any device that it is viewed on. It is coded in HTML5 and CSS3, comes with 6 colour schemes and has child theme support too.

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6. WebHosting
Standard License: $69, Developer License: $99

A fantastic theme that is perfect for a web hosting company. It comes in 5 different colour schemes, 9 unique page templates and a whopping 30 integrated short codes to help you style your content. There’s also a WebHosting plan page for comparing the hosting plans you have on offer.

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7. Private Lawyer
Standard License: $69, Developer License: $99

Although it was created for Lawyers, this design is very versatile and could be used for just about any type of website. It features an integrated home page slider, 5 colour schemes and several custom page templates.

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8. Mobility App
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $79

The ultimate design for smartphone developers. The theme was designed to promote applications and other smart phone related products. It comes with 4 colour schemes and over a dozen shortcodes for styling your content. It also features unique page templates such as a pricing page for comparing the products you have on offer.

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9. Qlassik
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $79

A useful business design that is packed full of features. The home page featured a great looking animated slider. In total there are 5 different slider options available.

It also features 5 different colour schemes, 3 portfolio templates and various layout options. Over a dozen shortcodes are included to help you style your content.

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10. Personality
Standard License: $59, Developer License: $179

Designed for professionals such as Lawyers, Politicians and real estate agents; Personality is a feature rich corporate design that comes with 3 different page layouts and a unique gallery template.

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11. Overtime
Standard License: $59, Developer License: $179

Features a flexible post slider on the home page and it’s own gallery page. The blog template looks great and there are lots of shortcodes included.

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12. Entreprenium
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $99

A responsive design that looks great on desktops and on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The theme includes customisable widgets, image sliders, photo galleries and it’s own portfolio page. You can add links to your social media profiles at the bottom of the page, though social media sites haven’t been integrated into the content area.

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13. Equilibria
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $99

A versatile theme that can be used for a wide range of websites. On the home page you can display a post slider, regular corporate style layout or your latest blog posts. There are lots of custom page templates and widgets and it comes with 5 colour schemes too.

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14. Press Two
Standard License: $50, Developer License: 100, Membership: $125

A clean corporate design that comes in a light and a dark colour scheme. The home page has a beautiful slider and there are three different portfolio templates and a full width template included in the theme.

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15. Appix
Regular License: $35

A clean design that was created for app developers and designers. Features great looking project and contact page templates and shortcodes to style your content.

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16. Cleanistic
Regular License: $35

Packed full of features, Cleanistic is perfect for a corporate website, photographers portfolio or personal blog. You can select from an unlimited number of colour schemes and background colours and there are 40 background patterns included too.

It also includes custom page templates for a portfolio, sitemap or contact page; and custom widgets and shortcodes too.

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17. Plan B
Regular License: $35

An elegant business theme that lets you create your own custom page using a drag and drop interface. It also includes 8 jQuery sliders, 6 page templates (4 of which are for portfolios) and 5 custom widgets. Text styling shortcodes are included too.

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18. Minima Two Advanced
Regular License: $35

A minimal business theme that features a drag and drop interface for creating custom pages. 8 sliders are included in the design and lots of shortcodes for styling content. Social media can also be integrated into your design too via the settings area.

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19. District 9
Regular License: $35

A corporate portfolio design that comes with great multimedia support for playing video and audio. It comes in 4 different colour schemes and includes shortcodes to format your content.

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20. Fox
Regular License: $35

A clean business template with a minimal design. You can create an unlimited number of sidebars using the theme and select from an unlimited number of background colours too.

On the home page is a beautiful nivo slider and there is lightbox support for photos, plus video support for YouTube and Vimeo. All in all a very versatile minimalist theme.

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21. FolioStudio
Regular License: $35

A portfolio style business theme that displays a beautiful slider on the home page. Through the settings area you can modify certain elements of your design such as your logo, background and fonts.

Several custom widgets and page templates are also included; and there are three colour schemes too.

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22. Ocram
Regular License: $33

A fantastic business design that comes in an unlimited number of colour schemes and sidebars. It’s very easy to change the layout. There are 6 home page layouts, 5 different sliders and shortcodes for creating 2, 3, 4 or 5 columns within your content.

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23. Venducci
Regular License: $35

A simplistic business design that has a beautiful drop down navigation menu. The included gallery template displays images full screen and allows you to change images via thumbnails at the bottom of the page. Shortcodes are also included for styling your content.

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24. Target
Regular License: $33

Perfect for portfolios and corporate websites, Target has 9 widgetized areas, 8 colour schemes, 4 different portfolio templates and 25 shortcodes for formatting your content. It also has great typography with 31 Google fonts to choose from.

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25. 7Star
Regular License: $30

A clean business theme that is very versatile. It includes 20 different colour schemes, 8 custom widgets, several page templates, font replacement using cufon or Google fonts and over 70 custom shortcodes.

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26. Creole
Regular License: $33

Creole is a minimal business design that features a great looking slider on the home page. You can choose from an unlimited number of colours, lots of short codes, 4 portfolio templates and over 250 Google fonts.

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27. Revolution
Regular License: $33

A great looking design that comes with a powerful admin page. There are 4 sliders to choose from, over 200 Google fonts and 10 page templates.

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28. Socialite
Regular License: $35

A cool business theme that is optimised for use on mobile devices. The home page has 3 slider options: 3D, Nivo and Anything. It also includes several page templates, 100 shortcodes and 13 custom widgets.

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29. Creative Box
Regular License: $33

A powerful corporate theme that comes in 9 varying colour schemes. The home page displays a beautiful 3D slider, and using the home page manager you can deactivate some areas of the design. You can also create an unlimited number of sidebars.

3 portfolio templates are included and lightbox is integrated into the design for images and photos.

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30. Free
Regular License: $35

Free is an incredibly versatile WordPress theme. It boasts over 160 theme options, 50 shortcodes, 7 colour schemes, 13 custom widgets, 3 image sliders and 20 page templates. Google web fonts are also supported.

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31. Adventure
Regular License: $35

A clean and minimal WordPress theme that was created using HTML5. You can change the background to any colour you want or choose from one of the 50+ backgrounds included in the design. There are several sliders and portfolio templates to choose from together with over 75 shortcodes and 100 Google fonts.

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32. Switchblade
Regular License: $35

A fantastic design that comes with 8 pre-defined colour schemes, 3 slider options and hundreds of fonts. The theme options page is also unbranded so that you can re-brand it for clients.

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33. Architec
Regular License: $30

A clean design that was made for Architects, but that can be used for any business website. It comes with light and dark versions, 9 page templates, 35 shortcodes and an extensive options panel.

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34. Metropolis
Regular License: $35

An ajax powered design that is perfect for creative corporate websites. It features over 100 page layouts, 25 shortcodes and 12 portfolio templates.

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35. Creator
Regular License: $45

A beautiful HTML5 powered theme that comes with a skin manager to let you save, load and export designs. Features a great looking slider on the home page, several portfolio templates and over a dozen shortcodes for styling your content.

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36. Demonair
Regular License: $30

A clean traditional corporate design that features cufon font replacement, a jQuery image slider and newsletter sign up option.

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37. Etherna
Regular License: $35

A stylish HTML5 design that has an advanced admin options area. A 12 grid system is used that allows you to customise our layout in a number of different ways. Custom shortcodes, page templates and portfolios are also included.

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38. Athena
Regular License: $35

A flexible business theme that boasts a lot of great features. It includes 6 colour schemes, 7 background patterns, 6 custom widgets, a sortable portfolio and support for audio and video.

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39. Curvo
Regular License: $35

A beautiful design that places a curved vertical menu at the left hand side of the page and the content at the right hand side. Over 80 cufon fonts and 40 shortcodes are included and it has support for video too.

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40. Cascadia
Regular License: $35

A minimal and clean business design that comes with 10 different colour schemes. 8 widgets and 8 unique page templates are included, and there are shortcodes for creating columns in your content.

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41. PowerPlay
Regular License: $35

Features unlimited slideshows, portfolios, colours and backgrounds. One of the designs best features is it’s mega sub menus that let you create columns and thumbnails in your drop down menu.

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42. Creativo
Regular License: $35

Big and bold fonts dominate this creative business theme. Content can be styled easily using he included shortcodes and portfolio galleries are supported by lightbox.

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43. Versatile
Regular License: $35

Versatile certainly lives up to its name with 2 home page jQuery sliders, 50+ custom fonts, 8 custom widgets, several page templates and lots of shortcodes for formatting your content.

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44. Amoveo
Regular License: $35

Includes a whopping 16 colour schemes, 50+ background patterns, 80+ shortcodes and 5 different home page sliders. The 960 grid system layout is also very flexible with around 65 widget positions within the design.

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45. UDesign
Regular License: $35

A powerful theme that has a widgetized home page. It includes 7 sliders, 5 portfolio templates, shortcodes and over 200 fonts.

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46. CleanCorp
Regular License: $35

Another clean WordPress design that would be perfect for a company website. There are two sliders to choose from, 3 page templates and shortcodes to format your content.

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47. Itis
Regular License: $35

A beautiful design that comes with 20 skins (light and dark variations for 10 designs). The home page slider displays images or video, and it includes over 40 widgets and 100 shortcodes for creating the perfect design. There are also 82 custom hooks available for advanced editing.

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48. Bolder
Regular License: $30

A great looking business design with an advanced options page in the admin area. Includes 15 theme skins, 6 home page layouts, 3 different kind of sliders and 3 portfolio templates.

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49. Stacked
Regular License: $40

A portfolio business design that comes in light and dark colour schemes. Custom widgets, page templates and shortdodes are also included.

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50. Hermes
Regular License: $35

A great design that lets you control the home page layout by using a drag and drop interface. You can upload your own fonts using the font manager and there are 3 portfolio styles too. 7 custom widgets are also included and you can create columns in your content using shortcodes.

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We hope you enjoyed the post. But much more than that, we sincerely hope that we have shone the light on some valuable resources that our readers will get some use out of. What are some of your favorites from the post? Or what are some of your favorite premium themes that were released this year that we failed to feature? Use the comment section below to let us know.

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Whilst Joomla and Drupal are popular amongst website designers, WordPress is by far the number 1 used CMS in the world. Which is one of the reasons that WordPress themes are seen as such a hot commodity these days in the design world.

It’s popularity amongst design firms could explain the vast number of premium corporate designs that are available for WordPress. Gone are the days when a corporate template came with nothing more than a basic options page and a contact form. Today’s designs come with beautiful home page sliders, portfolio templates, eCommerce support and well developed blog pages. Due to this versatility, business designs can be used for just about any type of website.

Today we would like to show you 50 of the best premium themes that have been released in 2011. We hope you enjoy the list :)

The Themes

1. LeanBiz
Regular License: $39 a year for theme membership

A slimline business theme that features a great looking slider on the home page. The theme comes with 5 portfolio templates, a gallery template, contact form, sitemap and full width template.

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2. Webly
Regular License: $39 a year for theme membership

Another ElegantThemes business deign that features a prominent slider on the home page. Several custom page templates are included as well as 16 unique shortcodes that allow you to style your content more easily.

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3. Folo
Standard License: $39, Developer License: $59 (Buy 1 get one with both licenses)

An HTML and CSS3 business and portfolio design that helps you promote products and services to customers. There are over 21 layout options, 9 different colour schemes and lots of custom widgets.

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4. Suco
Standard License: $39, Developer License: $59 (Buy 1 get one with both licenses)

A beautifully designed business theme that has a great home page slider. There are several different layouts to choose from, it supports post formats and it is optimised for use on mobile devices.

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5. Tisa
Standard License: $39, Developer License: $59 (Buy 1 get one with both licenses)

A responsive business design that looks great on any device that it is viewed on. It is coded in HTML5 and CSS3, comes with 6 colour schemes and has child theme support too.

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6. WebHosting
Standard License: $69, Developer License: $99

A fantastic theme that is perfect for a web hosting company. It comes in 5 different colour schemes, 9 unique page templates and a whopping 30 integrated short codes to help you style your content. There’s also a WebHosting plan page for comparing the hosting plans you have on offer.

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7. Private Lawyer
Standard License: $69, Developer License: $99

Although it was created for Lawyers, this design is very versatile and could be used for just about any type of website. It features an integrated home page slider, 5 colour schemes and several custom page templates.

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8. Mobility App
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $79

The ultimate design for smartphone developers. The theme was designed to promote applications and other smart phone related products. It comes with 4 colour schemes and over a dozen shortcodes for styling your content. It also features unique page templates such as a pricing page for comparing the products you have on offer.

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9. Qlassik
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $79

A useful business design that is packed full of features. The home page featured a great looking animated slider. In total there are 5 different slider options available.

It also features 5 different colour schemes, 3 portfolio templates and various layout options. Over a dozen shortcodes are included to help you style your content.

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10. Personality
Standard License: $59, Developer License: $179

Designed for professionals such as Lawyers, Politicians and real estate agents; Personality is a feature rich corporate design that comes with 3 different page layouts and a unique gallery template.

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11. Overtime
Standard License: $59, Developer License: $179

Features a flexible post slider on the home page and it’s own gallery page. The blog template looks great and there are lots of shortcodes included.

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12. Entreprenium
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $99

A responsive design that looks great on desktops and on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The theme includes customisable widgets, image sliders, photo galleries and it’s own portfolio page. You can add links to your social media profiles at the bottom of the page, though social media sites haven’t been integrated into the content area.

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13. Equilibria
Standard License: $49, Developer License: $99

A versatile theme that can be used for a wide range of websites. On the home page you can display a post slider, regular corporate style layout or your latest blog posts. There are lots of custom page templates and widgets and it comes with 5 colour schemes too.

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14. Press Two
Standard License: $50, Developer License: 100, Membership: $125

A clean corporate design that comes in a light and a dark colour scheme. The home page has a beautiful slider and there are three different portfolio templates and a full width template included in the theme.

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15. Appix
Regular License: $35

A clean design that was created for app developers and designers. Features great looking project and contact page templates and shortcodes to style your content.

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16. Cleanistic
Regular License: $35

Packed full of features, Cleanistic is perfect for a corporate website, photographers portfolio or personal blog. You can select from an unlimited number of colour schemes and background colours and there are 40 background patterns included too.

It also includes custom page templates for a portfolio, sitemap or contact page; and custom widgets and shortcodes too.

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17. Plan B
Regular License: $35

An elegant business theme that lets you create your own custom page using a drag and drop interface. It also includes 8 jQuery sliders, 6 page templates (4 of which are for portfolios) and 5 custom widgets. Text styling shortcodes are included too.

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18. Minima Two Advanced
Regular License: $35

A minimal business theme that features a drag and drop interface for creating custom pages. 8 sliders are included in the design and lots of shortcodes for styling content. Social media can also be integrated into your design too via the settings area.

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19. District 9
Regular License: $35

A corporate portfolio design that comes with great multimedia support for playing video and audio. It comes in 4 different colour schemes and includes shortcodes to format your content.

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20. Fox
Regular License: $35

A clean business template with a minimal design. You can create an unlimited number of sidebars using the theme and select from an unlimited number of background colours too.

On the home page is a beautiful nivo slider and there is lightbox support for photos, plus video support for YouTube and Vimeo. All in all a very versatile minimalist theme.

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21. FolioStudio
Regular License: $35

A portfolio style business theme that displays a beautiful slider on the home page. Through the settings area you can modify certain elements of your design such as your logo, background and fonts.

Several custom widgets and page templates are also included; and there are three colour schemes too.

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22. Ocram
Regular License: $33

A fantastic business design that comes in an unlimited number of colour schemes and sidebars. It’s very easy to change the layout. There are 6 home page layouts, 5 different sliders and shortcodes for creating 2, 3, 4 or 5 columns within your content.

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23. Venducci
Regular License: $35

A simplistic business design that has a beautiful drop down navigation menu. The included gallery template displays images full screen and allows you to change images via thumbnails at the bottom of the page. Shortcodes are also included for styling your content.

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24. Target
Regular License: $33

Perfect for portfolios and corporate websites, Target has 9 widgetized areas, 8 colour schemes, 4 different portfolio templates and 25 shortcodes for formatting your content. It also has great typography with 31 Google fonts to choose from.

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25. 7Star
Regular License: $30

A clean business theme that is very versatile. It includes 20 different colour schemes, 8 custom widgets, several page templates, font replacement using cufon or Google fonts and over 70 custom shortcodes.

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26. Creole
Regular License: $33

Creole is a minimal business design that features a great looking slider on the home page. You can choose from an unlimited number of colours, lots of short codes, 4 portfolio templates and over 250 Google fonts.

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27. Revolution
Regular License: $33

A great looking design that comes with a powerful admin page. There are 4 sliders to choose from, over 200 Google fonts and 10 page templates.

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28. Socialite
Regular License: $35

A cool business theme that is optimised for use on mobile devices. The home page has 3 slider options: 3D, Nivo and Anything. It also includes several page templates, 100 shortcodes and 13 custom widgets.

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29. Creative Box
Regular License: $33

A powerful corporate theme that comes in 9 varying colour schemes. The home page displays a beautiful 3D slider, and using the home page manager you can deactivate some areas of the design. You can also create an unlimited number of sidebars.

3 portfolio templates are included and lightbox is integrated into the design for images and photos.

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30. Free
Regular License: $35

Free is an incredibly versatile WordPress theme. It boasts over 160 theme options, 50 shortcodes, 7 colour schemes, 13 custom widgets, 3 image sliders and 20 page templates. Google web fonts are also supported.

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31. Adventure
Regular License: $35

A clean and minimal WordPress theme that was created using HTML5. You can change the background to any colour you want or choose from one of the 50+ backgrounds included in the design. There are several sliders and portfolio templates to choose from together with over 75 shortcodes and 100 Google fonts.

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32. Switchblade
Regular License: $35

A fantastic design that comes with 8 pre-defined colour schemes, 3 slider options and hundreds of fonts. The theme options page is also unbranded so that you can re-brand it for clients.

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33. Architec
Regular License: $30

A clean design that was made for Architects, but that can be used for any business website. It comes with light and dark versions, 9 page templates, 35 shortcodes and an extensive options panel.

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34. Metropolis
Regular License: $35

An ajax powered design that is perfect for creative corporate websites. It features over 100 page layouts, 25 shortcodes and 12 portfolio templates.

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35. Creator
Regular License: $45

A beautiful HTML5 powered theme that comes with a skin manager to let you save, load and export designs. Features a great looking slider on the home page, several portfolio templates and over a dozen shortcodes for styling your content.

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36. Demonair
Regular License: $30

A clean traditional corporate design that features cufon font replacement, a jQuery image slider and newsletter sign up option.

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37. Etherna
Regular License: $35

A stylish HTML5 design that has an advanced admin options area. A 12 grid system is used that allows you to customise our layout in a number of different ways. Custom shortcodes, page templates and portfolios are also included.

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38. Athena
Regular License: $35

A flexible business theme that boasts a lot of great features. It includes 6 colour schemes, 7 background patterns, 6 custom widgets, a sortable portfolio and support for audio and video.

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39. Curvo
Regular License: $35

A beautiful design that places a curved vertical menu at the left hand side of the page and the content at the right hand side. Over 80 cufon fonts and 40 shortcodes are included and it has support for video too.

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40. Cascadia
Regular License: $35

A minimal and clean business design that comes with 10 different colour schemes. 8 widgets and 8 unique page templates are included, and there are shortcodes for creating columns in your content.

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41. PowerPlay
Regular License: $35

Features unlimited slideshows, portfolios, colours and backgrounds. One of the designs best features is it’s mega sub menus that let you create columns and thumbnails in your drop down menu.

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42. Creativo
Regular License: $35

Big and bold fonts dominate this creative business theme. Content can be styled easily using he included shortcodes and portfolio galleries are supported by lightbox.

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43. Versatile
Regular License: $35

Versatile certainly lives up to its name with 2 home page jQuery sliders, 50+ custom fonts, 8 custom widgets, several page templates and lots of shortcodes for formatting your content.

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44. Amoveo
Regular License: $35

Includes a whopping 16 colour schemes, 50+ background patterns, 80+ shortcodes and 5 different home page sliders. The 960 grid system layout is also very flexible with around 65 widget positions within the design.

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45. UDesign
Regular License: $35

A powerful theme that has a widgetized home page. It includes 7 sliders, 5 portfolio templates, shortcodes and over 200 fonts.

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46. CleanCorp
Regular License: $35

Another clean WordPress design that would be perfect for a company website. There are two sliders to choose from, 3 page templates and shortcodes to format your content.

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47. Itis
Regular License: $35

A beautiful design that comes with 20 skins (light and dark variations for 10 designs). The home page slider displays images or video, and it includes over 40 widgets and 100 shortcodes for creating the perfect design. There are also 82 custom hooks available for advanced editing.

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48. Bolder
Regular License: $30

A great looking business design with an advanced options page in the admin area. Includes 15 theme skins, 6 home page layouts, 3 different kind of sliders and 3 portfolio templates.

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49. Stacked
Regular License: $40

A portfolio business design that comes in light and dark colour schemes. Custom widgets, page templates and shortdodes are also included.

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50. Hermes
Regular License: $35

A great design that lets you control the home page layout by using a drag and drop interface. You can upload your own fonts using the font manager and there are 3 portfolio styles too. 7 custom widgets are also included and you can create columns in your content using shortcodes.

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We hope you enjoyed the post. But much more than that, we sincerely hope that we have shone the light on some valuable resources that our readers will get some use out of. What are some of your favorites from the post? Or what are some of your favorite premium themes that were released this year that we failed to feature? Use the comment section below to let us know.

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The internet is a popular place for movie fans. It’s a place where you can read the latest reviews, watch trailers of upcoming films and argue plotlines with other film buffs. Big movie studios are vastly aware of how important the internet is to marketing their new films, and as a result they spend a lot of money developing interactive websites to help promote new releases.

Today we would like to showcase 40 movie related websites: 20 movie information websites and blogs and 20 official websites from popular movies over the last 10 years. Both sides of this movie website coin are charged with inspiring examples that are sure to please.

20 Movie Blogs, Fan Sites & Award Websites

1. The Internet Movie Database

The largest movie website on the internet was founded in 1990 by self-confessed movie geek Colin Needham. Even though IMDB was sold to Amazon in 1998, Colin is still the Chief Executive of IMDb. More surprisingly, he still runs the company from his home. The site has gone through dozens of design changes over the last 21 years.

2. Rotten Tomatoes

Launched in 1999, Rotten Tomatoes is a movie review aggregator that works out a rating for each movie by collecting scores from movie critics. The ‘TOMATOMETER’ tells you the percentage of critics that gave a film a positive review. Films with low scores are given green/rotten tomatoes whilst popular films are displayed using red/fresh tomatoes. The website also displays an average rating from Rotten Tomatoes’ users for each film.

3. Metacritic

MetaCritic works in a similar way to Rotten Tomatoes by aggregating scores from a number of different sources. Unlike Rotten Tomatoes, MetaCritic also covers games, TV and music. Each film is given a rating out of 100. Just like Rotten Tomatoes, a user rating is also displayed.

A link to each review that was used to calculate the score of a fim, album or game is listed underneath the score. It’s worth noting that some reviewers, that are considered more important, are given more weight when scores are calculated.

4. ComingSoon

A colourful website that links to the latest trailers of upcoming movies. The site also publishes production stills, DVD reviews and the latest movie related news. They haven’t integrated their great design into their popular discussion forums, which is strange as it’s prominently linked from the main navigation menu.

5. Movie Mistakes

Arguably the best website on the web for finding mistakes from popular films. Visitors can search for mistakes from their favourite movies or browse through popular mistakes or films with the most errors. Many mistakes also have images attached to show exactly what went wrong.

6. Chasing The Frog

A great website that focuses on films that were based on true stories. Each film is compared to what actually happened in real life and pictures of each major actor in the film is shown next to their real life counterparts. It’s a great way of knowing more about the true events that inspired your favourite films.

Google Adsense and Amazon advertisements are discretely integrated throughout the site and related videos for each movies are also linked to each film.

7. The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences (Oscars)

The official Oscars page has an elegant design that showcases upcoming events and lists information about the academny and all past Oscar ceremonies.

8. Festival De Cannes

The respected Cannes film festival has a website design that is not a million miles away from it’s North American counterpart, sharing the same colour scheme and basic website structure.

9. The Razzies

The Razzies is for those who want to reward the worst the movie industry has to offer. Their website breaks most modern conventions for developing a website with every link and image on the home page linking to either their forum, an advertisement or an article from another news website. What else should we expect from The Razzies?

10. AllMoviePhoto

One of the largest collections of movie photographs on the web. The site features images from old and upcoming films. Visitors can search by film or by actor.

11. Horror Movies

A popular Canadian horror movie community that features reviews, news, discussion forums and a large archive of horror films. The site uses a dark colour scheme that fits it’s genre well.

12. Bad Biology

A dated looking website that highlights biology and science related mistakes from popular films. Don’t let the poor navigation and design put you off as there are a lot of interesting facts to be found on the site. Plus it’s refreshing to browse a movie related website that doesn’t have advertisements everywhere.

13. Empire

The UK’s most popular film magazine has a fantastic design that makes navigating the site a breeze. Empire features news, reviews, videos, images, interviews, forums and more.

14. Film School Rejects

Film School Rejects is a great movie blog that features news, reviews and interviews about Hollywood and upcoming films.

15. Fast Rewind

If you grew up in the 80s, you’ll love the 80s Fast Rewind. There are listings for close to 600 films released in the 80s. Each film has a review, details of the music used in the film, triva, bloopers, filming locations and a look behind the scenes.

16. Screen Rant

What started off as a place for owner Vic Holtreman to rant about dumb things that happened in films has grown to be a great resource for the latest movie news and reviews. The site shares a similar design to its sister website Game Rant.

17. Kids In Mind

Kids In Mind provides objective information about the content of films so that parents can decide themselves whether a film is suitable for their children or not. A rating between 1 and 10 is given for sex and nudity, violence and gore and profanity; and descriptions of each scene in the film that the parents might have concerns about are provided in detail.

When browsing the film archives you can quickly see the ratings of a film at a glance. Alternatively, you can read the complete analysis if you need more information.

18. Hulu Movies

Launched in 2007 as a joint venture between companies such as NBC, Fox, Viacom and Disney; Hulu is an online video service that lets you watch movies in full. It also shows clips, trailers and documentaries.

19. The Quentin Tarantino Archives

The unofficial Quentin Tarantino blog that has official status was launched back in 1999. It remains the best place on the web to find out about the latest Tarantino films in progress and is lucky enough to count the man himself as a fan.

20. Roger Ebert

You may not always agree with his reviews but there’s no disputing the experience of film critic Rogert Ebert; the first film critic to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His personal website features his latest reviews and commentaries.

20 Movie Websites

The vast majority of movie studios are using flash to design their websites these days. This allows them to integrate videos of the films trailer into the content and make the website more interactive. Many of these websites showcase a trailer on the home page and encourage the visitor to ‘Enter The Site’. This area usually features more information about the film, cast and crew and details of how visitors can see the film (cinema, Blu-Ray etc).

21. Avatar

A colourful website that lets you learn about the Avatar movie in a number of ways. Through the small navigation menu at the top left hand side of the page you can view images, videos and download screensavers and background images for your computer. There is very little information on the website itself, with the vast majority of links on the page opening up external websites that are dedicated to specific areas of promoting the film.

22. Iron Man 2

The Iron Man 2 website has a beautiful interactive futuristic design. Images, videos and clips can all be shown via the navigation menus. The visitor can switch between the Iron Man and War Machine suits to find out more about them.

23. How To Train Your Dragon

A family friendly design that has lots of games and other activities for kids to play. You can find out more about each dragon in the film too.

24. Saw

Most websites are designed to promote just one film, however the Saw website promotes all 7 Saw films. When you click on a specific film on the right hand side of the page, a sub menu appears in the centre of the page that allows you to find out more about the film, view DVD features, trailers and more.

25. Tron

One of the best designed movie websites online today. Packed full of features, games and information and very easy to navigate. Daft Punk music from the film is played whilst you use the site also for that extra bit of immersion into the world of the film.

26. Donnie Darko

This was one of the first films to use a website to further the plot of a film. Known for it’s complicated plot, the website acts as something of a companion to the story giving you more hints as to what happened in the movie. Some consider it a stroke of genius whilst others find the website even more frustrating than the film. You decide for yourself!

27. Ice Age 3 – Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

A fun website that kids are sure to love. It’s easy to navigate and has lots of interactive material such as videos, images and downloads.

28. District 9

When a visitor views the District 9 website they have to choose whether they are human or an alien. You are then shown a map of Johannesburg. If you click on a restricted area you are warned about unauthorised access and you are then redirected to the Sony page which promotes the film. A great website that’s a good example of how you can make a movie website fun and interactive and still promote the film effectively.

29. Simpsons Movie

An interactive website that allows the visitor to browse around Springfield to find out more about the characters. It has lots of fun games and you can also create your own Simpsons avatar.

30. Transformers – Dark Of The Moon

The home page features links to buy the latest Transformers DVD. The main site plays footage from the film in the background and has a small nav menu that lets you view trailers, images and downloads.

31. Star Trek

As you would expect from a Star Trek website, the website for the latest Star Trek film has a futuristic design. Images, videos and downloads can all be viewed via the great looking nav at the left hand side of the page. You can also see 360 degree panoramic views of the Star Trek set.

32. Predators

A great website that Predator fans are sure to love. When you use the site your regular cursor is replaced by the infamous 3 beam laser sighting that the Predator uses for targeting. As usual, visitors can view trailers and images and download background images for their computer. There’s also a fun Facebook game.

33. The Social Network

An elegant website design that displays a photo gallery of all the actors and contributors to the film. Clicking on a person allows you to view more information about them. Annoyingly, when you click to enter the main site from the entry page, it loads it up in a brand new browser window.

34. Alice In Wonderland

Another colourful website from Disney that is full of entertaining games, information, images, downloads and more. Go ahead and fall down the rabbit hole…if you dare.

35. The Hurt Locker

A unique page that allows users to navigate the site using the bombs on the home page image or via the navigation menu at the top of the site.

36. The Last Airbender

Different areas of the site are transitioned beautifully with fire effects as you move around the site. It’s packed full of information, videos, images, games and more.

37. Inglourious Basterds

A cool looking website that lets you find out more about the various characters from Tarantino’s re-imagining of the film Inglourious Basterds.

38. Shrek

Everyones favourite Ogre has a quick loading website that includes games, downloads, news and more. Information about all 4 Shrek films can be found here.

39. The Expendables

The Expendables website shows all of the stars of the film in a large image that moves from side to side. The navigation menu has been integrated into this image. All you have to do is click on the skulls to find out more.

40. Inception

One of the biggest films of last year has a stylish design that is easy to use. Most of the interactive features such as the minute mazes and Inception Dream are hosted on external websites though.

Do you know of a great movie website that wasn’t included here in our list? If so, feel free to share it with other Noupe readers in the comment area :)

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