The professional and elegant style of the new WordPress theme is unbelievable- you can attract even more visitors and, at my opinion the best feature of OnTheGo: The theme can be used as a typical blog or a page-based CMS!

OnTheGo features: Internet Browser compatible (very important), Netscape compatible, Threaded Comments, Widget ready sidebars (make money with adverstisment or whatever), smooth handdrawn design, Valid XHTML and CSS, Advertisment Ready (income?), use Gravatars for your community, an option page for the theme, compatible with WordPress 2.9, four colors you can choose from for your theme, PSD files

elegantthemes offers high quality and professional WordPress themes for your website or blog. Be sure to have a look at the marketplace. Nick Roach from elegantthemes is giving away ALL his themes for only $20 a year, this is the best price for WordPress themes on the web.

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Installation guidelines

1. Download theme 
2. Unzip and upload the theme to your “wp-content/themes/” directory
3. In WordPress, go to “Appearance > Themes” and activate the theme

I think this is enough. If you haven't skipped through this paragraph you can now enjoy the beautiful wordpress themes.

CSS Gallery      

A CSS Gallery WordPress theme for webmasters who want to build CSS showcase or web gallery. Packed with built in Tagging, Google ads and a sidebar block with 125 x 125 banner ads. Theme is valid XHTML 1.0 transitional and valid CSS!

Preview       Download

Overstand

A fabulous magazine-style layout, Overstand is free from clutter and highlights content beautifully using a combination of white space, large slugs, neat headlines and thumbnail images.Orange and grey are the predominant colours and the layout ranges across three columns.

Preview       Download

Forte

Forte is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, which means that you are free to edit the theme as long as you keep the two links in the footer.

Preview       Download

Indeziner

Paper Wall WordPress Theme, an original, beautiful, high-quality WordPress theme, designed by Adrian Lazariuc from Indeziner.com exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme has a unique, colorful design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs and, if customized, can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog.

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Mimbo Magazine

MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes.

Preview       Download

The Morning After

The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme.

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Creative by Nature

Creative by Nature, a unique and flexible high-quality portfolio WordPress theme for artists, photographers and designers. The theme was designed by .css{mayo} and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Preview       Download

Christmas Theme

A beautiful Christmas and New Year’s Eve WordPress Theme, designed by Site5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Preview       Download

Snapshot

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Style Vision

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Outdoorsk

Beautiful 2 Column theme, quite graphics heavy, but very unique one!

Preview       Download

Monochrome

“Monochrome Gallery is a free widgetized theme for WordPress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, categorized posts with thumbnails on the homepage and a CSS framework to aid in customization.”

Preview       Download

Guzel Pro Magazine

Very powerful magazine theme with many great features – You don’t even need to touch the code, do everything You need through administration panel

Preview       Download

I hope that this post helped you a lot and I'm happy to see your comments on this article. Feel free to make some suggestion and have fun with the theme collection by sharing with your friends or linking to your blog/website.

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Why you should extend WordPress with Plugins

WordPress is a simple and very good blog-software. The software is improved regularly and already offers useful functions from house.  However there are meanwhile hundred plugins with new functions and it becomes clear that they cannot be integrated into the standard WordPress installation. Otherwise WordPress would be enormous and slow and you wouldn’t use 95% of the functions at all.

Therefore you can install new functions by plugin. There is a set of very useful plugins for bloggers who want to earn money with their blog, for example to win more visitors and to monetize the blog.

Here are the best plugins for freelancers:

Plugins – Easier and better use for WordPress
Following 5 plugins which highly simplify the work with WordPress and are useful for freelancers.

Draft Control
Draft control provides a better overview of your contribution drafts. Many professional bloggers use this draft function of WordPress in order to collect ideas and prepare content. This plugin simplifies the work.
The plugin site

Search Meter
The WordPress plugin “search meter” collects the data of the internal search. Thus which the visitors of my blog look for over the internal search field. Here the blogger can spot which words were searched and how many results were found in your blog. You can see the trends and remove content gaps.
The plugin site

WordPress Database Backup
Nothing is worse as if the work of months disappeared. And in addition naturally the own blog contributions count. Therefore the database plugin regularly stores the own database and let every blogger sleep better
The plugin site

WordPress Stats
Every blogger who means it seriously with earning money should examine how successful he is. Fortunately there’s the WordPress Stats plugin. This collects traffic information and thereby gives an excellent overview on the development of your own blogs. The advantage here: The data are stored at WordPress.com. This protecs your own database.
The  plugin site

Plugins – more visitors from Googles, Yigg and Co.
A good blog is worth nothing if it is not found. Therefore, self-employed should attach the importance to the marketing of their own blogs in search engines and social sites. The followig plugins help.

Related Posts
With search engines like Google it is very good if your own blog has many linking within the own sites. Thus the search engine spiders will find each article on your site faster. In addition for visitors the reference to other topic-related contributions is very useful. This plugin links automatically.
The plugin site

SEO Title Tag
This plugin allows you to create an individual review for each title tag. Google assess a lot of value on these meta tag so you should use this plugin.
The plugin site
 
Sociable
More and more visitors reach blogs over social websites lie Yigg.com. To make it easy for your visitors to participate in this social marketing you can use the plugin “Sociable”. Dozens of social services can be selected. The selected services will be automatically shown on a button.  
The plugin site
 
wpSEO
A comprehensive solution for search engine optimization of your blog is the plugin “wpSEO”.  This plugin can optimize various meta tags automatically, e.g. vertain area for Google to highlight.
The plugin site

Plugins – Earn Money with WordPress
The most important thing at the end. Self employed want to earn money with a blog. There are some useful German plugins, though unfortunately not nearly as many as in the English section.

Adsense Deluxe
You can easily and fast integrate AdSense ads on your blog with this plugin. You should prefer the direct installation of the AdSense code in every case.
The plugin site

AdSense Earnings of report
This allows you to leave your AdSense revenue directly in the admin area of your blog. This saves the constant calls to the AdSense website.
The plugin site

WP-Amazon Plugin
This plugin provides a very convenient way to search Amazon products directly in the WordPress admin dashboard and integrate into your own articles.
The plugin site

Pay me a beer coffee
This is the modern way of begging. Just ask the readers of your blog about a donation via PayPal. Whether you spend this money for a coffee or a beer is up to you.
The plugin site

Anyone who knows even more useful WordPress plugins for self-employed can post this in the comments.  

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Premium Channel WordPress Theme

Live Demo

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Theme features:

* Advanced Theme Control Panel
* Automatic Thumbnail Creation
* Advertisement Management
* Analytics/Stat Management
* Built-in FeedBurner Support
* Built-in Flickr Support
* Widget Ready
* Gravatar Ready
* Threaded Comments
* Cross-Browser Compatible
* WordPress 2.8.4+ Compatible
* Dropdown Menu Navigation

iGreat Blue

Live Demo

Download

iGreat Blue is an elegant and clean design free WordPress theme suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel.

Features:

• Theme Options
• 125×125 pixels adbox ready (easy editable from admin options)
• 468×60 pixels Header Banner ready (easy editable from admin options)
• Two columns
• Gravatar on Comments
• Compatible with latest WordPress versions
• Widgets Ready
• SEO Optimized
• Twitter Ready
• Fixed width
• Logo .PSD file is included in theme folder.
• Tested and compatible with all major browsers: IE, FF, Safari

Admin Options Features:

• Featured Posts
• Twitter
• Logo image
• Header 468×60 pixels banner code
• 125×125 pixels banners
• Sidebar Ads/Banners
• Header and Footer script codes

Style Vision

Live Demo

Download

Style Vision is a modern design free premium WordPress theme with options page. Suitable for any type web sites

Features:

• Options Page
• 125×125 banners ready (easy editable from admin options)
• 468×60 Header Banner ready (easy editable from admin options)
• Three columns
• Gravatar on Comments
• Compatible with latest WordPress versions
• Widgets Ready
• SEO Optimized
• Fixed width
• Logo .PSD file included in theme folder.
• Tested and compatible with all major browsers: IE, FF, Safari

Admin Options Features:

• Featured Content
• Logo image
• Twitter
• Header 468×60 pixels banner code
• 125×125 pixels banners
• Sidebar Ads/Banners
• Header and Footer script codes

Grante

Live Demo

Download

Grante is an elegant and professional designed free WordPress theme with featured content. Suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel

Features:

• Admin Options
• Featured Content
• 125×125 banners ready (easy editable from admin options)
• 468×60 pixels Header Banner ready (easy editable from admin options)
• Two columns
• Gravatar on Comments
• Compatible with latest WordPress versions
• Widgets Ready
• SEO Optimized
• Fixed width
• Logo .PSD file included in theme folder.
• Tested and compatible with all major browsers: IE, FF, Safari

Admin Options Features:

• Featured Content
• Logo image
• Twitter
• Header 468×60 banner code
• 125×125 banners
• Sidebar Ads/Banners
• Header and Footer script codes

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Isn't it easy to write some blog posts as I do? You can do the same? Great, then you're on the best way to a successful internet marketer.

The themes unique admin area allows you to modify nearly everything on your blog design and features. You can change the whole appearance, the Squeeze Form Settings, the Stat Tracking Codes, Header Settings, Display Settings and so on…

Get the free 37-page eBook – Squeeze Pages 101!

You can easily start your own business without having made a website or blog before! Yes, it's so easy. On my own blogs (I got some blogs which earns me good money) I often code and optimize a long time, but with Squeeze Theme you can really change the whole design and function of the site in a few seconds. The cool things are: You can realise your own ideas.

Just think this way: You make some videos on Youtube where you promote a product. Then you put your own Link of your blog into the video (on the blogpost, you reviewed the product). Ok, let's say that you sell 2% of all visitors. This is really normal, if you perform well, you can even get 5 sales out of 100 people.

You got some real good traffic through Youtube (and ONLY through youtube): Let's say 300 people a day. With some programs like tubeinator you can push your videos up to the front list so you get tons of traffic.

Ok, this means 5 sales a day with a clickbank product where you earn $30. One day you earned $150!

In one month, this means $4500! Yeah, that's real, all possible with a website or blog like this. And you can all create it with Squeeze Theme yourself in a few hours.

Ok, this is how it actually works. Some marketers keep it as a secret, but it would be very nice if you would purchase it through my affiliate link, so I'll revenue my hosting and so on. For this, don't forget: I told you a little secret how it really works :)

And: If you purchase through my link, you got some real good disounct. It's like a start up price for Squeeze Theme.

Get the free 37-page eBook – Squeeze Pages 101!

If you have questions with setting it up or something else, ask  me. I reply as soon as it's possible and I'll help you with any kinds of questions.

Do the best out of it!

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What do you want to show the world?

Whether it is your music or pictures, you have to choose a great WordPress Theme. This theme is required to keep your visitors and present your work in a profitable way. There is a unbelievable amount of WordPress themes available, but only a little percent is useful. It has to be SEO optimized and well designed/coded.

I would like to introduce you WooThemes,  Multimedia Themes for example is a great way to publish your content. You don't want to spend money? No problem, they do also offer free themes, amazing: Free Themes.

Also have a look at elegantthemes!

You haven't found something or you don't want to spend money? Contact me and I'll find your specific theme. You just have to tell me about what you want to do, and then I'll have look.

Why do we use WordPress to create an artist website? In my opinion WordPress is the best free open source software with so many ways to set up your own website or blog. Just look at my site- you can use plugins to build your Newsletter list or adjust your site like you want. Have a look at my post "Best Free WordPress Plugins For Musician and Artists"!

And, if you're interested you can learn "How To Create A Profitable Blog – Only A Few Steps Away From Making Money" with my post. It already helped so much people. I'm really interested in helping you to set up your specific page, so contact me if there are problems and we'll find a soultion.

Just to get an Idea how your band website or whatever could look like (of course with your own content): Fakeblog Theme Design (There are two versions, German and English)

Or have a look at Gridline.

To publish your website you need a Domain, a Webhost and as I wrote before- a Design. To get intouch with those things read my blogpost about it. It is really easy, it only looks a bit hard to understand for new people. A website is a musthave for artists and musicians, and I even think that it's a musthave to write blog articles for those passion. With WordPress you can band together those two things. With the plugins there are many ways to sell your stuff or present it to millions of people. Make your own website now and enjoy this feeling. I use my blogs to communitcate with other people and to do business. I earn money with my webstuff and I only use WordPress to create unbelievable sites.

In one of my next posts I'll describe the best WordPress Themes for artists and musicians, I currently work on this list.

Hope it helped you and stay tuned! Please sign up to my letter and keep on going. If there are any questions contact me or leave a comment.

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The beauty of unique article submission software is that it allows you to submit your articles to countless directories new and old. Few people know or can remember every directory that is online. With the help of article submission software, you can quickly gain access to all of your options making it easier than ever to disperse all of your articles.

Mass Article Control is a tremendous way to take your business to the next level. With the help of creating articles and submitting them to a mass amount of directories, it will save you time while making you money.

Increase Your Traffic And Sales With Mass Article Control

Despite knowing the impact article marketing can have on a business, countless entrepreneurs fail with this form of marketing. Whether it is the writing or submitting, there are several ways you can ruin a perfectly good marketing campaign. Fortunately, Mass Article Control will help you get more traffic, drastically increase your search engine rankings, all while making far more money.

At the end of the day it is up to you to decide whether or not it is worth the price for this software. Weigh your options and consider all of the pros and cons that come with the decision.

I'm working in the Internet Marketing Business since I mentioned about the potential of earning with automatic content and marketing software. If there are any questions, don't hestitate to ask me. I only recommend high quality and personally used software! This blog is something special for me, it's my passion, I don't see it as a business like my other projects. If you want to get in contact with me, just contact me or leave a comment.

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The weblog system already provides an excellent infrastructure for the basic installation and can be easy extended with additional plugins or widgets, especially for musicians.

Finally, WordPress is just a weblog system. No, it is not. WordPress is one of the most powerful open-source editing systems on the Internet. But still say a few unbeatable arguments for WordPress:

►Wordpress is easily installable and configurable

►WordPress is free open source

►WordPress is continuously programmed by professionals

►The WordPress community has a crowded arena with plugins

►There are thousands of free themes and layouts
 

The following plugins are of course for free!

Contact Form 7
Actually, every website needs a contact form. Even more important are contact forms for musicians and netlabels, they have to be reached yuickly and easily. If you want to have a functional, good working plugin you should choose Contact Form 7. It's simple but flexible, also you can manage multiple contact forms. To be protected from Spam, the plugin supports Captcha, Akismet and more!

Download Contact Form 7

Podcast and Audio Streaming with PodPress
Astonished I stumble about the fact that many musicians' websites doesn't provide audio samples. Audio samples are one of the most important things on a artists website! No visitor wants to download something without having heard the music before. Therefore there is no way around the music plugin PodPress. Originally thought as a podcast plugin PodPress expanded blog entries quickly and easily with a form, enclosing a contribution which is for MP3s. All MP3s of an article are possible to build in an additional entry via Flash Player, so that visitors can quickly and easily play the songs and sounds. Service is everything, PodPress delivers it easy.

Download podPress for WordPress

Events Calendar

Events Calendar is a widget based plugin to keep track of your events. You can change settings in the admin section and add/delete your events.Events-Calendar is a versatile replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. The plugin has an easy to use admin section that displays a big readable calendar and lets you add and delete events. At this moment, the developers are overworking the plugin to add more functions :)

Download Events-Calendar

GD Star Rating

I personally used GD Star Rating a little time to test it out. I really liked it, but for this blog it was not as good as it should be. There was no sense in it, but I think that GD Star Rating can be used on some other music sites in a good way. It's extremly functionally and has a lot of things to set up. It allows you to customize the rating and review system for posts, pages and comments. You can turn it off on some pages, you can turn it on on some pages- great! Also there is a widget ready way to display results. The plugin can be used in different languages.

Download GD Star Rating

WP Double Opt-In List Management

This plugin allows your visitors to subscribe to your blog. I use this plugin for Akon-Online as well, as you can see in my sidebar of the Homepage (don't forget to subscribe). When a user subscribes, the system sends a confirmation mail automaticly to the mail adress. If the user confirms his subscription, the plugin sends a welcome email to the new subscriber. You have the permission to change some fields, you can add fields, this makes the plugin a real highlight. 

Download WP Double Opt-In List Management

WP e-Commerce

e-Commerce is a shop system for wordpress. It's not some plugin, it is the best plugin in e-commerce. You can customize your plugin in a few minutes and set up your own store area on your website. You're thinking of selling your own band shirts, ringtones or music? No problem! The payout collaborate with Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express and many other trusted payment processors. You want to customize the design? Go and have a look at this great plugin.

Download WP e-Commerce

GigPress

GigPress is a powerful WordPress plugin designed for musicians and other performers. Manage all of your upcoming and past performances right from within the WordPress admin, and display them on your site using simple shortcodes, PHP template tags, or the GigPress widget on your WordPress-powered website.

Download GigPress

In part 2 you'll get informations about the best free WordPress themes for musicians and artists. Please subscribe two my post to receive informations about my activities. If you have questions, please leave a comment.

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Overview: To start making money with your own blog you need three things.

First of all a Domain where internet useres can find your site. Secondly a webhoster to upload your blog. And, of course, a design. These three things are very simple to get if you follow my instructions. You can save time and annoying problems by reading my guide.

First of all you need the Domain Name. What should your blog be about? I recommend GoDaddy, they're cheap and have a good support. Register a domain now or take one later.

The webhosting provider allows you to upload your blog. Webhosting companies often want to sell overpriced packages with bad support and less functions. The best webhoster is Bluehost, I host my sites with this provider and there weren't any problems at all. With the right tip, you can get a 2 year plan for only $6,95 per month! So don't waste your time and grab it now.

And now something really important for your visitors- the design of your page. I suggest you'll use the blogging platform WordPress, I personaly love this free software. And, there are many reasons why you should love WordPress as well. You can install WordPress with one click via Bluehost (this is also a positive aspect of Bluehost) in a few seconds! If you see the administration area of WordPress, you'll remeber this post.

Also, there is nothing easyer than getting a great theme/design for WordPress. There're only a few Developergroups professional earners can recommend- WooThemes and ElegantThemes! They make unbelievable, amazing Designs with functions you'll love (and need). Of course, there are other ways you can go. Pay a professional Webdesigner for thousands of dollars or use a bad-coded Design that won't attract visitors.

Have a look and pick one, I personally love them both (WooThemes and ElegantThemes), that's your personal decision.
Have a look at the "Busy Bee" theme from WordPress, that's one of the most loved theme.
There are beautiful "Elegantthemes"- you can use all these themes for only $19,95 per year!

So, these are the simpple steps you have done now! Great, because normally this is the hardest part for anyone who wants to earn online. If you haven't done these steps, you are one of these guys who wait for nothing, and then they are wondering about the time goes by.

Ok, right now you have your own blog, and this is the point where you can start making money. There are many ways to generate dollars and dollars.

I just wanted to show you how much money people make from her blogs. There are 15-year old guys earning much more than their parents… These are only a few examples I found in the web.

Rank Website Owner Monthly Earnings Main Income

1: Techcrunch, Michael Arrington, $200,000, Advertising Banners

2: Mashable, Pete Cashmore, $180,000, Advertising Banners

3: Perez Hilton, Mario Lavandeira, $140,000, Advertising Banners

4: Gothamist, Jake Dobkin, $80,000, Pay Per Click

Now we're coming to the point where you need some help to get started well with earning money.

You'll find all tools you need to become a succesfull blogger right now here. With a little amount of money you can get more than you expect. These programms and recources I recommend are used by myself. Most of these high quality products offers a 90-Days-Money-Back guarantee. So you have no risks.

RSS Feeds Submit
Software tool allows you to submit your RSS news feeds and blogs to 58 top search engines and directories. $Good Price$

Blog Mastermind by Yaro Starak
A product of Yaro Starak who makes $10,000 to as much as $35,000 per month with blogging. You can get a free copy.

Blogging to the Bank by Rob Benwell
I reviewed this product once. This is one of my favourite ones. Everyone should read it- and if you don't like it, there is a money back-guarantee. This is the book I would take in every case.

WordPress Goldmine by Mark Thompson
This is a great price for a great product. You can get access for a onetime fee to the liftetime membership of the blogging course. It teaches you how to create and monetize it in detail.

That's it for the moment, take action and I wish you the best for the future. If you have your site finished I can submit it to my "Partner Links" directory if you ask for it. This is good for your Google Ranking, especially traffic. You can leave your comment with critics, questions or other content. If you liked my article you can link it to wherever you like. I wish you a filled bank account and much fun with your blog!

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