Over the last few weeks we have been asking you “What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why?”

Thanks to everyone who entered this months poll, the overall winning theme for design flexibility and versatility was Thesis 1.6

Your next top 3 favorite themes were:

• Interphase at Elegant Themes
• The Lifestyle theme from studiopress!
• The Wordpress Journalist theme by kalphegor

Here are the Young Entrepreneur top 5 online resources for fantastic WordPress templates:

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Best Wordpress Themes

WordPress users have thousands of themes to choose from. They hunt out the best of the best free and premium themes so you don’t have to.

StudioPress

StudioPress themes are a perfect solution for small businesses or individuals looking to establish their online presence with a WordPress blog or website.

ElegantThemes

Was created to provide WordPress themes of quality and integrity. The themes are crafted with a goal of simplicity and professionalism and strive to inject each design with a dose of modest elegance. Your website is not just a tool, it is an integral part of your identity. They provide attractive and userfriendly templates that will help you achieve your online goals.

WooThemes

WordPress themes for all types of web publishers. A one stop theme shop where you can get the finest WordPress Themes and top notch support so you can give your website a shiny new look and be up and running in no time!

DIYthemes

The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately. Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework. Not only that, Thesis also contains additional options that will allow you to fine-tune each and every page of your site. The days of worrying about your in-site SEO are over—with Thesis, your strategy is “just add killer content.”

If you would still like to add your comments, we are leaving the contest open for 1 more week – enter at http://contests.youngentrepreneur.com/ or tweet your answer below.

Next week we will be starting a brand new entrepreneur Poll!

Adam Toren

Time for a Young Entrepreneur poll update! A couple of weeks ago we asked you, “What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why?”

You only have a week left to be in with a chance of winning our $25 Amazon Gift Voucher offer, please simply enter our poll and this voucher could be on it’s way to you!

WordPress is dominating the blogging scene more than ever and there are some great themes out there, including ones from sites like StudioPress.com and WooThemes.com.

So, what are the best WordPress Theme and why? Demonstrate your expert knowledge and share your advice in this months Young Entrepreneur Poll!

If you would like to take part in our poll and tell us what your Top WordPress Theme is, enter at http://contests.youngentrepreneur.com/ or tweet your answer below.

Adam Toren

Time for a Young Entrepreneur poll update! Last week we asked you, “What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why?”

To be in with a chance of winning our $25 Amazon Gift Voucher offer, please simply enter our poll and this voucher could be on it’s way to you!

WordPress is dominating the blogging scene more than ever and there are some great themes out there, including ones from sites like StudioPress.com and WooThemes.com.

So, what are the best WordPress Theme and why? Demonstrate your expert knowledge and share your advice in this months Young Entrepreneur Poll!

If you would like to take part in our poll and tell us what your Top WordPress Theme is, enter at http://contests.youngentrepreneur.com/

Adam Toren

It’s the start of a new poll! This month we are asking “What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why?”

To be in with a chance of winning our $25 Amazon Gift Voucher offer, please simply enter our poll and this voucher could be on it’s way to you!

WordPress is dominating the blogging scene more than ever, and there are some great themes out there which are helping newbies and non techies create some excellent looking sites. With sites like StudioPress.com and WooThemes.com we have a choice of some amazing themes. So we want to know “what is your favorite WordPress theme and why?”

We can’t wait to hear all of your opinions on WordPress themes in this month’s Young Entrepreneur Poll!

If you would like to take part in our poll and tell us what your favorite WordPress theme is, enter at http://contests.youngentrepreneur.com/

Adam Toren

Recent word out of Google tells us that they are considering the establishment of a “micro-payment” option, enabling a new payment structure to download individual pieces of information, such as an article, newsletter, feature or video. This news should give you additional cause to think about your own membership site. Online content is in constant and heavy demand as people seek answers to their problems and solutions to their issues, right here and right now.

If you have something of considerable value, especially if it is in digital format, then you should consider setting up your own membership site. This can represent a lucrative income and a wide variety of websites, software solutions and plug-ins exist to help you get going. Advances in the technology used within these various platforms allow us to choose whether to create our own or to buy into someone else’s design. WordPress has become so advanced these days that you can use it as the perfect content management system and take advantage of specific plug-ins to help you structure and organize your theme and content.

You will notice when you research the options available to you, that some offer a one-time purchase price while others indicate a monthly charge. Generally speaking, the one-time fees allow you to download the software and operate on your own server, while the monthly fee option includes an element of support as well as remote hosting. This is a matter of personal choice. You may also notice different price points according to whether you are using the software on a single site or on a multitude and this latter option may be of interest to those who are considering setting up some kind of membership site template and “franchising” out to others.

You will normally have a tremendous degree of flexibility, especially among the better choices. You can opt to receive payment via a number of gateways and product or service resellers, such as Clickbank, PayPal, 2checkout or your own payment processor. You can also establish an affiliate program allowing you to gain additional members in return for a commission fee to be paid to new affiliates.

Amember is the top script available, supporting plug-ins that allow you to link your database through your Joomla or Wordpress platforms, for example. These scripts are very sophisticated, user flexible, and feature an unlimited number of product or service subscription types, each with its own parameters, such as automated account sign-up, expirations and terminations.

Have you set up membership website?

Adam Toren

No business can afford to discount the opportunities posed by an online presence. This refers equally to an organization that may have traditionally focused on off-line activities or on “bricks and mortar” locations to drive sales. Whatever line of business, product or service, there are significant reasons for exposing your company to an increasing army of hungry and thirsty searchers discovering the Internet on a daily basis.

Your shop window to the world online will be your website. First impressions count for a lot here and you have but a few seconds to convince the visitor to stay before he or she clicks away to find another gem. While there are many ways to create your own website, should you be inexperienced or not in possession of a creative flair then you should outsource this task. There is a lot to think about when putting together a web site, but from a visual perspective, it must be immediately appealing.

Quite apart from the technicalities of making your website “visible,” which we’ll get to in a second, the content contained within must be sharp, to the point, entertaining, educational, informative, amusing, unique, bold, thought-provoking – or any combination of the aforementioned! This does not mean that you have to have a university-style thesis on every page, but you have to contribute something special and create that “hook” to draw your customers into the sales funnel.

Consider a ghostwriter or a specialized copywriter to create the content of your page, especially the page that is directly concerned with soliciting a call to action. Once you’ve convinced the visitor that your product or service is for them through the skillful creation of content as described, you must bring this all together, narrowing that sales funnel and prompting a purchase decision.

If you create a great visitor experience, then the first time visitor will be tempted to return. Offer them the opportunity to bookmark or to subscribe to your feed updates and you will commence a two-way communication, which can hopefully lead to additional sales and increased volume.

Your website must be a constantly evolving product. Try and add new content on a daily basis if you can and this is where blogs come in very handy. These days it is quite simple to set up your own blog using a platform such as WordPress or Blogger and these are particularly useful pages as they are set up to receive comments. Your overall credibility will soar if you have a well trafficked blog page with great comments, back and forth and positive contributions from others.

Your overall goal must be to increase the amount of traffic to your website as creatively as possible. This starts with search engine optimization, which is the process of ensuring that your page is appropriately coded and presented, so that it will appear within search engine results when people are looking for your product or service. Optimization includes strategic use of keywords, both primary and secondary, which not only tell the search engine operators that your page is relevant but which also adequately inform your visitors, so that they can go ahead and buy from you.

If you really want to grow your business online, make sure that you follow up with all prospects, leads and existing customers. Create a “squeeze page” by offering your website visitor something of significant value, free. If you creatively package this, then they will provide you with their e-mail address in order to receive this item. Following a process of “double opt in,” ensuring that they understand that they will be receiving communications from you, you can then send them your regular newsletter containing additional value added material and helping to establish that process of communication, leading to sales down the road.

How have you expanded your business online?

Matthew Toren