Elegant Themes Launches eBusiness Premium Theme

Elegant Themes continues to impress with their high quality premium WordPress themes at an extremely affordable price of only $19.99.   They’ve also continued to keep a release schedule of at least one theme per month.

The latest release by Elegant Themes is the eBusiness theme.   Here are the features listed with this new theme:

LAYOUT – The layout tab houses some of the major overlying options that effect the structure and appearance of your website.

• Color Schemes – eBusiness comes with three skins, and each skin comes in three colors. You can switch between these 9 different variations at any time from the dropdown menu.
• Website Structure – The essence of eBusiness is to act as a CMS, creating a page-based layout. I have, however, included the option to bypass the page-based homepage in favor of a normal blog layout. You can switch between Page Structure and Blog Structure at any time.
• Footer Options – You will notice that each page has a widgetized footer on the bottom. I realize that if you are using eBusiness as  CMS you may not have the need for standard widget items, which are usually blog related. This option allows you to turn off the footer completely if you don’t intend to use it, or if you find yourself filling it with unnecessary text widgets and what-not to fill out the design.
• About Me Section – As with my other themes I have included an “About Me” widget that can be added to the sidebar. You can customize that here.

HOMEPAGE – The homepage tab allows you to manage your homepage. If you are using blog style then most of these options do not apply, but if you are using the Page-based system then you will have to use this area to set up your homepage.

1. Slider Control – You will notice that the demo features 3 sliding elements on the top of the homepage. These are managed via the Homepage tab. Here you can customize the content text, the title of the tab, the text used in the button, the thumbnail image (which is automatically re-sized) and an optional read more link, which can be pointed anywhere. You can also choose how many sliding elements to display, between 1 and 3.
2. Pages Control - The content on the homepage is made up of WordPress pages. You will create a page in wp-admin and then define the page to be used in the Homepage options tab. Simply input the page id of the pages you want to use and they will appear. You can also choose how many pages you want to use, anywhere from 1-4.
3. Blog Scroller – Even if you are using the page-based system you can still have a blog area on your site. For this reason I have included a blogroll on the homepage with a link to your most recent posts. This can be turned off if you don’t plan to have a blog section. You can choose how many recent posts to display. You can also customize the RSS link if you want to point it towards your feedburner account.

BLOG SETUP – If you are using the Blog Structure, or if you plan to include a blog within your Page-based website, you can customize your blog here. I tried to give a bit more control over various elements of the blog, inspired by the most common requests on the forum.

1. Post Format - You can choose between “Blog Style” mode or “Default” mode. The Blog Style mode displays your posts in full on index pages, while Default mode automatically truncates the post to create a short preview with a “read more” link.  Unlike my other themes you can now customize how long your post preview is when using Default mode. Simply input the number of characters you would like to display. Another thing I added is the ability to use your post excerpt as the preview, instead of the automated truncation.
2. Categories Bar – The categories bar, with links to your various blog categories, only appears on blog pages. However, if you are using the blog as simply a recent news section, and don’t plan to have several categories, you can turn off this categories bar. I realize that having a large red bar that spans the width of the page with a single link pointing to the page you are already one would have been pointless!
3. Further Post Preview Control – In addition to editing the length of the post previews you can also adjust the size of the thumbnail, as well as enable/disable the “read more” link and post info bar. Thanks to timthumb all thumbnails are automatically re-sized, cropped, and cached, which means you can change the size of your thumbnails instantly at the click of a button. You can also hide the thumbnails altogether if you don’t want any. You can also adjust the quality of the thumbnails, raising/reducing it depending on how fast you want your load time to be.

NAVIGATION OPTIONS – The navigation options allow you to customize the navigation bar. You can use this to exclude pages from the navigation, adjust the order of the links, add a link to your Blog section (if you are using one) and so on. Both the categories and pages navigation bars can be edited here.

ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT – As with the rest of my themes I have included a banner management system. You can add 125×125 and 468×60 banners here. Within the page I have added a banner preview for each field so that you can see what banner you want to edit more easily. I have also added the option to choose how many 125×125 banners you want to display. This was a very common request on the forums. You can now choose between 2-8 banners, all of which are editable in the theme options page. You can also choose where you want banners to be display. You can add them to your pages sidebar, blog sidebar or both. You also have the option to disable them completely.

This theme includes several different looks, but here is a screen shot of my favorite version of eBusiness:

eBusiness WordPress Theme

You can view the live demo of the eBusiness theme.

This theme, along with all the themes released by Elegant Themes, is available for only $19.99!

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