Wordpress and iThemes the Ideal Mix for Small Business Websites

Thanks to the combination of WordPress and iThemes, many small businesses can now enjoy the benefits of a professional-looking website.

After all, a professional website can offer the ideal method for attracting new customers. It’s less expensive than traditional advertising methods and it offers a one-stop shop for all your products and services, not to mention allowing visitors to get to know more about you.

Unfortunately, many small businesses simply don’t have the time or expertise to create a professional website; nor do they have the often lucrative costs involved to hire a web design company.

However, thanks to software specialist iThemes and their excellent range of premium WordPress themes, you can now have your own professional-looking website up and running within a matter of hours. Even better, you can do it for as little as the cost of the theme, a domain name and a hosting package with the likes of Hostgator or Bluehost.

The beauty of using the WordPress set-up along with the iThemes designs is that they truly do complement each other perfectly. Wordpess has long been recognized as one of the easiest content management systems around - you want to change something, you simply make the required edits just as you would on a Word document.

Add to that the fact that WordPress has some of the best web tools in the business - All-in-One-SEO and Askimet Spam Filter are just two of the best examples - and it really is a powerful tool for both ease-of-use and SEO benefits.

One of the reasons many businesses haven’t used WordPress previously is that it has had the tag of being “just a blogger’s platform” for so long that it’s hard for these businesses to look past that tag and at how WordPress shapes up now - a lot of this is thanks to the innovators at iThemes.

Not content with simply designing a good-looking WordPress theme that could be used professionally, the developers at iThemes have come up with some of the most striking and professional looking WordPress themes found anywhere today.

Indeed, so advanced are they that they put many “professional non-WordPress” theme templates and designs to shame. For example, I use one for my PR agency, the “Deep Order” theme - I think you’d agree that it doesn’t look like your standard WordPress theme.

There are a host of themes to choose from at the iThemes website - from corporate to Web 2.0 designs, photography-heavy themes and more; there’s certain to be one that suits your business. Thanks to their excellent video tutorials for each theme, iThemes even make it easy for a website newbie to design a great looking site.

And with prices starting at only $29.95 for templates, when you combine this with a $6.95 per month web host cost and an average $9.95 domain name fee, you can see how even the smallest and newest of businesses can get off the ground with their own professional website for very little cost. Try out iThemes and WordPress for yourself - you might be pleasantly surprised.