Yeah, you can sign-up for some WordPress hosting, then pick up a random theme to bolt onto your site.
But why would you go just about anywhere to find something that’s so vital to your work? This is 2011 after all.
Your website should be stunningly designed.
It should make performing the basics of good SEO very simple.
You shouldn’t have to worry about things like state-of-the-art security, hassles with manual updates, or wondering if the underlying code of the theme you’re using is silently undermining all your work.
Oh, and it’d be cool if all of the above was found in one place. In 49 unique variations to choose from. Right?
Well, check this out …
Our StudioPress team has done the heavy lifting for you when it comes to website design, search optimization, and security.
Between our in-house StudioPress themes and our newly-built, StudioPress-approved, Theme Marketplace, we’ve got 49 stunning WordPress themes for you to lay on top of our rock-solid Genesis Framework for WordPress.
And, as always, there’s more going on over there than I can keep up with.
I’ll write more later about all the powerful plugins, the free (and growing) graphics library, etc.
For now, check out these two hand-made theme designs from the StudioPress.com workbench:
Scribble down a little note, or much more
Sometimes it’s personal.
Sometimes it’s business.
Either way, you need a place that’s yours to get it down.
Click here to straighten out your website with the Scribble theme.
Every company is a media company
Small business or large, you’re in the game.
Suburban, exurban, urban, or rural, you’ve got the opportunity to speak to the world.
We talk a lot around here about content and media. Take a step toward dominating your industry with this killer 21st century printing press.
Click here to setup your publishing empire on the Magazine theme.
Meanwhile, over at the StudioPress Theme Marketplace …
We introduced the StudioPress Theme Marketplace to you last month, and have since doubled the number of approved third-party themes available.
Ummm, there’s going to be no stopping this little shop.
Below is just a taste of what’s going on (and what’s coming) over at the StudioPress Theme Marketplace …
What will your grandchildren say?
We often think about the Internet (and what we do with it) as ephemeral. What if you thought different?
You may not be writing War and Peace, but you definitely want your best stuff out there in the wild.
Click here to leave your mark with the Legacy theme.
Legacy was designed by Wes Straham.
Style is the answer to everything
Come on, it’s time your content got the same treatment as those folks in the fashion industry.
You may not be in a professional makeup chair for three hours every morning, but your website can be in the equivalent. Ready for your closeup?
Click here to get your style on with the Fashionista theme.
Fashionista was designed by The Genesis Ninja.
56,459 people take WordPress further with StudioPress
OK, here’s the short version:
Our Genesis Framework from StudioPress empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.
With search-optimized code and functions, 49 turn-key designs, and unlimited support, updates, and websites you can build, Mashable calls Genesis the “best of the best” among premium WordPress themes.
56,459 online publishers trust Genesis to provide a solid foundation for their sites.
Whether you’re a novice or an advanced developer, Genesis provides you with the rock-solid infrastructure to take WordPress places you never thought it could go.
Get Genesis (and one, or all of the 49 themes) right here.
I love WordPress more than anything. There are some fabulous plugins out there which will help you on your way as a blogger. I’m sorry but although Tumblr is getting more traffic, self hosted WordPress is paramount to your success. It’s one of the great CMSs and I heard the other day can be used for Enterprise too!
I am a huge fan of WordPress. One of the best things about building your site in WordPress is that it is incredibly easy to go in and make changes. You don’t have to know how to build a site from scratch in order to make something that looks pretty good. This is incredibly useful for site owners with a small budget.
WordPress has made blogging so interesting and I love it.
It’s quite simple to make corrections, post new articles and install plugins.
All these are not as simple in order blogging platforms.
WordPress rocks.
Simple fact: when a client wants a WordPress site, I build it on the Genesis framework.
Here’s my latest Genesis project, an unashamed mimic of the Get Premise homepage: http://covasc.com.
Great looking site Martyn – well done! (oh, and in case you missed the pingback, I gave you some props today on my Kickstart Your Email List With a Featured Box post.)
So THAT’S where the signups were coming from. I couldn’t figure it out!
Thanks for the compliment and link, Brian. Means a lot from you.
StudioPress & the Genesis framework are fantastic! 90% of sites I build for clients are using it.
My latest project using Genesis is for a local tax and accounting firm, http://protaxbg.com. It’s a custom designed theme that’s been a lot of fun to build.
To me this is a no-brainer. WordPress is far and away king on it’s own merits. Start adding in all the possibilities for these sweet and elegant themes and it really shines as the ONLY real solution.
The title of this post confused me – this was more about StudioPress than WordPress – the publishing platform, right? I love WordPress but I am still using Thesis Theme, which funny enough, I bought through Copyblogger. I believe in fact Copyblogger used to run on Thesis. I love both WordPress and Thesis a great deal and have used them now for years. They haven’t disappointed me at all and I do put them through their cycles.
So what would be the best reasons or any reasons to move away from Thesis and toward Gensis? Thank you so much….!
Farnoosh, if you’re happy, then you’re happy. No reason to worry.
I use it, and I like the clean look.
Come take a peek.
-AJ
Have wordpress – will fly around the internet.
I have a genesis theme, purchased through copyblogger of course.
And have my cool mocha theme candy-wrapper.
Love it and wouldn’t have it any other way.
WordPress is a powerful CMS that can be used for more than just blogging. Its incredibly versatile, it can be used to run a non-blog web site as well.With WordPress you can build a blog, a website, or both.
If you use genesis as your framework than creating a theme for your wordpress site or blog become very easy. Also the key feature behind wordpress success is the huge database of themes and plugins that helps no-brainer guys to run site successfully.
Great point that is often overlooked. WordPress is an awesome tool to build a traditional non-blog site as well.
yep i like studiopress, i’ve started to use it a few months ago and it’s just great
I love WordPress,though have a WP.com site (http://marcia-richards.com) right now. I would love to go self-hosted on WordPress (I have my domain name), but I’m afraid i won’t transfer correctly and lose some of my blogs. I need some help with specifics on how to back up my info and then move over to WordPress.org. I don’t know CSS, so not sure if I can do it myself. I do however have a website hosted by Yahoo (http://americas-sports.com), so I’m not totally helpless, just afraid to lose my stuff and not be able toget set up by myself. Can you help?
Hey Marcia – there’s some pretty good documentation on how to migrate from WP.com over to WP.org. But if you didn’t want to do it yourself, they also have an option called Guided Transfer where you can pay them to do it for you.
Thanks, Brian. Then I come back to you to get the Studio Press theme? I really like Mocha.
Gotta love WordPress, and kudos to you guys for what you’re doing with StudioPress.
While my own blog runs on a custom design, I use StudioPress for a number of projects, as well as Headway. Add in what Thesis and Catalyst are doing, along with other great developers over at ThemeForest, and you just gotta love being a WordPress user!
WordPress is friggin awesome. This is definitely an awesome post. I’ll be implementing what I’ve learned today. Thanks for sharing.
-Etieno
I love WordPress. I’d not used it until building my own site. And I chose WordPress because of what I’d read about and seen of the Genesis framework. I chose the Executive theme.
I have to say, the best thing about my experience with Genesis, apart form the great result, is the StudioPress support. I got answers to every one of my questions, either through the tutorials or the forum.
You have some great people supporting you (NicktheGeek and SoZo, come to mind), and I couldn’t thank them enough when they were repeatedly and patiently assisting me!
A guy at my church started our church’s site using Drupal. It sucks. I convinced him to switch to WordPress because of the ease and flexibility it offers for techies and nontechies.
WordPress is convenient to use. If you can create a Facebook account or send an email, using Microsoft applications, then you can make use of WordPress. There is much easier way to personalize your blog design through help of those ready made free templates available for the WordPress. WordPress is simply creating websites for non-techies.
WordPress is amazing. I have used other blogging platforms before, but none of them beat wordpress. I use it for both my blogs. – Mitt
I would love to use WordPress. I have an account and started a blog. After the first post they would not accept the password. I can not start a new account because I already have one. So, I am the only writer not using it.
I use Genesis, though I can’t afford to buy a child theme, so I’m using one of the free child themes and just edited it a little bit. Some say my blog’s look is inspired by Copyblogger, although it doesn’t look as good. Though I never intended it to look like Copyblogger, it just came out that way after playing around with the colors.
I love the Genesis Framework, it’s so easy and convenient. And I know it’s as powerful as a lot of people say.
The Genesis Framework is the best. I have used it for 6 months now and I will never go back. Great post. Love it.
WordPress is awesome I run 90% of my websites on it, I love the amount of things you can do with WordPress fairly easily, that would take a long time with other CMS.
I’ve been seriously contemplating purchasing a studio press theme, but I have no coding experience, and am curious as to how easy it is to make a few custom changes to the themes. I’m going to be running a business oriented site & blog and probably wouldn’t need to change much other than getting my logo in, playing with the colors, adding some widgets, email sign up, ability to download ebooks, etc. How simple is it to use genesis for something like that?
Jason – if that’s all you’re looking to do, it’s not too difficult. The CSS in our child themes is really clean, and should be easy to modify if you want. otherwise, our support forum is available to help you in cases where you get stuck. Most child theme support the custom header option with WordPress, but it would depend on which one you select. Whichever you slice it, you’re not alone – we’re here to help.
I’ve been looking at the themes in your “business category” Would any of those give me the options I need?
The Corporate theme was recently updated, and is a great theme for many purposes. I’d highly suggest that one.
Brian–after I make my purchase, how will I receive my choice? Will it be downloaded? Or, will I receive a code on WordPress?
You’ll download your theme after purchase and then register for the support forum.
Thanks
Just to be clear – are you using a free WordPress.com account? Or self-hosting your own site?
Brian, thanks for the post. WordPress has become my go to recommendation for our agents now. The number of widgets and themes available allow me to make each agents blog look unique and offer specific features tailored to each agents preferences, it is great. – Will
wordpress is just awesome, I don’t think any other blogging plateform is doing the effort which wordpress is doing for its lover.
Yes that’s something I also noticed too and this article hits that well wordpress is just naturally beautiful with seo and I noticed a lot of people are using it. I even had a gemini c group request that out of the blue so that was neat. I think word press is really over taking joomla in a lot of site development template type work.
I am a huge fan of WordPress – it makes it so simple. You have some great designs!
I have been blogging on blogspot for over three years. Is it possible to easily switch over to WordPress or do I have to start over?
Needless to say I’d like to switch because blogspot support and user-friendliness is almost nil.
Thanks,
Madleine
Migration from one platform to another is pretty common, I’ll snag Brian G. and he can give you a few more details on how it specifically works for Blogspot.
You can import your posts from Blogspot to WordPress. Are you wanting a free WordPress.com hosted account or wer you looking to install it on your own server?
Actually, Brian. I have no clue on how to go about doing this or what I need. Please advise.
Thanks, Madeline
If you are looking to import it into a free WordPress.com account, here’s a great resource that can walk you through it.
If you want to host it yourself (in other words, you get a hosting account and then you have someone install WordPress for you — this gives you more freedom than a WP.com account), our guest writer Johnny B. Truant should be able to give you a hand with setup. I notice he helps folks with migrating their content over also.