Online presence is must for every business man.  But not everything is about business, sometimes the purpose is to gain popularity, build brand, invite for any events and on and on. Why should artists step back when everybody even 12 year old can have their own blog. But can artists start building website for artists by using blog? It’s way too difficult but not impossible

Just imagine how does art events occur, they are conducted in an excellent location, every tiny detail is kept into consideration such as lighting effects, darkness, wall colors etc. The reason is to give natural look to artist’s artwork. Similarly a website for artists must incorporate design and style that can present the same concept. Now artist do not have to do all the stuff like purchasing a website domain to sell art online and fall into the complexities of hosting issues.

They can join hundreds of top online art galleries. Many are free and many are paid. The matter of fact is that if the website for artists is designed poorly, it will not only affect their sales but it will put a strong negative effect of their name. Below are the essential advanced elements that should be incorporated on artist websites to make it effective.

Buy and Sell Art Online

Let customers buy or sell artwork, not just buy and buy. Bringing more artists to your website bring more audience. The result is that artist gets more popularity.  This option applies to those artists who are more interested to open an online art gallery or artwork marketplace.

Home Page features:

Typical websites feature lot of products and services on home page. This approach does not work on artist websites. See below the image which highlights the most effective design layout.

Categorize Art (Layered Navigation):

Website must have layered navigation feature where visitors will be able to filter out artwork such as oil painting, fine arts, and sculptures within any country. This will also include color options and any filter that can be applied to artwork.

Payment Method (Adaptive PayPal):

PayPal have introduced a wonderful method by which artist can attract more audience on their websites. This method is called Adaptive Payments. This method is used to split payments received from customer which are then automatically transferred to each recipient. An example could be artist marketplace, say you have a website and you are giving opportunity to another artist so that he can use your platform to sell his artwork.

If a customer buys his painting from your website, you will obtain your share from the sale and transfer rest of the amount to the owner. You can use adaptive payments to setup parallel or chained payments. (You can read more information about adaptive payments here)

Buyer and Seller Feedback:

Websites for artist should have this functionality where buyer after purchasing artwork will be able to communicate directly to artist from their account sections.

Ratings and Testimonials:

This feature tells audience the worth of artwork as considered by customers who purchase them.

Artist Profile:

Give artist a full control over their profile so that they do not require a separate profile. This includes custom URL, portfolio, resume, personal information, and policies etc.

And as obvious artists or online art galleries should be able to package the stuff to customer safely. The design and layout incredibly boost the site progress. Below is one of the website themes that you can easily use to build artist website or marketplace.

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Creative Themes developed elegant Mobile Spot Magento Theme which can work on any portable device such as IPhone, Tablets, and Android cells. We lately received some feedback from many of our clients to offer a separate version of Mobile Spot just for IPhone with low price. Creative Themes has never been away when it comes to the commitment and fulfilment of Magento community desires.

We were proud to present IPhone version of Mobile Spot with a price tag of 49 pounds. The parent version holds the price tag of 64.99 pounds. The main difference comes in the compatibility with range of mobile phone devices. Here are the key benefits of Mobile Spot Template;

Key Features:

1. Built on HTML 5 and CSS 3
2. Delightful color scheme
3. Recent, Features and Best selling customizable tabs on Home Page
4. Unique vertical zoom slider for product zoom
5. Cross sells/Up sells on product pages and cart pages
6. Compatible with IPhone, IPad, Tablets and Android devices
7. Multi color template
8. Product tabs incorporated
9. Completely built on internet marketing standards
10. Supports all modern browsers including IE 7

If you are looking for all of these benefits for IPhone version then Mobile Spot IPhone Magento Theme is right for you.  Otherwise if you require template that should fit to any kind of screen size then Mobile Spot Magento Theme is perfect for you.

If you have any questions please feel free to discuss.

Hello to everybody, we hope that the New Year is the coming of joy, health and wealth for everybody. We hope that everybody might have noticed significant changes on Creative Themes for this New Year, especially in the design. Real apologies to everybody since its taking some time for us to upgrade our demo servers and hence our respected visitors are unable to view them.  There are more positive changes waiting for your feedback once the demos are up. Mostly these will include the revamp of all Magento Themes by Creative Themes.

Creative Themes has always worked in a perspective to provide competitive designs at low cost. 2013 will be a year of great success for Creative Themes because of the designs we will bring for our customers. One question people might have is about PrestaShop development, to answer the question we are in process of building dedicated store for PrestaShop Themes like the way we have highly successful Magento Extensions Store (FME Extensions). Our PrestaShop Store will incorporate versatile themes as well as PrestaShop Modules.

Besides these, for the coming month of February we are in process of developing two great Magento Templates. To foretell few things, one of them will be a major template, we will announce its name after few days but it’s a Mega Magento Theme here are some its highlight,

1. Truly designed for multiple stores, it’s not just a simple template with merely a statement that I can be used for multiple stores, you will find dozens of demo stores for different businesses to see how does this template look like
2. 10 + Best selling and strategic Magento extensions included in the template such as Quick Views, Shop by Brands, One Step Checkout and many more.
3. Extensions bundled in the template costs around $1000 alone which are built-in freely
4. Truly built on internet marketing standards
5. Available in Magento and PrestaShop
6. Will be available at affordable cost

This template will truly be a landmark and we will be waiting eagerly for feedback. Second theme that we are working on is New Year Gift to Magento community; it will be a free template with beautiful design. We hope you will like our new templates that are coming soon.

Is it the case? It may be said that many people often ignore the importance of image optimization for website. It will damage website worth in search engines, will slow down page speed and consume more bandwidth if not optimized. If your website has lots of images you will really need to work with your designer to make sure that all those images are optimized. Here are few tips to make excellent images that will not hurt website speed.

1. First of all select a proper image format to use such as from PNG, GIF, JPG
2. Apply Image compression, test which compression setting works well and does not distort the image.
3. Use PNGs for high quality photographs and images e.g. artwork, banners etc. The quality of PNG images can be preserved after applying compression.
4. Use GIFs and PNGs for icons, images with text, buttons, bullets etc. These image types results in a heavier file size and does not represent all of the colors.
5. Save your image for website and not as a regular image if you have this feature in your image editing tool. This will automatically ensure image optimization and will give you indication on how will it look like actually on website.
6. Make sure that image file size is not much high, try to produce file size of around 55KB for banners, 10 KB for background images and 120KB for main photos.
7. Try not to overwrite the images as it may affect quality
8. Quality level should be close to high

These are some of the best tips you should keep in mind before uploading images to your website. This will ensure good site load time.

With the proliferation smart phones, pocket pc, tablets and such other devices online shopping trends have increase too. People are more into online shopping with their cell phones and small devices these days. People don’t bother to go to the market and explore racks, they prefer sitting at home browsing the web and buy whatever they want from their trusted device.

We have seen the mobile is more involved into buying things from internet when we talk about Ecommerce on small devices. There are thousands of E-Commerce stores who claim to have 60 percent or more of their traffic is coming from mobiles. And experts have predicted that sales via cell phones might rise up to 50 percent within a year.

Apple owns the product which plays a major role for buying things over the internet. Yes I am talking about IPhone. Store Owners are involved into making IOS apps and it is helpful for them to increasing their sales rapidly. But now it is becoming a trend to have an IPHONE VERSION of your online store. Owners must have a IPhone version of their store to not lose a heavy amount of targeted traffic.

MOBISPOT IPHONE MAGENTO THEME

CT presents you a design just for your IPhone users. It’s an IPhone version of MobiSpot Magento Theme carrying finest capabilities of HTML 5 and CSS3 which offers extreme level of consistency and optimization.

Centre block is carrying killing banners so you can feature your product in a better way and IPhone retina display will enhance your store’s look. Design has list and grid view, call to action banners can be placed at bottom, and tabs like additional information and product reviews are included.

Theme is fully customizable; any customization is possible with developer edition so you can present your store in an enhanced and better way to IPhone mobile users.

Get MobiSpot IPhone Magento Theme for your online store and target a maximum number of clients buying goods with their IPhones over the internet.

Apple is going to make things easy for Apple lovers by announcing its mid-range iphone on cheap price after mid season of 2013 “According to reports”. There are many reports roaming around,

Wall Street Journal Said: Phone can be the same but Apple will be using less expensive body to cover the expenses.

Company needs to launch a cheap product to compete with cheap smart phones in the market like android loaded phones. There could be many reasons that Apple is set to announce a cheap product.

Apple wants developer to get more involved into IOS and for that this is the best way they can offer to developers to access the IOS. Apple wants developer to build IOS apps more than android as it’s a free platform and developers are more into android than IOS as IOS is very expensive.

There are other rumors about why Apple is building cheap iphone. Apple wants to capture china market as its one of the largest countries in the world with a large number of populations. In China people can access a 5 inch smart phone in cheap price and apple wants to entertain them with ios and 5 inch smart phones.

Cheap phone will reduce investors profit and we have no idea how apple will handle its investors who are used to get high profit rate always from company. But this time Apple is more concerned about capturing market than earning profits and investor have to agree with company’s policy.

There can be any reason that Apple is coming up with cheap phone but will you be more interested into cheap phone rather than having an expensive iphone 5?

The choice is yours

Magento brought new life to E-commerce with its stunning and extensive features. Online store owners are happy to be with Magento as it’s the most accomplished Ecommerce platform.

There are thousands of premium designs in the market for Magento for almost every big and small category of business. Out of them some are worth it and some are not.

Creative Themes stepped into industry 1 and half year ago, each of our themes is developed and designed according to the market trend. We make our design to help store owners to increase their brand integrity and their business. Our designs are not only bunch of colors and pictures they include powerful features according to every category of business. These design meet all development, design and search engine requirements.

Theme designing goes through a complete process in creative themes. We have a team of business analysis professionals at CT and with the help of their feedback and experience our designers and developers come up with a compelling design which showcases your product in a unique way to attract buyers.

Most of our designs are incorporated with premium Magento extensions like one step checkout and shop by brands. One step checkout decreases the cart abandonment percentage. It converts your multi-page complexed checkout into an easy one page checkout. “Shop by Brands” helps brand lovers to explore and buy products in a better way.

Let me present our best selling Magento Designs.

Magento Jewelry Store Theme

Magento Fashion Theme

Magento Canera Theme

Magento Shoes Theme

Magento Apparel Theme

25% Discount of Magento Themes

2013 is here and we are all set to achieve our goals and resolutions. To make things easy for you and to help you achieving your goals we have decided to offer a handsome discount on all of our premium Magento templates.

Get 25% discount on purchase of any  Magento Theme from CT and get a unique looking store with powerful features and become a famous brand in industry.

Selling Fashion items from an online store is not an easy thing to do. Fashion business is a very tricky and your store needs to have something out of the box to get more revenue out of your business.

Showcasing costly and unique fashion products on your store is not the only thing which will bring you sales. There are certain tips you have to follow to increase your sales. “Being Prominent” can help you achieving your goals and how to make your store Prominent among others.

Here We Go!

Special Offers

Buyers usually wait for discount offers, special offers and promotions for their desired products so they can buy them in cheap price. Your Fashion Store has to come up with Discounted Offers and Special Promotions to get more clients. People are mostly in search of SALE OFFER and if you are the one living up to their expectations. You will get a good brand name and sales in no time.

Price Filters & Return Policy

Price Filters help buyers to buy products in their budget limit. Having a Price Filter function in your online store will help buyers to find cheap products on your store and buy them. Having a strict return policy is harmful for your brand name. If users are having bad experience with your returning policy that will hurt your image because they will go for negative reviews about your store and it will affect Fashion Store’s online reputation.

Design is Your Integrity

The most important factor which helps branding and increasing your sales is web design of your online store. Design is no more a combination of colors and pictures now it is more than a bunch of colors. It has to be compelling and a good combination of beauty and killing features.

Showcasing your products in a unique way is one difficult art. Displaying your special offers and discount offers is also an art because if you have a discount offer and people are unaware about it its good for nothing.

Magento Fashion Store Theme

Our professionals have designed and developed this design to help you showcasing your products in a better way. Discounts and Special offers can be featured prominently; Category and Product pages are easy to navigate and user friendly.

See all Features of our Magento Fashion Store Theme

Creative Themes is serving Magento industry from last 3 years with finest designs for almost all online shopping categories. See our Magento Themes collection and become one of our 150,000 plus satisfied customers.

Magento is very catchy and thousands of online store owners are converted to Magento and they are enjoying being with it. It’s a powerful E-Commerce platform with a wide variety of extensions and themes which are more enhanced, powerful and advanced than ever.

Creative Themes have made a good reputation in 2012 among thousands of Magento Store Owners by providing them creative Magento Themes. At the end of 2012 we would like to announce our discount offer.

Buy any Theme from Creative Theme and enjoy 25 Percent Discount for the whole month of December.

We are all set for 2013 to provide you more satisfaction with quality products. But before that we would like to showcase our best free Magento themes for 2013 as a New Year gift for Magento Lovers.

Free Magento Theme for Sports Store

Are you looking to increasing Brand Identity for free? Well CT URBAN SPORT is especially designed to build you brand quickly. Theme is designed and fully loaded with features like a premium Magento theme.

An out of the box sports theme carries features to showcase your sports products in a better way. You can feature your products in home page via high quality banners with product details. Neat header with amazing menu bar will help featuring you categories in a prominent way.

Download free Magento theme for sports store.

Free Magento Jewelry Store Theme

Jewelry Store owners would love this extremely neat and perfect design loaded with powerful features.  Looking to have a design which can help you featuring your products in a better and unique way? Solution is CT JEWLERY STORE MAGENTO THEME.

This Theme is made to enhance your jewelry item sales. Home page contains an exciting JQuery banner so you can feature your best selling products. Category pages and product pages are designed and developed like a premium theme with easily noticeable Add to Cart button.

Download free Magento Sports Store Theme.

You will find thousands of Magento themes for furniture stores out there on internet but every theme will have certain different features and there will be only one which will compel you to pick it up for your furniture store.
E-Commerce world has stepped into an advanced era, this world is getting better day by day and companies are coming up with impressive Magento themes fully loaded with extra ordinary features and outclass Magento extensions. Now it’s up to you to choose wisely because a design with certain features is something which becomes integrity of your online store.

Let us introduce you with our Magento Furniture Store Theme.

CT Magento Theme for Furniture Store

Introduction

Containing finest texture with multi colors like blue, purple, red and brown, this theme is one of the finest, nearly perfect, clean and neat creations of Creative Themes. Our Professionals at CT have designed, developed and organized the template elements in way to beautifully showcase your furniture products. All elements and features in Ct Magento Theme for Furniture Store compel buyers to buy your products.

Features

• First of all this skin is incorporated with our best seller paid Magento extension Shop By Brands to enhance the experience of brand lovers on your store. Brand lovers will easily get their desired products according to brands.
• Along with a huge banner space to feature your best selling products there is a sleek scroller is placed and also there is a left navigation column to feature your categories.
• Below left navigation column we have injected a video section so you can upload your video profile, catalogue or whatever.
• Perfect Header and Footer with fascinating menu bar integration in our Magento skin for furniture store makes it unique and much better.
• Skin is injected with different User Friendly features like product zoomer, breadcrumbs and similar products.
• Category pages and product pages are designed to provide more information about products and attract buyers and finally purchase them by easily noticeable add to cart button.
• Footer contains all tabs like privacy policy, contact us and other social media icons to spread social awareness about your products.

Get CT Magento Furniture Store Theme and save 25 percent on an instant purchase.

CT is serving E-Commerce industry from last 4 years by providing extra ordinary advanced and unique Magento themes. Be a part of our 150,00 plus satisfied customers and enjoy our 25 percent discount offer on all skins and templates for the month of Christmas.