Socrates WordPress Theme

Creating Niche Sites Fast with Socrates

Niche Site Marketing (building niche sites and selling products related to that niche) is an easy way to start your work from home business. You can use your own knowledge of a niche topic to create content for your site and recommend products and services to visitors who are interested.

The secret to this work from home strategy is that you need to repeat the process to create multiple streams of income.

The biggest stumbling block for many wanting to create an online presence is creating a website. By far the most cost effective way to do this is to do it yourself but the mere thought of creating a website is enough to stop some in their tracks.

Are You Stuck Trying to Build Your First Website?

I know when I first started building niche websites it was a mammoth task. I began by building html sites from scratch but I don’t recommend this if you are a total newbie like I was. It is a steep learning curve!

It is time consuming too. Once you have created all your pages and uploaded them, you have to test every one to make sure all your html code, links and images are working. It was hard labour even though it was a labour of love.

Then I discovered WordPress. Up until then my only experience with WordPress was the free hosted blogs I had created at WordPress.com. So why would I want to use a “blog” when I wanted to create a “static” site.

WordPress is the world’s leading blogging platform and is much more than blog software. It’s a user friendly web authoring tool that is continually being updated and improved upon by the very people who use it.

By far the easiest and quickest way to get your first website installed is to use WordPress.

If you want a static site no problem… use the page function
If you want to blog about your day at work, no problem… use the post function
Heck you can use both!

Most web-hosts that offer cPanel will have Fantasico (or something similar) which will allow you to install WordPress at a click of a button. Talk to your Web Hosting Support to see if you they have this feature or choose a web host like Hostgator.

What is a WordPress Theme?

The theme is the look and feel of your site, how it appears. This includes the layout, header graphics, text style and colour, background, width, sidebar, footer, navigation, link appearance, how images behave…. and the list goes on.

WordPress comes with a number of standard ‘themes’ when installed that anyone can use in the design of their site, and there are a large number of WordPress themes in the Free Themes Directory at WordPress.org created by others you can use too.

Why is a Theme Important?

How your site appears is the first impression you make on your visitors. If the appearance is themed towards the subject matter of your site there will be congruency between how your site appears and it’s content which makes it more attractive to your visitors.

There are lots of beautiful looking free WordPress themes available but they may not suit your needs. Depending on the topic of your site you may not find a theme that complements it. Or you may find a theme that fits perfectly but lacks some functionality that you want.

An issue I have with some free WordPress themes are the attribution links in the footer. I think it is fair to give the theme author credit for their work and will leave the [no-follow] links there so long as they are linking to ‘appropriate’ sites. However I have tested themes that don’t and they are coded in such a way that you can’t remove them so I leave these themes alone.

My favourite free WordPress themes are those that include customisable features – things I can change myself without too much hassle. However most of the free themes out there are not created with the Niche Marketer in mind.

To save time being wasted on looking for and modifying themes to suit each niche site I looked for a premium theme that could be easily and quickly set up for any niche.

I have always tried to use the free option but the thing with free is that it will cost you time – time to customise and time to learn how to customise. This is time better spent on marketing and earning money.

I finally found the premium WordPress theme I was looking for, one geared toward online marketers and niche bloggers.

The Socrates WordPress Theme from Joel Comm.

The Socrates WordPress Theme is the easiest way to create niche WordPress site fast and can be set up in minutes.

If you want to see how easy it is, watch the 10 minute demo video which includes the time to install WordPress to your site.

Socrates is easy to use and has lots of functionality that you can turn on or off depending on your needs. The reason I went with Socrates is that customising is just a matter of making a few choices to make my site unique. You are actually viewing a Socrates site now.

Some of the features of Socrates that I like are:

Multiple Layout Design
I have the ability to choose left sidebar, right sidebar (150px or 300px wide) or split (both at 150px)
I can include rotating banners and a social slider with links to my RSS Feed, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkdIn profiles
Fully Customizable Navigation
I have a choice of four navigation areas. Top Navigation, above the header; Primary Navigation, within the header area; Left Footer Navigation and Right Footer Navigation.
Multiple Theme Design
I can choose from Preset Colour Themes, modify them or design one from scratch to set the colour of my fonts, headings and links. There are 50+ backgrounds to choose from or I can upload my own.
The Custom Header Design System
This comes with 220+ Niche Header Graphics plus I can instantly insert my own and brand my site with my own Custom Title and Description (Tag-Line)
Multiple Page Templates.
I can use different templates depending on the purpose of the page such as a contact page, sales page or even a squeeze page to capture those important subscribers.
Built in Monetization
I can add banner ads quickly and easily by just copy and pasting code into the designated ad blocks. This is great for Google Adsence, ClickBank, Amazon or any Ad network.
Free Tutorials and Training
Because the Socrates Theme is made by a marketer for marketers you even get some free Internet Marketing lessons as well as video tutorials on WordPress and how to set up your Socrates site.

How Affordable is Socrates.

This is a big question in anyone’s mind when looking at purchasing a WordPress theme. I know I weighed it up quite seriously before I bought it. I weighed up the time I had to spend looking for a theme that suits my niche, then the time I spent customising it; and I had to repeat this process every time I started a new one. Weight that against buying one theme for each site and a onetime purchase of a theme I can use over and over again – Socrates in my humble opinion is worth the Unlimited Use License fee.

Plus you can try it for free by signing up for a 7 Day Trial (no Credit card required)

Do I Recommend Socrates WordPress Theme? YES! In fact I am in the process of updating all my niche sites to the Socrates Theme – it’s that good.

If you want to check it out for yourself just click on any of the Socrates banners you see on this site.

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