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Nexcess Announces New WordPress Hosting Platform
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Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) November 11, 2011
Nexcess, a web hosting provider with data center facilities in Dearborn and Southfield, Michigan, has announced the release of a new web hosting platform that is designed specifically for hosting WordPress web sites.
While many web hosting companies tend to carry a very generic focus in their product lineups, Nexcess has spent their 10+ years in the web hosting industry focusing on being very good at providing hosting for just a few scripts. This is shown very clearly in the company’s relationship with eBay-owned Magento, with which Nexcess maintains a gold level partnership, a title held by only four other companies. As with Nexcess’ popular Magento MAG-SIP hosting plans (which stands for Secure Isolated Platform), the new WordPress web hosting options (similarly titled WP-OBP, or “Optimized Blog Platform”), are a unique and isolated web hosting environment that has been specially optimized for the best possible web hosting experience for a WordPress site.
“Blog hosting is a competitive market, but so was the eCommerce hosting market when we first entered into it now more than a decade ago,” commented Chris Wells, President & CEO of Nexcess, “We believe that the same approach to hosting solutions that won us our close relationship with Magento will translate very nicely in bringing the perfect set of blog hosting plans to the WordPress community.”
To start the company’s new relationship with the WordPress community off on the right foot, Nexcess also announced last month that they will be sponsoring WordCamp Detroit 2011, set to take place this coming weekend. At this event, representatives from Nexcess will be available ‘in the flesh’, and ready to discuss everything that the company is doing to provide a web hosting environment that is truly optimized for the best possible WordPress blogging experience.
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Introducing BuddyBase: A New Free BuddyPress Theme Framework
Posted by: | CommentsIntroducing BuddyBase: A New Free BuddyPress Theme Framework
BuddyBoss has just made a splash in the BuddyPress world with its new free theme framework called BuddyBase. Given that free BuddyPress themes are still few and far between, we always want to make sure that our readers are the first to know what’s available. BuddyBase is a high quality theme that will make an excellent starting point for any BuddyPress design customization. Let’s take a closer look…
BuddyBase has 6 main features that set it apart from other free themes:
- Cross-browser compatible: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome, and even ancient IE 6!
- Multi-level dropdowns: Out-of-the-box support for dropdown menus
- Streamlined Registration: Cleaner, quicker and significantly more intuitive than the BuddyPress default theme
- Intelligent Code: Clean, commented and well structured with IDs and classes are the same as the BuddyPress default theme
- Font styles from Twenty Ten: Font and image alignment styles from Twenty Ten for improved readability
- Easily switch between fluid and fixed width: Switch layouts in seconds by commenting out the CSS for the layout you don’t want
Unlike most free BuddyPress themes, most of which look like they were quickly hacked together, the BuddyBase theme design shows a clear attention to typography, alignment and details.
The streamlined registration process is truly a strong improvement on the default BuddyPress theme. Check out a side-by-side comparison and you’ll see how much more intuitive the BuddyBase registration form is.
Although somewhat plain out of the box, the BuddyBase theme is a clean and solid framework to build upon. Building and branding a BuddyPress community is much easier when you don’t have loads of unnecessary and confusing items to remove. The BuddyBase theme framework helps you get started on the right foot. Make a trip over to BuddyBoss today and view the BuddyBase demo. Make sure you’re subscribed to our blog, because we’ll always keep you up to date with the latest themes as they’re released.
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