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Google AdSense
is
the current leader No.1 in content-sensitive web-based marketing. Webmasters
can place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages
in order to allow Google's servers to show context sensitive
advertisements (Google Adwords). The left hand side of this page
shows an example of a Google AdSense skyscraper displaying
a text or image ad.Google's terms and conditions are very strict such that many web publishers cannot use adsense adverts on their sites.
They are either denied from joining the Google AdSense program in the first
instance,
or in a situation that is becoming more and more common
do not wish to do business with Google. A number of publishers are also finding
their Adsense accounts are being disabled for reasons that are completely beyond
their control. The problem is that most of the alternatives to Google's Adsense
are pretty useless. Most of the good adsense alternatives (such as doubleclick) are only
interested in very large volume customers and so are not interested in the
little guy with his blog who wants to earn a small income on the side. For this
reason I have compiled my Top 10 alternatives to Google's Adsense that are ideal
for the small time publisher. This site provides an updated list of the best
website
monetization programs that are available to webmasters.
If you are a advertiser then you may be
interested in these
best alternatives to adwords. Additionally to get the most
ROI from any advertising budget using any type of
advertising campaign, internet or otherwise, you should also
consider hiring an
inbound answering service to manage your telephone calls.
Internet advertising can be a successful and expensive endeavor.
A
live operator answering your calls can capture leads and
help capitalize on each opportunity.
Has your
adsense account been disabled? Then try these
top 10 alternatives.
Note: The descriptions are based on
personal experience and do not represent any form of
endorsement.
1)
AdBrite AdBrite,
is currently one of the best alternatives there is to
Google's adsense. While they do not offer the same large
selection of ad formats
that Clicksor and Google Adsense provide you they do offer the most commonly used ones.
In addition they offer inline page links with have some
great click through ratios as well as interstitial full page
ads which offer an excellent way to monetize all traffic to
your site not just traffic that clicks on your ads. Their
payouts are also very competitive. They
have more relaxed terms and conditions than Adsense and are
much more accepting of smaller publishers including
bloggers.
If you're a publisher, use
AdBrite to set your own ad rates, and approve or
reject every ad that's purchased for your site or just have AdBrite auto accept
ever ad. AdBrite enables you to instantly
sell ads to your visitors via a "Your Ad Here" link, in addition to selling
through AdBrite's marketplace and sales team.
Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor. Through a small snippet of HTML
placed on your site, they handle serving, scheduling, billing, customer service,
and sales. About half of AdBrite's sales are generated from the marketplace and
sales team, while the other half are generated from users clicking "Your Ad
Here" on your website.
While
AdBrite can provide publishers with more revenue and better ads than
traditional ad networks such as Google AdSense, they work fine along-side them as
a way for you to generate additional ad revenue by selling ads directly to your
visitors -- something the other ad systems don't do. Ad Brite also lets
you select your own minimum bid prices and give you the option of showing an
alternative ad service such as Clicksor when bid prices fall below your minimum.
If you're using
AdBrite
on your website you also have the option to turn off AdBrite's
"run-of-network ads" and AdBrite will only display ads that have been
approved by you allowing you to prevent competitors ads being shown on
your site. If you have no ads running, AdBrite will display nothing but
"Your Ad Here" or your alternative ad provider.
Note, from my experiences it can take a
day or so from when you signup with AdBrite and put their
code on your website to actually start seeing relevant ads
showing up. So if you see the message "Advertize on this
site" just be patient and give it a day or so and you should
start seeing relevant ads showing up.
2)
Bidvertiser
Bidvertiser is an excellent alternative to
Google and offers some intriguing ad formats including
what they refer to as free design. This lets you specify
the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a useful
feature I have not investigated how well it works but
imagine that while it sounds good on paper it could
result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most
advertisers will probably want to keep control of the
layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free
design ads. All the standard ad formats exist, however,
and the payouts are excellent. Pop-under ads and XML feeds are also
supported.
Bidvertiser have also recently introduced two knew
features that can boost your earnings:
Conversion Bonus
As far as I am aware
Bidvertiser is the first affiliate marketer to offer
this seemingly obvious service. As well as paying
traditional CPC for each valid click
Bidvertiser will now track those clicks and if they
turn into valid leads will pay an additional conversion
bonus to the publisher. If your site refers a number of
high value leads this can lead to a substantial monthly
bonus. In many cases this additional bonus can be higher
than traditional CPC earnings.
Revenue Generating Toolbar The second new feature offered by
Bidvertiser is the customized revenue generating
toolbar. The BidVertiser Toolbar allows you to
distribute your own customized toolbar to your website
visitors and then earn money when your users use the
toolbar for searching. The toolbar is fully customizable
allowing logos to be changed, links to your home page
added, useful tools, direct program links etc.
If you want you can download an example
of the toolbar using the link below to try it out.
Bidvertizer pays you either in $100.00 increments by
check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.
They also do not require you to complete
any tax information or provide a social security number.
Maximum customizability for the layout of your ads:
BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to help you customize the
layout of the ads to fit your site's look and feel, in order to retain the high
quality of your website. Bidvertizer also offers the opportunity to block
unwanted ads. The reports provided by
Bidvertiser are
adequate but not outstanding. The only real problem is
that it has been reported that they can be picky with who they accept into their
program and can be quick to ban users whose websites
show what may be perfectly valid fluctuating visitor behaviour.
Although I have not heard any recent reports so they may
have relaxed this policy somewhat.
Click here to visit Bidvertiser's website where you can
either sign up as a publisher (show peoples ads on your
site) or as an advertiser (show your ads on other sites).
As an advertiser you can get $20 in free clicks by
following this link:
Bidvertiser Advertise and get $20 in free clicks.
3)
Chitika Chitika - The Leader in Impulse Merchandising Chitika (pronounced
CHIH-tih-ka) was founded in 2003 and is the industry's leading impulse merchandising
company. Chitika was founded in May 2003 and is based in
Massachusetts. Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) helps web
publishers generate revenue using innovative publisher-side
advertising and merchandising solutions and services. Chitika
began, not as a stand alone advertising solution
but instead as way to compliment existing advertising / publishing programs
through the use of additional Ad Units which were altogether different from the
standard ad boxes, pop-unders etc that everybody else
provided. Instead of displaying these
'industry standard' advert boxes with text and image ads
that all look the same Chitika instead provided active boxes
that showed targeted products from different
manufacturers. If you ran a blog for example and discussed
a product you might have found the
Chitika box showing links for
this product and competitors products. If people
purchased these products you would get paid a commission.
This was referred to as impulse marketing in the form of
Premium Ad Units (eMinimalls). Chitika
has now progressed, however, into a fully fledged advertizer
service. The eMinimalls initially evolved into advertizing
units that would show adverts based on what people searched
for to get to your site. This is subtly different from the
standard keyword driven advertising since it shows ads that
are more relevant to the original intent of your visitors
search. This greatly increases the chance that someone will
click on an ad. This type of advertising is still offered by
Chitika
and is a good addition to a site containing traditional
banner ads. For example you could use it to compliment
another advertizers service. E.g.
you could show Clicksor context sensitive ads on
your site and then compliment these with
Chitika's
search traffic oriented ads.
However, Chitika now goes beyond this, also
offering what are termed premium ads.
Chitika uses it custom "Click Prediction" technology to
show select ads when there is a greater chance they will be
clicked on. This is obviously a great way to improve your
revenue.
For advertisers and media buyers,
Chitika
is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and
qualified buyers. For all publishers,
Chitika is an
easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. If you visit a site
showing Chitika's ads from a search engine then the
Chitika
premium ad unit kicks in showing you ads that are specific
to your searching -
otherwise you can have it show an alternative ad provider,
such as adsense, or you can just have it collapse away to
show nothing.
Recently added new features from Chitika
include:
List Unit
The Chitika List Unit (CLU) is a powerful extension of
the MPU which automatically adjusts its height, ensuring
no ugly white-space and thus a cleaner user experience.
These can also be referred to as rotating ads. Such
units really come into their own on devices such as
iPads which support dynamically rotating screens.
With the use of a rotating CLU you can have your ad
automatically adjust to fill all the space on the
screen. This also draws the users eye to the ads and
makes it more likely for them to click on one.
Mobile Code Adverts specifically designed to be shown on
mobile content.
Pay per call Ads These ads are 'action based' ads which have a very
high payout of between $2 and $20 per action. For local
ads they greatly increase action rates since local
viewers are more likely to click these ads because it
will put them in direct contact with the advertiser.
Chitika's
search based advert units allow you to display targeted products
based on what people searched for to get to your page and you get paid
for clicks. Chitika offers payment by PayPal (with a $10
minimum) or via Check (with a $50 minimum). Click here to visit Chitika's website and sign up today. 4)
Infolinks
A relative newcomer to the scene
Infolinks specializes in In-Text Advertizing. That is it
indexes your page looking for keywords and phrases that are
not currently links and converts them into advertizing
links. When a user places their mouse over the link a box
opens up showing the ad. If they click on the link you get
paid. It is very simple and works very effectively. The nice
part is that you can use
Infolinks to compliment an existing advertizing campaign
on your website. For example you can show banner ads with
AdBrite or
Bidvertiser and show text links with
Infolinks. Or you can even show text links with both
AdBrite and
Infolinks together on the same page to maximize your
revenue.
Infolinks claims to be leading the industry with the
most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest
revenue share - guaranteed. I am not sure how they
'guarantee' this but having used them for several months I
can attest that their payouts are indeed good compared to
other In-Text advertizing options.
In-Text advertizing is also useful if you
have a site under construction. For example, suppose you
have built a list of links but have not added all the links
yet.
Infolinks will parse your page and convert a lot of
these into links. People then think these are part of your
site, click on them and you get paid. The unobtrusiveness
makes it a very attractive way to monetize your site without
inundating and alienating your visitors with flashing
banners, pop-ups etc.
Additionally
Infolinks has just added a new feature called Related
Tags. Related tags allow you to increase your clicks and
earnings while adding valuable informational tags within
your website's content. The Infolinks algorithm will choose
the best keywords for the page and display them as tags
within the Related Tags cloud. Just like In text ads, when a
visitor hovers over the tags, an Infolinks advertisement
bubble will appear, and each click will award your account
additional revenues.
New features are being added by
Infolinks all the time taking them beyond the
traditional highlighted link advertiser. A recent addition
is called the Search Widget add-on. In
Infolinks' words it will "revolutionize how you monetize
your websites". This new ad banner activates when a visitor
originating from a Search Engine (Google, Bing or Yahoo)
arrives at your site. The Search Widget appears for those
visitors only, revealing ads related to their search. This
can result in very high click thru rates.
Infolinks pays you either by
bank wire, Automated Clearing House (ACH) ($400
minimum), or by
PayPal
($50 minimum). Intriguingly they also offer payment via a
prepaid Mastercard that will be refilled with your earnings
each month. This is an interesting approach to payment and
may be useful for international customers without
PayPal or US Dollar bank accounts. However, the fees for
this prepaid card appear to be fairly steep.
Infolinks' features:
Quick and easy setup with no
changes to your website.
Ads are tightly integrated with
your content - no additional space required.
Free sign up with no commitments
or risk.
User triggered, less intrusive
advertising that won't distract from your site's
content.
Highly relevant In-Text ads for
your site visitors with record high conversion rates.
Related tags.
Click here to visit Infolink's website and signup
for an account to give them a try. As with most
alternatives to adsense it is free and there is no
obligation.
5)
Intellilinks
Intellilinks is a similar service to infolinks above but
well worth trying.
Intellilinks specializes in placing organic text links
across an ever-growing network of websites in order to build
rank and traffic for advertisers and increased revenue for
publishers.
Intellilinks focuses on providing cutting edge
technology, while keeping the network seamless and secure to
bring results to their clients and revenue to their
publishers.
For publishers
Intellilinks offers the following features:
Sell text links on your website for profit in a
few easy steps.
Extremely simple to setup, just install a plugin
for your blog.
As a publisher you have total control over which
links are published on your site.
Intellilinks allows you to place ads on your website
using either their PHP script or their Wordpress plugin. You
can have ads automatically approved or manually review them
and place them yourself.
Intellilinks has no obligation and costs nothing to join
or use. They split revenue 50:50 and make payments monthly
by
PayPal. Unlike almost every other
adsense alternative
Intellilinks have no minimum payout threshold. Whatever
you earn during a month will be paid to you the following
month via
PayPal.
Intellilinks also supports hosting ads on blog pages.
6)
Pocket Cents
A relative new comer to the field is
Pocket Cents.
Pocket Cents has been built from the ground up
as a Click Banner provider. Specializing in automatic focus
on local markets
Pocket Cents offers an intriguing
alternative to adsense/adwords. While unlikely to replace
your entire creative portfolio,
Pocket Cents does off an
attractive alternative for banner ads. It could also act as
a good alternative ad provider for backfill from one of the
larger networks. Pocket Cents' claim is that:
"Location based advertisements
generate precisely targeted traffic to your website
increasing internet sales and decreasing advertising
costs."
It remains to be seen how effective this
will ultimately be but the idea, from a publishers
perspective is that it gives you a higher click through rate
and therefore better earnings from CPC ads. They also offer
a flat rate on clicks meaning as a publisher increasing your
website revenue simply means optimizing clicks. Experience
to date though shows that payouts per click can be VERY good
so it is definitely worth a try. The
following shows an example banner ad from
Pocket Cents.
Click here to visit Pocket Cents and sign up for a no obligation
account today. 7)
Kontera
Kontera works in a similar way to
Infolinks above, however, they have been around for much
longer. Traditionally it was hard to get accepted by
Kontera but they seem to have relaxed their restrictions
of late. This is especially true for website publishers and
affiliate marketers that do not have high daily page
impressions.
Kontera is extremely easy to use. You simply add a few
lines of code to the end of your webpage and within 24 hours
additionally links start showing up on your page that serve
Kontera Ads. While this service does not provide you
with a complete replacement for all your ads, since they do
not provide banner creatives etc., it does provide an
additional way to increase the revenue your site can
generate. The links are context sensitive and relevant so
click through ratios can be very high for well designed
sites.
Some of the features offered by
Kontera:
The best payout in the business.
Premium ads with market-leading
CPC.
Record high CTRs.
The best relevancy and user
experience.
Works within your text � no extra
space required.
Takes only a minute to set up.
Kontera is nice because it is simply Plug and Play and
it provides an additional revenue stream for your website.
It does not require any additional space or layout
considerations since it integrated directly with your text.
In my opinion the inline text ads also look smarter than a
lot of other offerings.
In May 2011 Kontera started rolling out
additional features designed to maximize revenue and value
for publishers. These represent extensions of what
Kontera do today and are intended to deliver better
revenue and value publishers. The Retargeting offering is
part of
Kontera's Audience Program and leverages their unique
ability to understand and assess user interest via a
semantic engine designed to yield greater revenues for
publishers.
Kontera's Retargeting presents a unique opportunity for
publishers to earn additional revenues from
Kontera ads that they already serve.
Kontera finds interested consumers on publisher sites
and qualifies their interest by leveraging their Synapse
technology. When they see these users elsewhere on the web
they show them relevant banners and share the revenues with
the publisher where the user first expressed interest.
The value add for the publisher includes:
1) Additional revenue (approximately
10-20% more on average once the entire Audience Program
is fully operational)
2) No technical requirements
3) No change to user experience
4) Ability to participate in an exciting and novel
growth area in advertising
Kontera provides payment by PayPal with a $50 minimum
payout.
Click here to visit Kontera's website and sign up for a no
obligation publisher account. 8)
Clicksor Clicksor
is
one of the current leaders of the small publisher Adsense competition.
They have payouts upto a market leading 85% and unlike a
number of alternatives the cost per click bid values are high enough
that you
can earn a decent income. They are also, in my experience, much more
tollerant
than Google. Their terms and conditions suggest that you should only
place one
copy of their code on a page but as long as you only place a single
pop-up or DHTML code on a page they seem happy to let you place many
context sensitive ad
blocks on a single site. Clicksor also has a big advantage over a
number of the lower ranked alternatives on this site in that
their ads are truly context sensitive. Thus while you can
provide keywords they have technology that will also show
ads targeted to the content of your site. This means your
visitors are exposed to ads of the same subject as they were
searching for when they reached your site and thus vastly
increases the click thru ratio and thus your sites earning
potential. The context sensitive nature also saves you the
hassle of having to specify keywords for all of your sites
and decide in advance what people might be looking for.
The online stats provided by
Clicksor are not perfect but they
are enough for you to keep track of the trends with your site. They also allow
you to add as many sites / domains as you want under a single account. You also
only need the root page of your site approved. Once this is done you can place
ads on all of your sub pages.
The payment schedule with
Clicksor is also
much better geared to the small site owner. In any pay
period in which your earnings exceed $50.00 ($20.00 with PayPal), payments are made either by check
or instantly through PayPal ($20.00 minimum for
PayPal). Revenue totaling less that $50
(PP $20) will rolled into
the following period. The pay period is based on a 15 day schedule so you can
get paid much more frequently. Clicksor also do not require
a Social Security (SSN) or Individual Tax Identity Number (ITIN)
to join and so while this 'technically' does not help US
site owners with their tax liability it does make it much
easier for non US citizens to join up and start earning
revenue.
That said I have had several reports of
late about Clicksor becoming more picky about who they
accept and rejecting accounts. This is especially true of
sites not based in the USA, Canada or the UK as well as
sites not predominantly in English. I have also seen issues
with their reporting of earnings, especially referrals not
working properly. Thus I have moved them further down the
list but I still recommend you to try them.
Advert wise
Clicksor features:
Multiple formats available
including text, image and animated ads.
Text Links
Image Ads
Flash Ads
Animation Ads
Banners
Pop unders
Interstitial Ads (NEW)
Dynamic (DHTML) highlighting
Click here to visit Clicksor's website and sign up
for an account to try it out. There is no obligation and
no fees ever. Note, once you start adding the advert
code to your site it can take up to 24 hours for
Clicksor to get up to speed as it were so initially you
may see some ads that don't appear to be relevant. Once
their contextual engine kicks in, however, the relevance
quickly improves.
9)
Exit Junction Exit Junction is
relatively new and, I believe, a spin
off from the now defunct Revenue Pilot. While Revenue
Pilot has stopped running, however,
Exit Junction is
going from strength to strength.
Exit Junction offers a
unique approach to advertising that is compatible with
all the other Ad Networks included Google Adsense. The
key to Exit junction is that they focus on showing ads
to users as they leave your site rather than as they
arrive or as they browse. This approach offers you an
additional way to monetize your traffic and also capture
ad revenue from those that stumble upon your site from a
search engine and then immediately leave.
By adding a small piece of
Exit Junction
code to the header section of your site users are shown an
advert as they hit the back button. For example, if a user
came to your site from a Google search and then immediately
hit the back button to return to that search they would be
shown an Exit Junction Ad in between your page and the
Google search and you get paid for this impression. The ad
is directly targeted to the search term that brought the
visitor to your site in the first place. Hence
Exit Junction
is an ideal way of complimenting your existing ad services
and so increasing your sites revenue without having to
switch from your current ad provider. Exit junction also covers all countries.
You get paid for all traffic exiting you site regardless of
its origin.
They offer fee free payout via Check or
PayPal with earnings of as little as $25 on a monthly basis. Click here to signup with Exit Junction for a free no obligation
account.
10)
Dynamic Oxygen
Dynamic Oxygen are a relative newcomer to the field
having really only started at the end of 2010. However,
they are growing quickly and offer an excellent
alternative to the traditional Adsense route.
Dynamic Oxygen enables publishers of all sizes to
realize their full revenue potential! One of the nice
things being that they are not focused purely on the
high end, very high turnover publishers but instead
cater to sites of all shapes, sizes and popularity. This
also includes most international sites. Unlike many ad
providers that only cater for US or European traffic,
DynamicOxygen supports and pays out for worldwide
traffic making it ideal for non-US based publishers.
In particular they feature:
Benefit from targeted ads with High
eCPM for your ENTIRE traffic.
Get paid for all your international
traffic.
Enjoy unique ad formats not found
elsewhere, such as Interstitials, Layer Ads, Peeler Ads,
Anchor Ads, and more...
Enjoy timely payments.
Superb Support
DynamicOxygen provide payment via
PayPal, Check or Wire Transfer with $50 minimum payouts.
You can sign up for a no obligation, risk free account and
give
DynamicOxygen a try by following this
link.
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Choose from 28 transition effects that could be assigned independently
to each slide. Link button auto generated with the option to open the
link in current or new window. Also remove the 3D shadow option is
available.
jQuery Cycle Slider With sliding Images and Sliding Text
– Slide controls available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide.
The practical aspect of this slider is that it allows you to create
dynamic interactive look of three sliding layers.
An additional “No slider” option has been added with the ability to add custom text in the place of the slider
Background Images – You could also upload background images on
per section bases instead of solid background color if you wish. (more info)
Custom Widgets:
U-Design: Recent Posts – Display the most
recent posts with teaser text, author and date info (optional), you also
have the option to offset the displayed recent posts from the most
current one, use this to omit the first 2 or 3 latest posts for example.
In addition to that the widget allows you to select a specific category
and all its descendants respectively. Limit the number of words to show
from each post. Auto generate thumbnails and optionally show thumbnail
frame shadow. The Thumbnails can have any width or height. In addition I
have provided a shortcode version of this widget so that it can be used
anywhere in the content, not just widget areas. Here’s an example.
U-Design: Login Form – Displays a login in the
sidebar. Users can login and logout directly from the sidebar without
being redirected to the default WP login page.
U-Design: Custom Category widget – allows you
to display a single category and all of its descendant categories
respectively. This comes in handy for sections of the website such as
the Portfolio or Blog/News, where you might want to narrow the
categories displayed in the sidebar for the current section to be more
relevant.
U-Design: Google Map – Copy and paste your Google map code to display a Google Map in the sidebar.
U-Design: Subpages – Displays a current pages’
children pages. The parent is displayed as the title. This widget is
handy if you have a lot of pages that would normally take up too much
room in the sidebar, so you could use this widget to display a much
shorter version of the menu in the sidebar showing just the descendant
pages of the current page.
There are 11 (eleven) widget areas. They are designed in a such
a way to span the width of the page dynamically, e.g. if one column is
deactivated, then the remaining columns will re-size to span the full
width of the page, if let’s say only one column is active then it will
span the full width of the page, etc.
Sidebar position
There are 12 (twelve) custom sidebars with positioning that could be
set as left or right at any time from the theme’s Options page for each
section (e.g. Blog, Contact page, Sitemap page, etc.) independently.
In the code hierarchy, the main content block is always placed
before the sidebar regardless of the sidebar position, so it is crawled
first by search engines.
Custom Sidebars
They go hand in hand with the available page templates (see below) and
allow for customized look and feel for the various sections of the
website. Available sidebars:
Portfolio section sidebar
Blog section sidebar
Contact page sidebar
Default page sidebar
Pages sidebar 2
Pages sidebar 3
Pages sidebar 4
Pages sidebar 5
Pages sidebar 6
Pages sidebar 7
Pages sidebar 8
Sitemap sidebar
Contact page
Pre-formatted Business Contact Fields – that
could be entered directly from the theme’s Options page. This feature
can be enabled/disabled from the Option’s page as well. The Business
Contact Fields provide a way to better display additional contact
information such as Company Name, Address, Phone, etc.
E-mail form:
Phone number validation (North America format) that could be
enabled/disabled from the theme’s Options page (disabled by default).
Unobtrusive form validation (works with JavaScript ON or OFF )
The contact form offers ReCAPTCHA for extra security
Portfolio section
Unlimited Portfolio sections/pages.
You can choose from four layouts: one, two, three and four column
Auto generate portfolio thumbnails
You can add description to each portfolio item
Specify the number of items per page
Automatic pagination
Option to include/exclude date, post metadata and comments from the portfolio item’s individual post
Custom sidebar with widgets and sidebar position control for the portfolio item’s individual post
Galleries
Blog section
Blog section pages can have left, right or no sidebar (full-width) pages
Option to remove the sidebar from Blog, Archive and Single Post View pages independently
Option to set the post image/thumbnail dimensions (width and height) as well as the image alignment
Option to show or remove Post Tags and Author Name and to change the excerpt length
This theme has been designed with the help of the 960-grid system – more info here
Unobtrusive Menu
Works if JavaScript is disabled. Multi-level deep support. You can
enable menu’s auto arrows. Those are the arrows indicating a submenu.
Also enable/disable drop shadows to the sub-menus.
Page Templates:
“Portfolio page 1 Column” template
“Portfolio page 2 Column” template
“Portfolio page 3 Column” template
“Portfolio page 4 Column” template
Blog page template
Contact page template
Full-width page template (no sidebar)
Sitemap page template
Default Template
Page Template 2
Page Template 3
Page Template 4
Page Template 5
Page Template 6
Page Template 7
Page Template 8
Archives
Translations
This theme is Internationalized (translation ready) –
the theme has been updated to support translations in more than one
language. We have included a (.pot file included to have the theme
localized)
Included Translations with the theme:
Added : Ability to enable comments section in Full-width page template
Added : Ability to use shortcodes in the footer “Copyright Message” area
Added : g+ button (googleplus-icon.png) and a Skype button (skype-icon.png) to the social icons
Added : Image Gallery on Portfolio Page to order the images so
that they follow the order set by the integer fields in the Insert /
Upload Media Gallery dialog
Added : Cycle sliders images’ “alt” tags can now be specified for each slide
Added : A link relation attribute for Portfolio thumbnails
Added : Serbian Translation courtesy of Draganche Golubac
Fixed : Portfolio item title attribute being truncated by prettyPhoto in longer strings
Fixed : Removed the forced font-family definition for Table content
Fixed : Full-width Single Post View Page to have the comments section also span full-width
Fixed : Force long unbroken strings to fold on new line in Comments
Fixed : Remove shortcodes from search results
Fixed : Display issue with Tabs in IE7
Fixed : “Read more” at the end of Blog posts when not necessary
Fixed : Cycle 1 padding alignment when frame is disabled
Fixed : Cycle 2 slider text area unordered lists not taking the specified font size
Fixed : Missing strings in ‘sitemap.php’ for translations
Version 1.3.2 – Updated: 25.09.2011
Added : Automatic insertion of ‘rel’ attribute for prettyPhoto
to all images, *.mov, *.swf, YouTube and iFrame links in the content
Added : Option to display the Post Image on the Single Post View page
Fixed : Shortcode empty paragraph insertion which causes problems with column alignment
Fixed : The ‘Continuous Background Image’ being cut-off by footer on very short pages
Version 1.3.1 – Updated: 20.09.2011
Updated : Dutch translation
Fixed : Featured Image not showing up in Archive pages (“archive.php”)
Fixed : Text typo in the backend under the theme’s “Blog Section”
Version 1.3.0 – Updated: 19.09.2011
Added : Option to customize the post image size and alignment
that is shown on the Blog and Archive pages and optionally to use the
“Featured Image” for that
Added : Option to remove the sidebar from Blog, Archive and
Single Post View pages independently, basically to have then as
full-width pages
Added : Option to remove the border line located under the menu (Option added to the theme’s “General Options” section)
Added : Option under the “Custom Colors -> One Continuous
Background Image” to have the background image fixed position (not
scrollable) and also to allow background images from other sections to
be shown over that background image as well, good for layered layouts
Added : Option to disable the theme’s update notification
Added : 15 new Google fonts
Added : Autostop option for Cycle 3 slider. Ability to end slideshow after the last slide
Updated : Small Layout change for single view post. Moved the
single view post title in the place of the post category at the top
Updated : prettyPhoto script to the latest version to date (v3.1.3)
Updated : jQuery Form Validation scripts used in the Contact page template form
Updated : Optimized script loading (cleaned up unnecessary script loading)
Fixed : A small bug with Cycle 3 slider when there is only one slide which contains unordered list in its text layer
Fixed : qTranslate related issue with Portfolio section
Version 1.2.1 – Updated: 24.08.2011
Added : 16 new Google fonts
Added : The option to add/remove the string “Archive for the
’...’ Category” from the category archive title. This options is located
in the theme’s “Blog Section”
Updated : WP Function used for Date formatting
Updated : Dutch translation
Updated : Timthumb script update
Updated : When “No Slider” option is selected with no title specified, collapse the space otherwise designated for the title
Version 1.2.0 – Updated: 04.08.2011
Added : Four additional page templates with their own widgetized sidebars and an option for left/right positioning
Added : Option to add one large background image across all sections under the Custom Colors section
Added : 44 new Google fonts
Added : “portfolio_item_link_target” custom field for portfolio link items to go along with “portfolio_item_link”
Added : “Read more” (link) shortcode to the “U-Design Shortcode Insert Button” plugin
Added : An option under theme’s “General Options” to enable the
use of ‘style.css’ for adding custom CSS from “Appearance -> Edit”
section. Also needed for child theme
Added : An Option to show/hide Post Tags for the Blog posts
Added : An Option to show/hide Post Tags for the Portfolio single-view posts
Added : WPML xml file to enable theme options translation
Updated : Timthumb script security update
Updated : Moved the “Help” section to the top in the theme’s options page
Updated : “U-Design: Recent Posts” widget to append ”...” at the end of the post excerpt
Fixed : Resolved an issue with the “Tabs” shortcode and floating elements used as tab content
Fixed : WP Query reset was added to the ‘sitemap.php’
Fixed : Search box focus text color was updated to match top area text color when custom colors are used
Fixed : Formatting with subscript and superscript related to the css reset
Version 1.1.2 – Updated: 27.06.2011
Added : The option to have the “Feedback” button fixed (to not scroll with the page)
Added : Portfolio custom field ‘portfolio_item_link’ which
allows to link directly from the thumbnail to another page or site
rather than display a preview item
Fixed : Full-width widget bug experienced in some cases on home page
Fixed : Heading mismatch for post comments template
Version 1.0.1 – Updated: 07.06.2011
Added : The options: “Bottom Area Background Image” and “Footer Background Image” under theme’s “Custom Colors”
Added : A link to the theme’s Support Forum under the “Help” section
Fixed : Changed cursor behaviour to ‘default’ for top natigation menu items that are not links
Elastico is a unique fullscreen & fully responsive WordPress
theme, perfect for creative people and agencies. By emphasizing your
photos, videos and content, it showcases your work in an amazing way.
Easy to manage, it comes also with a fullscreen blog supporting post
formats and several custom page templates to spice up your website.
Responsive Design: your website will be displayed beautifully on any kind of device (desktop, tablet, mobile phone).
Blog Post Formats: Standard, Image, Gallery, Video, Audio, Link, Quote, Status
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