I’ve been back and forth with a number of themes and found that the Catalyst Theme is one of the best solutions out there along with .
This new theme offers an amazing back end administration panel allowing anyone to easily modify any aspect of the site – no programming knowledge required!
It comes with built in SEO features that help optimize your site for search engines and the ability to select from a ton of skins which change the color and format of the site without being complicated and hard to understand.
If you have ever tried installing a powerhouse theme, you know how complicated it can get but what sets Catalyst apart from its competition is that is has short videos for every administration task you can image. For example, this video saved me a ton of time installing a custom layout.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/17475554
There are some great short videos to choose from that will help you get your new theme up and running in no time, such as “How to Install Catalyst Theme and the Dynamik Child Theme”, “Displaying Different Header Images In Different WordPress Pages Using Catalyst” and “Catalyst Static Homepage and Widgets Tutorials”.
The short videos on the Catalyst Theme are professional and easy to understand! The theme cost $97 and has one of the most advanced font control in a WordPress theme not to mention fast and efficient validated HTML5 code!
The right theme can make you or break you!
Tip on setting up more than two columns for the front page is to set the “Number of Posts To Display” on odd Catalyst Excerpt to 1 greater than the even excerpts. In other words, the left column should be +1 number of posts than the one to it’s right.
If you don’t make this adjustment, you may find the an unusual amount of white space between widgets on the front page.