Hairudy.net is a blog template that many photographers use, but it's almost impossible for your clients to know that. The customization options are so varied, and so powerful, that you can easily create a look and feel for your blog unlike any other. Choose from 18 header layouts, and then customize every aspect of those layouts. Change the width of your blog. Include/exclude elements at will. Choose all your own fonts, colors, customizations. This is no cookie-cutter blog.
The Hairudy.net theme was designed from the beginning for complete compatibility with the most recent version of WordPress, version 2.7. The design integration is total, and Hairudy.net takes advantage of many of the new, powerful features of WordPress' best release yet
Professional-looking, built-in contact form available on every page of your blog. Hidden in the main menu, it gracefully slides into view when your users click "Contact" and is totally customizable, and secure from spam.
Save an unlimited number of versions of your design layouts. Experiment like crazy, or switch designs on a regular basis.
A really important part of your professional website is a place where your clients can get to know you through a picture and a brief bio. This area is totally customizable, supports multiple, randomized pictures on page refresh, and can be shown on whichever type of pages you want or don't want.
Do you tweet? Hairudy.net comes with a super-slick built-in Twitter integration that allows you to professionally share your tweets in a your main navigation drop-down menu.
WordPress is already the best blogging platform for Search Engine Optimization, but Hairudy.net takes it up a notch. The theme is pre-built with every "best-practice" SEO functionality including smart title tags, proper use of H1 tags, customizable meta description and keywords, minimized duplicate content, and much more. No need for an SEO plugin or consultant, it's already all there.
\Easily upload your own "favicon" -- the little icon to the left or your web address in browsers. Upload a custom image that will get used as an iPhone bookmark by anyone who saves your website on their iPhone. Add a custom image as a separator between your posts to reinforce your branding and style. And many, many more.
One of the great strengths of blogs vs. other types of websites is the ability for your clients/friends/fans to interact with each other and with you through comments. Hairudy.net makes this as easy, intuitive, and professional-looking as any site out there. No clicking to another page to view comments, they are loaded inline, and shown with a graceful sliding effect when clicked. Or, alternatively, choose to show them by default below each post. The comment area turns into a scrolling box when enough comments are left. Also, easy links for blog viewers to link to the post, add a comment, or email a friend the link are always available. Oh yeah, and everything about the comments area is totally customizable, of course.
Many pro blogs choose to use Feedburner RSS feeds for more advanced tracking and publicity features not available without a feedburner feed. Hairudy.net lets you use a feedburner feed instead, and needs no plugin. Just enter your feedburner URL and everything is set. Also includes built-in integration with the popular "subscribe by email" RSS option from feedburner. Embed a "subscribe by email" form in your navigation menu or footer area, and customize the way it appears.
Excellent, minimal, lightweight, standards-compliant code means the fastest possible page-loading times. Plus, Hairudy.net comes with a ground-breaking functionality that delays loading pictures far down on your blog page until your user begins to scroll toward them. This makes the pages finish loading much faster.
All your customization choices are stored in a single entry in your WordPress database, and uploaded images reside in your normal WordPress uploads folder. This means when there are new releases of Hairudy.net, you can simply delete all your old files and replace them, and all your customizations will be preserved.