Wordpress Theme for Financial Website

financialsites needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.

A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.

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Entries from this contest

by Hitron

by kayenn

by Markur

by TWF

One of the designers who made it happen

Winner - Hitron

Fantastic designer to work with. 1) Listened to our ideas and produced a great design that touched on the key points we were looking for. 2) Very good communication skills and responsive. Always available to answer questions and willing to take the time to walk you through what you need to know. Highly recommended.

- apuga

How financialsites started their custom wordpress themes journey

Company name

InvestorTrip.com

Overview

I'm 24 year old stock market investor from Washington, DC. I want to turn my blog website into financial wiki website featuring longer articles and more comprehensive information.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

My target audience is mostly male, over 50, college educated, and a higher than normal net worth. The target market is stock market investors looking for great information. This market loves information and quick load times.

Requirements

InvestorTrip.com is a global financial site focusing on the explanation of concepts to make better investors. The main concept is to become an authority site in the investing niche.

Design should come with 4 separate pages:

- Homepage

- Single Post

- Category

- Page

Important factors are:

- page speed

- usability

- look & feel

- security

- stickiness.

I want a clean simple header with the site logo , then underneath it is room for Call Us and place holder for our phone number. Also top level navigation should have drop down feature to show more content.

Also have Left Hand Navigation for the site categories. Single pages should have a h1 tag for headline as well.

NO Comments boxes or forms please. We don't support comments so no comment tags.

each h1 heading should have a visible page break like Wikipedia or eHow.com.

Our website has been seen in SeekingAlpha.com, TheStreet.com, Yahoo! Finance so please include this in the design

Keep the important stuff above the fold.

Sites I Like:

http://www.searchengineoptimisation.org/
stockbrokers.com
wikiinvest.com

Wordpress Wiki Sites I like:

http://wpwikitheme.com/
http://13styles.com/demos/knowpress/