A couple of days ago Chris Pearson (the creator of the Thesis Theme) released the beta version of Thesis 1.8 to developers which will add some great new features. The first and likely most notable thing for you is the ability to upload your own header image. This is great if you already have a company logo or even if you’d simply like a nice photo for the background of your header. In order to cater for this I will be preparing my Thesis marketing skins to make sure that they can accommodate these new header images.

Another feature is that Thesis will now fully support the use of WordPress 3.0 Menus by default. This will allow me to streamline the code of my Thesis Marketing Skins and more importantly mean that you can easily switch between the WordPress Menu and Thesis Navigation directly from the dashboard.

Of course not everything that makes a website tick is on the front end. If you are interested in having the best possible SEO optimization for your website then you will be happy to know that all SEO options within the Edit Posts/Pages area now have a character counter so you know exactly how much of your meta tags will be picked up by the search engines allowing you to optimize with even more efficiency.

This is just a small sample of what we can look forward to when Thesis 1.8 finally drops. As it is still currently within the first beta release there is no verified date. So should you wait for the new release before adding one of the skins on this site. Not at all! I plan to make every upgrade go as seamlessly as possible and will endeavour to integrate all of the new Thesis features into the skin within the first 72 hours of the official release. If you are a current customer you will get first notification when this happens and of course you will get a completely free upgrade to the updated version of your Thesis Marketing Skin.

Hey There, My name is Daniel McClure and I’d like to personally welcome you to MarketingSkins.com

The site has officially been launched today and rolled out with the “Thesis Marketing Skin“. As the name would suggest this is a skin for the The Thesis Theme which has long been applauded for it’s impeccable SEO, customization ability, quality code and constant development. Whilst you can use it straight out of the box it’s not the most exciting looking theme and although almost anything is possible many people just don’t want to go behind the scenes and dive into the code.

That’s where this site and the new Thesis Skins comes in… The Thesis Marketing Skin which is designed to offer Internet marketers a powerful skin that can be used to quickly roll out powerful profit pulling websites that are also simple to manage on a day to day basis.

Simply put Thesis Skins help you to get where you want to be faster. A lot faster! Rather than spending hours messing around with with functions and CSS you can simply drop in a few files to create a great looking site with the features needed to make your site a success. In terms of marketing, that means you can easily include ad positions, take advantage of built in social media features and ultimately gain more time to spend on the things that you do best.

Whilst you could say I’m biased, I truly believe that right now the Thesis Marketing Skin is the best vehicle for getting a marketing orientated blog created fast and with minimal fuss. I’ve spent literally hundreds of hours planning, designing and finally creating this skin to make it cover all the bases required for a modern marketing blog.

It won’t stop here either, you may have noticed that I’m using the skin on this site… Not only am I offering you this skin but I live and work in this field so you can guarantee that both this skin and the MarketingSkins.com vision will continue to grow.

This is where it gets really exciting… As you are well aware it is the fourth of July which is a public holiday in many places and also the official launch day for Marketing Skins. In true celebratory spirit I’ve decided to extend the good vibes with a one day sale. When you get the skin right now you can get 50% off from the usual price! To check out exactly what that means for you and to learn how to take advantage of this offer you can visit the official Thesis Marketing Skin page.

I hope you enjoy putting this skin to work for you, I know I will