OUR REVIEW OF Avada

Avada creator ThemeFusion has put in a lot of effort to make Avada the popular premium download it has become. One of the main features of Avada is its fully responsive design, which will automatically adjust your website’s content to fit the screen size of each front-end visitor.

Mobile devices including the iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry, and Android will instantly receive a customized view when browsing a website using Avada, as will tablet computers such as the iPad and Samsung Galaxy. Avada is also Retina Ready.

Ultra Flexible

Avada can be used to blog, sell products, manage a portfolio, and much more. The theme begins with a traditional top navigation bar and logo section, but quickly blends in to the featured content slider. This fully animated module can be easily programmed to drop-in images, text, call-to-action buttons and more in a sequence so the visitor’s attention is focused on it exclusively during his/her first visit.

There are dozens of default layouts that can be toggled by the administrator to see which provides the best fit for your company’s needs. If you take a look at the official live demo page, you’ll be able to quickly glance through all the design options for each page template in order to decide on your favorite.

Custom Page Templates

Custom page templates for Avada include Blog, Portfolio, Contact, Image Gallery, and much more. Thanks to this theme’s vast shortcodes collection, you can also use many codes when creating or editing a page/post to add functionality to certain posts and bring out the most in your content.

In the screenshot below, you’ll see that embedding videos from your favorite sites such as YouTube and Vimeo can be achieved with just a few short clicks.

Intelligent Control Panel

The Avada developers have made the Control Panel intelligent. Meaning it will save your progress and allow you flexibility that often requires loads of plugins to accomplish.

Options are easy to configure with plenty of custom widgets to insert in your widgetized regions along the sidebar and footer slots. Thanks to this theme’s Social Media Integration, you can quickly link your visitors to accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter in order to gain followers and readership.

Compatibility

Avada is frequently updated (more than a dozen updates have been released in its first year of existence). This means that the theme will work properly when browsed via Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. It is also programmed for the latest version of WordPress.

• Modern and stylish design
• Complete responsive design
• 2 touch enabled sliders to select from (Parallax layer slider and FlexSlider)
• 3 homepage variations
• 2 layout styles (Wide or boxed)
• Portfolio section with 1,2,3 or 4 column layouts
• 2 portfolio detail page styles (Full width or content + images)
• Sortable portfolio items and related portfolio item with thumbnails
• Add slider, video and images to portfolio
• Portfolio post types to add new portfolio item and manage all portfolios
• Custom post type for FAQs
• 4 post format (Audio, Video, Slider and Image)
• 11 custom widgets and a sidebar manager
• Useful collection of page templates
• 2 blog layouts with stylish post detail page
• Change fonts using Google web fonts (500+ font options)
• Layout enhancing shortcodes
• Create any number of sidebars
• Countless color option with build in color picker
• Working contact form
• Localization support (use .po file to translate your website)
• WPML plugin compatible
• Social sharing buttons and social media icons
• Insert dummy data for fast development (XML file included)
• SEO Friendly theme structure
• Threaded comment support
• Works in all major browser
• Lots of background options
• 22 Layered Photoshop files included
• Detailed documentation guide
• Advanced theme option panel
• WordPress 3.4.1 ready

Standard pricing of the Avada theme from ThemeForest  is as follows :
Avada Theme (standard version) : $40 (single site license)

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