The Refraction theme by RocketTheme is an incredibly visually-striking offering from this designer. Visitors to a site using this theme will not leave unimpressed and will certainly think that you spent thousands of dollars having your site designed. The theme makes incredible use of transparency. The effect is that, when viewers scroll down the page, it looks as if the content is sliding over the top of your background images rather than having all of the background images scroll upward as the visitor heads downward on the page. With all of this innovation, it would’ve been easy to make a theme that is nothing but flash. This isn’t the case, however, and Refraction offers a lot more than a pretty face.

When your visitors move farther down the page or, perhaps, as they scroll down and enjoy the effect of having the content lower down the page scroll up to meet them, though find that this theme is easily navigable and that its interface is intuitive for anybody who’s familiar with blogs. The theme has 20 separate positions were you can place widgets, which means that you can alter this design is much as you’d like. Nonetheless, this theme looks excellent straight out of the box.

If you want to do more customization, you’ll find 10 preset styles included with this theme. The theme also has light and dark variations on all of these styles, allowing you to take your customization further. No matter which layout you choose, you’ll find that the typography on this theme is excellent. While it’s highly customizable, all of the theme’s various color schemes ensure that the typography is easy to read and that visitors won’t be compelled to look elsewhere to get their information because they cannot read your site.

Another feature that makes Refraction a winner is the fact that it’s search engine optimized when you buy it. This is a major advantage. In many cases, themes that have the most innovative designs are also the worst where search engine optimization is concerned. The designers at RocketTheme took the time to make sure that all the elements on this page load in the correct order to ensure that your most important content is what gets noticed by the search engine crawlers when they stop by for a visit. The great design means that your visitors will notice that content, as well.

• Transparent Design
• SEF Optimised Layout
• New Theme Settings Page
• Admin-based Color Chooser
• RokTabs Widget
• RokNewsFlash
• RokStories
• RokBox
• 10 Preset Styles – Light / Dark Variations
• 20 Widget Positions
• Fully translatable
• Stylish, Professional Typography
• FF3.5, Opera 10, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Standard pricing of the Refraction theme from Rockettheme is as follows :
Refraction Theme (standard version) : $50 (single site license)

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