Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
Hamasaki is a beautiful magazine-style WordPress theme that perfectly showcases recent articles, provides ad space and simple navigation.
It includes full Widget support, built-in spots for 125 x 125 pixel ads and a top banner ad, a theme options page for easy customisation, and Gravatar support.
The typography is impressive and the double navigation bar (using Pages and Categories) is effective. Hamasaki could make a great base for a magazine-style or personal site.
Offering a choice of 20 colour schemes, VibrantCMS is an elegant WordPress solution for small business owners wanting to build a modern, attractive website.
It features a prominent “featured items” scroller to broadcast your business’ most important information and a separate company blog that is tucked away from the homepage.
The VibrantCMS WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.
The VibrantCMS theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
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ProudFolio gives designers, developers, artists and photographers a framework for a great-looking portfolio site and a feature-rich blog.
The homepage is a combination of those elements, highlighting the latest projects from your portfolio, as well as your most recent blog post.
Throw in clear navigation, a dark, worn look, and a simple options panel for tweaking the layout and colour scheme, and you’ve got one of the best portfolio themes around.
The ProudFolio WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.
The ProudFolio theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
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Sharpfolio is a beautiful theme that makes the creation of a professional portfolio a snap.
The code is clean and the design is simple yet stylish, with all the focus on the work being presented rather than on flashy headers or sidebar widgets.
Adding your recent work is extremely simple, making the upkeep on a portfolio site easy.
Sketch’d is a grungy weblog theme with a neat featured post highlight, excellent typography and great attention to detail.
The theme is easy to use, without the need to play around behind the scenes.
It includes integrated social media buttons and auto image resizing.
With a little Photoshop work, it could also be a great base for a unique, customised theme as you’d really just have to adjust the background images and the colours of a few CSS elements.
The Sketch’d theme costs $US49 for a single licence, or for $US500 you can join the Wordpress Developers club and get a developer’s licence for all their current themes, as well 1 per month for the next 12 months.
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The Brightness WordPress theme is nothing short of stunning; it’s half magazine, half blog and is reminiscent of some of the best professional, modern blog designs around.
For a free theme, Brightness comes with a great deal of features, including a well-designed featured post area, post thumbnails, built-in advertising and news sections.
The theme also offers a complete settings page, allowing the user to simply manage all of these premium-grade features without having to worry about editing code.
Lightning is a simple but extremely stylish two-column WordPress theme which could easily be customised to create a unique and powerful blog site.
The theme’s unique, multi-coloured sidebar design gives it an impressive flourish which makes it stand out from the pack, alongside very clear and easy to read typography.
In addition, the sidebar is widget ready and the code is designed with SEO in mind.
Linquist is an elegant and minimalist WordPress theme purely oriented towards the creation of portfolio websites showcasing photos, artworks or visual designs.
Users can choose between light and dark colour styles, both of which are effective and beautiful, putting the portfolio images front and centre, and allowing for small captions containing information about each work.
Each item has its own page and comments, and there’s an Options panel to help make the site run the way you want it to.
Portfolio is a sleek and sexy but somewhat flawed WordPress theme making it easy for photographers or designers to create a site showcasing their latest work.
I say sleek and sexy because it looks modern, has wonderful typography and large images which would create an attractive-looking portfolio site.
However, I say it’s flawed because you can’t link to any of the individual entries and nor do the portfolio items link to the websites being showcased. Neither of these decisions makes much sense.
Nonetheless, the theme author says some of those problems will be updated in future releases, or if you’re able to tweak the design a little you might be able to do it yourself.
Viz | Biz Portfolio is a beautiful WordPress theme designed to showcase the work of photographers or visual designers; also useful for photo bloggers.
While featuring the latest photos front and centre on the homepage, this theme also offers the ability to run a blog in the background, and has 4 feature boxes for your contact details and services information.
You can easily upload your own header image using the WordPress administration.
The Viz | Biz Portfolio theme costs $US79.95 for a single licence.
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