Titan is a refined and super clean two-column WordPress blog theme with impressive typography and a delicious ‘fat’ footer.

The theme is ready for Twitter integration, includes Flickr integration in the footer and has a customisable dropdown horizontal navigation across the site.

Titan is a completely free WordPress theme, but offers a paid membership option with ongoing support, customisation tips and tutorials.

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Tubular is a dark, clear WordPress theme developed for videoblogging but also offering the ability to create a static website and blog.

The homepage is configured to display featured videos, though it could be used to display a straight blog. The item pages are very clean, with a simple layout and good typography; and the site-wide navigation is good.

The theme comes with widget-ready sidebars and threaded comments built in.

Cost:

The Tubular WordPress theme from StudioPress costs $US59.95 on its own or $199.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.

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Sugar Cane is an eye-catching two-column WordPress theme with beautiful typography, great use of images and a distinctive style.

Theme author Able Parris notes that the theme’s strength “is that it makes both long and short posts look great and easy to read”, which is dead right.

Site owners can use the two built-in image classes to have large landscape images span the entire content column and to have portrait images offset alongside the posts.

For those inclined to tweak things a little and make a theme their own, it would be relatively simple to make a few changes to colours and fonts to turn Sugar Cane into your own distinctive web presence.

Sugar Cane is a child theme for the Thematic framework by Ian Stewart. As the author’s page explains: “Child themes allow you to create layouts without touching the source theme’s template files. For this theme to work, you will need to upload both Thematic and Sugar Cane to your theme directory, but only activate Sugar Cane. It’s that easy.”

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WPUnlimited is an advanced WordPress theme offering complete customisation of the site layout, fonts and colours without any need for coding.

The theme’s promotional material boasts: “With a few simple clicks you’ll have a completely unique site designed exactly to your specifications. You specify the colors, typography, site layout (choose between 1, 2, and 3 column layouts), and even the content width!”

The default layout is clean and simple, with good navigationand tight typography; with a little customisation, you can make it your own.

The theme also offers easy SEO optimisation and built-in support for Adsense ads.

Cost:

The WPUnlimited theme costs $US59 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.

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For designer Rob Goodlatte, Flow is a proof-of-concept WordPress theme, but to my eyes it’s a highly readable blog layout with minimalist stylings.

Goodlatte created the theme to showcase a web design technique known as ‘variable type size’, meaning that as a user resizes their browser window the type size in the main content area changes proportionately. The result is that the key content is attractive and easy to read no matter what size the browser window.

The sidebar column, present only on the home page, is set at a fixed 12-pixel font size so it always remains secondary.

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Nouice is a two-column WordPress theme with a simple design highlighting posts in a way that’s somewhat reminiscent of a Polaroid photograph.

The theme has a clean blue background and an elegant, modern appearance. It could service almost any kind of blog.

Be warned: comments are not built in to this theme.

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Inuit Types is a rare gem – a simply stunning WordPress theme that’s half blog, half magazine site.

The theme is stylish, flexible and beautiful.

Its features include:

• Custom translations of all blog areas
• Great SEO
• Simple pagination
• Management scripts for header and footer
• Fully widgetized sidebar
• Left or right-hand sidebar
• Featured entries
• One or two-column entries on front page
• WP 2.7 full compatibility

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PureType is a clean and sophisticated CSS-based WordPress theme with a strong type-based layout.

The theme features three widget-ready areas, three colour schemes, two layout options and more customisation built into the theme options page.

It also offers custom thumbnails, downloadable PSD files, threaded comments, gravatars and built-in ad space.

Cost

Basic is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes.

Demo and download:

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Tribal is an original, funky WordPress blog theme with a built-in MySpace-style music player.

The urban-themed design includes the following features:

• Flickr integration
• Easy paste code for audio player
• Ad your own logo and styles easily
• Gravatar support
• Featured content slideshow
• Widget ready
• Feedburner integration
• Pretty flash titles
• Extensive help and tutorial included
• Ad your Adsense or image link code
• Turn all-or-individual banners on/off

Cost

The Tribal theme costs $US79.95 for a single-site licence or $US149.95 for a multi-site licence.

Demo and download:

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Magazeen is a stunning free magazine-style WordPress theme that has a contemporary look and feel, and wouldn’t look out of place as a premium theme.

The theme features an interactive showcase of recent posts at the top of each page, using a horizontal panel of thumbnail images. When you scroll over the image the title appears – encouraging your visitors to explore and enjoy your posts.

It also includes drop-down navigation with a difference – with the drop-down menus under the category headings revealing some posts from each category.

Magazeen also has some custom widgets that you can control from the WordPress admin panel to easily change the settings for the latest and featured posts in the sidebar. These panels are among the best-looking available in any WordPress theme – free or premium.

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