Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
30April is a flexible weblog theme for WordPress that showcases some static about text front and centre, with a useful widgetized right sidebar and beautiful typography in the weblog below.
It offers an extra footer, a theme options page for easy customization, and gravatar support.
The wide sidebar is great for Flickr images and could easily be adapted for advertising.
Charade is a professional-looking, Web 2.0 style weblog theme with a blue-and-white colour scheme, clear typography and a wide right-hand sidebar.
The theme also has built-in spaces for ads and features eye-catching icons for publicising your site and posts on social networking sites.
The sidebar is fully widget enabled, and features a quick configure Subscribe by Email option for Feedburner users.
Elegant Blubs is a stylish, flexible, two-column blog theme with beautiful typography and easy ad integration, a good choice for professional or group blogs.
It features a dropdown navigation menu, a widget-ready, right-hand sidebar, and a largely black, white and red design.
The theme also has a print stylesheet, author profiles and separate archives for individual authors. It has clean and valid code and is cross-browser compatible.
The Ecommerce theme costs $US49 for a single licence or $US99 for a developer’s multiple site licence.
Monochrome Pro is a feature complete magazine-style theme for Wordpress packaged with an AJAX post slideshow and a custom theme admin page to easily customise the design.
The theme also features archive pages for individual authors, two different page templates, multi-tier dropdown menus and two widget-ready sidebars.
It uses custom fields to display images on the homepage, among other things, and employs a CSS framework to make customisation easier. The theme also has valid HTML and CSS code, and is optimised for search engines.
The Monochrome Pro theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence. Alternatively, you can buy all the themes by Graph Paper Press for just $US99.99
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Andrea is blue, modern and funky. This is a Wordpress theme that stands out from the pack due to its great colour choices and lovely typography.
The theme also has a nice expanse of white space (or, perhaps, ‘blue space’).
It’s two columns, with the main content on the right. It also has a simple but effective top navigation bar and lovely styles for images.
The theme’s author says it was “inspired by an incredible woman”. Let’s hope it has done her justice.
Orange. Contemporary. Easy to read. Those are the key factors that make Keesheep worthy of a place on bestwpthemes.com.
This two-column theme features a large header area, prominent search bar and a right-hand sidebar. It’s well worth a look.
Don’t be frightened off because the demo version isn’t in English. The downlaod link below goes to an English version of the theme.
The Winter Styled Wordpress theme is a back-to-basics theme with a neat top navigation featuring links built into an introductory paragraph.
The two-column, widget-ready theme doesn’t use any graphics whatsoever, leaving a bare-bones theme that is nonetheless stylish and polished.
This theme is designed to be easily customised to suit any needs.
The KISS Styled (keep it simple, stupid) theme for Wordpress is very, very clean and very, very simple.
The theme has a nicely styled image-free header and two columns and is widget friendly.
KISS Styled would also be a perfect design to start with if you’re looking to mould a theme into a unique design.
Gotham Nights boasts a multi-coloured header/background image and a two-column layout with lovely typography and oodles of white space.
It has a nice tabbed section in the right-hand sidebar allowing site authors to organise and display lots of content.
It would also be very simple to change the background to create a more minimalist but still elegant and effective look.
WP Bats is a two-column theme largely inspired by the design of the New York Times’ blogs.
As you can imagine that gives it quite a newspapery look and feel. The main column is on the left, with a widget-compatible sidebar on the right.
Nice touches include a print style sheet, tags, horizontal navigation across the very top of the page and an archives template. The theme is also valid in terms of its XHTML and CSS coding.
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