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Blueleather is a sleek, blue and, you guessed it, leather-inspired WordPress theme that integrates a blog and portfolio into a professional-looking package.
This theme’s effective use of white space and easy-to-read fonts make it a visitor’s delight. Users will enjoy the harmonic balance of the darker header with a professionally textured body.
Some of the theme’s features include:
- Fixed layout with 2 columns;
- Easy to identify text links that are blue and underlined;
- JQuery Slider that prominently features key projects;
- CMS functionality;
Cost:
The Blueleather theme costs US$30.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
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September 22nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Convergence is a sensational modern blogging theme designed for community-based sites; it integrates photo thumbnails into the homepage and allows for stylish advertising options.
The theme includes many of the popular features that are seen in today’s industry-leading community sites.
Anyone who has looked at sites like Net Tuts or Smashing Magazine with envy will appreciate the quality of design in this WP theme.
The theme has two levels of navigation, usefully pointing to site pages and also categories of content. Some of the Convergence theme’s other features include:
- Feedburner integration
- 2-column table-less CSS layout
- Widget-ready sidebar
- Gravatar-ready comments sections
- Valid CSS and XHTML
- Browser compatibility: All major browsers
- Related posts
- Popular posts
- Author highlighting in comment areas
- Flickr photo showcase built in
- Ad management system included
- Social linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
Cost:
The Convergence theme costs $US25 for a single licence or $US75 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Hash One is the initial offering from Obox’s premium Wordpress shop, and if it’s anything to go by their Signature Series should be outstanding. Hash One caters for both video and text blogging as well as providing full gallery features.
The theme has great attention to detail. Small elements such as the black wrap-around ribbons used on the “Read More” and “Add Comment” links and also on the Search bar all come together to give the theme a real premium look and feel.
Hash One uses the “OCMX Live” content management system to easily manage your content without extensive coding knowledge of Wordpress 2.8. This means you can easily manage comments, install Google analytics, upload and update your logo, modify the menus, create your own galleries and manage site advertising.
Cost :
Hash One is available from Obox. It costs $US50 for a single user license or $US100 for a developer’s license that provides you with the layered image files.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
On The Field is an extremely attractive, modern blog theme aimed at sports bloggers, however the sports references are subtle and flexible enough that it could be used for a wide variety of blogs.
On The Field is a two-column layout with plenty of room for advertising on the right of the page.
Some of On The Field’s features include:
- 2 Tier navigation powered by CSS & JQuery
- 2 Pre-defined spots for 300×250 ad banners
- Recent comments cycle through on the sidebar with JQuery Innerfade
- Last comment is displayed after the post to entice viewers to “Read More”
- Built with future expansion & customisation in mind
The author advises he can also provide alternate color schemes if required. This is a reasonable theme that could be tailored to suit a variety of needs.
Cost :
On The Field is available from ThemeForest for $15.00.
Demo and download:
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
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.
Demo and download:
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May 30th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
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.
Demo and download:
Visit StudioPress to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
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May 24th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
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.”
Demo and download:
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
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.
Demo and download:
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May 18th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
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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May 13th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
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.
Download:
The original theme author’s site has gone offline, but you can still download the theme elsewhere.
April 25th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
