Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
Simple White is – surprise, surprise – a simple, white, very easy to read WordPress theme.
It’s a two-column theme based on the beautiful Elite theme but with a plain colour scheme.
The theme is also available with Teal and Yellow color schemes, though plain black and white is the pick of the bunch.
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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Brodie is a black-and-white, two-column Wordpress theme with a pseudo-newspaper feel and excellent typography.
I say pseudo-newspaper because although the black and white and the layout has a newspapery feel to it, the typography is all sans serif, so it’s not entirely print inspired.
Different elements such as blockquotes, lists and the sidebar are beautifully styled, and the theme boasts an effective horizontal navigation bar below the header and a nice wide main content area.
DePo Skinny by Derek Powazek is a powerful, effective one-column theme for Wordpress.
It’s a super-simple theme with one 500-pixel-wide column. It accommodates categories and tags easily.
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Derek Punsalan of 5thirtyone.com has been a consistent innovator on the Wordpress theme front. Grid Focus is a lovely, free three-column template with beautiful type and consistent design across the entire site.
Convenient navigation bars can be found at the top and bottom of all pages. The third column provides a great opportunity for advertising or highlighting featured posts.
To see just how good this theme can look with a bit of tweaking, check out skelliewag.
This minimalist, flexible, ad-ready Wordpress theme with Flickr integration was created by Derek Powazek, a well-known internet ‘celebrity’, who has created a number of large web brands, including Fray.
Some hand-coding is required to personalise the footer but this actually makes the template more flexible.
The 281 Wordpress theme is designed to look minimalist, load fast, and rank well in search engines.
It’s a simple two-column, black-and-white theme that provides a simple blog layout. It’s also well coded, so provides a good base to work off if you’re looking for a template you can pull apart and put back together again. Even some simple style and colour changes can make this theme looking very appealing. It’s already very legible and puts the content front and centre.
Chris Pearson has designed some of the slickest, most attractive free Wordpress themes doing the rounds, including Copyblogger and Cutline. He’s now turned ‘pro’, introducing his premium themes website, DIYthemes.com.
His first premium theme release is called Thesis, and it’s a study in minimalism, white space and beautiful typography.
Thesis costs for $US87 for a single licence or $US164 for a developer’s licence.
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Cutline, originally created by Chris Pearson, is an easily customisable, black and white Wordpress theme with a large header image and navigation bar. Pearson and his successors as custodians of Cutline (he sold it) have provided a lot of tips for tinkering with the theme.
The theme is also optimised for search engines, has classes written for smooth handling of images, and allows for random rotation of header images.
Flirtatia bills itself as sassy, understated and, of course, flirtatious. It’s all of those, plus simple and effective.
The colours are largely white-and-grey but like any good flirt has a splash of red. It’s a one-column Wordpress theme with blog navigation and archives appearing at the bottom of the template.
TV Elements: Sharp and dark, this is a perfect video showcase.
