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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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May 13th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Metro is a stylish newspaper-themed WordPress theme with a rotating featured content front and centre, and both recent articles and videos showcased on the homepage.
The three-column theme is fully Widget-ready, features advertising positions and a clear, easy to navigate design.
It also includes a space for featured videos on the homepage, allowing site owners to
Cost:
The Metro WordPress theme from StudioPress costs $US59.95 on its own or $199.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.
Demo and download:
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April 26th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Modern Clix is a beautiful WordPress blog theme built using a grid and featuring a generous use of whitespace and a strong focus on typography.
The theme comes with a range of neat features, according to its release page:
- A strong focus on typography. The combination of leading, weights and type families is essential in any published media. Modern Clix displays texts and images beautifully and includes a set of nice ampersands, by-lines and other type goodies for you to enjoy.
- A strong grid. Texts and images are perfectly aligned to a 960px grid; uncomment a line in the CSS file to show up the underlieing grid.
- An elastic design. Flexible layout? Fixed Layout? Elastic! Modern Clix is coded using EMs, so its layout is automagically stretched when you adjust the font size in your browser. Wowers!
- Golden rectangle. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci proportioned their works to approximate to this rectangle, which has been considered universally aesthetically pleasing. The theme was designed following this principle.
- Full width images and captions. Display images as large as 596px of width, with their proper captions or descriptions. The theme also include classes to align images to the left, center or right.
- Twitter and Flickr integration was never so easy. Just change the sample usernames for your own ones and you are ready to go.
- Extensible and modular. Modern Clix is minimal, but it’s extensible to suit your needs. Uncomment certain parts of the code to unlock gravatars, tags and widgets. Google Adsense is also supported.
- Standards compliant. Modern Clix validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and it’s cross browser compatible. This means that it works well in every browser in the planet.
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March 2nd, 2009 | Themes | 3 Comment
White Canvas is a simple, stylish photo blogging theme for WordPress, providing a stark white frame for your images; it also comes in a black version.
The White Canvas and Black Canvas themes are two columns and provide easy navigation between your images, a large frame for showing off your pictures and clear, easy-to-read captions.
The theme is also Widget capable out of the box.
Cost:
The White Canvas and Black Canvas WordPress themes from StudioPress cost $US59.95 on its own or $149.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.
Demo and download:
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November 25th, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
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.
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September 11th, 2008 | Themes | 3 Comment
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.
Cost
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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June 3rd, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
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.
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May 20th, 2008 | Themes | 3 Comment
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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April 29th, 2008 | Themes | 1 Comment
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.
Features:
- Nice grid-focused design
- Large, clear navigation at the top and bottom of pages
- Three columns of Widget-ready goodness
- Easy to integrate text or graphical ads
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April 18th, 2008 | Themes | 6 Comment
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.
Features:
- Minimalist design, with lots of white space
- Adheres to a strict 5-column grid across three presentation columns
- Elegant typography which makes for easy reading
- Easy to integrate advertising in the right-hand column
- Handle text, photos and links with ease
- Large footer which can be customised with whatever content you see fit (requires hand coding)
- Flickr stream across the top of the homepage
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April 18th, 2008 | Themes | Comments Off
