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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.
Features:
- Simple, stylish design
- Fast to load
- Optimised for search engines
- Highly legible
- Simple to make small changes and create a unique design
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April 17th, 2008 | Themes | 1 Comment
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. Not to mention flexibility!
Features:
- Insert random, rotating header images, or use the space for a video
- Optimised to be search-engine friendly
- Accessible to audiences with special needs, people using alternative web browsers, mobile users etc.
- Clear, easy navigation
- Beautiful typography
- A growing body of support in the theme’s manual
Cost
Thesis costs for $US87 for a single licence or $US164 for a developer’s licence.
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April 14th, 2008 | Themes | 4 Comment
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.
Pros:
- Simple, stylish design
- Quality typography
- Easy to customise
- Good online tutorials for tweaking the theme
- Optimised for search engines
Cons:
- Perhaps a little too popular for its own good. You certainly won’t be alone using Cutline.
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November 26th, 2007 | Themes | 4 Comment
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.
Pros:
- Very clean, minimalist design
- Effective header image that should also be simple to change
- Beautiful typography
- Very effective and appealing line separators between stories on the front page
Cons:
- Default install doesn’t include Widgets.
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October 19th, 2007 | Themes | 2 Comment
The name says it all. When it comes to Wordpress themes, it really doesn’t get much simpler than Simplr, one of a number of excellent themes designed by Scott Allan Wallick of Plaintxt.org.
The front page of this Wordpress template is elegant in its simplicity: it displays just a single post.
Pros:
- Very clean, minimalist design
- Built-in options menu allows simple control over typography and layout
- Standards compliant
- Robust stylesheet and separate print stylesheet
- Widget ready
Cons:
- I’m not a big fan of the default typography settings, though these are easily changed via the Wordpress options menu
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October 16th, 2007 | Themes | 3 Comment
