Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
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.
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.
Revolution Blog is a stylish, free theme with the option to choose between three different traditional blog-style layouts.
Whether you choose the two-column version with a right sidebar, the three-column version with left and right sidebars, or the three column version with two right sidebars, you’ll get a clean and elegant, widget-ready blog with a blue and white colour scheme.
All feature crystal-clear typography, a stylish header and a lovely, functional horizontal navigation bar.
Revolution Blog is a free theme from the creator of the premium Revolution series of themes.
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At first glance, Abstractia may appear to be just another two-column theme with a top navigation and horizontal rules dividing navigation in the right-hand sidebar.
However, the attention to small detail and the beautiful typography sets this template apart from the competition. Notice, for instance, the styling on the dates that accompany each post. Note too the attention to typographic details in the headlines and line spacing.
All in all, this is a very attractive theme that could be easily tweaked to take on an individual appearance for your own blog.
The Azure Hut Wordpress theme features a clean two-column design, with a distinct split between the content (on the right) and navigation (on the left) areas.
There’s a small header at the top of the azure blue left-hand column and the sidebar is widget-ready. The theme also has social bookmarking links built into the information area about posts.
The theme package includes Photoshop files for the logo and sidebar titles.
The Block Magazine theme boasts an attractive magazine-style homepage layout in blue and white tones.
The two most recent posts are highlighted on the homepage, and then five more posts are shown in a tabbed sidebar box, which can show the most recent posts, the most popular posts or the posts with the most comments.
The theme has an integrated ad spot below the sidebar.
The Block Magazine theme costs $US99.
Blue Zinfandel is a print-inspired Wordpress theme that comes in two-column and three-column versions, though the three-column version is probably the better choice.
It could prove useful for online newspapers and magazines - or just a professional blog.
The Illacrimo free Wordpress theme is, shall we say, el primo. This is a very high quality three-column design, with a bold set of colours and a predominance of blue.
The search field is prominent, the content is easy to read and the third column would provide a nice spot for some text advertising or meta information.
Margot is a simple but effective blog theme, with two columns, a simple navigation bar across the top, clean and crisp typography, rounded corners and a large header image.
It would be easy to change the header and the colours to make a unique site design if you have some limited Wordpress templating and CSS skills.
Beautiful typography and nice blue colour tones make this Web 2.0 style theme stand out from the crowd.
It’s a simple, clean and crisp two-column template, with a place for everything and everything in its place.
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