Simplifi is a minimalist, clean two-column WordPress theme with a number of colour schemes and the sidebar on the left of the main content column.

If you want a simple theme you can customise or just a basic weblog template that allows your content to shine above and beyond the design, Simplifi could be for you.

Choose from a minimalist white, or three other colour schemes.

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A grungy, two-column weblog theme, WordPress Fun is stylish and modern, and includes a neat featured posts list in the left-hand sidebar.

Smashing Magazine, releasing WordPress Fun, said: “The idea was to create a theme that is fun and usable, heavy and light, eye-catching and robust, specific and yet generic enough to be used in a variety of ways.”

The theme designer has achieved all that, and included thumbnails integration and a “featured” post section to boot.

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ProudFolio gives designers, developers, artists and photographers a framework for a great-looking portfolio site and a feature-rich blog.

The homepage is a combination of those elements, highlighting the latest projects from your portfolio, as well as your most recent blog post.

Throw in clear navigation, a dark, worn look, and a simple options panel for tweaking the layout and colour scheme, and you’ve got one of the best portfolio themes around.

The ProudFolio WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.

Cost

The ProudFolio theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.

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Sharpfolio is a beautiful theme that makes the creation of a professional portfolio a snap.

The code is clean and the design is simple yet stylish, with all the focus on the work being presented rather than on flashy headers or sidebar widgets.

Adding your recent work is extremely simple, making the upkeep on a portfolio site easy.

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Linquist is an elegant and minimalist WordPress theme purely oriented towards the creation of portfolio websites showcasing photos, artworks or visual designs.

Users can choose between light and dark colour styles, both of which are effective and beautiful, putting the portfolio images front and centre, and allowing for small captions containing information about each work.

Each item has its own page and comments, and there’s an Options panel to help make the site run the way you want it to.

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Dark yet colourful, the Firebug WordPress theme has two widget-ready sidebars, space allocated for ads and social tagging options built into the posts.

It’s also Gravatar ready, works with WordPress’s built-in Gallery feature and offers Photoshop file for replacing the logo in the banner.

Firebug has a stylish, modern layout. The background can make the (small) text a little hard to read, so a flat colour without the texture may be a better option.

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Rounded corners mightn’t be as trendy as they were a year or two ago but implemented in the Natural Power WordPress theme with a dark background and crisp, clear design, they still look fresh and impressive.

This two-column, widget-ready theme comes with four different coloured header graphics that can easily be changed in the options panel included with the theme. Also, the header text can easily be changed through the options page as well.

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If you’re a photographer wanting to showcase your works in a stylish and professional manner with plenty of options and a minimum of fuss, the five photo gallery themes from ShutterThemes could be just what you’re after.

With black backgrounds and grey borders, your photos will really pop off the screen.

The themes also feature effective navigation and widget-ready areas so you can include information about yourself and your photos.

The themes could also easily be adapted as portfolio themes for designers.

Price:

Each of the 5 Photo Gallery themes from ShutterThemes costs $US29.95.

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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.

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The Dark Hut Wordpress theme is elegant, stylish and easy to read theme, with the focus immediately placed on the content of the site.

The theme has a dark feel befitting its name but has a white content area to keep the focus on the content and maintain legibility.

The large footer has four columns for displaying various information, and the theme is widget ready.

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