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Handgloves is one of the best free WordPress theme releases for some time, offering a striking two-column design that emphasizes content and uses typography and white space to create a professional tone, with good integration options for photos in posts.
The two-column design packs a huge punch, featuring a sidebar dedicated to recent posts, Twitter and Flickr.
Handgloves includes a noticeable but unobtrusive search box. The download includes key plugins you will need to operate the site as shown on the demo.
This theme features easy to read text, straightforward horizontal navigation, and awesome support for plugins.
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October 27th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Doc is an unashamedly minimalist WordPress theme, and that’s where its appeal lies. It’s all about writing and reading.
The theme places all emphasis on content. In fact, its one-column design demands that you focus directly on what’s in front of you, not the shiny icons to your left or right. If it weren’t for the subtle references to comments below each theme, you could almost be convinced you were reading right from your word processor.
Once you scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll notice all the comforts of a well-rounded theme: blogroll, categories and search box. The beauty of this blog design is its simplicity. It will be a nice change of pace for your visitors. Its effective use of white space keeps it from looking boring or amateurish.
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October 27th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
UnderCon is a free, simple theme with a single purpose: to provide an attractive, customizable domain parking theme for WordPress users.
Think of this theme as an “Under Construction” page for the modern web.
This theme is a great solution for WordPress users who already own their site’s future domain, but aren’t yet ready for their site to hit the big time. It offers a sign-up form (powered by Google Feedburner) for visitors to subscribe to receive updates on the site’s progress and eventual launch.
The title, description, and logo are all customizable from within WordPress, so there’s no back-end work to do.
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October 7th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Clean Home is a clean, lightweight (48 pixels of image total) theme that comes in both free and professional versions.
The theme’s streamlined two-column design ensures that the design stays out of the way, leaving your content to speak for itself.
The free version features:
- Full widget support in three different sections of the theme (top navigation, blurb area, and sidebar)
- Valid XHTML and CSS
- Customizable eye-catching blurb area at the top of the page
- GPL licensed — customize however you wish
The pro version of Clean Home includes:
- Adsense integration in three separate locations
- Seven color schemes and two distinct styles
- Google Feedburner integration with an email subscribe button and auto RSS feed redirection
- Fully customizable home page
Cost:
The pro version of Clean Home costs $US20 for a single license, or $US60 for the developer version.
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Visit MidMo Web Design for the free version, or Gazelle Themes for the professional/developer version.
October 7th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
FotoFolio is an attractive free portfolio theme for photographers and designers.
The developer of theme has taken extra effort to make this theme flexible and highly usable, with nifty features such as automatic image resizing and jquery effects to display photos.
In all, this is a very neat package, and makes a great platform from which to promote your creative services.
The design has a nice, bright and airy feel to it. Adding your own branding to the site is as simple as installing the theme and replacing the theme’s logo with your own.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
AutoFocus is a beautiful free WordPress theme built specifically for photographers looking for a simple way to showcase their work online.
The theme features a unique homepage layout with autosized images and large full-width images on the individual article pages. An optional single-column version of the homepage is also available.
AutoFocus makes great use of typography considering its photo-centric focus. Also, mousing over any of the images on the homepage or the category pages reveals an excerpt of the post content, which is an attractive touch.
Perhaps best of all, no custom fields are needed. Images are uploaded using the Media Uploader, and resizing is handled automatically. The theme grabs the images directly from the article, making this a great theme for a less experienced user.
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August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Manifest is a beautifully minimalist one-column weblog theme with elegant typography and nothing to distract from the main content, be that text, photos or video.
The theme has a simple horizontal navigation and absolutely no clutter or cruft to distract the eye. If you want your visitors to read your words, this is a theme that will help achieve that goal.
The main body text is justified, and the footer features elegant links to the site owner’s social media identities.
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August 1st, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Titan is a refined and super clean two-column WordPress blog theme with impressive typography and a delicious ‘fat’ footer.
The theme is ready for Twitter integration, includes Flickr integration in the footer and has a customisable dropdown horizontal navigation across the site.
Titan is a completely free WordPress theme, but offers a paid membership option with ongoing support, customisation tips and tutorials.
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May 30th, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
Sugar Cane is an eye-catching two-column WordPress theme with beautiful typography, great use of images and a distinctive style.
Theme author Able Parris notes that the theme’s strength “is that it makes both long and short posts look great and easy to read”, which is dead right.
Site owners can use the two built-in image classes to have large landscape images span the entire content column and to have portrait images offset alongside the posts.
For those inclined to tweak things a little and make a theme their own, it would be relatively simple to make a few changes to colours and fonts to turn Sugar Cane into your own distinctive web presence.
Sugar Cane is a child theme for the Thematic framework by Ian Stewart. As the author’s page explains: “Child themes allow you to create layouts without touching the source theme’s template files. For this theme to work, you will need to upload both Thematic and Sugar Cane to your theme directory, but only activate Sugar Cane. It’s that easy.”
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
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
