Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
HelloBlogger isn’t flashy; it’s a simple, clean, two-column WordPress theme with a splash of colour.
The theme is predominantly white and grey; it’s easy to read and has a very clean, traditional blog-style layout.
Plenty of white space and attractive typography make this one a winner.
Una is a professional-looking, two-column, blog-style WordPress theme with a clean and organised layout and a brown colour scheme.
Its two columns are divided using the guide of the divine proportion. The front page shows the latest post with it’s accompanying large graphic image, followed by three other recent posts with each post accompanied by a thumbnail image. Each section title is supported by a subtitle.
Una has comments and trackbacks divided.
Hamasaki is a beautiful magazine-style WordPress theme that perfectly showcases recent articles, provides ad space and simple navigation.
It includes full Widget support, built-in spots for 125 x 125 pixel ads and a top banner ad, a theme options page for easy customisation, and Gravatar support.
The typography is impressive and the double navigation bar (using Pages and Categories) is effective. Hamasaki could make a great base for a magazine-style or personal site.
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.
The Brightness WordPress theme is nothing short of stunning; it’s half magazine, half blog and is reminiscent of some of the best professional, modern blog designs around.
For a free theme, Brightness comes with a great deal of features, including a well-designed featured post area, post thumbnails, built-in advertising and news sections.
The theme also offers a complete settings page, allowing the user to simply manage all of these premium-grade features without having to worry about editing code.
Lightning is a simple but extremely stylish two-column WordPress theme which could easily be customised to create a unique and powerful blog site.
The theme’s unique, multi-coloured sidebar design gives it an impressive flourish which makes it stand out from the pack, alongside very clear and easy to read typography.
In addition, the sidebar is widget ready and the code is designed with SEO in mind.
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.
Portfolio is a sleek and sexy but somewhat flawed WordPress theme making it easy for photographers or designers to create a site showcasing their latest work.
I say sleek and sexy because it looks modern, has wonderful typography and large images which would create an attractive-looking portfolio site.
However, I say it’s flawed because you can’t link to any of the individual entries and nor do the portfolio items link to the websites being showcased. Neither of these decisions makes much sense.
Nonetheless, the theme author says some of those problems will be updated in future releases, or if you’re able to tweak the design a little you might be able to do it yourself.
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.
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.
TV Elements: Sharp and dark, this is a perfect video showcase.
