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Cypher v2 is a two-column blog theme that features effective use of white space on a subtle, crinkled-paper backdrop, along with big, bold titles and easy to read text.
The search box takes a prominent position at the top of the second column, allowing visitors to easily find what they’re looking for.
Cypher v2 is done in the bold colours of black and red, and places emphasis on your content.
It offers a bold horizontal navigation, large search box, custom default avatars, sidebar widgets and a customisable layout.
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March 19th, 2010 | Themes | Comments Off
Grass Roots is a serene three-column traditional blogging theme that has a minimalist layout and clear typography, and thus invites your visitors to stay a while.
Although the design places maximum emphasis on content, navigation is smooth.
The theme’s colours are a soothing mix of green, grey and white. The fonts are white and easy to read, reducing high-contrast eye strain.
Grass Roots offers a robust set of features, including an easy to find search field and a fully widgetised sidebar. No additional plugins or add-ons needed.
Clear horizontal navigation and harmonious colours make this a great download.
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March 19th, 2010 | Themes | Comments Off
Grace Photoblog is a unique theme that places emphasis on your artwork, whether it’s photography or graphic design.
The top of the home page showcases your featured work with the help of a jQuery rotating banner. Posts are organised gallery style, by your most recent images. As you click on the post, you open to a page that features a 900-pixel wide version of your image.
Grace Photoblog is intentionally minimalistic. The design draws all focus to your art, and features a very soft and subtle background. In this case, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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March 19th, 2010 | Themes | Comments Off
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
