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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
Frugal is a clean, three-column theme that comes in two flavours: premium and professional. While both boast many similar conveniences, such as built-in ad widgets, an ebook guide to working with the theme, and threaded comments, the two paid versions do have some extras.
Frugal Premium is a more traditional WordPress theme built with easy customization in mind. It was developed for non-programmers, and most aesthetic changes can be made from the WordPress backend, without having to write a single line of code. But for those who do want to dive into the code, Frugal Premium’s structure is easy to understand.
Frugal Professional was built for the more code-savvy WordPress developer. Although many simple changes can still be made in the backend, larger changes will require working with the theme itself. Further, Frugal Professional was built as a framework, providing the end user with ultra clean code and myriad hooks for custom content.
Cost:
Frugal Premium and Professional are sold as a combo pack. A single use licence costs $US79, a multi-use licence costs $US149, and a developer licence runs to $US199.
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October 20th, 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
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
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
Clean Slate is a feature-packed WordPress theme that’s centred around a scrolling ‘featured posts’ section and features plenty of white space and stylish typography.
The theme offers an options page for customising the featured section, as well as changing the site logo and customising a sponsorship panel.
It also comes with a layered PSD file to allow you to customise the design and layout to your liking.
Cost
The Clean Slate theme costs $US25.
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Visit ThemeForest for a theme demo and download.
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April 23rd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Inuit Types is a rare gem – a simply stunning WordPress theme that’s half blog, half magazine site.
The theme is stylish, flexible and beautiful.
Its features include:
- Custom translations of all blog areas
- Great SEO
- Simple pagination
- Management scripts for header and footer
- Fully widgetized sidebar
- Left or right-hand sidebar
- Featured entries
- One or two-column entries on front page
- WP 2.7 full compatibility
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April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | 1 Comment
PureType is a clean and sophisticated CSS-based WordPress theme with a strong type-based layout.
The theme features three widget-ready areas, three colour schemes, two layout options and more customisation built into the theme options page.
It also offers custom thumbnails, downloadable PSD files, threaded comments, gravatars and built-in ad space.
Cost
Basic is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes.
Demo and download:
Visit Elegant Themes for a theme demo and download.
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April 22nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
