30April is a flexible weblog theme for WordPress that showcases some static about text front and centre, with a useful widgetized right sidebar and beautiful typography in the weblog below.

It offers an extra footer, a theme options page for easy customization, and gravatar support.

The wide sidebar is great for Flickr images and could easily be adapted for advertising.

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Magadine is a three-column magazine-style Wordpress theme with vibrant colours, excellent for highlighting a large number of featured posts containing images.

The homepage has a spacious feel despite showcasing a wide range of stories using text and images.

It also has a large footer, horizontal navigation, a simple header and stylish design on the content pages. Well worth a look.

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The Premium News Gazette Edition theme for Wordpress is a slick, image-heavy magazine-style design with a large, rotating featured content box displayed front and centre.

Gazette Edition by default is white and red but has an options panel allowing the site author to easily change the colour scheme and even the homepage layout.

The theme uses thumbnail images for each post on the homepage. This is made simple thanks to an automatic image resizer.

Gazette Edition includes custom page templates for archives, sitemap and an image gallery. It supports Gravatars, widgets, ads and videos out of the box.

Cost

The Gazette Edition 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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Silhouette is an impressive free Wordpress theme, which comes in both two and three-column versions, though the three-column is probably the pick of the pair.

It’s got a clean grey header and beautifully styled sidebar areas, as well as a simple but effective top navigation bar.

Features:

• Simple, clean design
• Extremely legible layout, with the emphasis on the content
• Nicely styled sidebar columns, providing flexibility to showcase a range of content

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Chris Pearson has given the Wordpress world two great themes and this is one of them. It’s practical, smooth and two columns out of the box, but the code is also well set out and commented, meaning it’s easy to make customisations.

The custom stylesheets, killer comments and search engine-friendly code make this one of the best themes doing the rounds.

Pros:

• Clean, commented code makes customisation easy
• A custom CSS option allows you to make over the colour scheme without risking messing everything up
• A bunch of classes are defined to make your images etc. look good
• Widget-ready
• Tutorials available to make using the theme easier
• Also available as a three-column theme

Cons:

• It’s almost become a little too popular, in a Kubrick sort of way: Your site won’t be unique

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