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.
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.
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.
Notepad is a minimalist, clear WordPress theme designed to host a small business or brochure-ware type website; it comes in 13 colour combinations.
The theme has a very simple front page, with a blog and extra page navigation to provide additional information.
The personal branding this theme delivers would be ideal for freelancers of all occupations, personal coaches, consultants or other independent professionals.
This theme is not for everybody but what it sets out to do, it achieves with aplomb.
Smoke Signal is a stylish, modern, two-column blog theme for WordPress reminiscent of some of the more popular graphic design blogs around today.
This theme offers many of the advanced benefits of magazine-style themes while retaining a more traditional blog-like layout.
It offers ad integration, Gravatars, Flickr integration, automatic image resizing and built-in tooltips.
The Smoke Signal theme costs $US49 for a single licence, or for $US500 you can join the Wordpress Developers club and get a developer’s licence for all their current themes, as well 1 per month for the next 12 months.
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Thematic is an open-source theme designed as a starting point for simple customisation, which also happens to look pretty darn good out of the box.
It features classy search engine optimization, multiple widget-ready areas (not just in sidebars and footer but between posts, above posts etc.), and a grid-based design.
Site owners can choose from three different layouts - two columns with the sidebar on the left or the right, or three columns with the main content in the centre.
The included stylesheets are aligned to a strict 18px vertical grid featuring refreshing and sophisticated typography.
To see what can be achieved by styling this theme, check out the designer’s site: ThemeShaper.
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.
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.
Wynton Magazine is an image-heavy, magazine-style Wordpress theme with a simple but effective layout.
It features one main lead story, which takes up much of the front and centre of the home page, then three more featured posts with images in the right sidebar.
It also offers integrated advertising space and section pages. This theme takes a little bit of setting up, rather than simply working out of the box.
Revolution Wordpress Themes: Eight professional magazine and small business themes.
