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Simple, Premium, Professional, Free 2 Column Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:06:55 +0000

The team over at Blog Oh Blog have just released another amazing free Wordpress theme. This new theme is very simple and is called Ultima.

Ultima is a soft-coloured, rounded Wordpress theme which is focused completely around the content and nothing else. This 2 column theme is all about keeping it simple.

This is a plug and play theme. Nothing much to do except configure the subscribe form, twitter and facebook links. You can do this by editing the socials.php file in the theme folder.

You can Demo the theme here.

Also you can Download the theme here.

Apple iPhone Notepad Free Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:54:51 +0000

Notepad WordPress Theme is a modern theme with a subtle touch of the sketchy and texturized background. The theme is widget compatible with threaded & paged comments, social media buttons, and multi-level dropdown menus.

It has been tested on WordPress 2.9 with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE7+. Users with CSS3 compatible browser will see the nice visual enhancement such as drop shadow and rounded corners.

Ubuntu: Hanso: New Elegant Rich Brown Hybrid Theme Retaining Usability

Steven Finch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:25:42 +0000

Create a truly unique and modern theme for the Ubuntu Desktop. This a redux of the original version of Hanso utilizing several of the new murrine option if the current engine including new arrowstyle, border_shades, border_colors, comboboxstyle, gradient_colors, prelight_shade, shadow_shades, spinbuttonstyle, textstyle, trough_shades, reliefstyle, and stepperstyle.

Download here.

Exclusive: New Wordpress Default Theme for 2010 In Development

Steven Finch — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:27:09 +0000

The team at Wordpress have been working on a new default theme. The default theme is the basic theme everyone receives when they signup or download a version of Wordpress.

What do you think? The theme is still in development, but you can take a look for yourself here.

Headway: Create Your Own Wordpress Theme Design Simply and Cheaply

Steven Finch — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:26:17 +0000

Headway is perfect for both developers/designers and the average do-it-yourself-er. Easily rearrange a layout or change a setting in a jiffy. With Headway you can stop worrying about the monotonous tasks or the technical stuff, and just get down to creating great content for your blog. Headway makes designing your blog the easiest thing about blogging.

Using the Headway Visual Editor, you can do anything from a standard blog, to landing pages, to membership sites, to e-commerce sites. For non-technical folks, Headway’s “Easy Hooks” let you insert custom content at will wherever you like on any page without messing with PHP or CSS. For hardcore developers, Headway has heaps of actions and filters (or hooks) to take customization even farther.

Headway has its own built-in search engine optimization (or SEO) settings. Simply having Headway will help your search engine optimization, even if you don’t use any of its manual features. If you do use them (and we’ll show you how), you can enjoy a greater chance of moving up in search rankings.

Best Free Wordpress Christmas and New Year Theme

Steven Finch — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:37:21 +0000

It always amazes me that people come up with specific season related wordpress themes and icons. Here is a new set for Christmas.

The theme is decorated using Smashing Christmas Icon Set and its main goal is to give a blog a very festive, snowy, New Year’s atmosphere. The theme has no particular requirements, except that the WordPress 2.8.5+ should be installed.

The theme is free to use in private and commerical projects. It is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions.

Download The Free Christmas Wordpress Theme Here

Create Your Own Wordpress Theme

Dean Sherwin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:12:04 +0000

Don’t like having the same theme as everyone else on your Wordpress blog and can’t find one just right for you? Well then just create your own – no coding necessary. WPTheme Creator is an online web app that allows you to generate your own custom Wordpress theme by simple entering in things like how many columns you want and what colours you would like certain aspects to be.

As you can see in the screenshot, the options are fairly basic but they return good results when you really put some thought and effort into creating your new Wordpress theme.

The generated themes will run on Worpress programs up to the most recent one – 2.8 right the way from the fairly ancient 2.1 Wordpress release. One you have finished creating your theme you simply click ‘Save’ and then download it as you would any other theme. Then, go to ‘the Appearance tab in the wp-admin screen of your Wordpress blog and upload the theme, then click Activate once it has finished installing. Your new generated theme will be active on your blog.

Spectrum: Bright and Colourful Professional Two Column Free Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:53:23 +0000

Spectrum is free Wordpress Theme designed and delivered to you by Ignacio Ricci. This theme looks very bright and colourful. You can also give this theme a whole new feeling simply by changing the background image. Take a look around to check out it’s features. Enjoy using this lovely theme in your blog.

Theme Grade: Free Wordpress Themes Graded by SEO Quality and Overall

Steven Finch — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:51:52 +0000

Today I came across a great new theme directory which really tries to help users and not just show the basic themes. The directory is called ThemeGrade and instead of just showcasing the themes it also rates them in terms of general quality and seo.

Features include:

User-friendly Theme Search

The themes are grouped into many categories that it would be easy to find the themes of your choice. Are you looking for a 3-column magazine style themes that are free? Simply select “3 columns”, “Magazine Style”, “Free” and click on the search button and the themes will be shown in the result page!

Theme General Test

Each and every one of the Wordpress theme listed on ThemeGrade has undergone comprehensive tests. The general tests of a theme give you an idea of how well the designer coded the theme. When pass, the score will be added to the General test. Taking the passed score and divide it with the total tested score and you’ll get the general test score of the theme.

Theme SEO Test

The SEO tests of a theme give you an idea of how well a theme had been optimized for search engines. When pass, the score will be added to the SEO test. Taking the passed score and divide it with the total tested score and you’ll get the SEO test score of the theme.After you get the general and the SEO test score, the total score of a theme can be calculated. To do that, first, take the general test score and multiply by 0.6 and the SEO test score multiply by 0.4. Sum up the two number and you’ll get the total score of a theme.

Different Ranking Status for Themes

What makes ThemeGrade so special is the ranking system. Quality themes will be awarded either a Gold, Silver or Bronze status. The themes with the highest standard are those which score more than 90% and are awarded with the GOLD status! Ever since I outlined the details of each test, I have found out a few things that I could improve for my themes especially the SEO part.

Two New Themes will be reviewed Daily

Selecting good quality themes and reviewing them in such details take a lot of time.

MacPress: Free Mac Inspired Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:00:14 +0000

Our friends over at Sizlopedia have released a great new free Wordpress theme that is worth a look. The theme is called MacPress and is actually being currently used on the Sizlopedia site itself.

Here you go with some of the features of MacPress:

Compatibility – It is compatible with the latest version of Wordpress.
Elegant Design – Much like Leopard, the theme has a eye-catching UI of its own.
Theme Options – The theme also comes with a built-in Options panel.
Validated Code – From the XHTML to the CSS, every bit of codehas been validated.
SEO Friendly – It bears a fine code with SEO friendly tags and structure.

And some of the features planned for the future releases:

Styles Chooser – The Options panel would allow the user to select a pre-defined style.
Magazine Layout – A switcher between normal/magazine layout modes.

Demo: Sizlopedia

Download: MacPress.zip

Google Chrome Theme Gallery Is Now Available

Steven Finch — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:09:10 +0000

Just a few days after being spotted in Chrome’s new tab page, the official Google Theme Gallery is now open for business. Currently there are 29 new themes in which you can add to Chrome.

Remember, you’ll need to be running the Chrome 3 beta or developer channel or be using a recent build of Chromium to get in on the fun. If that includes you, check ‘em out then tell us which one you’re switching to in the comments. Unless you’re not impressed with the selection, in which case – sound off!

Imagination: Free Fully Customizable Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:39:50 +0000

Imagination is a Fully Customizable WordPress Theme and comes pre-loaded with 9 different site-wide styles to choose from, with just a click.

Moreover, You can customize the style according to your mood, occasion or preferences. Use your imagination to create a unique look of your blog/website anytime you want. Imagination theme is free to use and distribute. Feel free to share this theme with anyone and everyone.

IsoTherm: New Free Magazine / News Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:23:28 +0000

IsoTherm News is out and ready for professional use. It is magazine styled theme with everything you need to start publishing your own web journal with all the features you will need to attract new visitors. There is a Featured posts box. It supports Video and Popular Posts Widgets as well.

Irresistible: Personal Wordpress Theme for Free by WooThemes

Steven Finch — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:43:12 +0000

WooThemes has just released a new Free theme called Irresistible. It is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.

Irresistible: New Free Wordpress Theme from WooThemes

Steven Finch — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:08:17 +0000

WooThemes has launched today a new free WordPress Theme. Irresistible is a personal blog theme with a great unique design, available in 9 different color styles. Download and demo it here.

Crenk Showcased In Top Wordpress Galleries

Steven Finch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:27:17 +0000

In the last couple of days Crenk has been fortunate enough to have been profiled on some of the top Wordpress galleries.

WeLoveWp – Crenk page

CSSbased – Crenk page

Comfy News Theme: Free Magazine Style Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:28:48 +0000

Comfy news theme is a free news / magazine style theme for WordPress. It looks really clean, stunning and professional. Comfy comes with many features, some of them are basic magazine features such as dropdown navigation, feedburner subscription, advertisement spots, featured entries, ajax tabs, widget-ready, gravatars built-in, and more.

Techcrunch Changes Its Theme Again!! Oh Come On

Steven Finch — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:26:33 +0000

Techcrunch has changed their theme yet again. A few months ago the theme was changed for the 3rd time in a year and I thought it was really moving in the right direction. The navigation was clean, there were a lot more options to find the articles you are looking for, and the theme had some colour and character.

Techcrunch today have launched a new theme which keeps the same navigation principles but totally gets rid of all the character and colour on the page.

Let me know what you think!

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Freemium Wordpress Theme

Steven Finch — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:12:04 +0000

Freemium Theme is a free premium theme for wordpress, it was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki and made free by freebiesdock.com.

You can see the demo here.

Some of the features of freemium theme are:

XHTML compliant
flickr RSS support
jQuery menu
2 widget ready sidebars
completely free

Download: freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/

Wordpress.TV: Your Video Resource Directory For Everything Wordpress

Steven Finch — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:00:25 +0000

WordPress.tv is your visual resource for all things WordPress. To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations. WordPress.tv is there waiting for you, you can learn anything related to WordPress by watching the videos there.

Additional to basic Wordpress tutorials they have a section specifically for WordCamp videos in which is Wordpress related sessions in which professions talk about Wordpress and how to use it affectively and efficiently.

Techcrunch Theme Changed Again, This Time It Is Actually User Friendly

Steven Finch — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:39:22 +0000

I have also noticed today that Techcrunch has changed their theme again. It hasn’t really been too long since they last changed their theme, probably about a quarter off the top of my head. Last time the Techcrunch theme was changed they seems to have nothing in their sidebar except advertising (i know Crenk also has a little bit of advertising), however that being said this new theme really addresses the key issues of the older theme.

The site itself is a lot more compact in the header and key change is that the 728×90 advertisement is no longer above the site, but fitting in with the header itself. The key green is not really as predominant, but it makes it easy to distinguish between Techcrunch and the other network sites. In the old theme they just had excepts on the home page, but now they have an additional three slots in which they can feature certain articles. Navigation has really improved within this new theme and now it is a lot easier to find new content. As well as feature articles in the header on the home page they have also added eleven featured articles in the sidebar sitewide. If I didnt have an RSS reader or use it everyday, with the previous theme it would have been impossible to keep up with the new content, however with this new theme it provides me with a better idea on what is happening in the tech space.

This new theme is far from perfect but it is a huge improvement from all the previous themes they had on the site. I would really still like to see a lot more integration between the Techcrunch home page and the other network sites, but im sure that will come within the year.

Brian Gardner’s Revolutiontwo.com is Down and No Longer Free

Steven Finch — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:08:27 +0000

I was on Brian Gardner’s new project RevolutionTwo.com and previous there has been a lot of talk about this project, because he was offering free downloads but with paid support. This afternoon I went onto his new site and noticed that you can no longer download the themes for free and that they are now all paid themes. I find this a bit of a weird mood by Brian, is this because he was simply just not making any money from paid support?

I went back onto the site a couple of minutes ago and noticed that the site is now down due to a database error. Is this because it has been hacked or it Brian updating something? Anyone have any tips?

Does Branding Play a Part In a Site The Size of Crenk?

Steven Finch — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:55:06 +0000

There hasn’t been a post on here for a few days so I thought I would just have a bit of a rant. Here at Crenk the theme of the site has changed several times in the last year. Currently for the last few weeks I have been thinking about re-branding the site and actually changing the theme again. This time I have thought against changing the site. My basic thought process was that a site like Crenk needs to improve to a certain level and then branding has more of an affect, but at the present size it is really more about content and basic usability of the site. I was wondering if this was the thought process of most blog owners or am I in the minority?

Top 6 Dark Firefox 3 Themes You Should Download Now

Steven Finch — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:56:59 +0000

If you are someone who loves a great dark Firefox 3 theme, then here is a amazing list for you. Mozillalinks has put together have put together a list of 6 great Firefox 3 themes you should download right now.

avant.garde.10011:nerom created by Rob Holian. (experimental)

Black Steel by Ben Griscom. (experimental)

Dark Revisited by Matthew Baerbock. (experimental)

Gradient iCool by Edward Mak.

Midnight Fox by TwisterMC.

Ruler Dark by dkgo. (experimental)

Welcome to the new Crenk Theme

Steven Finch — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:47:14 +0000

In the last three months we have had a lot of changes here at Crenk. Our previous theme was personalised and since we now have Ade on the team it was a good time to move from a personal weblog style to a more commercial theme.

I have never thought about Crenk being a pure commercial entity. It has long been my personal weblog and I would never want it to be seen as just a stupid money making blog that is trying to earning as much in revenue as it can per month. Since on the new theme I have placed Adsense, this will not be a permanent fixture, just a stop gap until I can arrange some nice in-house placements.

The colour scheme on Crenk has changed and some bought some much needed branding to the site.

Please bear with us as we make a few changes over the coming days. If you have any suggestions or comments about the new theme, please let us know.

Thanks and hope you like the new theme.

Crenk Team