Free WordPress Theme: Slider

• Author: elynn
• Filed under: Free Wordpress Themes
• Date: Mar 6,2007

I love new WordPress themes – especially free ones. But let’s be honest, here; many of them look exactly alike. A quick three column SEO template on a white background, or maybe for variety two columns on a black background – so I’m in an especially good mood when I get something, well, different.

The free wordpress theme Slider from KarmaDude is exactly that. First, I’m diggin on the color – a rich, lush chocolate brown which I just don’t think you see enough of when it comes to web pages. The ‘sliding action’ as each block is drawn via javascript is nicely done – interesting without falling into the ‘annoying’ trap. Everything looks lovely whether viewed in Firefox or IE and in general it’s the type of theme I’d like to see a lot more of.

My only complaint is a minor one – obviously if I have javascript turned off, there are issues. I can’t browse the blog any longer, or open the menus, or well, anything – which although a minor complaint I think is still valid. After all, there are some folks who surf with javascript off to slow down the flood of popups, so a site like this would be best served if it degraded gracefully when javascript is not present.

All in all, though, this is a minor complaint. If you haven’t already downloaded it for your library, you won’t be disappointed. You can view the demo for slider here, or download it directly here.