Do you want to build a blog about fashion or style? Then you might want to take a peek at the new theme “Beauty” by Quality Wordpress Themes. This three column layout in slate gray, black and green is definitely nice looking. A prominently featured RSS feed button to help you encourage subscriptions makes this widget enabled theme practical, too.
About the only thing I wasn’t entirely happy with was the plethora of links at the bottom. One or two is never an issue but four, in an encrypted file? It makes me wonder what else they’re hiding in there. I understand the frustration of some theme designers with people removing the links from these free Wordpress templates but I simply don’t feel comfortable downloading and installing a theme that I can’t at least look through to ensure there are no hidden javascript calls or other security issues - especially with the number of recent security problems I’ve seen. Overall, unless you’re absolutely in love with this theme, In my opinion I would give it a pass.
Today I got my first look at this clean, inviting theme by Themelab. Although at first glance it might remind you of the Blogger back end, on closer review it’s much nicer.
For one thing it’s nice to see a serif font instead of the “verdana/arial” brainwashing that so often takes place. I like having the navigation on the left (what can I say, I’m old school) and there is room for two 125×125 ads in the sidebar. Great for all us “social networking” types who are using entrecard or MyBlogLog, or simply want a convenient place to monetize our blogs. Widget-ready as most themes are these days, you can easily adapt it to almost any use.
Clean and quick loading, with an appealing neutral palette, this free Wordpress template is worth adding to your theme collection! Click here to visit Themelab for their Nature Blog template
Remember those kitschy “Under construction”animated gifs we all loved? Little hardhat wearing stick guys with orange construction cones, blinking and digging to let you know that the webmaster was aware of his site’s shortcomings and it was all ok because it was “Under Construction”… ah, those were the days. Well now, you can recapture some of that magic in the new free Wordpress theme “OrangeCones” by Themey. A nice two-column theme with black background, gray content blocks and of course some big orange cones (how could it not have cones with a great name like that?)
It’s funny - I had to “recreate” this post from memory after the Great Database Crash of 2007, and I’m surprised at how much I STILL like this theme! I’ve downloaded it myself, and it may even make an appearance on this blog in the near future, considering the circumstances.
Want a copy for yourself? Preview it here, or Download this Free Wordpress Theme direct from Themey!
