Archive for the ‘WordPress Theme’ Category
Theme Showcase
John Wragg’s tailored themes based on the Atrtisteer theme generator software:
- Nature Walks Findhorn (for Sean Reed)
- Move to Live (for Jackie Adkins
- Johns Support Blog (this site)
Other generic sample WordPress themes
Blueprint Theme
Description: A simple WordPress theme based on the Blueprint CSS Framework.
Company Website 001
Description: Ideal for a company website. Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS.
DeepBlue
Description: DeepBlue is a free theme by Daily Blog Tips. Tags:blue color, right sidebar, three columns, fixed width
Fixed Blix
Description: Fixed or fluid width. Language localization support. View the Blix Gallery at the demo site. Read Me. Original theme by Sebastian Schmieg. Adapted by dancer.
Hybrid
Description: A user-friendly, search-engine optimized theme framework, featuring 18 custom page templates and multiple widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.
JW_johnsblog
Description: Artisteer-generated theme
JW_movetolive_6
Description: Artisteer-generated theme
JW_NatureWalks
Description: Artisteer-generated theme
SF-Blueprint-WP
Description: A simple WordPress theme based on the Blueprint CSS Framework.
Twenty Eleven
Description: The 2011 theme for WordPress is sophisticated, lightweight, and adaptable. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background — then go further with available theme options for light or dark color scheme, custom link colors, and three layout choices. Twenty Eleven comes equipped with a Showcase page template that transforms your front page into a showcase to show off your best content, widget support galore (sidebar, three footer areas, and a Showcase page widget area), and a custom “Ephemera” widget to display your Aside, Link, Quote, or Status posts. Included are styles for print and for the admin editor, support for featured images (as custom header images on posts and pages and as large images on featured “sticky” posts), and special styles for six different post formats.
Twenty Ten
Description: The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar.
Vigilance
Description: A lean and clean WordPress theme featuring standards and search friendly code. Theme Options Menu allows for serious customization. Designed and coded by Jestro.
WordPress Classic
Description: The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior.
Artisteer Template Generator
I am now using the Artisteer template generator for most sites. You can generate a wide range of graphical looks, and it works equally for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal (if you get the commercial version).
Demo Sites include:
Johns Support Blog (This site).
WordPress Theme Shortlist
There are suppposed to be thousands of WordPress Themes avaialable, but just try and find a suitable one!
My shortlist is:
Artisteer theme generator, also works with Joomla and Drupal
Vigilance – seems OK but would need CSS tweaking
Blix – OK, but see attached Post
Discarded
BluePrint – not updated since 2007
SF BluePrint
Company Website
Cubismo – 2007!
Hybrid
Popular
Salmon – 2007
Deep Blue
Blix WordPress Theme?
The Blix WordPress Theme looks good, but it is not possible to show the Sidebar on Pages such as Home, About, Content…
This might be OK for most Pages, but I would need a sidebar on the static Home Page as an essential part of the navigation.