Archive for February, 2009

Cushy

Another wonderful theme, which has been brought about by the designers at WooThemes, is Cushy. This attractive theme is also flexible one and currently leaving an impression on everyone for its stylish business layout.

I feel that Cushy is perfectly suited for showcasing the services and products of any individual or a company, who wish to publicize their business amongst the global audience. The theme has been provided with custom and widgetized homepage for marketing your products in a manner, which you prefer the most. Again, breadcrumb navigation has been included that will help in increasing the usability of your domain. All that with a mix of JQuerry Tabber, trendy drop-down bar and 5 incredible color schemes will definitely suit your brand identity.

Theme Features

• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
• Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide.
• Integration of breadcrumb navigation to increase the usability of your website
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page
• Completely widgetized sidebar, along with a few theme specific widgets
• Drop-down menu’s for the main navigation
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
• Custom, widgetized homepage to market your products and services in any way that you want
• jQuery tabber on the homepage to display your products / services effectively
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• 5 incredible colour schemes (blue, black, green, purple, pink)
• Threaded Comments for WP 2.7

Incorporated with nifty jQuery features and other exceptional features, WooThemes’ Cushy is a must-have for every serious business owner.

(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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Video Elements

I feel that Video Elements has been designed keeping in mind video bloggers. This impressive theme from Press 75 features both gallery-style and traditional layout options. Again, you will get fully customizable & widgetized sidebar and an ‘Instant View’ to view a video on the fly. Video Elements involves 2 ways for displaying videos, which include a traditional linear layout along with a gallery layout (it is optional). Video Elements supports almost all type of video file types including Flickr Video, MySpace Video, Google Video, Revver, YouTube, Vimeo and Flash Video (FLV).

I was impressed with the 2 layout types for displaying videos in Video Elements: Traditional linear layout & Gallery Layout (optional). You have the option of choosing any one or both for your domain. Other excellent features of the theme includes four unique sidebars, (configured separately utilizing standard WP widget interface) and ‘Star Ratings’ (a plug-in for rating your blog post).

Theme Features

• Video Elements
• A Video Gallery Style WordPress Theme
• Two Different Layout Styles
• 4 unique sidebars
• Posting Video is Simple

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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TV Elements

After running the demo versions of several video-centric themes, I finally found one perfect for my domain, Press 75’s TV Elements. TV Elements brings a completely new element for the way visitors can browse and interact with videos on your website. I liked the fact that the theme was built specifically for services requiring higher resolutions, which include Blip TV and Vimeo.

Navigation is an impressive feature for TV Elements. It aids in displaying the latest videos on your domain in carousel, which eliminates the loading of pages between each set. Again, posting of video using TV Elements Theme is as easy as copy pasting embedded codes to custom fields within your WP admin.

Theme Features

• 4 unique sidebars
• Social links for each video are automatically populated and made available by clicking the “share” button beside each video.
• An embed code field is automatically populated which allows your users to copy and embed videos on their sites by click the “embed” button beside each video.
• Separating the Blog From the Video
• Posting Video is Simple

The theme has integrated video and standard blogging in a single package, which makes it unique. What you need to do is choose from the available color styles (light & dark color schemes) for your blog and you’re ready to go.

(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5)

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ColdStone

I consider Elegant Theme’s ColdStone to be one of the most attractive premium themes available on the web today for your domain. ColdStone Theme is a 2-column layout, widget-ready sidebars & feature-packed WP Theme.

The theme offers a distinct mix of professional and grungy elements. What impressed me the most about this theme was that there were three unique homepage formats available for the users: Blog Style, Magazine Style and Business Style. The theme also provides a robust menu for options, which make it simple and fast for managing ColdStone.

Apart from these features, you also receive theme option pages, custom thumbnail pages, smooth tables design, threaded commenting options and ready for advertisements (both texts and images).

Theme Features

• Threaded Comments
• Featured Articles
• Gravatar ready
• Opera, IE7 + IE6, Netscape, Safari & Firefox compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Wordpress 2.7 compatible
• Three Unique Post Formats
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS

Blog owners will love the fact that it is compatible to almost all the browsers, which include Firefox, IE, opera and Safari (and their latest versions released on the web).

(3 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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ProudFolio

ProudFolio was one of the most awaited releases from the designers of WooThemes. The designing of this Premium WP Theme has been aimed towards aspiring photographers, artists, developers and designers, who would like to opt for a framework theme. I believe that this theme incorporates the positive aspects of both an attractive portfolio theme and blog rich in features. What really got me excited about theme was that I had the power of managing everything from a single location.

Features of the ProudFolio Theme, which have made it a standout amongst themes of similar nature, include unique homepage layout (publishing only the important information of the blog) and unique page templates (for portfolio, tags and archives).

Theme Features

• The template will automatically (visually) separate your blog & portfolio content, making this an amazing theme for aspiring designers, developers, artists, photographers etc.
• An unique homepage layout, which publishes only the most important information
• Unique page templates for the portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags & search results
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Authors & Comments
• Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide
• Pretty dropdown navigation everywhere
• Widgetized Sidebars

It’s template also allows you to separate the content of your portfolio and blog, which makes it an amazing theme for aspiring designers.

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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Tribune

NattyWP’s Tribune is an answer to all those blog owners, who were looking for a fully transparent WP Premium Theme for their WP Blogs. Now, you have the options of easily changing the background image of the domain. Tribune offers you with an opportunity of creating as many looks and variations, as you have the wish for.

I really appreciate the sleek & simply portal layout of the theme. This layout of Tribune is combined with independently configurable and stylish glassy transparent elements, which can provide innumerable possibilities for the images on your website.

Powerful and beautifully designed transparent theme along with advanced features, new functions and affordable rate ($45 for single user and $150 for developers pack) makes this theme really special.

Theme Features

• Template with a fully transparent body, which allows to get a unique design just changing the Background image.
• A completely widgetized sidebar with special widgets, developed by NattyWP
• 10 different styles to choose from
• Built in Theme Options panel, available through Wordpress Admin, for the detailed set up of your theme.
• Image Resizer, authomatically creating thumbnails for blog posts.
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments, threaded comments
• Comfortable and simple managing of banners and Adsense in the blog using widgets.

Thus, Tribune is a stand out, when it comes to themes having a unique feature that can impress any blog owner.

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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Forward Thinking

For people, who wish to have a combination of a magazine and portfolio theme, new Forward Thinking from Woo Themes is perfect for you. I believe that Forward Thinking combines the chief qualities of both these theme types and is supplemented with a number of impressive blog features, which adds up to create an impressive premium WP theme.

Foreword Thinking has an excellent 3-column layout design with a ‘table of content’ homepage, which is similar to the ones used in magazine. The theme is bundled with a customizable featured post section, moveable sidebar and 10-theme styles. Again, it also has the ability of setting alternating colors for specific areas of its design.

Theme Features

• A custom home page with a “table of content” designed blog section, featured posts and two available page modules that can be set in the theme options
• Randomizing colour styling for featured posts and date blocks with colours editable in the theme options
• A completely widgetized sidebar with 7 custom widgets that you can use
• Ability to interchange between a left and right sidebar
• 10 different styles to choose from
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme, logo insertion, etc. for the theme
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide.

With Integrated Banner Management Script for randomized ads of your choice and automatic image resizing features, $70 for Woo Theme’s Forward Thinking is worth making an investment on.

(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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Simplix

Are you looking for a theme that focuses primarily on the owner of the blog, i.e. ‘You’? Simplix, a premium WP theme that has been launched by NattyWP, is a super-personal theme, which will completely suffice your wishes. Being one of the fans of life-stream blogging themes, Simplix is perfect for your personalized blog. I believe that the theme allows you to supplement your blog with social resources and make it alive and attractive.

There are several features that made me fall for Simplix. One of them was the colors for the theme, which I could choose from. Based on the subject of the blog (personal in this case), I think anyone from red, green, blue and purple will impress the visitors. Again, NattyWP Ajax news and categories module will surely have an impact on you, the way they had on me. At $45 (Singles Pack) & $150 (Developers Pack), NattyWP’s Simplix has the features that are worth every single bit of your investment.

Theme Features

• NattyWP AJAX news module.
• NattyWP AJAX categories modules
• Lifestream module, supporting the synchronisation of the block with Twitter
• A completely widgetized sidebar with special widgets, developed by NattyWP
• 4 different styles to choose from
• Built in Theme Options panel, available through Wordpress Admin, for the detailed set up of your theme.
• Image Resizer, authomatically creating thumbnails for blog posts.
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments, threaded comments
• Comfortable and simple managing of banners and Adsense in the blog using widgets.

(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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WooTube

Do you wish to get your hands on a premium WP theme for your blog, which is also a Video Player? If you are, then get prepared for a new entry in the galore of themes available for you, WooTube. With WooTube, Woo Themes is competing in the area of video player-based theme. What I like about this theme is its easy functionality for creating video posts. Again, the videos can get automatically resized and saved me from doing extra work. WooTube even publishes the embedded code to the readers of your blog.

Apart from these features, WooTube is available in 7 exciting colors to choose from. You have Integrated Theme Options for tweaking the layout and color scheme for the theme.

Theme Features

• Super-easy functionality to create video posts
• Videos are resized automatically and WooTube even publishes the embed code for your readers
• Integration of the WP-PostRatings plugin for some added fun & interactiveness
• A completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required
• 7 amazing colour schemes to choose from!
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
• Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• 3 Integrated ad spaces, which can accomodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds

With an inbuilt Gravatar Comment Support and 3 integrated ad spaces (for both images and text ads), WooTube is available at only $70 (Single User’s package) and $150 (Developer’s Pack). Thus, it is an affordable buy.

(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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Arthemia

Arthemia Premium is another magazine-style theme from Colorlabs Projects. It is a simple-yet-powerful CMS and has an auto thumbnail generator. Experts believe that this is an elegant mix of a magazine and a blog. With several inbuilt features, Arthemia Premium has the ability to convert old-fashioned Wordpress blogs into a powerful and amazing front-end.

The feature that I love most in Arthemia Premium is its category bar in the middle. This can easily help my readers in properly exploring my blog. I don’t think such a design is available anywhere on the web. There is no doubt that the theme has been well laid and comes with web 2.0 features. If you go by me, Arthemia Premium is worth investing on! I find its price to be perfect for a premium WordPress theme. At $70, you are getting a well thought off professional theme.

For online magazines or corporate websites, Arthemia Premium is a perfect match.

Theme Features:

• Auto-thumbnail your old posts
• A blog and a magazine, blended
• Popular Post Listing
• Banner & Adsense Management
• Sidebar and Footer Widget
• After-sales support and upgrade
• Popular post listing
• Analytics and Feedburner

(4 votes, average: 3 out of 5)

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