Draco

Draco is a light-weight minimalist theme designed specifically for showcasing a product or application. Draco is clean and simple, it is mainly decorated by shades of light blue and purple, giving a prestigious and luxurious feeling.

The most prominent feature of Draco is the immersive homepage which features an AJAX tabbed structure for users to showcase their products in an elegant way. On the other hand, Draco is still basically a normal WordPress theme, so it has all the basic features of a blog (pages, posts, commenting system, etc.) minus the bells and whistles found in more advanced themes.

Theme Features:

• AJAX tabbed structure for showcase of featured product
• Widget friendly
• Compatible with latest version WordPress as well as old versions
• Support documents provided for users to install, use and modify the theme

What do I think about this theme?

Being a minimalist theme, I don’t have much complaints with regard to its basic functions. However, I dare to say that many users would find this theme lacking of some advanced features and the design seemed to be hacked out a mill in a few-hour time apart from the AJAX tabbed structure which is elegant and attractive.

Another reason why I would not use this theme for my own site is because of its lack of focus on the blog posts. A large part of attention is drawn towards the product featured in the AJAX tabbed structure, allowing much of the blog posts, pages and categories to be ignored.

There may be people who find this theme useful, especially if they are trying hard to push a good product, I just hope the featured structure convert better than words in blog posts and pages. The single license price of $80 is a little high for a minimalist theme but I suppose the higher cost is justified by the developer allowing single license users to remove credit links from the theme footer.

(4 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)

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Andromeda

Andromeda is a premium Wordpress theme by Theme Galaxy. The theme is based on classical blog-styled templates and it has outstanding aesthetics and powerful capabilities to cater to professional bloggers’ needs.

Theme Features:

• Featured article directly below header
• Widget ready
• Multi level navigation for categories
• Twitter and Flickr feeds support
• Custom social networking bookmark buttons
• Fully compliant xhtml and css
• Support documents and forum available
• Custom modifications available upon request

What I think about this theme?

There is no doubt that Andromeda is geared towards readability of your blog content, this point is even highlighted by Theme Galaxy. The frontpage of the theme includes a featured article directly below the header with similar articles listed as well. I suppose not every bloggers would need such intense focus on any one of their blog posts but some bloggers with extremely critical and updated information may find this feature useful and necessary. To my relief, when I click on an individual post, the featured post section immediately disappears and what we get is a clean and professional looking layout.

What I like about this theme are its neat and prominent comment section and sidebars. All the icons and font are large and easy on the eye, bloggers who use this theme do not have to worry about abusing their readers’ eyes. Flickr and Twitter feeds integration allows bloggers to have a closer interactiion with their fans.

Conclusion

Andromeda is a good and neat premium theme but some bloggers may find it a little too simple looking and lack more powerful features such as tabbed navigation table, drop-down menus, etc. However, one of its main advantage is good readability, a feature which is surprisingly neglected in many new themes! Recommended for bloggers who want a simple, organised and self-sufficient platform to disseminate vital information. Most basic features of a modern blog are already offered in this theme, however, one can always turn to the support document, forum for simple customization or even request more advanced modifications from the developer.

(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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