New WordPress theme has been released today and I am sure you are going to fall in love with it. Polish up your blog with this silky-smooth design. Nick, the designer behind Elegant themes, said that with this  his aim was to create something simple, refined, and well, polished!

All of my recent themes have been page-based, so I thought it was time I release a more traditional blog template. I hope this dark and “interfacey” design will be a welcomed addition the the ElegantThemes collection.

For more information be sure to check out the Live Demo, as well as the Features Page in the gallery.

Perfect for portfolios as well as business websites and personal blogs.

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People are aware of the purpose of a wordpress theme, but what they are not aware of is how to identify a good wordpress theme. This is a prominent problem with majority of the people who require a wordpress theme for their blog. In order to completely achieve the purpose of using a wordpress theme, one has to select the right wordpress theme for one’s blog. In this article, you will know about some essential things that must looked for in a wordpress theme that you are searching to be used in your blog.

Flexibility is the essence of a good wordpress theme. This means that once it is installed on your blog, customizing it should not give you any difficulty. If the theme lacks flexibility in usage then it would make it cumbersome for you to customize the blog by yourself and you would most probably need to hire someone to do job for you. An ideal wordpress theme should also be apt for search engine optimization. To enable people to find their way to your blog, you have to ensure that keywords pertaining your blog are present in the related search results, thus bringing people to your blog for the information that you have provided for others. SEO customized templates of wordpress themes are ideal for one’s blog as these themes are naturally designed in a way that will help you in the optimization of the search results of your blog.

It’s easy to see why WordPress themes are so worthy of one’s attention. With the optimal theme, you can adjust all the nifty little widgets and codes, and also ensure better search engine rankings and loads of fresh traffic daily.

Design Yourself

The web is quite over-saturated with wordpress tutorials, but only a few of them really teach you how to make a GREAT WordPress theme yourself, here are our best picks:

In my opinion, these tutorials will help you to design your own web 2.0 theme that will blow visitors attention away, and be just as good as the ones offered on WooThemes and ThemeForest.

Need your PSD coded? We recommend PSD to WordPress Conversion from $99 only, offered by SramekDesign.com to our readers.

But, before you get overwhelmed with the design process, there are certain factors you need to consider to make the correct choice of WordPress theme? Here are five essential ones:

1. Theme Width and Columns

Generally, WordPress themes are available in 2-column or 3-column formats, with widths in the range of 500 pixels to 960 pixels. In case of non-profit purpose blogs, a 2-column theme can appear more compact and reader-friendly. Since you have fewer images of goods or links to other sites to display, you can throw light exclusively on the content without pushing readers away from your site.

WordPress was first released back in 2003, whole 7 years ago and after tremendous changes and tweaks, one may assume that all the WordPress themes has already been released by now… You are wrong. To my joy, I discover dozens of new wordpress themes every day and it even though I think I had seen it all by now, maybe you haven’t? If you are starting a new blog, you might get overwhelmed by the idea that in order to make a good competition in the design blog sphere — you need a premium wordpress theme (aka “paid”). While is is of course correct and many respected blogs do use a custom made, customly tweaked, customly customized wordpress theme — a lot of beginners and even more advanced users are happy with the FREE WordPress themes they simply adjusted for their needs.

If you need an inbuilt gallery, featured posts section, admin panel, magazine style for tutorials and easy ads management, these WordPress themes could be the right ones for you. My point is — you can make your blog layout look premium, without premium damage to your wallet.

After a log pause with making wordpress themes, I am finally happy to announce the Piggie Bank theme. This layout is designed for money-making blogs as I am sure there are hundreds of them out there. recently, when i started a website dedicated to credit cards and finances, i ended up looking for a good wordpress theme, eventually I didn’t find anything financial oriented and decided to create my own. And if I already make a theme for myself and not for a client, why not to share it with my beloved readers and wordpress-fans? Enjoy the theme and feel free to use it for any project but please, do keep the credits to this website if you use it for you rpersonal blog.

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License: General Public License. (GPL)

Support: Unfortunately, I am unable to offer support on regular basis, so next week I will open a thread for this theme in teh support forum, where you will be able to ask any questions and hopefully I or one of the mods will be able to solve it for you asap.

Very elegant wordpress theme released under the GPL. A lot of oriental elements yet this theme can perfectly suit any personal blog regardless its topic. 2 columns, wide content area, widgets ready, xhtml valid and as always — free to grab.

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This is a light and warn web 2.0 theme  with vector illustration and big search window as well as big RSS button which you can download on toptut.com free. The theme has 2 columns, fixed width and widgets ready. Springus theme can suit any blog, from business to personal.

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Recently  I have been oversaturating the market with my WordPress theme, but I really have inspiration! So here is my latest Photoshop masterpiece — Modern Magic.  It looks impressive, but it consist from nothing but default Photoshop brushes scattered across the canvas with various layer styles. I was actually amazed myself at home good this doodle turned out.

So… This is a 2 column layout with fixed width, very exclusive dark blue colours palette. The theme is widgetized and competible with all browsers. XHTML and CSS valid. Enjoy!

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