Wordpress Theme Me!
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Posted on August 23, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized
Most people won’t believe they are freebies, and look better than many professionally designed static sites. Check them out!
By the way, like everything else this is shipping out to - Pagetopia.com and will now be added to there.
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Monochrome Gallery is one of my favorite Wordpress magazines at the moment, and I’ve created a couple of sites for friends using it. It has a neat design that features five stories with pictures down the bottom, and a main slideshow that scrolls through recent posts. There are also great sidebars for bits and pieces, asides, and ads if you prefer. A good example of a theme using it is here (most notably with the addition of a header picture).
Before you download it though, keep in mind that the various bells and whistles can be tricky to set up, and the designer’s instructions left me with a few questions. For that reason, I’ve made my own tutorial for setting up Monochrome Gallery, that hopefully should get you set up and on your way as fast as possible.
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Take out the navigation bar, add in a big image header, and you have one fast internet magazine.
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A lot like Modern Paper highlighted earlier, this has a nice variation where small sections of text are highlighted in the middle column - a nice option you might want to have for your project.
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A truly gorgeous theme, with a great drop down menu and colors. This elegant theme can also be chopped and changed by removing elements. Just leave the front page sections you’d like in the theme editor.
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Another great theme for showing a whole bunch of information on the start page for your readers to browse in further detail. If anyone knows of an example of this theme with a logo in the top section, let me know. Other great modifications for this theme just come from a simple font and color change - for instance, the theme looks great with just a simple white background instead of yellow.
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A lovely, professional looking theme that can be happily “tweaked”, or used as-is. I even like using the logo supplied, and have made a favicon to go with it which I’ll post if anyone is interested. Check it out.
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Perhaps the most stylish magazine - dare we say overly so? Mimbo is a classic of the genre, and with good reason. A little tricky to set up, but worth the effort.
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I have a love hate relationship with The Morning After. On the one hand, it is one of the most desirable “open” page magazine themes out there, made in response to a survey of all the ingredients people wanted in a free wordpress theme. It has all sorts of great features, like a easy-to-print function for posts, asides, and featured articles. On the other hand, adding images to the front page is more annoying than with any other theme I’ve used. So many times I’ve started a project with The Morning After, and then swapped a little later. Perhaps I’m looking at it wrong, and you’ll solve this puzzle. Let us know. The prizes are pretty darn big. Check out the preview to see what it can do.
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The elegant grandfather of the magazine set, this Wordpress skin makes a blog look a million bucks. I’d love to see a funked-up version of Branford - it looks like it could loosen up a bit and be a completely different theme. If anyone has any creative examples, let us know.
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This site is but a baby - a few weeks old. Stay tuned, because we have over 60 very selectively chosen magazines, ready to be uploaded!
Suggestions? Comments?
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August 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 am
[...] Another great output from the very same studio, this one could be used as a blank template, or as the basis for a magazine. See this site for a great use of the theme for that purpose. We have a separate section with other minimal magazine styles here. [...]
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