Wordpress Theme Me!
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Posted on August 1, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized
Some of my favorite unique themes…
A real gem, but not for everybody or every project, that’s for sure. One of the most experimental and unique designed free Wordpress themes I have come across, this theme opens up like a graphic design convention’s lunch menu. Beautiful work, and here’s hoping it inspires more experimentation in this and many other directions.
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Another one I know there’s a person just waiting for - this is a really bold design with a black half for navigation, and a white half for content. Or you might swap them around with a bit of swapping of numbers in the style sheet. I can see a band information or any other slightly edgy project taking to it like a duck to water…
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I can’ think of a situation where you’d want to make a site that looks like Facebook, but it’s nice to think you could if you needed to. Here’s a pretty good Facebook clone, if you find yourself ever down that particular road!
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Ok, not your usual theme. You might have your own idea what it’s useful for. For my money, I find the rounded curves, flip out sidebar, and groovy logo-like text area great for making video featuring sites. There’s something about the interface which is great for saying “watch me”! The grey background is quite lovely, but I think it works better with a plain background you can set up just by changing the numbers in the stylesheet.css (and renaming the background file that comes with it). Let us know if you use this theme for any of your sites
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I haven’t found a use for this theme yet - but I know there’s one waiting. It’d be a nice one to modify and to try out different colors with. The nice theme with this one is as you hover over each different text area, the whole square lights up - making for a unique, flash like theme.
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Some of our “unique” themes might look pretty normal at first sight, even plain. But it’s little features that can make all the difference in creating a unique looking site. In this case it’s the groovy side navigation, with little stripes that light up as you change each page. Add that to a theme which is easy to strip down and replace with your own artwork, and you have a handy additionto your arsenal.
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A stripped down Wordpress theme with a unique, typography focused theme that wins my eternal admiration for experimentation and creativity. One of the best designed themes out there, it has a completely unique navigation that I enjoy (although sometimes I forward my domains so that viewers land on a single post page, rather than the home page, to save time).
If you have a project that you want the look of stripped, but with a more conventional sidebar, WordpressTheme.me has made a hack that gives you this option. Basically, download a very Stripped-like theme (Estranged), and then add in our Stripped-like fonts, colors and sizes. You can get the hack here.
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Ok, the screenshot and dramatic design isn’t for my type of projects, it might be for yours. But this is a great and rare example of a transparent wordpress theme, and I’ve ended up using this for the bare bones for many of my sites.
If you replace the background image for any image of your choice, and strip away every other image in the download folder, you’ll have a great, transparent theme, useful for almost any project. What you’ll have is your image, with floating text all over the top of it. Change the fonts, colors and remove the borders for best results.
If anyone wants any more information, let me know, and I’ll post some examples and a tutorial for you. But do try it out for yourself, it makes for a great, professional looking theme!
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One of the most interesting and unique themes out there, this theme wouldn’t download last time I tried it. But it has great potential for a very unique site, and hopefully the file will be repaired by the author soon.
The theme has some very unique visual thumbnails on the front page, and then opens into a very visual-dominated, delux opening spread. Personally I would remove some of the extra elements on the front page, but you may have uses for them. Tell us how you go.
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If you still can’t find something unique - why not make your own, with this theme generator online wizard. Type in the variables you want (one sidebar, two sidebars, etc.), fonts, colors and images, and the Wordpress Theme Generator will convert it all into a downloadable, zipped file you can use like any other free theme. Let us know of your experiences trying this software.
Try the Wordpress Theme Generator here.
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This section is currently being added to, heaps more coming right away..!
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November 10th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Downloaded Plain Box Theme and got bamboozled by the numerous .css files! Definitely not for beginners!