This brand new theme is called YGo Lively and it has just been released today. It is an interesting theme as it looks more like a CMS (Content Management System) type of site when activated.

When installed on your blog the home page resembles a main-stream type of website as the posts are presented in 2 columns in the centre section with a sidebar at each side. This theme definitely feels more like a website than a blog.

YGo Lively , unfortunately, is not widget ready which is a slight disadvantage for quick and easy sidebar setup, but the lack of widget support does not take away from the fact it is a nicely structured theme that is still very configurable. The theme makes great use of bright colors and features a fluid-width design that has been tested in Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer up to 1280—1024 resolution and it fits extremely well.

If you are looking for something different for your blog, then this theme may suit you. The left and right columns can be easily adapted to whatever you would like to have in there and overall this theme is definitely worth taking a look at

Download

To download the YGo Lively Theme please visit here. To try it out you can see the demo in action here.

Have fun.

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A new theme called Anaconda has recently been released and it is perhaps the most complete theme design that I have come across in a while.

Anaconda is a flexible, 3 column Wordpress theme which is designed entirely using CSS. The middle column and left sidebar are flexible and adjusts to browser size. The theme is also SEO optimized! It seems my search for a good CSS based, 3 column WordPress theme is finally over!

Plugins Supported

Anaconda has inbuilt support for 15 popular WordPress plugins out of the box. The theme is designed to work perfectly with all these plugins;

Widgets Supported

Anaconda is also 100% widget ready and provides 17 builtin WordPress widgets for you to extensively customize your site without writing or modifying a single line of code! The following widgets are integrated into the Anaconda theme directly, or are available as a separate plugin/widget;

• About Widget (built-in)
• Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (Plugin & Widget)
• Archive Widget (built-in)
• Aside Widget (built-in)
• Calendar Widget (built-in)
• Categories Widget (built-in)
• Delicious Widget (built-in)
• Flickr Widget (built-in)
• Links Widget (built-in)
• Meta Widget (built-in)
• Pages Widget (built-in)
• Recent Comments Widget (built-in)
• Recent Posts Widget (built-in)
• Related Posts Widget (built-in)
• RSS Widget (built-in)
• Search Widget (built-in)
• Tag Cloud Widget (built-in; requires Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin)
• Text Widget (built-in) - You can create upto 9 text widgets to include your custom text in sidebar.
• Google Search Widget (comes with widget plugin)
• Del.icio.us Widget

You can place any of the above onto one of your sidebars by simply dragging and dropping them from your Sidebar Widgets control panel under the Presentation menu.

Configuration

The Anaconda Theme will work, without any configuration, right out of the box. However, it has been designed to be extensively customizable for those who need it. Customizations can be easily done using the Anaconda Options control panel in the Presentation theme menu. The theme has built-in support for inline and sidebar asides. It also supports Ajax commenting, Live search, fixed width layout if required.

Conclusion & Download

This has to be one of the best themes I have seen this year and it is a likely contender to replace the current theme of this blog!

To download the Anaconda, Ultimate 3 Column Wordpress Theme please visit here;

Happy New Year!!!!!!

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Newsportal is a nice, fast-loading 3 Column Wordpress theme designed by Kaushal Sheth which is ideal for a business or news type blog.

The theme has a fully fluid width structure to suit all screen resolutions. The big benefit of this theme, I believe, is that it is really fast-loading. There is no fancy graphic headers or unnecessary code to slow down its performance and would be ideal for text-heavy website, such as a news or article site. It would make a great business blog too.

By default the theme does not use a tagline, but that can be easily changed by editing the theme with the theme editor if required, see below. Another feature is that the Newsportal theme is fully Widget compatible.

Quick Theme Tweaks

As can be seen from the picture above, the page navigation menu bar is centered just below the main site title. I personally do not like the navigation to be centered like this, but it is very easy to change. To have the navigation menu on the left, it is simply a matter of changing one word in the stylesheet (style.css). In the Menu styles, #navlist section simply change the line text-align:center; to text-align:left; (or text-align:right;).

Also, to add a tagline to the theme it is simply a matter of adding the line < h2>< ?php bloginfo('description');?>< /h2> just below the main H1 title tag in the header.php theme file (ignore spaces when adding to theme). An example of the tweaks can be seen below.

To download the theme, visit the Newsportal page here.

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Aquafluid is a great new two-column, widget-ready Wordpress 2.0 theme. What I really like about this theme is that it features a simple, but very eye-pleasing, design that is ideal for adapting to use as your own theme.

Aquafluid features include;

Sidebar can also be placed on the left or right side

Archives Page template and Contact Page template.

Pages created are automatically listed in the top navigation bar and subpages are displayed in the sidebar.

To Download: Aquafluid

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