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tipzthemeDesignDisease have just released another great wordpress theme for you to use. It’s called Tipz Theme and has a lot of nice features in it. One great feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use your default blog name or you can use your own logo. To use your own you can upload your logo in the root folder of Tipz theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template to create one.

The theme has rounded corners, which give it a simple Web 2.0 feel and it is fully widgetized. The front page has an easy to use “featured post” section so you can easily put on display your best posts. You can even put in a picture and a post excerpt to accompany the headline by editing the feature-image custom field and setting the category to “Featured”.

To download the TipzTheme visit the Tipz Theme page on the DesignDisease.com website.

ygo-lively.jpgThis 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. :)

newfangled.jpgNewfangled is a new and sleek-looking WordPress Theme by headsetoptions.org which features a 3 column layout with nice rounded corners on each of the sidebars. It’s a very Web 2.0 looking theme which seems to be an ever-increasing trend with a lot of newer WordPress themes.

The Newfangled theme is also widget ready which is great for easy configurartion of the left and right sidebar of your blog layout. This theme could make for a nice, all-purpose theme for use with your own blogs or even as a business type site because it features a professional Web 2.0 look and feel. Overall, this is a clean and sleek-looking theme that’s well worth having a look at.

To download the Newfangled Theme please visit; Download. You can also test run the theme here. Have fun!

brightsidetheme.jpgBright Side is a brand new 3 Column, widget ready WordPress theme with a very nice header image.

The theme features a left and right sidebar and has a large white content area with a blue background. The theme has been created by Headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing.com.

Also, I really like the page navigation on the upper right of this theme and the way the search box has been hard coded into the header. Very nice!

Overall, Bright Side is a very neat and clean-looking WordPress theme that can easily be adapted to suit your own blog, or even just using the theme as it is.

To download this and more themes by Mandarin Musing please visit here.

Green Flower ThemeWPThemes.info has released a lovely new WordPress theme called GreenFlower. The creator Sadish has done it again by producing an excellent theme with many cool features built into it.

Some of the built-in features include a Theme Options page and several Page Templates which are great for setting up quick pages to your blog. As always with Sadish’s themes it is Sidebar Widget ready for easy customization of the sidebar.

Here is a complete list of features included in the GreenFlower theme;

  • Support for Asides
  • Sidebar Widget Ready
  • Theme Options Page
  • Archives Page Template
  • Contact Page Template
  • Automatic Page Navigation
  • Sub Pages
  • Author Page
  • 404 Not Found Page
  • Category Page
  • Date-wise Archives Page
  • Search Page

For more infomation and to download this great theme visit the GreenFlower page at WPThemes.info.

Transparentia WordPress ThemeTransparentia is a new 2 column, widget friendly wordpress theme by Kaushal Sheth. It is a light and simple theme which is similar to the default Kubrick theme that is usally installed in WordPress by default.

J David Macor said recently on his blog, ‘you can’t design a bad website with the color blue’. OK, that might not be all true, but it is food for thought when designing a blog theme.

I like this theme, the fonts used are smaller than usual but they are easily readable. It is nicely coded and if you are used to tweaking a themes code, you will like this theme. It does look similar to the default WordPress theme, Kubrick, however the sidebar and overall look and feel of Transparentia takes it a step beyond Kubrick, I believe. It’s also widget-ready, which is great.

Online Demo: here

To Download this theme visit: here

AquaFluid ThemeAquafluid 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

Fleur ScreenshotFleur is a 2 column WordPress theme which supports sidebar widgets. It makes use of subtle colors and has a clean layout structure. The theme is made by Kaushal Sheth and the XHTML layout was developed by Denise.

I really like this theme. It has got a Zen feeling about it. The header graphic looks great and the header dimensions of 760 x 100 pixels is ideal and really suits the overall theme.

The colors are well done also, with pastel shades and nice fonts used. This theme is widget ready and doesn’t require any other plugins to get to work straight away. Overall this is a beautiful theme and quite worthy to be used on any type of blog or website.

Download: Fleur WordPress Theme
Current Version: 1.0

Theme Author: Kaushal Sheth
Required plugins: None
Widgets Supported: Yes

Monetizing the Web 1.1 ThemeMW 1.1 is a wordpress theme from Monetizing the Web. This theme has a clean feel and has many inbuilt features. The most useful feature is the easy ad management. The theme allows you to easily insert your own Ad units in the header (728×90), after the first two article blocks, at the bottom (468×60). These ad units are handled seperately in four ad.php files for easy editing.

The MW 1.1 theme has many inbuilt features:

  • Option to choose between 17 color schemes:Color Schemes
  • Show full text or summary in front page, archives and search.
  • Option to show the summary at the top of single posts.
  • Clean, simple and classic look.
  • 2-column, fixed width, centered layout with left sidebar.
  • Favicon preinstalled
  • Features modules: last articles, related articles
  • Subscription options (Bloglines, Feedster, Google Reader).
  • Digg, Del.icio.us and Furl links after articles.
  • Comments: automatically highlights trackbacks and author comments.
  • Integrated gravatars.

Download: MW 1.1

Current Version: 1.1

Theme Author: Javier Garci­a

Required plugins: None

Widgets Supported: No