Safari now available on Windows
Safari now available on Windows
Hi, this is just a short post to let you know that Safari is now available on windows. It’s was unveiled at the World Wide Developer Conference 2007 by Steve jobs himself. I can’t stress enough how important this is for all Safari users. Most developers still use Windows when developing web sites (it’s changing, […]
Min-width and Max-width template
Some problems seem to appear again and again, and one of them is page width. How wide should a site be? Should you adapt to 800px resolution? 1024px? Fully fluid with percentages? Perhaps elastic using em-units? There are lots to choose from. What I’ve found is that there’s one solution that almost always works. You […]
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.
In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.
Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog.
You might also want to take a look at our previous selections:
- 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes
An overview of beautiful, but rather unknown themes you might have missed. - 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Themes
A quite pretty selection of elegant yet well thought-out themes. - 10 Fresh and Clean Themes
The beauty of these themes lies in their clean look supported by a legible content presentation.
You want them — you get them. This page may take a while to load; therefore please be patient and don’t hit “Reload” too often.
High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.
In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.
Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog.
You might also want to take a look at our previous selections:
- 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes
An overview of beautiful, but rather unknown themes you might have missed. - 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Themes
A quite pretty selection of elegant yet well thought-out themes. - 10 Fresh and Clean Themes
The beauty of these themes lies in their clean look supported by a legible content presentation.
You want them — you get them. This page may take a while to load; therefore please be patient and don’t hit “Reload” too often.
1. Vibrant WordPress Themes
PFO Stripes [ Demo ]
PFO Business [ Demo ]
FFF Lemon Twist (Demo and Download)
DM-Bloodless [ Demo]
jsTheme
Comes with a number of themes.
Smashing Theme [ Demo ]
Gossip City [ Demo ]
Midsight Red & Brown[ Demo ]
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Curved WordPress Theme [ Demo ]
Accord WordPress Theme [ Demo ]
2. Simple, Minimalistic Themes
Documentation [ Demo ]
Dayvan Theme [ Demo ]
Tree Theme [Demo ]
DePo Clean WordPress Theme [ Demo ]
Brilliance [ Demo ]
3. Magazine Style WordPress Themes
WP Premium [ Demo ]
Structure Wordpress Theme [ Demo ]
Visionary Wordpress Theme [ Demo ]
WP Polaroid [ Demo ]
Jello Wala Mello Wordpress Theme
4. Grid-Based WordPress Themes
Gridline Lite [ Demo ]
5. Calm, Clean and Legible Themes
Abstractia [ Demo ]
HemingwayEx [ Demo ]
6. Advanced WordPress Themes
Neoclassical
A 3-column template system with rotating header images.
7. Experimental Themes
Bonsai, Red Growth Live
Big typography dominates.
Trevilian Way [ Demo ]
BrainTied 1.0 [ Demo ]
The front page displays only the list of recent posts.
Tropical Grunge [ Demo ]
Isolated Theme [ Demo ]
Fontella
The front page features only the main/recent post of the weblog.
Retro Mac OS X [ Demo ]
8. Photoblog & Videoblog Themes
Tumblelog For WordPress [ Demo ]
9. Sources and Further Resources
- WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck
- BlogPerfume WordPress Themes
- 48 SEO WordPress Themes
- Skinpress.com
- WPDesigner.com
- Clazh.com
- Best WordPress Magazine Themes
- ScribbleScratch.com
- Photoblog Themes
Quick Accessibility Testing
A recent project of mine required me to do a quick review of the accessibility level of a site. Nothing serious, just to show what was possible to test and where the site scored right now. I managed to assemble a small list of tools that I believe did a rather good job. This article […]
Don’t attach HTML-files in Outlook
Just a short word of warning. I thought I’d mail the min-/max-width template to a colleague at work. So I fired up Outlook, attached the file and sent it. I thought that was it, Outlook couldn’t get something simple like that wrong, could it? Yes it could! Opening the file I found some pretty nasty […]
Howdy Stranger
It seems as though the word Howdy, is not liked by many people in many places. I’ve been monitoring an ongoing discussion taking place in the WordPress hackers mailing-list about the subject of the word Howdy being used in all instances of WordPress, despite the locality of the end user. The discussions have ranged from […]
It seems as though the word Howdy, is not liked by many people in many places. I’ve been monitoring an ongoing discussion taking place in the WordPress hackers mailing-list about the subject of the word Howdy being used in all instances of WordPress, despite the locality of the end user. The discussions have ranged from “Not everyone greets each other by saying Howdy” to “Whats the big deal about the word Howdy anyways, it’s not like it breaks WordPress”. The good news is, because WordPress is open source, there is generally someone out there who has the skill and know how to put together a solution for even the most mundane problems.
This brings me to the “No Howdy Plugin” created by Ozh. No Howdy provides you with the opportunity to change the text in that area of the WordPress administration panel, or you can completely remove the text from appearing in the first place.
To use this plugin, copy the text from the link above and paste it into Notepad or your favorite code editor such as Dreamweaver. Save the file as no_howdy_plugin.php and then upload the file to your plugins directory. Activate the plugin from within your administration panel and you’re all set. In order to customize the plugin, edit the plugin file by changing the word (Bonjour) to the text that you would like to have displayed.
Addendum from Ozh: the word “howdy” is localized, so for instance in the fr_FR translation it becomes “Bienvenue”.