Showcase Saturday: TL Tweets

Published on Sep 4, 2010   //  Showcase Saturday

Twitter is a fantastic tool for individuals and businesses alike. It’s a great way to stay in contact with people all around the world, follow current trends, and even promote your products and services in moderation. However, many of those tweets can easily get lost in the mix.

To help recover some of the “free content” that you’re putting out there, you may want to consider the TL Tweets free WordPress theme. Yes, you could just go to your Twitter profile page to view your most current tweets, but what about your older ones? Clicking through each reverse chronological page can take ages!

This theme effectively produces a searchable tweet archive that you can host on your own servers (like through your BlueFur web hosting plan), making it much easier to refer to something you may have tweeted a day, a week, or even a year ago! Better still, because it’s WordPress, the theme is very easy to use and fully searchable (and SEO friendly to boot).

For more information, including instructions on how to use this theme properly, check out the developer’s page at ThemeLab.com.

Showcase Saturday: StoneHenge

Published on Aug 28, 2010   //  Showcase Saturday

New a new WordPress theme for your blog? One of the newer templates to hit the Internet recently is StoneHenge. Developed by the team at Themio, this theme features two main columns and it is completely widget-enabled for your customization purposes.

Above the fold, you’ll find an area to have a featured article or a featured image and this section comes with a jQuery-based image slider. It is also fully configurable and provides a great place to highlight some of your best content. The custom homepage comes with featured posts, ad areas, and featured links.

Other features found in this theme include links to your “lifestream sites” like Twitter and support for the WordPress 3.0 menu system, as well as a tabified sidebar with the latest, commented, and popular posts. It is compatible with all major browsers.

Find more information at Themio.net. It is also there that you can find the live demo and the free full download link.

Showcase Saturday: Glossy Stylo

Published on Aug 21, 2010   //  Showcase Saturday

Do you like that “out of focus” look when it comes to certain artistic photos? The depth of field that can add huge sparks of personality to an otherwise nondescript picture? If so, then you may really like the overall appearance of Glossy Stylo.

This free WordPress theme offers a colorful “out of focus” background as the image behind the content, but the main content area has some really interesting transparency effects. This way, you can still see some of that background image without impeding on the ability to read the core blog posts and other content.

The Glossy Stylo theme has two columns with the single sidebar aligned to the right of the main content column. The widget-friendly sidebar can easily be populated with a number of lists and features, as you see fit. Each blog post is also shown as a single “block” in the content column for added personality.

Find Glossy Stylo in the Free Themes Directory on WordPress.org. That is also where you will find the free download link and a single screenshot.

Showcase Saturday: proClouds

Published on Aug 14, 2010   //  Showcase Saturday

Want to live up on cloud nine with your WordPress blog? Want to make it up there without spending any money on a premium theme? Then proClouds just might be the right template for your site.

This theme developed by “prowpthemes” features a simple layout that is airy and pleasing to the eye. It features a light blue and white color scheme to go with its cloud-inspired sky design. Because of its relatively simple design, this theme is both fast-loading and great looking.

Among the highlights from a technical standpoint are the included custom header image, full support for widgets in its single right-aligned sidebar, and integration with threaded comments for each of your blog posts.

Go to the WordPress Free Themes Directory to see the available screenshot and to access the free download link.

Showcase Saturday: Voidy Theme

Published on Aug 7, 2010   //  Showcase Saturday

Different people have different tastes. It is precisely because of this diversity and variety that we are able to weave such a colorful tapestry that is life. The same can be said when it comes to WordPress themes.

Some people like having fancy graphics, bold color schemes, and eye-catching widgets on their blogs. Other people want to keep things as minimalist as possible, keeping the focus on the content rather than the layout. For those folks, the Voidy WordPress Theme sounds like it could be a very good fit.

It is a simple two-column theme with all the widgets pushed into the right sidebar. The header area is kept simple as well, ensuring that readers’ attention is focused squarely on the great content you’ll be producing. The theme is also compatible with gravatars and threaded comments, as well as providing custom logos and favicons, Twitter links, RSS links, and a welcome message in the sidebar.

Go to Diovo.com for a list of features, the download link, and a look at the live demo of Voidy theme.

Showcase Saturday: Cold Water

Published on Jul 31, 2010   //  Showcase Saturday

Do you have a WordPress blog that isn’t updated all that often? Perhaps you use WordPress as a content management system for your portfolio site, for example, and it makes more sense to highlight single items than it does to provide a reverse chronological listing of blog posts.

If that happens to be the case, you might want to try the Cold Water theme that was recently released. This theme has a minimalist design, featuring a small space for the blog title and a strip across the top for the main navigation. Below this is a single content area that is designed as a content slider. By taking this approach, the entire site can load without vertical scrolling on the part of the user.

Below the content area are three sidebars that can be customized to suit your needs. At default, they are used to access the archives (by month), view the full calendar, provide a search bar, and provide a brief “about” area. You can add and remove content from these areas as you see fit.

Point your browser over to lauriliimatt.com for a preview image of the Cold Water theme, as well as the free download link.

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