Blogs can be an inspiration to try many new things: not least, modern coding and table-free design. This site is intended to help you deal with these and other challenges facing today's commercial webmasters.
Pink and Blue is a totally free WordPress theme ready to unzip, upload to your themes folder and activate. It’s a colorful 3-column theme with lightweight graphics, validates fully as XHTML strict, intended for (18-21) adult blogs, but easily adapted for other purposes.
The best way to understand WordPress themes is to create one. And that’s exactly what we shall be doing over the next few articles: building from scratch a babelog-style theme. We shall be going in easy steps which require only a minimal knowledge of HTML and CSS, so anyone should be able to follow. So you can follow along, I have provided a zip with all the files you will need for this project.
The “Deep Purple” theme is an attempt to move away a little from traditional blog layout while retaining its functionality. It is also a flexible design which automatically adjusts to the visitors’ screen resolutions, but restrained between 770 pixels and 900 pixels so that it never squashes or stretches to the point of being spoiled.
“Black Red” is an atmospheric theme ideal for several kinds of sites, especially for those with a fetish flavor. It is a fixed-width design available in 3-column and 2-column versions. Although a text-based header is recommended for search-engine appeal, it is simple to use a graphic header instead.
“Olives” is a FREE WordPress theme, a 3-column, fluid design which will shrink and expand according to screen resolution. It is coded in validated, strict XHTML and has been tested in Explorer and Firefox. Suitable for many purposes, the header image (and indeed all the styling) is easily changed.
