Chapa Branca

Plug and Press 2 for 1 and New Theme Styles

Carlos of Plug and Press is currently offering a 2 for 1 deal on his CelebrityPress and Traveler themes for a limited time.

CelebrityPress

Traveler

You can purchase both themes for just $79.95 by adding both licenses to your shopping cart, and use the coupon code “2×1″ to claim the discount.

He has also released two new styles for CelebrityPress: Fresh Style, a pretty pink design; and Customized Wireframe, a blank slate to which you may add your personal touches.

Fresh Style

Customized Wireframe

Arras Theme 1.1 Update

The Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition has been updated to version 1.1.

Version 1.1 includes the following changes:

• Admin panel additions:
  • Choose the position of the navigation bar (before or after header)
  • Choose the number of 125×125 square buttons in the admin panel
  • Help links
  • Choose a fixed height for each widget at the bottom content sidebar (recommended if you have more than two widgets in the sidebar)
  • Choose the order of display of news posts, via date (default) or via category
• Dropdown list for archive pages
• Support for NextGEN Gallery plugin
• ‘Scaletop’ meta option, which allows you to choose whether you want the image thumbnail script to crop and scale from the center (default) or from the top
• Dropdown list for archive pages
• Support for NextGEN Gallery plugin
• Appearance tweaks for the 125×125 square buttons, Text Widgets, and ‘Latest Comments’ at the tabbed sidebar
• Showing the default ‘Next / Previous Posts’ links if WP-PageNav plugin is disabled

Tim TV

WordPress Newspaper Theme

Run your own news site with this broadsheet-inspired theme from Gabfire. It provides lots of different options for displaying excerpts of posts, including a breaking news section and recent featured posts, in addition to an image gallery area.

Features:

• Automatic image resizing
• Ajax tabs
• Search engine optimized
• Built in photo gallery
• Multi widget support for sidebars
• Ad Optimized
• Custom 404 Error page
• Dropdown navigation support for subcategories

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $59 | Multiple Use License: $99 | Developer License: $159

FlashFrame Theme

FlashFrame is a minimalist photo gallery theme from ShutterThemes, which uses the fading slideshow feature which was introduced in the iTeam and Titanium themes and then subsequently extended to several other iThemes products.

In addition to the homepage view, the theme offers a separate blog page to enable you to discuss your photographs in more detail.

Features:

• Available in Black and White
• Set up the slideshow controls via the Theme Options panel
• Automatic image resizing

Demo | Purchase | $79.95

Best of October 2008

Here are my 5 favourite site designs (in alphabetic order) featured here during October, all of which have also received a public rating of at least 4 out of 5.

Ask the Boater | Fresh News Theme

Claude Betancourt’s Political Blog | Thesis Theme

Dental Heroes | Fresh News Theme

Matblogg | Magazine-News Theme

The Travelling Vegetarian | Fresh News Theme

Atlanta Fine Homes

Impress Lab

The Firke Files