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StylishGrey

StylishGrey is a gorgeous portfolio and blog theme, which uses several impressive jQuery and ajax effects to draw attention to portfolio images. I enjoyed navigating the image sliders used on the homepage and individual portfolio item pages, which produce a slight bounce at the end of the sliding movement.

Portfolio View

Individual Portfolio Post

StylishGrey would be a great theme for designers, artists, and photographers, etc.

Features:

• Portfolio template with image slider (horizontal)
• Featured homepage image slider (vertical)
• Homepage tabs displaying the most recent posts, popular posts and latest comments
• AJAXified contact and comment forms
• Widget ready
• 5 backgrounds included with template (jpg and psd files)
• Randomized background graphic
• Looks great on the iPhone!

Demo | Purchase | $25

Metro

Metro is an minimalist theme by Revolution. Its homepage makes use of the popular Featured Content Gallery, above a section of blog excerpts and a featured video area.

An interesting feature for this theme is the ability to select a two or three column layout for each blog post from within the Write Post page. I’m not sure that this is something that most bloggers would want to alter on a post-by-post basis, but it could be a very useful tool if the extra sidebar is used to promote related content or to display contextual advertising, etc for certain posts.

Features:

• Widgetized sidebar
• WordPress 2.7 ready
• Dropdown menus
• Archive, 2/3 column, and full-width templates
• Threaded comments
• Gravatar support

Demo | Purchase | Single Theme Package: $59.95 | Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $199.95

Epaper Central

Cushy

Cushy is an attractive CMS/blog theme by WooThemes. The wide homepage contains a featured section, which is ideal as an introduction to the site; a section with recent blog posts; and a jQuery tab section which could serve to promote business services, etc.

My favourite aspect of this theme is the fat rounded drop-down menu format used in the header.

Features:

• jQuery tabber on the homepage
• Integration of breadcrumb navigation
• Widgetized blog sidebar
• Several Custom widgets
• 5 colour schemes
• Integrated Theme Options
• Automatic Image Resizer
• Threaded Comments for WP 2.7
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
• Integrated Banner Management script

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $70 | Developer License: $150 or Join the WooThemes Club

RjCorrea

True Cuddles

Urban Elements

Urban Elements is a grungy personal blog theme by Press75. This theme is highly stylized, with protruding calendar elements, a gritty textured cityscape background graphic, transparent menu and sidebar background and metallic post thumbnails.

Features:

• WordPress 2.7 Ready
• Theme Options
• Site Header Logo Customization
• In line Advertisement Management (468×60)
• Sidebar Advertisement Management (4x 125×125)
• Social Link Integration
• Google Analytics Integration
• Optional Homepage Post Thumbnails

Demo | Purchase | $75

The Bites Site

Chrome v2

The popular Chrome Theme by Revolution has been updated to version 2.0. In addition to some minor changes to the styling of the sidebar, header and archive layout, the coda slider gallery has been replaced by the Featured Content Gallery.

Features:

• Drop-down page and category menus
• Featured video section
• WordPress 2.7 ready
• Theme Options page

Demo | Purchase | Single Theme Package: $59.95 | Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $199.95

Kingdom Life Media

Best of January 2009

Here are my 5 favourite site designs (in alphabetic order) featured here during January.

Brad Ruggles | Fresh News

Calculating Cook | Revolution Church

Lensa | Flash News

Not a Niche | Artsee Theme

Pixel Currents | Thesis

Slurpie

The Slurpie theme is a gorgeous magazine theme by Blog Oh Blog. It comes with a grungy wallpaper style, or the option of a non-grungy look.

Features:

• Customizable featured post
• Popular posts/Recent comments section
• RSS subscription integration via Feedburner
• 125×125 banner ads
• Theme Options
• Gallery for WP 2.5+
• Gravatar Ready
• Custom 404 Error page
• Photoshop logo and font files
• Fully validated CSS/XHTML code
• Cross-browser compatible (IE, FF, Safari, Chrome)

Demo | Purchase | Single License: $79.99

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