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Historica WordPress Theme

Published April 3, 2013 | By cjblythe

Historica is a GPL licensed, open source and responsive theme using Google fonts for a consistent look.

It has 2-columns, a right sidebar, and vertical and horizontal menus.

This theme features an attractive vintage style collage of images and documents and would ideally suit history, genealogy or family tree blogs… Continue reading →

Posted in 2-column, adsense, artisteer, beige, black, blog theme, Brown, charcoal, Cream, diary, fluid columns, fluid width, genealogy, gold, GPL license, gray, grey, horizontal menu, ivory, khaki, Natural, photography, Professional, responsive, right sidebar, rust, static pages, static website, tan, taupe, transparency, typography, vertical menu, white, widgets | Leave a comment

‘Night Class’ WordPress Website and Blog Theme

Published January 5, 2013 | By cjblythe

‘Night Class’ is a classic, elegant and professional WordPress theme and is quite a departure for me as a theme designer. In the past, I have designed only simple blog themes. ‘Night Class’ contains both a static website and blog (linked in the menu).

This theme, on the other hand,… Continue reading →

Posted in 2-column, adsense, beach, black, blue, bright, buildings, charcoal, City, classic, dawn, delicate, diary, dusk, edgy, elegant, fluid columns, fluid width, footer, gold, GPL license, gray, grayscale, grey, greyscale, horizontal menu, ivory, lakefront, lilac, Magazine, Maroon, Neon, ocean, orange, outdoors, photography, Professional, publication, Purple, purple, responsive, right sidebar, shoreline, Silver, simple, sunrise, sunset, transparency, twilight, typography, vertical menu, Water, waterfront, white, yellow | 7 Comments

‘Rustic’ WordPress Website Theme

Published September 20, 2012 | By cjblythe

You will notice a recurring theme through my themes if you explore further. I routinely use textures to create more readable themes and/or good quality photographs for backgrounds or headers.

The risk with using photographs as backgrounds is creating a busy unreadable theme. I am deliberately careful to create a… Continue reading →

Posted in 2-column, beige, blocks, Brick, brick wall, Brown, buildings, classic, Coral, cottage, Country, Cream, delicate, diary, edgy, fluid columns, fluid width, foliage, free, GPL license, gray, Green, grey, horizontal menu, ivory, Magazine, Natural, outdoors, peach, photography, Professional, publication, responsive, right sidebar, rose, rust, Silver, simple, tan, taupe, transparency, typography, vertical menu, vine | 4 Comments

‘Light’ WordPress Theme

Published September 16, 2012 | By cjblythe

I find that very small subtle textures or patterns in large expanses of color (especially lighter, brighter ones) makes the site a lot more ‘reader friendly’. There is definitely much less glare and makes the page very readable.

This is a theme designed with this idea in mind. A very… Continue reading →

Posted in 3-column, adsense, aqua, blue, bright, charcoal, Check, classic, delicate, edgy, elegant, fixed width, fluid width, footer, geometric, gingham, GPL license, gray, grey, horizontal menu, left sidebar, Left Sidebar, minimal, Professional, responsive, right sidebar, Silver, simple, teal, typography, vertical menu, white | 3 Comments

‘Mag’ WordPress Themes

Published August 25, 2012 | By cjblythe

‘Mag’ is an attractive theme designed to be reminiscent of a post card, and would ideally suit a travel blog or website, or any other type of site. The warmth of this theme is achieved through the use of warm colors such as ochre, gold, yellow, brick red, terra cotta,… Continue reading →

Posted in 2-column, adsense, beige, Brick, brick wall, bright, Brown, buildings, charcoal, classic, diary, edgy, elegant, fixed width, gold, GPL license, gray, grey, horizontal menu, Magazine, Maroon, Natural, ocean, orange, outdoors, photography, Professional, publication, red, responsive, right sidebar, rust, shoreline, simple, typography, vertical menu, waterfront, wicker, widgets, yellow | 4 Comments

‘Gallery’ WordPress Theme with Slideshow Gallery Header

Published July 19, 2012 | By cjblythe

‘Gallery’ is a simple, minimal two column theme with a photo gallery, slideshow header that would be ideally suited for a photo gallery or magazine style blog.

Gallery is a GPL licensed, open source that has fluid width, two columns, vertical and horizontal menus, a left sidebar, and a subtle… Continue reading →

Posted in 2-column, adsense, blue, bright, charcoal, Citrus, classic, edgy, elegant, fluid columns, fluid width, footer, gallery, GPL license, gray, grey, horizontal menu, left sidebar, Left Sidebar, Magazine, minimal, navy, orange, photography, Professional, publication, responsive, rust, simple, slideshow, vertical menu, white, widgets | Leave a comment

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