Blog interview: NorthxEast.com design strategy

This is the first in a series of WordPress case studies talking to bloggers old at new about a key aspect of their blog from a technical, design or even ethical viewpoint. All featured bloggers will have be using WordPress, and will pass on real world advice, pointers and experiences which should be of interest.
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Popularity: 19% [?]

New themes: Marki

Another new theme with a grey / mono base.

As dark background themes go I’m quite a fan of this.
The author (website worth a visit btw) also has a genuinely entertaining turn of phrase when describing the process of putting the theme together and the decisions along the way:
The name of the theme is Marki, well […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

New themes: Experimental

A new theme with a slightly laura ashley feel and some nice tricks to enable variable content on the sidebar between the homepage, articles and pages. What does that mean? Let me hand over to the author for a second:
“It means that the template has the capability of having a different sidebar for each […]

Popularity: 2% [?]

New themes: Beast blog

An unusual theme this one, but a great one. I love the boldness of this, combined with the delicacy of touch with the layout. It would be great as the basis for any wildlife project, or tweaked with some new graphics could adopt any theme. Much classier than the hundreds of ‘20 minutes with photoshop […]

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New themes: Dirtylicious

I love this for similar reasons that I enjoyed the last clean wordpress theme I reviewed. Even though it’s called dirtylicious, this strikes me as a very clean platform for a blog. No overcomplication, but some nice texture so that it doesn’t feel too clinical.

With an operating demonstration here, and a list ofother themes […]

Popularity: 2% [?]

New themes: Crispy cornsilk

This is exactly the kind of theme I wish more people would use. Nice and simple, colours that are easy on the eye, rather than a million headings for sidebar elements which dominate the screenspace:

 Download it here, or see the test here. The author has other theme, which are just as clean looking.
Published under a […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

New themes: Rockin Seaside

I’m quite a fan of this relatively simple, clean, picturesque theme. The Renault website makes excellent use of photography and I can imagine scripting this theme to swap pics based on tags to similar effect.
Nice job. If you use this for your blog do drop me a line and I’ll link to it as an […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

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