Blogging & Streaming

I finally feel that we’re making some headway into the backlog of themes that was created by all of the amazing designs we purchased via the WooContest last year. It seems as if there’s light at the end of the tunnel and I’m extremely excited to push out more of the themes that we’ve previewed recently.

So the next theme on the release list is Bloggingstream, which was designed by Firman Daus. The theme – which sports a sexy integration for a lifestream – is just as well suited to a personal blogger, as it would be for a “diligent” publisher. The design also contains 7 different advertising to enable you to make money from your website.

Style-wise, we’ve kept the default style as clean as possible, to allow you to truly make this theme your own, whilst we believe that the additional (light-on-dark) styles can also be used out-of-the-box to suit your own branding needs. You’ll see that we’ve put some effort into the typography, spacing & layout to keep the focus on the content.

So view the demo, read up on the specs of the theme and then give us a little feedback love…

Feature Pitch

I have been enjoying putting on my design hat of late and ever since FRESH01 & Foxinni joined the WooThemes team, I now have some amazing skills to assist me. So for Feature Pitch (which will still get a more unique logo), I came up with the concept and then had FRESH’s help to polish the design and truly turn it into a top-notch WooTheme.

The theme’s purpose is simple: to sell your products / services. This is a promotional site, influenced largely by the way Mac Applications (see Things.app and Versions.app) are being promoted and sold. Also – to serve this purpose, we have actually gone for a much narrower design and the width is only about 800px.

I feel that this theme is something unique in terms of our current business theme offerings (only Productum comes close in purpose & focus), which means we’re only trying to offer you an even bigger variety when it comes to using the right theme, to promote your business in the best possible way. Here’s some teaser images:

Feature Pitch - Home

Feature Pitch - Inner Page

Feature Pitch - Blog

Metamorphosis

When we saw this latest design from Izuddin (who is responsible for the hugely popular Irresistible & Groovy Video), we immediately knew this this would be another hit if we were to release it for free.

We like the fact that this is a very unique theme in terms of not having any kind of sidebar (either on the homepage or on the inner pages), which means that the traditional sidebar elements will go into a widgetized footer, with a horizontal slider. Nothing beats a theme that’s unique and free… Or that’s what we believe! Have a look…

Metamorphosis - Home

Metamorphosis - Single

Suit & Tie

I think you’ve all grown accustomed to the fact that here at WooThemes we’re not overly concerned with our ego’s and that we thus love collaborating with industry-leading designers. This time around we’ve gotten Bryan Veloso to work with us on another business theme (2009 is the year of the business theme we believe!) and we’re amazed by the results thus far.

As we’ve done with all the big name designers (Veerle Pieters, Elliot Jay Stocks, Matt Brett & Dan Rubin), we gave Bryan an open brief in terms of what we wanted and the result is an extremely clean, jQuery-infused business theme titled Suit & Tie. Again, the idea of the design is to focus on its core-competencies and to not try be everything to everyone. Also, as I mentioned about Feature Pitch above, we believe in getting a wide variety of themes into our collection, as that is where the real value is for our users. So here you go…

Suit & Tie - Home - Blue

Suit & Tie - Home - Blue & Gray

Bloggingstream

And then we’re finally breaking the backlog of themes from the WooContest… The design is by Daus (who also designed another free theme of ours – Typebased) and with FRESH01′s help, we’ve turned this into a truly stunning theme (imho). The theme can be used as either a traditional blogging layout or a more content-heavy magazine look (as we’ll be developing a bunch of different layout options for this).

We also decided to strip the theme of all its colour (for the default colour scheme), as this should allow our users to really customize the theme extensively. We’ve also tried to keep the emphasis on the content of the site; and not so much any pretty graphics in and around it.

So what do you think?

Bloggingstream - Home - White

Bloggingstream - Home (Alt Layout) - White

Bloggingstream - Single - White

Bloggingstream - Home - Purple

Journal

This is another new design-in-progress from our friend, Daus, which we only got to see this past week. Journal is a magazine-style theme with a difference, as it is completely unique compared to all of our other magazine themes to date. For me, the theme resembles a printed newspaper, which really appeals to me.

Sorry for the lower-res preview, but then again, this post is all about teasing you anyway…

Journal Magazine Theme

Aperture

And then last but not least, I’d just like to mention Mark’s amazing new theme concept called Aperture. Since he has already blogged about it over here, I won’t say too much and I’ll let you visit his blog for some better quality mock ups.

I do however want to add that in terms of the types of themes currently available in the WP community, I believe that Aperture will be one of our most unique and niche themes to date. So we’re extremely excited about this one (along with the others we’ve posted above) and trust that you’ll continue to be excited with us…

Aperture by Mark Forrester

Have your say!

After an extremely long post (I promise that it took me a whole lot longer to write, than it took for you to read it), we’d love to hear your comments on all of our recent theme concepts. Tell us which theme you like best, why you don’t like others and maybe how we can improve on some of them.

Then, we’d also like for you to have a quick vote on which theme concepts you like most… If you all vote for the same theme, it might twist our arm in terms of which to develop first…