The minimalist template movement continues apace, and the Refresh WP WordPress Theme is one of the best examples of the genre. Containing pretty much nothing other than a simple set of some low key colours on a plain background, it is very much suitable for any blogger who wants to get across some content without any of the distractions that come with high quality graphics and video.

Graphics and video have come in for some very bad press lately, and this is because people are extremely tired of seeing very flashy sites that do not have a lot of content, but instead rely wholly on grabbing your attention and then using this level of concentration to sell you something. The Refresh WP theme is a great change, and will allow those bloggers who feel they have something to say free reign.

The colours are minimalist and the three column template works well due to the fact that a blogger could quite easily load the template with a lot of widgets that will allow them to monetize the work they are doing, or just provide added value for their readership. This theme works very well, and is suitable for all bloggers.

Every now and then you will find a theme that really stands out in front of the rest of the templates that are available out there and makes a real impression on the readers and the general marketplace as a whole. Rainbow Feather is one such WordPress template. It has the feather the title refers to in the header, and then that is pretty much it as regards the graphical impact of this template. It is initially hard to understand whereabouts this particular theme could fit into a blogger’s catalogue of templates, but then it becomes quite clear that the difference it so obviously has is a real advantage.

Rainbow Feather is four columns in size, and this is one of its strengths. The template could quite easily be quickly utilised by any store or blogger who wants to monetise their blog and needs to have something that is quite commonly called a review site. This is where the blogger reviews affiliate products, and thereby gets the readership to click on affiliate links and therefore make a purchase.

This template is perfectly suited for this particular usage. It has a great interface, and lots of widget potential. A great template.

When you want to have the most efficient looking blog template that you can have, it is always worthwhile looking for one of the many minimalist templates tat fill the ranks of blog directories that are currently in vogue on the Internet. These particular templates are very effective in tat they are clean, crisp looking templates, favoured by institutions who want to bring a businesslike feel to their dealings online. Having a crisp and efficient feel to your blog means that the reader has no distractions, and feels like what they are reading is serious. The Light WordPress Theme certainly falls into this category, due to the fact that it has pretty much nothing on it other than a few choice colours and a great looking three column style.

This works very well. Imagine if you have a business and want only to get across some sales materials and some contact details on the first page of your blog, for example. Having a WordPress template that does this with the minimum of fuss is perfect. Light does just that, and it has a maximum allowance for a great set of widgets too. A very clean and crisp template for business.

The trend for high quality magazine and newspaper templates for bloggers continues apace. The need for these types of templates is very real, especially when bloggers are now faced with an internet environment where they cannot get any kind of leverage or market share with a simple blog set up where they have maybe one or two columns in their templates that they use. This means that there are many designers out there right now that make it part of their rationale to produce a number of templates that have at least four columns involved in them, with the added bonus that they have a great magazine style layout.

One such WordPress theme is Alpha News. This template has a great look to it, and one can imagine it gracing the sites of a major newspaper or news site that has current ad regular content as part of its main attraction points to its readers. It is for this reason that the WordPress template really has an amazing impact, you can utilise the large amount of columns to include a number of widgets as well as a massive amount of ads and newsfeeds. A great and very important looking template.

While there is a lot of room on the Internet for good old fashioned blogging with no commercial intention attached to it, the basic playing field now is all about making money. It is very hard to find a blog, for example, without some ads on it, or some banners that contain affiliate links that mean the blogger is there to gain some financial incentive form their content delivery. This is of course all well and good, but in the old days it used to be about producing personal content, and the joy of blogging was to be found in that and that alone.

However, now and then, one finds a WordPress Theme that is there for the sheer fun of blogging. Winter Christmas is one such seasonal WordPress template, in that it is there for the seasonal aspect of things. A blogger who simply wants to celebrate the season (quite a naive idea these days) and just deliver content in the run up to Christmas would be well served by this template.

It sis three columns in size, and as such does allow for all of that commercialism. However, the general feel is that of a great personal blog.

The trend for very simple WordPress template designs continues, with more and more developers feeling the need to strip down their basic template ideas, and instead deliver what are essentially content vehicles. This is very much the case with the Simple Blue WordPress Theme. This template is very much just what you might think it is when you hear the title. It is simple, and it is blue. That’s it.

However, this is no bad thing. The simplicity of the template makes it one of the more attractive templates around. It has no flashy graphics, which often turn out to be obtrusive anyway. It also does not suffer from an excess of colour in the layout, which often means that a template is too much for the human eye to take in.

As regards the technical aspects, it is a three column theme, which means that it has two sidebars, offering a ton of functionality. A lot is built in, due to the fact that the developer wants to include =basic meta data functions. However, one sidebar is completely open to the inclusion of widgets, which means that Simple Blue can be turned into a superlative, if simple, user experience.

There is an emerging trend that has appeared of late that has brought into being a number of blogs that are very much like magazines in the way they look and the general feel of the blog. These blogs are based on templates that literally have a magazine look. The kind of companies that use such templates usually have a long list of fresh content to bring to the blog on a regular basis. This current and exciting feel is best served by a WordPress Theme like Slickpress. This WordPress template has a great smooth feel to it, and would not look out of place on the site list of a major international newspaper or magazine. If you have a business based blog, for example, this template is absolutely perfect.

This is a three column template, which means that it has a lot of space for widgets. These widgets best suit this particular genre. If you run a news based blog, for example, you can quite easily find yourself having to utilise a newsfeed. There are many great widgets out there that are perfectly primed for that very task, so having all of that space for widgets is absolutely ideal.

It is hard to believe that there are so many simplistic templates out there for blogs, but the truth is actually a lot deeper than one would first think. However, the minimalist design has never been taken to extremes, until now that is. There is a WordPress Theme called Plain Text, and it is quite incredible, for one main reason. It is quite possibly the plainest and most simplistic WordPress template that you could possibly ever come across.

The title of the template pretty much sums up the work you see when you first download the theme. In fact, the entire screen is populated by a simple section of text, some of it in different size fonts and styles, but nevertheless very much all plain text.

It is all css, in fact. The sheer lack of images is quite disconcerting at first, but after a while there seems to be a kind of logic at work. The three column template has to rely entirely on content, so if you do run a blog that has a lot of text on it (one for writers, for example) then you have a good vehicle with Plain Text. This is an intriguing template.

If you run a business that is small you may require a website that has an unobtrusive but highly effective interface. It is true that you have to make things as imple as possible when you are running a business, because your clients and customers will want things to be as accessible as possible. The problem is that there are not an amazing amount o WordPress templates out there.

Revolution Code Blue wordpress theme is a clean and simple WP design. Main content area is white and possitioned on the left. On the right side are two sidebars. The first one supports wordpres widgets and contains all the standard wp elements. The header background fades from dark to light blue. It contains the blog title and tagline. On the right side is a place holder for advertisment banner (468 pixels width x 60 pixels height). Above it are two RSS feed icons. The far right sidebar contains a list of recent posts. It would be a good location to place google adsense. Revolution Code Blue wordpress template was designed by Brian Gardner.

The best designs seem to be minimalist ones these days, when it comes to WordPress. Some of the cleanest and simplest designs are now available as free templates, and anyone who wants to give their blog a makeover, or just to establish their business presence on the Internet, can now do so for free. The minimalist movement makes it easy for someone who wants to focus on content alone to make an impact quickly and easily. The WordPress Theme Plain Simple continues this trend. It is, as the name suggests, a perfect example of the minimalist school of design, and one that should serve any blogger very well if they have a lot to say.

It is a three column design, which means that the levels of functionality are very high. All you have to do to make the WordPress template instantly functional and much more valuable to your readership is to add widgets. This is totally enabled by one of the sidebars, which has complete functionality and compatibility in this area.

One neat touch in this template is the font style, which is small and unobtrusive, but also highly elegant. A very fitting template for a first time blogger.