Some bloggers just love the minimalist approach when it comes to their themes. Being able to load up their blog and look at a screen that shows just simple colours clearly arranged is probably one of the highlights of their day. One can see why, there are so many cluttered blogs out there at the moment that it becomes difficult to understand why any blogger or webmaster would want to inflict it on their readership. But they do. Minimalism has lots of benefits, not least the fact that it makes reading a blog less stressful.

Green Jack is a theme that is easily described as minimalist. This theme has a green colour bias, hence the name. However, it comes into its own when you note the sheer simplicity and sophistication the theme carries. The only image you can see on the theme is that of a green apple. And this is pretty small.

The two column theme carries its sidebar on the right hand side of the template. This is a particularly elegant sidebar, and one that is completely compliant with widgets. This means that, should you want to, you can add a little more clutter to what is a very clean theme.

Some WordPress template designs have a striking look. This is mostly achieved with a creative use of colour. The WordPress Theme Green Candy is pretty much a theme that offers clues to its look in the title.

Green is very much the predominant colour in this WordPress template. The header could well be one of the most beautiful headers available, with some lovely graphic work that shows blades of grass. This header takes up a lot of the screen, and is therefore one of the most visual elements on the page. It really sets the reader up for the rest of the page. It is for this reason that this particular WordPress Theme would be best suited to a blogger who is working on a theme of Nature or the great outdoors.

The sidebar is found on the left hand side of the screen. This is Widget compliant, which means that you have all of the customising options that most bloggers expect. Widgets are a particularly good idea for offering your readers a more comprehensive experience when it comes to reading.

The Green Candy theme is designed by Lorelei, and it would be great for anyone blogging on environmental issues.

There are not too many simply clever themes out there on the market, but now and then one crops up that breaks the mould for functionality and design. While these are few and far between, once embedded in your blogging portfolio, they really make a massive impact. Such a theme is Fantastic Flowery.

This is clever for one main reason. The header can be changed at will. This change does not have to be accessed by the admin area of your blog either. And what’s more, it is not necessarily the blogger who does the changing.

Any visitor who visits the blog can change the colour scheme by clicking on buttons in the header. This is totally revolutionary. In fact, it changes the game for the theme arena.

This startling gimmick aside, the theme is very functional, and should keep any avid blogger happy. The sidebar in this two column theme supports all the widgets you could possibly want (as long as you enable them), and the content area is about as clean as you could ever need it to be.

If you are a blogger and you like to give your readers an experience, this is the theme for you.

The blogging world continues to demand that WordPress templates come out in favour of clarity and sophistication. One such WordPress template that has taken this particular brief on board is the gloriously named Dum Dum.

Dum Dum is a WordPress template that cannot be accused of being fussy or too cluttered. Instead, pastel colours dominate, with not too much of these to get in the way of the content that the blogger wants to include.

This is a two column theme, and the sidebar is on the right hand side. This is totally widget compatible. Widgets are the tiny add-ons that you can place on your blog, and which enable multimedia, and other important feature sot be added to your blog with the minimum of fuss.

The theme is incredibly simple and clean. One of the most famous blogs out there (Zen Habits) recently converted to a clean template. This has not affected the readership; in fact it has increased it. It is for this reason that Dum Dum would probably best suit a calm blog, such as one that deals in medical issues, or a self help blog. This is a very appealing WordPress Theme, with a strange name.

Nearly everyone these days is worried about the environment. The issue is on the global agenda, with the ideas and concepts around the problem being discussed on a daily basis.

This has lead to a number of bloggers choosing to set up a blog with an environmentally relevant topic attached to it. This means, in turn, that WordPress Theme designers have responded by creating WordPress templates that fit in with the eco theme.

One such WordPress Theme is Eco Blog. The colour green is prominent on this WordPress template as soon as you see it, so you are in no doubt as to what the theme is about.

Unusually for a WordPress theme, the sidebar is situated on the left hand side. It is still widget compliant, which means that if you were to take on the template, you could easily customise it within minutes, so that it meets your needs.

The header is particularly attractive, featuring splashing water on a blue background. The entire template is very pastoral, and creates a calm mood of nature and the environment. This means that it is best suited to blogs that cover these issues. The template is designed by the designer Sabiostar.

Some WordPress Theme designs are so incredibly artistic that they could well be described as avant garde. One such theme is the quite gorgeous Color Paper WordPress template. This theme is truly unique, and it is for that reason that many people will either find it very easy to fit into their blogging portfolio, or ridiculously challenging.

It is a standard two column template, but that is just about the only standard thing about it. The design is such that a reader would look at the page and see a number of sheets of coloured paper lying on a floor. It is a quite beautiful effect, and one that would grab anyone’s attention.

The sidebar is on the right hand side and totally supports the famous WordPress widgets. This offers you complete functionality with your blog, allowing you to add tools and other buttons to your sidebar, and therefore offer more exciting blog experiences for your readers.

This is primarily a visual blog, with a massive visual impact. If this is your thing, then it could be worth investigating from your point of view. The theme is on freethemelayouts.com. Head on over, and see if it will work for you.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur will have considered the merits of setting up an online casino at some point in their career. Many gamblers are defecting to the web, simply because placing a bet and monitoring your betting is so much easier online. Accounts can be set up in seconds, and money, virtual or otherwise, can be easily arranged. This makes the blogger or webmaster that has a theme that carries a strong gambling feel someone who is in an advantageous position.

The Casino template is particularly effective in this regard. You would find it very difficult to locate a template that is more suited to the gambling arena. In the header at the top right of the screen gorgeous graphic shows the symbols that one finds on playing cards, but in truly glorious colours.

This polished effect is continued with the completely utilitarian nature of the theme. The theme is perfectly widget friendly, with a sidebar that can be easily customised as long as you enable widgets in the admin area of your blog. This is complemented by a sumptuous and very readable content area. There is no chance of the content being missed. A truly attractive and well designed theme.

There are plenty of WordPress themes out there at the moment that purport to be elegant and sophisticated, however, only a few manage to make the grade. Classic Glassy gives it a good try, and comes out pretty well in the end.

This WordPress Theme is elegant and sophisticated, due to the fact that it does not have too much on the screen for the viewer to take in. The main area within the WordPress template is white, with the rest of the screen being totally black. This gives it that all elusive elegance that so many themes lack.

The sidebar, as with the majority of two column templates out there at the moment, is totally widget friendly. This means that all of the customisation options that the best blogs have can be used with this WordPress Theme too. This gives the theme that extra edge over the less well developed themes that are available.

Just don’t forget to enable widgets in your blog’s admin area if you want to take full advantage of them. Otherwise you may find that the WordPress template is not as usable as you would want it to be. Classic Glassy is developed by isoftwarereviews.com.

There has been a big move in recent times to using clean and unfussy templates in blogging. Some major bloggers out there have stripped back their operations, removing advertising and focusing on making the reading experience as clutter free as possible for the people who surf the net.

This helps readability, and prevents the content of the blog form being swamped by too many colours and advertising units. One such WordPress Theme that does this is Bella. This is a very clean theme, and one which works very hard to not overwhelm the viewer with too much in the way of visuals.

It is a two column WordPress template, but this is not immediately apparent due to the fact that the theme is so subtle, that edges are hard to find. The sidebar is located on the right hand side of the template. If yow is to have widgets enabled on this theme, you must make sure to enable them on the admin page of your WordPress blog settings.

The one true element of colour in this theme comes on the far left, where there is a colourful border. This is why the theme may not be for everyone.

One of the more picturesque themes out there at the moment is Home Garden. Just like the title suggests, this theme is based on a pastoral feel.

So it is colourful, and attractive. The theme features a picture of a girl watering her plants. While this may sound a little simplistic, and even twee, it works very effectively, immediately giving a sense of calm to the user/viewer’s screen. The theme is, not surprisingly, absolutely perfectly matched for a blogger who writes about gardening or nature. Indeed the green pastures behind the girl would not look out of place on the business site of a part-time gardening business.

A little unusually, the sidebar is found on the left-hand side of the screen. This actually works very well, and adds to the calm, uncluttered feel of the theme. There are two columns available for the blogger to use.
Fully widget compliant (an important consideration these days) the theme has lots of flexibility. With a little bit of foresight and planning, you could quite easily turn the theme into a multi-faceted piece of work in minutes.

The theme is highly attractive, and was designed by the wonderful people over at Digitaldiscountcodes.