Studio Press WordPress Themes
Wordpress theme designer Brian Gardner has teamed up with Craig Tuller to offer the professional (commercial) range of themes under the “Studio Press” banner.
It’s actually one of Brian Gardner’s earlier open source themes that I modified to create this site, I find his themes to be quite competent and practical.
The best thing is that when you purchase a theme, the common headaches associated with free Wordpress themes disappear: you get the theme files, unlimited theme support answered by Studio Press’ experts, customisation techniques with Studio Press’ detailed theme tutorials.
There’s also a list of recommended designers for professional design services to use with the themes (if you’re not using my design skills!).
To visit the Studio Press site and the entire suite of themes (11 at the moment, including the 5 highlighted below): Studio Press.
For each of the themes offered at Studio Press (click each graphic to go to the theme page, and from that page you can view a Live Demo of each theme in action):
Useful Colour Resource 1
One of the handy online applications for creating color (or “colour” for some of us!) combinations is Adobe’s Kuler.
Kuler gives you a number of useful color combination tools — either you can view other color palettes already created (search on popular or high rated submissions), or create your own.
When you create a palette, you get a number of color “rules” to choose from: analogous, monochromatic, triad, complementary, compound or shades — or you can use your own rules/experimenting.
Logged in users can save and export these palettes (although a quick screen capture achieves the same thing if needs be).
It’s quite a handy bookmark for finding nice combinations without having to refer to hard-cover books of similar resources.