Remember I wrote something about restructuring my (currently 4) blogs and combine three of them into one?
Not? well, it’s already been 4 months and I’ve not been getting anywhere close to that. Partly because of my lack of time between my working schedules, and part of my lack of experience with wordpress themes.
The initial plan was to create a new theme that reflects the different parts of content I’ve been covering in these three blogs. currently I think it would be easier to take an existing Magazine style theme and tweak it to my needs, but I’m still in a decision phase.
Here’s what I came up with until now:
Freemium seems to be one of the most versatile themes currently out there. Lots of tutorials on how to customize this theme. But since it’s that popular, this would just lead to another boring blog layout.
TheLatest is a magazine like new theme. Feature wise it has everything I’d need, so with a litte effort to spice up the dull color scheme this would have good potential. MegaNews is pretty much the same in over crowded. more and narrower columns and huge advertising spaces… which I don’t need at the moment.
CorporateMag is a sleek contemporary blueish design. It has some nice features and probably need to be replaced with next years fashion. One thing that caught my eyes were the stretched images. Seems like it uses the same pictures for both the feature bar and the article header, which is slightly wider and though stretches the images out of proportion. I hope this is not intended and only a bug in the demo.
The Unstandard does a good impression, and only needs some minor modification for the headline images. everything else in clean and very lightweight.
Another clean theme is Equilibrium with a similar approach. Image header with a short text excerpt and support for featured content.
A creative couple of themes would be Nami and City Dreams, although I’m not sure how much of re-coloring it will need to fit these two to my type of content.
During these last months a seconds idea came to me. Why not take some of the photos I’m loading onto Flickr and make a separate photoblog. There’re some nice themes out there that would suit this idea.
AutoFocus would support not only a simple photoblog but with the clean text article format also a more story telling or news themed scenario.
Aperio is has similar features, but with it’s 4 column single post pages the text posts are displayed in a very narrow format that is not suited for longer posts.
Folio Elements is a very good example for a Portfolio only theme. You can scroll through single photos with small text portions… nothing more.
The Transition from one Blog to another has to be styled too, so here are two very beautiful examples of what to display in between blog releases:
The Changing Room and UnderCon. Both support FeedBurner RSS and Email and are fully customizable.
