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One Column Themes

DePo Skinny

A very simple one column theme with easy integration for your Flickr pictures at the top of the page. It is a real bare bone theme and is only 500 pixels wide. Though DePo Skinny does not have a sidebar it makes it up in the footer with a bottom sidebar to display additional information.

Being a one column theme main advertisement options are within the post itself.

Widget Ready: No Sidebar Options

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock and Opera browsers.

Validations: Invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional with 30 errors | Valid CSS

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Two Column Themes

Twister 2.0

Twister 2.0 is made up of dark colors with a mix of gray and black with on a grayish background. The links are white in color and easy to spot with the darkish background. However the text color is harder to read in bright lights. This is an update over the earlier version which includes CSS code cleanup a fix for sidebar in IE6 and a new addition of 3 new columns in the footer.

Overall a good looking theme which is a bit more than simple. Main flaw is that there is very limited advertisement options.

Widget Ready: Yes

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock and Opera browsers.

Validations: Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | Invalid CSS with 90 warnings

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Codelog

Codelog is a minimalistic two column theme with sparse use of colors. The theme consists of a sidebar and navigation to the left side. The right side consists of the content area.

Codelog theme is quite simple and makes use of 3-4 colors. Advertising options are limited to the content area.

Widget Ready: No

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock and Opera browsers.

Validations: Valid XHTML 1.1 | Valid CSS

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Three Column Themes

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace is a fast loading theme made with light colors that are variants of green. There are two levels of menus one on the top of the page and one included in the header which are quite diversified to gain maximum user attention on the top of the page.

The link colors are a bit dull and a darker shade would look more better. Other than that a good theme which can be optimized to include better advertisement options.

Widget Ready: Yes

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock and Opera browsers.

Validations: Invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional with 45 errors Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional| Valid CSS

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ColorblindS

Colorblinds is a dark 3 column theme with minimal use of colors, the background is made up of gray and black with small squares and rectangles forming part of the background image. The text is again gray with the links a mix of variations of green. Comes built with a drop down menu which I don’t see would be useful for regular blogs. Overall quite a simple theme and good for blogs which do not want much fanfare.

The major backdrop is advertising options are quite limited for both contextual as well as banner ads.

Widget Ready: Yes

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE7, Flock and Opera browsers. In IE6 I could see some color loss in the content area.

Validations: Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | Valid CSS

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