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The Dynamix theme lives up to its name. Like most of ThemeForest’s best sellers, this theme has a lot of convenience features that make it easy to customize. It does go a bit farther in that regard than most themes, however, and it makes it very easy to change the look of the site altogether.

Dynamix is provided with a feature that allows you to create your own skins for the theme. When you’re contemplating major changes, you’ll find that this is much easier than using an image editor and certainly much easier than recoding the site to make these changes. There are 20 skin colors provided for its exterior elements and 2 provided for interior elements. The theme also has advanced features that use the newest in technology.

JQuery powers the site’s image effects and presentation features. You can present your images in a tabbed gallery, with a reveal effect or even in an accordion gallery. DynamiX uses the space below the image slider very well and you’ll find that you have plenty of room to play with for placing your content. The theme can switch to a grid view, if you wish, and this makes it much easier for you to display a lot of articles if you have them to share.

DynamiX has been updated recently and has a history of regular updates with new features. The last update added several new skins to the selection. It’s also constantly-improved for ease of use. The theme now loads faster than ever and has full widget support for the footer area of the page. DynamiX can support more than one gallery per page and you can place them anywhere you like with no limitations on which pages they can be placed.

This theme even allows you to make your own link colors, add graphics that have color effects triggered by actions and much more. These features would cost a lot if they were custom-built by a professional designer, but Dynamix makes them affordable for everyone. If you want the entire selection of modern features for your site and you demand that they work properly in all the modern browsers, this may be the theme you’re looking for. It’s professional, clean and very easy to use for anyone with WordPress experience or experience on any other webpage platform.

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The Platform Pro WordPress theme by PageLines has a very innovative way of allowing you to customize the design. It is also designed to be powerful enough for designers who prefer to do things at the code level, making it suitable for a wide array of users. The Platform Pro’s most significant features, however, center on the way that you arrange the various elements of your site.

Platform Pro comes very plain out of the box. The layout is designed to be easily customized without you ever having to touch any of the code. Not only this, but you’ll have a lot more to work with than an admin panel with numerous options. This theme actually allows you to drag and drop page elements.

If you want to move articles, an image gallery or any other element of the page, you can simply drag it in the design interface and drop it in the section of the page where you want it to appear. You can also adjust column widths and the other aspects of the site by dragging instead of by coding. This entire site can be customized at any level by those who have zero technical knowledge of how to change the look and feel of a site. For those who operate on the level of the code, however, the functionality and control is not diminished.

The concept behind Platform Pro was to create a theme that allows non-professional users to get a professional look. Professional users, however, were also considered in the design and all of the code is easily accessible. If you can read CSS like it was your native language, you’ll be able to use your abilities to their maximum capacity with this theme.

For those who want a WordPress theme that provides a professional result with minimal hassle, Platform Pro is very suitable. For those who want a good canvas to work from that allows them to weird all of their technical wizardry, this theme will also provide excellent results.

The drag and drop technology that PageLines includes in Platform Pro makes it an excellent choice for sites that have to get up and running fast. The minimalistic design of the theme makes it an ideal choice for those who want a site that is unique and interesting and that lends itself to extensive customization, by code or drag and drop.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit pagelines.com.

In this post we release Imprezz – a simple and beautiful 3-column-theme, a free WordPress theme designed by Gopal Raju from ProductiveDreams for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme can be used in various setting for various purposes – in magazine-blogs, but also in corporate and private blogs. The theme supports WordPress 2.7.1 and works well with the zdcomments widget (which is used to display the top commenters). The package also include the PSD-source file of the logo.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

We love our readers. We respect the hard work of designers and developers across the globe. And we do our best to make the web design community stronger and the Web a little bit prettier. Therefore we ask talented artists and creative professionals to showcase their skills and release something unique and beautiful as a gift to the community. And when designers agree, truly impressive works see the light of day.

Today we are glad to release Magazeen — a free advanced WordPress-theme in a magazine-llok created by the talented WeFunction Design Agency. This bold magazine 2-col-theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine-look. It was created especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• live demo
• large preview (.jpg, 1.7 Mb)
• download the theme (.zip, 0.3 Mb)
• download the PSD-sources (.zip, 4.5 Mb)
• release post on WeFunction.com

Inspiration behind the design

As usual, here are some insights from the designers themselves:

“We’ve created the Magazeen theme to try and pump as much style and functionality into a WordPress theme to give people something they might not expect from their standard WordPress theme. There really is very few limits to what WordPress handle, so we’ve built in a lot of custom features and options to give people a little taste of what is possible, and how some small functionality tweaks can make a huge difference to the overall experience of browsing a blog. On top of that we’ve wrapped all that functionality up in a really cool and modern theme, with nice big title fonts, and a stylish colour scheme.

The Magazeen theme is packed full of cool features to really encourage your readers to explore new posts and similar items. The first thing you might notice is the jQuery image showcase at the top, which is fully automated and will display the image from the latest post, and the title above it without you having to do anything other than define the image URL in the custom field we have created which will appear on in your admin post area.

Drop-Down Menu

The other cool and fully automated feature is the related posts drop down effect. It’s a simple idea, if you click the category of the full posts a drop down will appear with some related posts from that category. And if you don’t see a post you like you can always view the full category by clicking view more.

Sidebar

The sidebar area’s have been created to give you a lot of control over the featured posts, and recent posts. Once you’ve installed the theme, you need to go to your Widgets area, and simply activate the “Magazeen Latest Posts”, and “Magazeen Featured Posts” widgets. You can easily control how many posts each feature displays, and using this widget will ensure the area is styled correctly with the post image showing correctly.”

In comments to our recent freebie releases you asked for a simple, clean and beautiful WordPress-theme; the theme should be easily customize for different purposes and in a variety of settings. We’ve been listening to you and we heard you: and today we are release (hopefully) exactly what you’ve been asking for.

In this post we release Compositio – a simple, clean and user-friendly WordPress-theme, created by talented Elena Gafita for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Compositio is a two column theme, made to for those who want to put their content at the front with a unique light blue design. Random square shapes are the defining graphics of this theme. They are used throughout the background, bringing a special rhythm to the theme.

Compositio: A Free WordPress Theme

A special feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Compositio theme and name it logo.png. You can also use the PSD Logo Template in the source folder of the Compositio Theme. (Image limitations: max is 590px/85px). If you want to activate this option go to Administration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.

The theme is widget-ready, so you can use it as you like. Also Elena customized the CSS for the default widgets to match the site style better. The theme is using a couple of plugins, with some already integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. The only plugin you need to install manually is FlickrRSS (FlickrRSS plugin is in the theme folder) (see the demo).

This work is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This means that you may use it, and make any changes you like. Just leave the credits on footer if you respect the designer’s work.

• full image preview
• live demo (the server experiences some problems)
• download the theme (mirror) (.zip, 0.2 Mb)
• release post on DesignDisease’s blog

Thanks for the truly great work, Elena, we really appreciate it.

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