The looks of your site or blog can be created and afterwards changed in an instance, thanks to an easy, user-friendly system of design templates supported by wordpress. These are called wordpress themes. It is really convenient – you can choose a design of your favorite colours and with appropriate illustrations, and quickly install it into wordpress itself.

Free WordPress themes are available on dozens of sites. You can search for wordpress themes by categories or keywords. In general, they are most often available in the standard .ZIP file format. The most wonderful thing about wordpress themes is that most PC operating systems allow you to open and use them without need to install special software, or to know how to code. Yet, many of wordpress themes are also available as CSS templates, so that people who are familiar with web programming could customize their theme options.

But, if you are not used to coding, you still can use any wordpress theme you like, very easily. A friendly, WYSIWYG interface allows to operate with wordpress themes in a few mouse clicks. In order to install the theme, follow these simple steps:

Download the theme .ZIP file to your computer, then extract it. Make sure your unzipping application leaves the original folder structure within the .ZIP file unbroken. Afterwards, with the help of any FTP client you like, connect to your web server and create a new theme folder in the wp-content/themes/ folder provided by WordPress. Upload all the files of the theme to this folder. That’s all with the installation!

Wordpress is a very popular blogging instrument, powerful and easy to use. With the help of Wordpress, even inexperienced web surfers can create their own personal site, blog, or even a simple internet commerce web resource.

As you certainly perceive, not everyone has creative abilities to draw a nice and original design for a web resource. Yet, everyone wants that their blog or site be visually pleasant and original. So, one can find in worldwide web plenty of wordpress themes.

For those who insist on themes of highest quality, made individually, designers offer paid themes. Others, who don’t want to pay money for visual content of their blog or site, may use free wordpress themes. These are very numerous, so one can find an appropriate design for a web resource dedicated to any topic.

Also, as you can find yourself, a wordpress theme is not only a set of pictures, but also, a template with some elements of programming code. Configurability of a wordpress theme is almost as important as its visual qualities. That is why wordpress themes have configurable options which help users to fine-tune their blogs visual appearance.

3 fixed columns, Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration, thumbnail cover design.

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Travel theme with beatiful orange notebook style, designed for Wordpress 2.7. Two columns layout and fixed width. Left sidebar and pretty cool navigation. Also works on older version, check the readme file in the package.

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Fantastic Multi Purpose Wordpress Theme. Premium Theme provided for FREE.
4 homepage layouts to choose from, Blog, Magazine, List or Magazine List
FlickRSS
Theme options page and help page in admin
Custom values integration for featured images and video
Content Gallery (on or off) Slideshow or static header image with link
Featured Sidebar post (on or off)
Popular content rating
Recent posts, comments and feedback
TagCloud
Clean Page Nagivation (wpNavi)
Color coated “read more” buttons
Author thumbnails for comments
MyAvatars
Valid CSS and XHTML coding
Live theme preview in admin area
Related posts on post pages
Next and previous posts
Comment Rss
Cross browser support: IE, FF, Safari and Netscape
6 125×125, 1 header 468×60, 1 footer 468×60 banners all managed from theme admin area
Feedburner integration
Feedcount
Logo as image or text (controlled from admin)
10 color variations to choose from for header bar, widgets, post titles, links and footer
Set global image alignment
Set your own global header and font styles
Set global font size
Switch layout between left and right
3 Columns
Widgets 2 columns
Tons of custom pages built in, search results, links, archives, pages, categories, comments, author pages and more.
CSS multi-level drop down page menus across header
MooTabs slider box
Featured YouTube Video post
Social bookmark tools on pages and post pages. Comments on pages. Admin area links in frontend when logged in for easy management. Tons of custom typography styles like: highlight, different heading styles, code, span, download, numbers, pre, ordered and unordered checklists, speech bubbles, blockquotes and more.

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Glassy Style Theme With Five Difference Colors Which User Can Change Based On Their Preference. Black and Grey theme. White content.

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This theme has a very nice handcraft layout. It’s compatible with WordPress 2.7, ready for threaded comments come with WP 2.7, and tested on various major web browsers. For better usability the widely used function PageNavi is integrated in this theme. We also add another very good function which is presented by us – Quotable Commentary! With this function you can select any part of the article, quote it and reply, by just one click! Haven\’t got what we are talking about? Try it out through the demo now. There’s also an about-us block which is editable, just open the about-us.php with your favorite text editor, and fill in your introduction text.

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This tech theme is compatible with WordPress 2.7, ready for threaded comments come with WP 2.7, and tested on various major web browsers. Besides the integration of widely used function PageNavi, we add a brand new funtion to this theme – Quotable Commentary! With this funtion you can select any part of the article, quote it and reply, by just one click! Haven\’t got what we are talking about? Try this out through the demo now. There’s a self-introduction block which is editable, just open the about-me.php with your favorite text editor, and fill in your introduction text. Phone, coffee, desk. Filofax

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Developed back in 2008 by Evan Eckard especially for Smashing Magazine Notepad Chaos is probably the most famous Free WordPress Theme. This template has 2 columns layout with vibrant design enhanced with handwritten headings, clips, pins and stick-it-notes. You are free to edit and modify this template to suit your own personal needs and requirements.

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