I know we’ve been talking a lot about real estate premium WordPress themes lately, and we showed a unique way to display a portfolio site using WordPress, and today we’re going to look at another smooth representation of what you can do with a photo gallery website using WordPress.
Elegant Themes is known for their, well elegant design style. They’ve been around for a while, so designing awesome premium WordPress themes isn’t new to them. DeepFocus is an elegant way to display portfolio images and whatever else you are wanting to display. The structure is broken down by categories, whereby you’d put your photography, design, print, etc. portfolio items in their respective categories. Then the individual items have their own dedicated page that you can have specific details on them about that item.
The presentation is smooth, yet simple. When you get to the portfolio category page, you are greeted with thumbnails of each item that has two options: to look at a larger version of the image right there, or click over to the more-information page. On the main portfolio category page, your view isn’t muddled up with sidebars, but they conveniently come back when you get to the item-information page.
Of course, there is a standard blog section where you can just blog to your heart’s content and standard page templates including a full width, no column layout.
Features
- Opera compatible
- Netscape compatible
- Safari compatible
- WordPress 3.0 compatible
- Five Color Schemes
- Gallery Section
- Threaded Comments
- Optional Blog-style Structure
- Gravatar ready
- Firefox compatible
- IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
- Advertisement Ready
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Options Page
- Custom thumbnail images
- PSD files
- Valid XHTML + CSS
- Smooth tabless design
Pricing
Standard Lifetime Annual Membership: $39
Developer Lifetime Membership: $89
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase License
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Theme of the MONTH
Over time I find it entertaining to watch theme developers grow and their skill increase. One can often look over their theme portfolio and see time go by as little attributes improve. You can see hints of framework upgrades and witness tiny little accents get a little cleaner with each theme.
For a while now, I’ve kept it no secret that Woo Themes is my favorite designer, but ElegantThemes is quickly catching up. It is pretty easy for me to know when I really like a theme because I start justifying in my shiny head how I can use it. The latest addition to their family, Lumin, is a premium WordPress theme that very well may soon be the new portfolio site for Too Creative, my “parent” company to all my blogs. I love the smoothness, the gradients, the subtle fades of elements, the dramatic accents and the clever use of shadows. I feel good when I look at it, really good. I know other people will think I’ve got a great site if I’m using it; and impressing people is important when you are showing off your stuff.
ElegantThemes has a great number of themes and they have a backend framework control panel that has become much more sophisticated over time. The Lumin premium WordPress theme comes packaged with 3 preset styles, a smooth featured content slider on the home page, a gallery display preview by just mousing over the thumbnail, built-in advertising management, and a slew of other features that are sure to make your mouth water.
Pricing: one of the best things about ElegantThemes (and what could be the start of a trend!) is the low barrier of entry when it comes to price. The number of theme developers are growing and what many of them are doing is offering subscription pricing that gives developers and users alike the opportunity to have access to all the new sweet themes they come out with with a flat monthly fee. ElegantThemes comes in at just shy of 20 bux a year; that’s right, I said $20 A YEAR. Not too shabby, indeed!
Features List:
- Opera compatible
- Netscape compatible
- Safari compatible
- WordPress 2.8 compatible
- Three Color Schemes
- Threaded Comments
- Optional Blog-style Structure
- Gravatar ready
- Firefox compatible
- IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
- Advertisement Ready
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Options Page
- Custom thumbnail images
- PSD files
- Valid XHTML + CSS
- Smooth tabless design
Pricing
Unlimited theme membership for only $19.95 per year.
Demo & Live Preview | Purchase
