Lyra mixes streamlined elegance with a more personal “hand-drawn” look and feel. This is accomplished with it’s pastel colour palette accentuated by paper and pen backgrounds and icons.
All you would expect from a blog. On the homepage there are featured blog posts, RSS subscriptions, a bit about the author, recent headlines, comments and category listings, your twitter and flickr feeds and a large tag cloud. Lyra also offers you the opportunity to change/rotate the header image between 4 different options.
Gemini is busy but simple at the same time. Crammed into the homepage we have links to over 25 of your articles, recent comments, links, tags and even all of your categories. This obviously provides great coverage all without cluttering the page - everything has it’s own space and has been scrupulously designed to be visually pleasing as well as useful. For a light version preview click here.
On the homepage we have a gorgeous AJAX article rotator powered by the beautiful images which you upload. We have a random article…
Draco is clean and simple, with its aesthetics geared towards focusing the users attention on what matters - the product/application your are showcasing. Purples and blues are used to give a prestigious and luxurious feeling
The best feature of Draco is the immersive homepage which features an AJAX tabbed structure for you to showcase your product in an elegant way. Besides this there are features for you to include your own blog and news sections, complete with a custom comment system. You can also add your own pages including a details about page and press page.
Cassiopeia mixes friendliness with elegant professionalism. Your customers will be calmed by the mint greeny blues and re assured by the attention to detail such as matching iconography and readable typography. Of course your work is what’s most important, and that is evident the moment the homepage loads.
Cassiopeia has room to showcase three of your latest projects and within those projects there is room for so much more.
Andromeda offers all of the amenities you could possibly need as a blogger, whatever your level, from beginner to pro. There’s multi level navigation through your categories, Twitter and Flickr feeds, advertising space, tag clouds, custom social networking bookmark buttons to Delicious, Digg and Technorati, latest headlines, comments and much more.
And of course, Andromeda is written using only the latest WordPress code and not to mention being fully xhtml and css compliant.
