Here is a nice one of the free woothemes!

Theme Features

These are some of the features that you will find within this free wootheme:

• Two-column homepage with Featured posts and normal posts
• Sweet jQuery widgetized slider in the footer
• Cufon javascript font-replacement for titles (Delicious font by exljbris)
• As always, Meta-Morphosis is built on our very popular (new) backend, which includes some  non-standard, non-average customisation options;
• 8 different colour schemes to choose from…

Standard Woo Themes Features:

These features are just as special as the one's above in the free woothemes, but you'll find these standard within most of our wide range of themes:

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Background Information

This is a review of our top 10 favorite WordPress Themes. They are all available for installation directly out of your wordpress Admin panel.

You should use whatever WP Theme is the best choice for your Website Niche, the content and the audience that you have in mind. If The best one for your needs is a free WP Theme then Great! and if it is a professional WP Theme that you have to buy, then buy it. The Theme you use and Keyword Software are two critical areas that I think people should NOT be cutting corners on as they are the foundation of your website or blog!! If you ae new to blogging or Wordpress here is a link to a great "wordpress how to get started guide"

The latest two Professional WP Themes that I have purchased and used are:

• The Magnet WP theme by WPZoom Click here to visit WPZOOM. and
• The Gazette WP Theme by WooThemes  Click here to see more on the Gazette Edition by WooThemes

But I also regularly use Free WP Themes.

• The Latest FREE WP Theme that I used was Suffusion by Aquoid Themes

If you are going to use Free WP Themes Here are a few suggestions:

• I highly suggest you just use one of the 1000+ Free WP Themes that are available directly thru wordpress.
• Use a Free Theme that has at least 500 uploads (all the bugs are worked out AND additional user requested features have usually been added making it much more customizable).
• Upload the theme from your Admin Panel in your wordpress website (hard to screw it up that way and you can fall back to your previous theme just by clicking on it in the Appearance Tab, Themes sub tab of your admin panel.
• or use the search for a Free WP Theme using the "Add Theme" feature in the Admin Panel, (Appearance tab, Add New Themes). It has the ability to search by some basic criteria

Consider one of the Free WordPress Themes listed below in our Top 10 list. While the best themes are always judgmental things these themes were selected based upon:

1. Number of times they have been downloaded
2. Support availability,
3. Design look and feel
4. Features and flexibility
5. Recently Updated
6. Star Rating

 

Our TOP 10 Free WP Themes from the Wordpress Library

 

These free WP Themes are all available for download  by clicking on the link below the picture.

There are also instrutions for downloading them from wordpress at the end of this article.

 

1) Atahualpa by Bytesforall

Click here for the Atahualpa Free Wordpress Theme Download

Hard not to like this free WP Theme and 450,000 downloads say a lot of other people like it too! The amount of options and flexibility in this free WP Theme may actually be too much for the average blogger. Build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme: 1-5 columns, fluid or fixed width, rotating header images and 2 dozen option pages.

Average Rating 4.9 stars

Current Version: 3.4.6 Updated 02/16/2010

Downloaded 450,000 times

Tags: translation-ready, sticky-post, threaded-comments, theme-options, custom-header, custom-colors, flexible-width, one-column, white

 

2) Mystique by Digitalnature

Click here for the Mystique Free Wordpress Theme Download

Just a really nice clean yet bold design. It lends itself  to the reader and that goes a long way towards people liking your blog. It has been downloaded over 200,000 times and is regularly updated. It is also a Feature-packed Free WP Theme with a solid design. Some of its features include 4 theme widgets, page templates for different layout styles and an advanced interface for the theme settings… Designed by digitalnature.

Average Rating 4.5 Stars

Current Version is 2.3.1 Updated on May 10, 2010

Downloaded 206,000 times!!!

Tags: translation-ready, threaded-comments, theme-options, flexible-width, one-column, white, light, custom-header, editor-style

3) Arjuna X by Sebastian RS

Click here for the Arjuna x Free Wordpress Theme Download

This is one of my personal favorite Free WP Themes from an aesthetics standpoint. I also like that it has 4 widget bars. Arjuna stands for elegance, accessibility, and attention to detail. We have put a great deal in optimizing its ins and outs. Translation ready, SEO focused, IE6-8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera compatibility, support for threaded comments, four widget bars, flexible sidebar, and more. It can be customized via the admin panel.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.3.8 Updated April 27^th

Downloaded 126,000 times

Tags: black, threaded-comments, translation-ready, theme-options, light, silver lite

 

4) Constructor by Antonshevchuk

Click here for the Constructor Free Wordpress Theme Download

We like this Free WP Theme because it is so versatile. I am very big on Wordpress Themes that are designed to let you customize them (unless you want to get into the code to make changes which the average person can’t do) and this one has a lot of flexibility built in to it. Wordpress Constructor Theme, it's many-in-one theme (six layouts, configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own theme on settings page. For Wordpress version 2.8+ (include 3.0)

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.0 Updated 05/07/2010

Downloaded 134,000 times

Tags:theme-options, custom-header, custom-colors, threaded-comments, one

 

5) MyMag by iWebex

Click Here for the Mymag Free Wordpress Theme Download

This is one of the Free WP Themes in the popular Magazine style. It is not as bold or as Flexible as a few of the Professional Magazine Themes like the Yamidoo magazine theme by WPZOOM but it is still really nice. MyMag is a Wordpress Magazine Theme with 2-3 Columns, lovely Javascript effects such as Slideshow, Article Sliders, Newsticker, Image Mouseover Effects, Dropdown Menu and many more. myMag is offers 3 widget-ready sidebars, a big option set with custom logo uploader, 3 colour schemes, display options, advertising options and much more! Uses post-thumbnails to let you upload pictures very easy.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.0.6 Updated 04/29/2010

Downloaded 13,974 times

Tags:threaded-comments, micro formats, sticky-post, custom-header, custom-colors, photo blogging, editor-style, front-page-post-form, theme-options, one-column

 

6)  WP Creativix by iwebix

Click here for the Creativix Free Wordpress Theme Download

WP-Creativix is a beautiful business & portfolio Wordpress Theme. It has unlimited variations due to the possibility to define a custom color code as highlight color.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.5.3 Updated 04/26/2010

Downloaded 40,816 times

Tags:micro formats, sticky-post, custom-header, custom-colors, photo blogging, front-page-post-form, theme-options, light, purple, silver, white

 

7) Suffussion by Sayontan

Click here for the Suffusion Free Wordpress Theme Download

Suffusion is one of the Free WP Themes that I have recently used myself. It is a bold design, almost the inverse of the WP-Creativix design above. One note is be sure this is what you want. While the colors can be changes (using the orange main theme color is dramatic) it still is heavy and I am second thinking my use of it for the website I am using it on. But it is one of those elegant browser-safe free wp themes with a power-packed set of options. It has 8 widget areas, one-column, two-column and three-column fixed-width formats, 10 pre-defined templates, 16 pre-defined color schemes (green, red, orange, purple, 2 shades of blue and 2 shades of gray, each on light and dark backgrounds), two customizable multi-level drop-down menus for pages, categories and links, featured posts, a magazine layout, a customizable tabbed sidebar, widgets for Twitter, Social Networks and Google Translator, threaded comments, translations in many languages and RTL language support..

Average Rating 5 stars

Current Version: 3.4.8 Updated 04/29/2010

Downloaded 113,111 times

Tags: rtl-language-support, sticky-post, translation-ready, threaded-comments, custom-header, custom-colors, one-column, dark, light, black, white, purple, orange, red, silver, blue, green, theme-options

 

Producer by Asmedia

Click here for the Producer Free Wordpress Theme Download

Producer is another one of those highly flexible free WP themes and in reality I think it is one of the best in terms of flexibility while retaining a keen sense of style that can be used to build a standard blog with 4 layout options (includes a photo slideshow layout) or a magazine style blog with 3 static layout options and the ability to build your own widgets based layout. 6 possible configurations for left and right sidebars. Ability to hide one or both sidebars on 404, index, search results, single post, and static pages. Includes page templates for additional layout options. Re-arrange header section items ( logo/slogan row, horizontal menu row, search bar row, hidden leader board row). 10 featured category slots available. Sticky posts, feedburner, youtube… Producer provides an attractive design out of the box. For even greater flexibility use the CSS styling tool (not included) to create a completely new and unique look for your site without editing a single line of code.

Average Rating 5 stars

Current Version: 2.1.9.4 Updated 05/03/2010

Downloaded 33,965 times

Tags: photoblogging, sticky-post, theme-options, one-column, light, dark, silver, black, white, red

9) Comment Central by frankschrijvers

Click here for the Comment Central Free Wordpress Theme Download

This is a very simple Theme Format. While these styles of WP Themes do not fit my personal needs they are great when really what you want to do is have a blog and communicate out to people. I have seen this theme used by a lady who lives 10 miles from anyplace and has a hobby farm. Her blog is enjoyable to read and you stay focused on what she has to say and what new pictures she posts. High quality Wordpress theme. Colorful, grunge, and stylish theme. two columns, left sidebar dropdown menu and widget-ready.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.2.5 Updated 03/19/2010

Downloaded 71,005 times

Tags:yellow, white, green

 

10)

LightWord by andreiluca

Click here for the Lightword Free Wordpress Theme Download

In the arena of Free WP Themes this is a simply clever theme with two or three columns, adsense support, fixed-width, widget-ready and threaded comments. Compatible with Wordpress 2.8+ (including 2.9.x), valid XHTML & CSS. Cufon text replacement is back!

Average rating: 4.5 Stars

Current Version: 1.9.9.3 Last Updated: 2010-04-29

Downloaded: 211,000 times

Tags: custom-header, threaded-comments, translation-ready, theme-options, light

 

You can also download these free themes from within your wordpress Admin panel by:

1) Simply going to the Appearence tab about 6 tabs down the left column and

2) Clicking on Themes.

3) This brings up the WP Themes management console within your admin panel.

4) now just click on the round "Add" button.

5) This will bring up a search screen that you can enter the Theme name in and then click on the "Search"  button.

6) This will pull up any WP Themes with the name you entered.

7) You can then just click on "Install" to install the WP Theme!

Don't worry, you can always go back to your old Theme by  installing it and trying again! Wordpress does not change your data when you install a theme. So you can try out 3 or 4 different free wp themes going from one to another and back without damaging your website.

These Themes can also be downloaded from the WordPress site itself  by clicking this link

Incoming search terms:

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• download WP-Creativix 1 5 3
• gazette woothemes 2 9
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Swift Themes

Click on this link for the Free Wordpress Theme Download!

Here is a Free WP Theme in the popular Magazine style that really has a lot going for it.

First off the Swift WP Theme is designed to be fast loading. While many people do not consider this when looking for free WP Themes, it is important to your potential users. How long are you willing to wait for a site to load after you click on it while doing a Google Search? If you are like most people 15 seconds and you are on to the next site. So Speed counts alot!

Next Swift is Seo Optimized. Now I have not researched it enough to know how they have optimized it but I will take their word on it. Also note that there are a variety of free WP Plugins for SEO. Afew of my favorites are All in one SEO and Keywpord statistics. Check out those plugins when you get the chance.

SWIFT fetures a variety of sidebar options which I REALLY Like. getting your sidebars (the areas to either side of your blog or article entries) exactly the way you want them is critical to a blog in my opinion and I don't want to be forced to use a certain size add or to squeeze my list of recent blog entries into a narrow 1.5 inch side bar widget for example. Swift is also Adsense ready and advertisement ready.

Swift is a WP Theme that is rated at 4+ Stars and was recently updated on March 23. With 60,000++ downloads it is a solid, well working FREE WP Theme.

You can download Swift at this link from wordpress or just do it from within the Admin panel on your wordpress blog (under the Appearance tab on the left Nafigation Column, select Themes).

Swifts Extensive Features List includes:

1.Loads very fast, minimum number of http requests. Your server will love it

2.Zero images used.
 

3.Clean typography.
 

4.SEO friendly, For example,this theme uses h1 tag for post titles, instead of the blog title.
 

5.Cross browser compatible (Works well on ie6 too , except for the curves )
 

6.Swift is smart enough to pull out the first image from your post and use it as thumbnail on home page (Iteven pulls out images that are not part of wordpress gallery).
 

7.Featured post slider.(Included in v3.0)
 

8.Tabbed interface.(Included in v3.0)
 

9.I have bundled lot of features in to the options page to make your SWIFT THEME unique
 

10.Popular posts are highlighted on the home page to give them more exposure, this will turn the first timevisitors to your blog into regular readers.
 

11.Sidebar and footer with four widgetised sections (8 in total) .
 

12.Adsense integrated into killer locations .
 

13.RSS subscribe box in the best possible position to increase your subscribers.
 

14.Eight different color schemes to choose from(Will Be added very soon, working on them).
 

15.Ads integrated into theme options page.
 

16.Option to add thumbnails to home page
 

17.Easy colour picker to customize your copy of SWIFT (That makes it infinite colours to choose from ) I would like to have your valuable suggestions before I release the next version.Please drop in your suggestions here.Compared to most free WP Themes, Swift stands out, bundled with lot of options to build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme, SWIFT is the perfect choice for those who need a powerful and customizable theme. SWIFT has a active user community to help you with support queries

Upcoming Features
1.Better featured post section with slider.(Included in v3.0)
 

2.Integration with pagenavigation and related posts plugin. (Included in v3.0)
 

3.Adding some images using CSS sprites.
 

4.Fancy RSS subscribe box.(Added in v2.0.0)
 

5.Drop down navigation.
 

6.rounded corners in all browsers
 

7.Threaded comments and better comments template. (Included in v3.0)

Incoming search terms:

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• swift theme guide
• review on swiftthemes wordpress theme
• setup guide swift wp theme
• swift theme example
• wordpress free theme download soap

This guide starts with the absolute basics and gets you to the point of how to start a blog!

1. ! Bookmark this article location so you can come back to it right now because I am going to give you a lot of valuable links for places to go to get started – and all of them have plenty of FREE information!

What is a Blog? "Blog" stands for weblog. Blogs started out as websites that contained a diary type of commentary usually about a core subject. For example, if you live “Off the Grid” your blog might chronicle the challenges of self sustaining living. It might also give people instruction in how to do some of the things you have done and contain links to suppliers or other interesting sites you have found.

Blogs have since evolved into everything you can imagine. Some contain E-commerce stores, some are marketing tools to try to get you to buy a given product, some are political sites to get a political opinion out in the open, and the list goes on and on. A blog can be whatever you want it to be.

BUT if you want people to visit your blog, come back, tell other people and maybe buy something that you are selling then your blog should follow these basic rules:

1. It should contain information that people want or need or find interesting. If you think you can just get an automated tool to copy other peoples writing to your website and then sell them stuff. You are mistaken. Most will realize that your “Content” (the articles, stories and opinions in your blog) is not original and they will leave and not come back.
2. It should be updated regularly. Not every day but if you try to “set and forget it” (Write a bunch of content and then ignore the site for a year) People will stop coming and the search engines will stop listing your site and traffic will fall.
3. It should be well organized, easy to find things and have a Theme that ties it all in together.

How do you get started Blogging?

This is the main question most people have and the answer is it really is easy! Thanks to common tools and lots of available videos and instruction guides on how to get started, even someone with limited computer experience can start a blog if they are just willing to follow instructions!

So how do I get started?

First decide what you want to Blog about! What is your “Theme” (what do you want your blog to be about?)? Do you want to blog about pets? Do you want to tell people your political opinions? Do you want to talk about hiking? Decide. Then make a list of the answers to these questions:

1. What is my Theme? The Theme is the overall subject of your website. Note that there are also WordPress Themes which are specific design templates for your Blog.
2. Who do I hope will read my blog?
3. How will my blog be unique and interesting?
4. Do I want to try and make money off my blog?
5. If so, How (If you don’t know how we’ll discuss that later on).

Second, Decide what kind of Blog you will Have – I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY suggest you make a WordPress Blog. Wordpress is software that enables you to set up a blog quickly. It provides a ton of functionality so your blog can look good, be easy to manage and add on cool features. Best of all it is everywhere and easy to get “hosted” (we’ll discuss that in a minute) easy to get help with and best of all its FREE!

You can go to www.wordpress.org and get free software Download! And tons of free instructions! As a matter of fact you can go to: http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging and get more advanced “getting started Blogging” instructions for free that tell you more about the features, terminology and functions involved with WordPress blogging!

OK so I know what software to get, how to get it and where to get instructions on how to use it. How do I get a blog up and running on a website?

How to get a blog on the web!

1. You need a “Web Host” to install your word press software on and then create your blog on so it appears on the web. There are many FREE webhosts and many that you pay for. The choice is yours. Free ones limit the size and the features of your blog. Ones you pay for often give you a lot more tools (like an email account like my_name@www.myblog.com or software to manage your website with etc.)

Here are some free webhosts:

http://wordpress.com/

http://blogetery.com/

 

1. You can get your own “domain name” (a Domain name is a name like Google or yahoo) but you don’t have to. So decide if you want one. If you don’t have one your website will usually have a “sub domain” name like: “My_web_site_name.my_free_hosting_websites_name.com”.

If you have your own it would be more like www.my_web_site_name.. Having your own domain name costs from $10 – $15 a year. But it is yours! You own it! You can even sell it later on (if someone wants to buy it).

If you want to have your own domain name some of the free blog sites will let you make up a name for your blog and just start. But if you want your own domain name there are plenty of free tools to search for a web name that is not taken yet. For example you can go to www.godaddy.com (I make no money off that. I have used their free tool and it is quick and easy) to search for a domain name.  Is an abbreviated version of "weblog,"

1. Most web hosts have a free, one click install of your wordpress software. If it doesn’t I would just find another that does. If you really like that web host, then you can follow the WordPress installation instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

 

1. You can also get a much more detailed getting started with wordpress guide at: http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start

 

1. OK. At this point you have a web host, you have a website theme and name (the name may be on your own domain or it may be on a free web host as a “sub domain”. You have installed wordpress and you are ready to set up the software so you can blog!

 

1. Select the WordPress Theme for your website. There are many free WordPress Themes for your website. You can also purchase a great Professional Theme from a company like Woo Themes. Free WordPress Themes are fine and come with the free wordpress software. The Professional Themes usually have a nicer design and more options for where you can place ads, the colors and special pages you can set up and use, etc. I, like most people, started my first blog and then tried several Themes from Professional Theme companies before settling on Woo Themes because I like all the special features they offer and the great look of their Themes.

 

And that is the end of part 1!

I decided to create a start to finish guide on getting started with wordpress. It is very ong and detailed and available at theis link. It covers evverything – EVERYTHING you need to know from idea to getting on line and posting to your blog! CLICK ON THIS LINK TO GO TO THE HOW TO WORDPRESS BEGINNERS GUIDE!