WP Themes: premiumthemes.net

Wordpress users have thousands of themes to choose from. This site sports one by R. Bhavesh from premiumthemes.net. Prior to this site making the big switch I had hunted around and found quite a few of that were really good such as the beatiful HemingwayEx. Never being happy with things in their status quo however, this hunt has never really stopped. Over the last 2 months I’ve had a look at a few hundred themes to try to find the one that truly fits the bill.

During this search a few themes have really amazed me. Not only were their designs a true work of art - worthy of the best CSS as found on sites like CSS Zen Garden - their code was well optimized, search engine friendly and supported widgets and popular plugins right out of the box.

One desiger however truly stood out. I’d like to take a moment a moment to applaud the work R. Bhavesh in this regard. He is no stranger to well designed sites themes, having recieved recognition from places such as Smashing Magazine for his WP Premium theme as well has the WP Remix theme. Among the 20+ themes on his site, premiumthemes.net, you will find one called: SimpleSite. It strikes just the right balance on all aspects which I find important:

a stong design and continuous user experience throughout.
great support for popular plugins such as Contact-Form, Gravatar, Social BookMarking, Ajax rating etc.
multi-level drop menu ready, which if you’ve ever tried to implement this on top of an existing theme you know you’ll spend hours on.
supports a dynamic photo gallery allowing you to simply write a post, upload an image and the thumb will automatically be displayed in home and portfolio pages.
flexible placement of the sidebar right from within the admin tools.
and much more ….

Why on earth don’t I implement this theme if it’s so good? Well sadly I’m not in a position to shell out the necessary cash to implement it on a site for which there is little traffic. Call me cheap, 50% of my blood is after all dutch.

That being said and for the more fortunate readers I really encourage you to have a look at what PremiumThemes has to offer.