Deciding on your WordPress site’s colors is a lot like painting a room in your house. Picking the right color for the trim and window frames has a lot to do with the color the interior walls. What kind of mood do you want to create for your visitor? Relaxing? Energizing?
In other words, you have to consider how all the colors work in context.
The good news is that even if you got an “F” in Art, you can create an attractive design by using the following resources.
With these sites, you can pick a color palette that works for you.
If you do a lot of design and need to match colors to existing elements, check out ColorSchemer, a desktop app that allows you to identify colors with an eye-dropper and select various different color schemes based on the selected color.
Visit Headway Themes to learn more about why it kicks ass!
Headway 1.7 will soon be released (Beta is now available to anyhow who owns a dev license). It will include too many amazing features to shot in one screen cast. This video includes four:
Automatic Theme upgrades through the WordPress interface (No more downloading zip files…)
A “site builder” wizard that will load a color scheme that matches your header image, allow you to select a variety of layouts, and choose global settings for font styles.
Choose from a variety of preloaded color schemes for your site (an additional “quick start” option).
Big news last week regarding about Thesis’ position in the WordPress premium theme marketplace: Thesis is no longer King of the Premium themes.
Why Chris and Brian left Thesis
First, Brian Clark – part owner of Thesis with developer, Chris Pearson – announced he is leaving Thesis. Besides the “public disagreements Chris recently had with Matt Mullenweg“, Brian cited differences over the Thesis roadmap and their relationship with WordPress developers.
Note of clarification: As of the date of this post, CopyBlogger.com still runs on Thesis (Thanks, Chris Cree!)
Not even one week later, Chris Brogan announced that he is moving his blog off of Thesis, claiming he’s “just trying out a new theme framework”.
Ding dong the witch is dead?
Does this spell bad news for Thesis? Probably not. Remember that there is still a massive community of bloggers who love Thesis.
What this does mean, however, is that other premium themes, like Headway, will get more deserved attention.
This is critical for multi-author blogs where you might have a ghost writer, collaborate among writers on a single post, or any other approach where you need to update a byline.
