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Free PSD Friday: Old Ads

Themey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:05:27 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Old Ads blends the ghostly cyan and white of ad copy bluelines with nostalgic images from printed copy of bygone eras for a fresh look. Add some jaunty angles and white text for high contrast readability and you’ve got something that evokes the silver screen and more optimistic times. If you’re looking to sharpen up your CSS skills and need a well stocked workshop to get your creative juices flowing then download a copy of this PSD and get cracking. Â

Free PSD Friday: Midnight

Themey — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:44:17 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Midnight is a dark theme as its name alludes to but like the midnights of poetry or pulp fiction there is more going on within Midnight than first meets the eye. The dark blue of the content areas and containers is broken up with gold highlights from the titles and bullets. There is simplicity masking the hidden undercurrents of vector artwork and smooth gradient backgrounds. There’s nothing new under the moon until you create it. This is a fine place to start honing your CSS skills and forging ahead. Â

Free PSD Friday: WP Orange

Themey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:26:59 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â WP Orange is a citrus and red toned theme that makes tasteful use of the brighter end of the color spectrum without blinding the reader with gaudiness. While the header graphic starts the layout in vibrant colors a grey gradient kicks in afterward and balances the vibrancy with a soothing neutral. All of the external and static links, in addition to the search box, are positioned in a double row of aligned buttons below the header. It’s a careful balancing act between explosions of color and more staid design sensibilities. Download your copy now. Â

Free PSD Friday: White

Themey — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:00:23 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â White is an exercise in graceful and elegant minimalism. It offers a reduced palette of colors and a less-is-more approach to graphic embellishments. It’s a two column theme with a tabbed bar for common external pages positioned in the header. This gives an overall airiness to the page it presents and does nothing to interfere with the presentation of photographs or text. Subtle splashes of color keep White from monotony and unify all of the more subtle parts. Download a copy and you can experiment with adding your own touches. Â

Free PSD Friday: Soccer

Themey — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:52:50 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Whether you’re a fan of an international team, a local team, or the sport in general, Soccer is a great way to accentuate and make apparent that appreciation. The header graphic is customizable to accommodate a photo of your favorite team or their moment of triumph and the space for a photo on each entry affords the same opportunity whether you’d like to highlight the team that you’re posting about or a particular athlete. Â

Free PSD Friday: Smoke

Themey — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:43:26 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Smoke is a theme suitable for high legibility endeavors that incorporate large or dense text areas. It provides a sharply contrasted background for clarity of text but does not neglect the visual instead opting for stunning highlights and splashes of color. Each entry also contains a space for an image or a user avatar which makes this especially useful for blogs that feature multiple authors or content that can be visually differentiated. The green and red areas of smoke add a dash of color to the layout without impeding the use or readability of the page in the slightest. Â

Free PSD Friday: Yellow

Themey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:36:15 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â The combination of yellow and black is a reliable attention getter from its use in classic taxi cab design to our natural tendency to pay close attention to a hovering bumble bee. Yellow is no exception to this natural human tendency as it grabs the eye and keeps it adhered to the page. The contrast is striking but also readable as the sharp areas of color contrast are confined to the header and the content areas of this theme are tastefully reduced to a less demanding grey and black combination. Â

Free PSD Friday: Road

Themey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:33:45 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Road delivers the appearance of movement and of a three dimensional platform for your blog content. Smooth gradients solidify the background for visual appeal without taking the focus away from the content. The fine variations between grey tones and the yellow highlights gives the content a cohesiveness difficult to achieve with disparate color arrangements. Download a copy of this PSD to see how you can personalize this theme for your own use. Â

Free PSD Friday: Redball

Themey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:20:46 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Redball is a visually stunning arrangement in the two column mode. It also gives you the popular tabbed interface for common pages above the sidebar. While the default color scheme of red, grey, and yellow is vibrant and eye catching it can also be juggled around and manipulated when you download a copy of its source PSD from the link above. Â

Free PSD Friday: Purple

Themey — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:09:00 +0000

Â (Download this PSD)Â Purple is, well, purple but it also contains some more unique design elements. The wrap around header and sidebar give the page a more unified appearance that looks less like the result of blogging software and more like a product of desktop publishing software. The encapsulation of comments and ‘email this post’ functions into buttons only enhances this perception. Â