Free Templates

When it comes to themes for blogging it's very important to get the right one, simply because blogging is such a personal thing and the wrong template robs a blogger of the motivation to write.

I get a lot of people visiting my blog who are looking for wordpress themes and since I only produce html themes I thought it would be a nice service to mention another designer whose work I admire, and who does produce WP themes for free download.

Being a girl, and a big fan of shopping I particularly love the shopping manual and shopaholic themes, the cartoon characters in these templates are just perfect for any female blogger.

Not being an expert on Wordpress I think anyone who wants to know how to install a theme should check out their installation guide which seems quite detailed and includes some really informative screebshots.

I've been really pleased with the success of pixabella05 (Hawaii) and wanted to improve it with new color combinations but at the same time not take away the usefulness of the three column design.

So see what you think about the latest version which comes in two colors, green and pink. I decided to get rid of the white top and make it black, then blend this down the page becoming either green or pink at the bottom, a combination I think really works for this template.

I also changed the look of the search form in the header, the magnifying glass is unchanged, but the rest of the form looks more modern and I think gives the template a different look. In the next few days I'm going to release a version of this theme for Serendipity, but if anyone wants to make it into a Wordpress theme I'd be grateful.

You can download pixabella06 here, just right click and then 'save as'.

Pixabella04 originally started life as a concept in Inkscape and was turned into a free HTML template, then got ported to Serendipity by Yellowled, and now I'm pleased to present the first version of the Wordpress theme ported by Carl.

Pixabella04 has become one of the more popular templates over at Open Designs so I'm sure it will be well received by the Wordpress community as well, and I hope it might even be selected as one of the themes on Wordpress.com where bloggers can get a free theme, but we'll see.

The Wordpress version of Pixabella04 is fully widgetized and has an options screen to let blog owners choose if they want green, blue, and the new red colorset. I produced red because a friend wanted to use this theme on her blog but I'll write more about that when her blog is launched. Hope you enjoy the theme.

I'm very excited that Yellowled aka Matthias from Serendipity has ported my pixabella04 template to this great blog engine, the same engine that I'm using on this website so I know it works well.

Pixabella04 is a new template that I held back on releasing because I wanted to make it as good as I possibly could so it's even more gratifying to see how well the s9y version turned out. Matthias told me it was almost as if this template had been specially made ready for porting to the Serendipity blog CMS. That's a really nice complement.

The Serendipity version includes all three layout styles and also both colorsets, the green and blue, so it should appeal to more users than just a regular three column template.

You can download the pixabella04 template for Serendipity, or if you have Spartacus installed in your s9y blog I believe you will soon be able to install it automatically.

I've been working on this template for a while but just wasn't happy with the result until now. It's a green and black template, 3 columns, with four different layouts including a blog layout. Pixabella04 is released under a Creative Commons license.

All of the images are PNG's so they have a nice crisp feel to them, and because IE6 doesn't like PNG's I also included a separate stylesheet for it. View the template at OpenDesigns or download the zipfile.

After the success of my latest free HTML template, which I released as Pixabella05 on OpenDesigns, but which Carl has named Hawaii for his Blogger Templates, I've decided to update the template with a blue colorset.

I really love the blue version, even though it's the same template it somehow looks very different. The navbar, header image and search box have been changed, and I also removed the page background image and used CSS to style this instead. Download the updated Pixabella05.

I'd love to see how people use this template so please leave a comment if you like it, and thanks to everyone who supports my templates.

Pixabella05 is a free 3 column HTML template, and comes with two layouts, the traditional sidebar-content-sidebar, and the popular content-sidebar-sidebar layout. This template is valid XHMTL transitional and is released under a Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license.

The images were all created using Inkscape, which is quickly becoming my favourite drawing program, and which seems like it will one day be a very successful free alternative to commercial drawing software. The original site layout was sliced within Inkscape and the HTML built around the exported images. Download Pixabella05 free HTML template.