Best Free Magazine-Style WordPress Themes
Aug 13, 2008 Blogging
The new trend on WordPress themes now are magazine-style. These themes are preferred by most WP users because of the maximal space for ads and content. Good thing, you don’t need to pay for several bucks just to get a great magazine layout. Here are the best-looking free magazine themes.
1. [Not] So Serious. This is a great theme for magazine sites with several features:
- Adsense ready
- 3 columns
- Fixed width
- Widget ready
- Gravatar ready
- Captions ready
- Valid XHTML and CSS
- Separate comments and trackbacks
- It’s very compatible with WordPress 2.5 or later.
2. Indomagz Premium Wordpress Theme. The only premium theme that’s available for download, FREE! It has several features like:
- Cross Browser Support. Tested on Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE7, IE6.
- Automatic Thumbnail Resize
- Integrated Custom Field GUI
- Dropdown Menu. Tested on Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE7, IE6, old browser IE5.5
- Gallery Category
- Fully Widgetized
- Comment & Trackback Separated
- Built-in Gravatar
- Valid XHTML & CSS
3. Crush Magazine Wordpress Theme
. A neat magazine theme for technology-related sites. It has a simple layout but elegant one. The highlight-a-post feature, two-columned excerpted posts from specific categories appearing on the main page, and the right sidebar make it a good magazine layout.
There are other available magazine style WordPress themes available on the net, you just have to search for it. 
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Flashback: Why I thought the internet was evil?
Jan 15, 2008 Blogging, Flashback, Internet
Another one of my Xanga entries: Why I think thought the internet was evil?
Internet is EVIL, don’t you think?
1. It’s a huge temptation. I need not cite examples why did I say so.
2. It’s time-wasting. Imagine?! You were just chatting with some friends, posting on message boards, blogging, and visiting some sites and then you suddenly came to your mind, cursing yourself because you already spent 7-straight hours in front your PC. “Stupid! It’s our session tomorrow yet I didn’t bother to read some of our topics. Study now, bitch!” But when you scan your books and encounter some boring words, especially those that requires you to get a dictionary and search them up, you’ll feel sleepy. Sometimes, unknowingly because maybe your eyes are tired, you fall asleep that when you woke up, you were late for school already!
3. It’s costly. One of our parents’ monthly habits are nagging about the internet bill, especially when you’re using broadband connection. You can still hear the voice of your mom, half-yelling, “Because of this, *holding the bill* you’ll have a 10% less from your allowance.” But it’s fine with us, as long as we have internet connection. We can endure the nagging and a less from our allowance but we can’t endure the thought that we’ll be offline for months.
4. It ruins some lives. When you have ample time, why don’t you try visit some internet cafês, you would think for a moment that you’re at a war zone. But all you see are students, busy clicking the mouse, playing Counter-Strike. Read the rest of this entry »
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