Link: Yahoo! News - Yahoo Buying Photo-Sharing Service Flickr.
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is acquiring a Canadian photo-sharing company that lets people share digital images with select groups or the whole world, expanding its portfolio of self-publishing and ’social networking’ services.
I’m expecting this will work hand in hand with Yahoo’s recently announced Yahoo 360 virtual community,which will include blogs and photo sharing. While Yahoo already has their own photo-sharing service, Flickr is far superior.
I wonder if the pricing structure at Flickr will change as a result of their new parent, and if free accounts will still exist for non-users of Yahoo’s own blogging service.
Currently, Flickr is one of the most popular methods of posting pictures on Blogger / Blogspot (which does not host its own images). Seeing as how Blogger is owned by Google, Yahoo’s biggest competitor, it will be interesting to see how these plays out for Flickr users on Blogger. I’m surprised Google didn’t try to snap up Flickr themselves – I guess they thought Picasa was good enough (not, especially for photo sharing).
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blogging,
Blogger,
Weblogs,
flickr,
picasa by Emily from How to Blog.
Bambit has created an excellent layman’s analysis of Blogger vs WordPress, which is a good overview of two of the most popular free blogging tools.
She compares availabilty and demands on the user, setup speed and requirements, pages and pagination, look / feel / templates, interface and user-friendliness, and image handling.
As she pointed out, WordPress does require you to have a webhost that supports MySQL databases and you have to know how to use FTP. However, many hosting companies will actually create the MySQL database for you, in which case I found that doing the actual WordPress install and getting up and blogging takes less than 5 minutes.
Ultimately, Bambit decided to make the switch from Blogger to WordPress (and appears quite please with her decision) - and, even better, has even gone so far as to publish a step-by-step guide to moving from Blogger to WordPress. Thanks Bambit!
I just heard that Yahoo will be releasing a new service called Yahoo 360 which will provide blogging and photo sharing abilities to users, as well as a virtual community intended to rival that of Friendster and Orkut.
Apparently initial signup for the service (which is in beta) is by invite only. If I’m able to secure an invite, I’ll let y’all know how their blogging tools size up compared to TypePad, MT, WordPress, et al.
Anyone have any Yahoo connections so I can get on the beta list?
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Weblogs,
Reviews,
yahoo 360 by Emily from How to Blog.
Well I finally installed WordPress 1.5 and am pleased to report that it is just as much of a piece of cake to install as previous versions were. The new dashboard is more pleasing, and the concept of Themes (more elaborate than templates) has been introduced.
This is a great change, but one might worry that there aren’t enough themes available for WordPress 1.5. Well that ain’t the case - and the list of existing themes keeps growing, much thanks to Alex King’s blog hosting a WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition.
There are various different prizes being offered from different organizations, each with its own criteria. For example, one random lucky person will win a $150 Prize just for submitting a theme to the competition and also checking it in to the themes repository at wp-themes.org. There’s a $25 amazon gift certificate for ‘the best theme that looks like a real paper diary’, a $40 starbucks giftcard for the Wordpress theme with the ‘most versatile design’, $55 to the best overall design, etc.
Alex’s site uses the theme switcher so you can easily switch from one theme to the next and experience how they’d look on your blog. All themes submitted to the competition are available for download and use by WordPress 1.5 bloggers.
While I haven’t gone through all of the themes yet, some are rather basic, others quite elegant. So far my favorites include Devenir En Gris (which sports a three column layout) and Gespaa Theme Two Columns.
When I last checked, there were 80+ WordPress 1.5 templates to choose from. Nice. Thanks Alex!
update: I’ve compiled a comprehensive list of over 130+ WordPress 1.5 themes that I found by hunting around the blogosphere, so if you’re looking for a new theme for your wordpress 1.5 site, be sure to check out that post, which I’ll be updating as new themes become available.
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WordPress,
Templates by Emily from How to Blog.
(Last Updated : 07/25/06 - Now listing 981 WordPress Themes available for download!)
Themes which I have tested as also working with WordPress 2.0+ are labeled as: tested with WordPress 2.0
Those that support sidebar widgets are labeled as: includes wordpress widgets support
Note that most wordpress 1.5 themes are likely to work with wordpress 2.0 unless they require specific plugins to work properly (in which case they’ll only work if the required/included plugins ALSO work with wordpress 2.0+)
WordPress 1.5+ uses a system that takes the template to the next level –WordPress themes. Not only are there many wordpress themes which are freely available to download and use in your own blog, but you can use Ryan Boren’s ThemeSwitcher plugin to allow your weblog visitors to change your blog’s wordpress theme on the fly (which is pretty darn cool) (and yes, the ThemeSwitcher does work with WordPress 1.5+ even tho it was originally designed for 1.3)
Since I had to search all over the place to try to find WordPress templates (er, themes), I figured I’d save you all the time and maintain a list here of every single WordPress Theme I could find. I also tried to specify the rare WordPress themes with a three column layout. Make sure to bookmark this page, as I’ll be updating it regularly as more free wordpress themes become available.
Tremendous thanks to the authors who spent so much time putting together these wonderful WordPress themes. If you have (or know of) WordPress themes that I’ve missed, please email them to howtoblog (at) gmail.com or leave a comment about it. (Same goes if your theme is listed here and you want it removed).
NOTE: This comprehensive list of free WordPress Themes (as well as all of my posts on How to Blog) is protected under copyright laws and MAY NOT be reprinted without permission. I have spent over 100 hours thus far in creating, maintaining and updating this list, and will not tolerate those who attempt to steal it!
And now, without further ado, I present the (biggest?) list of over 980 free WordPress Themes for v1.5.x and up:
- 11:05 REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- 12 Apostle
- 15n41n1
- 2.Light
- 2cDarkGrey
- 2cGreen
- 2cOrange
- 2Exquisite REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- 3c-Black-LetterHead
- 3K2 3 column version of K2
- 3some REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- 5ThirtyOne Foliage tested with WordPress 2.0
- 80.1
- 82
- 8 Crazy Nights
- A Better Way to Clean
- A Blog Beyond
- A New Spring
- AAA Summer Jam NEW
- Aalglatt
- Abduction
- Abstrakt tested with WordPress 2.0
- Absrakt 3 column tested with WordPress 2.0 Has wordpress widgets support
- AC-Nucleus
- Accidental Khaki
- Aclide
- Ads Minded NEW tested with WordPress 2.0
- Ads Minded - Wide Version NEW tested with WordPress 2.0
- Adsense Ready Three Column
- Adventure
- Aesthetic tested with WordPress 2.0
- Aesthetic Azure
- Aidens Theme
- Akhdian tested with WordPress 2.0
- Afterglow
- Against It All
- AjaxContempt
- AjaxRegulus
- Akua
- Ala Moana
- Alamo For Hearty Texans
- Alice Blue
- All About Flowers
- Almost Spring tested with WordPress 2.0
- Almost Spring v1.3 REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Almodovar
- ALPHA for Churches
- Alpine REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Alternate 0
- Altitude
- Ambiru
- Amsterdam Nights tested with WordPress 2.0
- anarchy
- And Black Met White tested with WordPress 2.0
- And Black Met White II tested with WordPress 2.0
- Angel
- Angelical
- Anthosia tested with WordPress 2.0
- Anthosia2 NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Anthosia3c NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Antique-Modern
- Anthology REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Anthurium Mix tested with WordPress 2.0
- Aplus
- AquaFluid tested with WordPress 2.0
- Aquarium NEW tested with WordPress 2.0
- Archway
- Artsemerging tested with WordPress 2.0
- Arzel XT2
- Audyasha
- AukerTheme
- Autumn
- Autumn (by Jennifer)
- Autumn II
- Automatic Midnight
- Back in Black
- Back in Black 2 no longer only black, now supports 5 different colors
- Banana Smoothie
- Barthelme REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Baruson Mini Valley
- basic
- Basic Seriom
- Batavia 1.5 tested with WordPress 2.0
- Be Nice tested with WordPress 2.0
- Beach
- Beach House
- Beast Blog
- The Beauty Within
- Beeblebrox
- Benevolence
- BETA NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Bionic Jive
- Binary Blue REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Blackblood NEW
- Black-LetterHead
- Black LetterHead Three Columns
- Black Gloss tested with WordPress 2.0
- Black Gloss Tabs
- Blasé tested with WordPress 2.0
- blaxblog REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Biru Manteb V2
- Blindigo
- Blix
- Blocked
- Blocky
- BLOG.TXT REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- blogtimes
- Bloo
- Blook tested with WordPress 2.0 if you want your "blog to start at the beginning and end at the end"
- Bosa
- BloxPress Beta
- Blow Yo’ Mind, Man
- Blucrome
- Bluecube
- Blue Clouds V2
- Blue Curves
- Blue Horizon tested with WordPress 2.0 includes wordpress widgets support
- Blue House
- Blue Kino tested with WordPress 2.0
- Blue Leaves REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Blue Leaves V2
- Blue Mountain
- Blue Radiant
- Blue Tech
- Blueberry Boat
- Blue-Bye-You
- Bon Voyage
- Borderline Chaos tested with WordPress 2.0
- Boredom!
- Boredum
- Borobudur
- Bosa
- Boxy But Gold
- BoxyBlue
- Brajeshwar v7.0
- Branches
- Bricks (download here)
- Bright
- Brushed Simple
- Burnfield Dark
- Business
- c3ro fire
- c3ro silence
- Cameron Moll Grunge Mix
- Cartoon Love
- Categories
- Central Industrial
- Cereal Port
- ChaoticSoul
- Channing REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Cherry Berry
- Cherry Blossom
- ChinaRed
- ChipShot NEW
- Chocolate Bar
- Chocolate Candy
- Choices V.2 (Theme Builder)
- Chrome
- Chuck A Wobbly
- Citrus
- City Bridge
- Clasikue
- Classic Beauty
- CleanBlue
- CleanBreeze
- Clean Look
- Clean Slate
- ClearBlue
- Click designed specifically for photobloggers/photoblogging - requires plugins
- Cloudy
- Clueless
- Cnnesque
- Cocoa Stripes
- Coffee Cup tested with WordPress 2.0
- Coffee Time
- Coldplay NEW
- Collage Effect
- Complicated
- Conestoga Street
- Connections tested with WordPress 2.0
- Connections Reloaded tested with WordPress 2.0 includes wordpress widgets support
- Contempt
- Converse
- Conzep
- Copacetix
- Copperleaf Plus
- Corkboard
- Corporate Look
- Corporate Play
- Corporate Pro
- Correspondence
- Craving for Green REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Crimson Milk
- Crimson Sunrise
- Crisp and Clean
- Crop Circles
- Cub Reporter
- Cup O’ Joe
- Curtains Up
- Cutie in Any Color
- Cutie in Orange NEW
- Cutie in Red NEW
- D3S1GN ON3
- Daisy Rae Gemini
- Dancing Woman
- Dapit Hapon REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- DarkPad
- Dark Maple
- Dark Night tested with WordPress 2.0
- Darkfall
- Dash of Cinnamon
- Day Dream REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Deep Blue
- Deficient
- Deichnetz
- Delusions
- DescentBrown
- Descent Green
- Desert Theme
- Devenir En Gris
- DFire NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Dimension 2k
- Dimension 2k Green
- Dingle NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Disconnected tested with WordPress 2.0 includes wordpress widgets support
- Dixie Belle
- Dirt REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Dog Blog
- Dollars Theme
- Don’t Panic
- Don’t Ride With Hitler!
- Double Header
- Dragonfly
- Drive Theme
- Drunkey Love tested with WordPress 2.0
- DS Blog
- Duaempat
- Duct Tape Kids
- Durable REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Dusk
- Dusk v1.2 REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- DXX
- East View
- Echo 6
- Eclectic
- egoSconnesso[dot]net
- Electric Brown
- Electricity
- Elegant
- Elegant Blue
- Elvgren
- Emerson REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Emire
- Enlightened
- Ensellitis
- equiX
- Executive Pro
- Express Yourself
- Exquisite
- Extra! Extra
- f3Green
- fBlue
- fDawn
- fGala
- fGreen
- fHeaven
- fMulti
- fNice
- fOrange
- fScreen
- fSimple
- fSpring NEW tested with WordPress 2.0 includes wordpress widgets support
- fSubtle
- fTiny
- Fading Flowers
- Faintly Victorian
- Fall-In-Love
- Falling
- Falling Dreams
- Falling Dreams 2.0 REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Falling Leaves
- Fastlane
- FastTrack tested with WordPress 2.0
- Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti
- Festive
- Fighting the Darkness
- FireFox Theme
- Flawless Imperfection
- Fleur De Lys tested with WordPress 2.0
- Flex
- Flippin’ Sweet!
- Fluidity tested with WordPress 2.0
- FlyHigher
- FlyHigher 2.0
- Foliage Mod tested with WordPress 2.0
- Follow Me
- ForumED
- Foundation
- Framefake Theme
- Fresh
- Fresh Bananas
- Frusti
- Fundamental
- Funny Pictures
- G-S Theme
- GanjaPress
- Garden Log
- Gemini
- Gemini Black
- Gemini Blue
- Gemini Colored
- Gemini Green
- Gemini Pink
- Gemini Purple
- Gemini Red
- Gemini Tan
- Gemini Yellow
- Generic Unicol NEW
- Genesis
- Gentle Calm
- Gespaa
- Gespaa Theme Two Columns
- Gila
- Gila Lime
- Ginseng Coffee
- Giraffe
- Girl in Green
- Girls-Suck
- Glass People tested with WordPress 2.0
- Glyph
- Golden Grey Theme
- Goldie Purple REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Gossip Box (a wordpress theme designed to resemble MSN messenger)
- Got The Blues NEW
- GR 1.2
- Graffiti NEW
- Grass Template 1.5
- Gray and Pink
- Gray is Beautiful v2
- Gray Mantle REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Green Earth
- Green Marinee
- Green Mountain
- Green River
- Greenbay v2 NEW
- Greenie
- Greenery
- Greening REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- GreenTrack UPDATED
- Green Trees
- Greenwood
- Greetz
- Grey and Simple
- Grimelda
- Grubby Slipcovers
- h4×0r (hacker)
- HappyBlog
- Head
- Headspace
- Hemingway
- Hemingway Bright tested with WordPress 2.0
- Hemmed requires WordPress 2.0 NEW
- Hemsqui
- Highway Tunnel Bull
- Hiperminimalist
- Holiday tested with WordPress 2.0 Multiple holiday theme, supporting 20 holidays
- Horizontal (this wp theme requires visitors to have javascript enabled)
- Husna
- iGreenTrack
- I Always Wanted to be Tenenbaum
- I Like Grey
- I Remember
- I See Frogs
- I’m Just a Crosshair
- Ice
- IceBlue
- Iconis Triple REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Id Band 2 3 columns centered REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Identification Bands UPDATED (NOTE: this theme comes in 8 flavours, with choices for 4, 3, & 2 column layouts!)
- Idle Time
- IkIn 1
- Illumination
- Imhotep
- Impact
- Impressionist
- In Business
- In3D
- Industrial (needs work: still in alpha form)
- Industry v2
- Internet Jobs
- Internet Market tested with WordPress 2.0
- Intensive
- Involution
- Iridium
- Iris
- Irish
- Isla
- Istrania Autumn
- Japanese Cherry Blossom
- Jakarta
- JDBlue REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Jentri
- Jill Whiteclear REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Jive NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- JohnnyBlue
- Journalized (Blue)
- Journalized (Sand)
- Journalized (Winter)
- Juicy
- Juicy from sw4n.net NEW
- Just A Girl
- Just A Mindset
- Just Dashing
- Justux
- K2 REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- K2-Buttermilk beta REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- K2-Distorted beta REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- K2-Miniature beta REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- K2-Outbreak beta REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- K2 Reloaded REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Kampungku
- Kansas City tested with WordPress 2.0
- Kauderwelsch
- Kickass-Boxes in Blue
- Kickass-Boxes in Gold
- Kickass-Boxes in Jade
- Kickass-Boxes in Rose
- Kickass-Convergence
- Kickass Dune
- Kickass-Spookyblue
- Kickass-Squawk!
- KISS
- Kisses
- Kitten Love
- Kiwi Embedded inside are a few nifty tools that give the user the freedom to change the layout structure and components without delving into the code, and make navigating the site a bit more interesting for the reader"
- KKP Lite REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Krad
- Kubrick 1.5 - AllSidebar Edition
- Kurtina REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Lack of Love
- LactPlate
- Laila 2.0 includes wordpress widgets support tested with WordPress 2.0
- Laila
- Lampadina (Lightbulb)
- Landzilla
- Last Regrets
- Lazy Days
- Leaves
- Leaves Revamped includes wordpress sidebar widgets support tested with WordPress 2.0
- Leia NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Leone REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Lesbar
- LetterHead
- Let Them Eat Cake!
- Liberated
- LightCMS
- Light Purple Mod
- Lime & Simple
- Limecat
- LimeLite
- Lines Dark Grey
- Linucon 2
- Linux Force 1.0
- Littleguydesigns
- Liquid Summer tested with WordPress 2.0
- Lonely Lemon
- Long Way
- Loser
- Love4Love
- Love and Destroy
- Lucid
- Lucky Blue
- Lush REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Lush for wp1.5
- Lysergic Bliss
- Macaws
- Mallow
- Man~ja
- Manji and Manji2 (Manji2 is a two-column version of Manji.)
- Maple Leaf
- Martyr
- Mashed Spuds
- McFire
- McStars
- Meadow
- Mediocrity
- Mental Disorder REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Mesozoic
- Messala
- Meteora
- Metta Red
- Metropolis v2
- Microsano NEW
- Milc
- Milc3 tested with WordPress 2.0
- Milkxt
- Minim8
- Minima Plus
- Minimalist Sandbox NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support (options for 1 and 2 columns, as well)
- Mint Chocolate Chip Revamped
- Minty Green
- Mint Julep
- Minus One
- Mist
- Mixed Bouquet
- Modern tested with WordPress 2.0
- Modern World
- Movement
- MTsix
- Mullet
- Museum
- MW
- MX4
- My Favorite Scarf
- Mystical
- NAN theme
- Narnia
- Nature
- Nautica 2.2
- Nautica 05
- Neptune
- Neat!
- Neo-Sapien NEW
- Neon Scribbles
- Neuron
- News
- News Times Theme
- New York, New York NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- New Zen REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Nexus
- NFO Overload
- Nikynik
- Nikynik Blue NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Nikynik Green NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Nikynik Orange REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Nikynik Red NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Nine Inch Nails Black tested with WordPress 2.0
- Nine Inch Nails White tested with WordPress 2.0
- Nine Shades of Green tested with WordPress 2.0
- Ninja
- No Probs
- NoLimits tested with WordPress 2.0
- Northern Web Coders
- Nostalgia
- Notebook
- Number 2 v2
- Nyc
- Oasis
- Obsidian
- Ocadia tested with WordPress 2.0
- Ocadia v1.3 REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Ocean
- Off the Wall
- Offbeat
- Old School
- Old train
- OMEGA
- On Fire
- One Column
- OneF
- Online Business
- Operate
- Opus 68
- Orange
- Orange Rose
- OrangeScale NEW REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- ORANGEflower
- OrangeSky tested with WordPress 2.0
- Orchid tested with WordPress 2.0
- Out of the Blue tested with WordPress 2.0
- Out There
- Out There Widget Edition REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Oxymod
- Painted Desert
- Papillon
- Parishuddha
- Parker REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+
- Pastel v2
- Patriot
- Pelangi Ungu
- Pepper Press
- Persian
- Persnickety
- Phenom v2
- PhoenixBlue tested with WordPress 2.0
- PhoenixTheme tested with WordPress 2.0
- Photanical Theme
- Pink Butterflies
- Pink Curves
- Pink is the New Black
- Pink Winter
- Pinkalicious
- Pinstripes
- Placid
- Plain Grey
- Plain v2
- Plain Vanilla
- Plainrox
- plaintxtBlog REQUIRES WordPress 2.0+ includes wordpress widgets support
- Plane Jane
- Pod
- Poetic Love
- Polaroid designed specifically for photobloggers/photoblogging - requires plugins
- Pool tested with WordPress 2.0
- Pop Art
- Postcards From the Edge
- Prebuilt NEW
- PressRow tested with WordPress 2.0
- Pressy
- Pro
- Problogger Clean
- Prozac
- Pray for Mercy!
- PSI
- Psycho
- pumpkin
- Punk
- QBZ Theme
- Qwilm!
