40 of the Best Premium Drupal Themes

speckyboy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:16:15 +0000

Drupal is a powerful free and open source Content Management System, its easy to forget that it is very popular (over 6000,000 users) with only WordPress and Joomla eclipsing its popularity. Drupal is perhaps the most powerful and versatile of ALL CMSs, the only possible drawback could be that it is a little complicated to use for the first time user, but don’t let that put you off. With help from its huge dedicated community, and its very detailed documentation you will be up and running in no time.

Drupal themes aren’t traditionally beautiful, they are designed to be designed and developed upon, but we think you will agree, that the premium Drupal themes below are pretty nice.

Platino

Ligo

Kopt

ZincOut

Newspaper style

Endless XS

Copywrite

Luxe

Galapagos News/Magazine

Stingray Magazine

Pump Up The Volume

Publisher

Minimalist

Fola

Toluwaleye

Sonar

Structura

Viva Gallery

Presato

Wazoo

Heavenly Skies

Leo

UberAwesome

Clophy Shop

Fasade

Design

Publisher

Efficient

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By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

TextPattern, the Perfect WordPress Alternative – 15 Beautiful TextPattern Free Themes

Chris — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:18:54 +0000

Textpattern is a free and open source blogging (not limited to) content management system, written in PHP using a MySQL database, and with its own dedicated community is a flourishing and perhaps unappreciated blogging platform.

If you find that WordPress is a little overblown for your current project, why not give Textpattern a try. Installation is easy, you can design a unique template or theme in a snap, and it will manage all your posts, pages and rich media as well as any other blogging CMS. If you want that traditional blogging feel back, go with Textpattern.

Beautiful free themes are not just limited to WordPress, have a look at these themes below, they were all developed using Textpattern, and just like everything else involved with Textpattern they are free to download and use.

My Wishful Thoughts Textpattern Theme

Aleksandr Textpattern Theme

Fireplay Textpattern Theme

thinkr uppr Textpattern Theme

Information Architects Textpattern Theme

Text My Pattern Textpattern Theme

Textpattern Gaia Textpattern Theme

White and Wild Textpattern Theme

Blueprinted Textpattern Theme

Textplate Textpattern Theme

TXP_Dilectio_Theme Textpattern Theme

Merdeka Textpattern Theme

Yellowmint Textpattern Theme

Falling Away Textpattern Theme

Rin Textpattern Theme

Flexy – Developer Template Textpattern Theme

The Flexy is a blank template built especially for developers, it is simple and intuitive and if you use elements from this template you will soon learn how to develop using Textpattern. Follow the eight step “How To Use As A Template” guide and you will be well on your way to developing your first Textpattern theme, it is a lot easier than you think.