I read this question in a comment and though I had an answer from my own personal preference, I think it would be really helpful for others to make this decision and consequently for theme developers to get a good feel for where and what they should concentrate on if there were some discussion on it. I personally prefer one column themes with a minimal second column. Most information that is put on my sidebar(s) is extraneous and could be placed elsewhere. I have also found that some of that information deters from the original content of the blog. The landing page concept is nice for search engine traffic where extra links and information on the content might help you draw in the user to explore some more. However, the face of the blog is cleaner and chock full of good stuff to read with lesser distractions. That being said, […]

Shiny Things is a two column, pink white and beige theme. Sapphire style for K2 WordPress theme is a style for K2 based on the Sapphire theme. Strips is a two column, green, widget ready theme. Freedom is a two column WordPress theme with a left-hand sidebar. Freedom has a sunset-red background with a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty in the footer. Ygoent is a 2 column widget ready theme with a dark background, very bright colors. Qgrunge is a two column lime green theme. Orange Sunrise is a 2 Column, Orange, Brown, White and Gray, Fixed width, Widget ready theme. Check out Alastor’s themes.

Viewer makes it easy for bloggers to easily add ThinkFree or Microsoft Office documents to their blogs by simply attaching the document, spreadsheet, or a presentation to any post they write. TikiWikiFormatting lets authors use a subset of UseMod Wiki’s syntax to format posts more easily. Twitt-Twoo allows you to display and edit your twitter status directly from the sidebar of your blog. Bannage adds the ability to permanently ban users from commenting on your wordpress blog by their name, email address, URI or ip address (wildcards * allowed). wp-publications-archive is a WordPress plugin that allows administrators to upload and manage all sorts of files (i.e., publications). Additionally, end-users are able to navigate, search, and download them in the front-office. WP Ajax Newsletter is a WordPress plugin that allows users to subscribe and receive a newsletter containing the blog latest posts. Simple coComments is a simple WordPress Plugin to add […]

Google Launches Pay-Per-Action This new beta launch of Pay Per Action Ads from Google and AdSense has really gotten the affiliate marketing industry in a tiff (though I must be over estimating the reaction). In simple terms, you can setup keywords to display ads from, make them look like ordinary AdSense ads and when your user clicks the ads and performs a certain action, you get a cut. I love Andy’s spin on the issue. Of course the blogosphere is abuzz with this news. I know that Darren signed up for the beta test and I would love to hear some real feedback. Is this really another spin?

RockinPink is a girly 2 column, widgetized theme with brown and green accents, plus an easily changeable graphical header. Photoshop file included. Recetas theme is a simple, rounded, colorful, two columns WordPress theme. The Skittlish WordPress Theme is a port of Cristi Balan’s Mephisto theme. It’s a candy colored theme with seven color options plus options for fluid or fixed widths. Green Wave WordPress Theme is a two column, dark green, widget ready theme. PressCut is a fresh, clean, XHTML and CSS validated theme for WordPress by Gio based on Cutline Theme. Schizo has ten free header images for Cutline.

Nike+ iPod Stats plugin for WordPress is a great way to display to the world how you’re doing at your workouts. It uses Nike’s public API (the same one used for the official Nike widgets) to retrieve your personal data and formats it to display correctly on your WordPress blog. Flog Maker is an entirely self-contained alternative flash blog system that resides within a WordPress plugin, designed for absolutely seamless integration with your WordPress installation. Flashbox is is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page using a combination of Javascript and Flash 8. altrugon dropdown categories gives you a function called altrugon_dropdown_categories() which displays your categories in a drop down list and at the same time use the onchange() event to submit the chosen category. (Site in Spanish) Weather.com widget – shows forecast information for a city. Displays image related to current conditions.

This will be a three part series on link building for your blog. The first question we must ask is: Why do links coming to my site matter? The short version of it is that links pointing at your site do matter. For Google, those links mean PageRank. For Yahoo! and MSN, they mean value and search placement. PageRank is an extensive algorithm that calculates how your site (and pages) should be ranked in the search results. The higher PageRank you have, more often than not, the higher your site will be in the results. This is not always entirely true because of how the algorithm actually works, but that is the general idea behind it. But again, why do I care about this PageRank? You are reading this because you want to learn more about how to optimize your site for search engines. That is exactly the purpose of […]

Pre-Publish Reminder displays a pre-publish reminder tasklist on the Posts Admin Panel. The WordPress Access Keys Plugin allows you to add access keys to your pages and categories navigational menus that are called with wp_list pages and wp_list_categories respectively. Cricket Moods is a flexible “mood tag” WordPress plugin. It allows an author to add one or more “moods” to every post. Each mood can be associated with an image file. Meta Keywords Generator will scan your blog and find keywords that are used on each page. Then the keywords could be add to meta content keywords. Save Microformats saves posted Microformats using Technorati feeds. WP-chgFontSize is a WordPress plugin that allows users to change dynamically the font size by adding a text or image selection on your blog. TrackbackList creates two functions that can be used to display the list of sites that link to your post (or page).