Love it :) Nice attention to detail without feeling too busy.

It doesn’t look like it supports Pages or am I missing something?

Looks a very nice theme, not overly convinced on the background but it does make a change from the popular wooden background for such designs.

Just a heads up, none of the smashing magazine images are showing up in the rss feed (feedburner version)

Great looking theme — definitely a lot of interesting details here but it does all tie in together nicely. Well done!

Very nice, congrats!!

Beautiful, very inspirational piece of work!

Looks really cool. Great job!

Very nice free theme!
Image problems in the RSS feed though as mentioned above

OoOo pretty! I love the color scheme… Nice work!!

Is it just me or is this webdisegnerwall.com copy…just slightly different elements and a different background in identical style.
Yes, it is really nice, I am not denying the skills and the good looks, I just had to say whay I had :).

@Tristina - you could add pages into the sidebar, no problem. Use the Pages widget, or drop the wp_list_pages template code into your sidebar.php file

@zhille - it’s not Web Designer Wall - it uses a similar style, but other than that it’s a different theme. Possibly highly inspired by WDW, but yeah, like, show me something that is 100% new and original :)

Cool theme guys!

really nice work !!!! there should be more themes like this one !

@zhille

WDW didn’t invent the style, it’s nowhere near a copy.

Very “inspired” by Webdesigner wall…

very nice ;)
see our wordpress web design at Link [www.duivesteyn.com.au]

That’s beautiful… thanks for sharing it

Webdesigner Wall was one of the many illustration-driven sites that inspired me to create this theme.

Nice, though a little rough around the edges.

This is so cool, thanks

Evan, it’s a really fine theme, maybe it’s the best that has been featured on SM in terms of aesthetics. My only concern is that the date element is not well integrated with the overall design, in the way Latest Posts, blog title and others are. Great work.

I Love this! Is anyone out there ready to convert it to a blogger theme….?

Great theme! Reminds me of Link [ma.tt] a little bit.

very nice theme!!!

I wish I could desain like you!!!

looking nice.thanks for this theme

I love the design style … Nice work!! :)

I was just thinking today about setting up a new blog on wordpress, and then I fell upon this! Brilliant design, smashing to the core. Love you guys!

thanks for sharing! this looks like something i can use and tweak for my needs :) great job :)

Suspiciously like web designer wall, still looks nice though.

I love this theme. The only problem I am having is with the link to the archives page. For some reason it keeps linking to the about page. Does anyone know how the correct Link []

love this one!

that’s absolutely stunning!
beautiful work, and thank you so much for making it free!
E.

Nice!

Oooh I like this one. Love the style. Thanks for making it free!

Nice theme

pages are on footer ;)

The date is like something from mars ….

wow. its really cool!

love the background. the rest could be a little bit ‘cleaner’, though

Awesome.

Beautiful! looks really nice. And with all the informations like the psd-file i will be able to make it look a little more male. ;-)

Usualy I don’t even take a glance at these artuicles, cause I donøt need a wordpress-theme. I don’t use it. :)

But this theme… Oh my Lord. The picture of it on the homepage… I just had to take a look at it. Så vibrant colors and such a wonderfulle pattern… And I must say- Im not dissapointed! It is very, very beautifull! And as much I love the background pattern I thik it would be easy to replace with some of my own work… I just have to publish something that LOOKS original- and would never use this design- even thoug it IS beautifull!

Only the date-stamps I don’t really like. They kinda stick out of the rest of the design i think.

But thanks! Perhaps I should make a wordpress-blog of my own??

Wow, I love this theme! I’m a sucker for notebook-y themes.

Nice palette.

I would just like to add a HUGE thank you for sharing the PSD
This alone gives me so many ideas and helps understand how professional designers work.
Almost as useful as the beautiful design

totally agree with Zhille… but nice work anyway…

Very inspired by Link [www.ma.tt] and webdesignerwall, but it’s very cool!

Don’t mean to be rude, but it seems a bit of a poor-mans WDW…

Good effort though, just seems a little messy and unfinished, try working on the contrast and shading, all seems to be way out.

really nice work !!!thanks..

Isn’t ‘About’ a page?

Pretty, but these kind of designs using photoshop brushes are a bit overdone nowadays!

BEAUTIFUL..period!

all these people moaning about contrast and what not. back up your claims!
I happen to think Evan has done a great job and looks spot on.
To much polish would very much detract from the sketchy look of the design. If you don’t like then don’t use it.
I for one will probably be using this as a bare bones for a theme I might adapt.

I think the more examples we see in the open of how unique designs are put together the better we will all be at understand how to realise our ideas.
so giev the guy a break for giving us his hard work for FREE

Great job on the theme! I’m even convinced to give up the theme of the last three years on my blog and change it to this! It’s perfect for personal blogs.

Great work!

@Elisa: I’m sure there would be quite a few people willing to convert this for Blogger, but they would need permission from Smashing Magazine and Evan Eckard first! There are a few similar designs (made for Blogger) available over at BTemplates.com though (for free download).

WOW, is so beautiful!! Thank you!

wow…. its really nice theme!

really awesome - home taste - theme

I’ve installed it into my blog. Link []

Beautiful, very inspirational piece of work!

awesome theme!

omfg

Very Nice Theme!

nice color scheme and attention to detail, but this notepad/paper clip/post it note style is a bit dated IMO

A very pretty theme!

really great theme :)

well done, thx

looks good but not a editable theme.

Thanks for the theme, very beautiful.
Is there any way to add widgets to the sidebar?

I know it’s been said, but this is a Web Designer Wall’s slightly uglier twin brother.

I like the background illustration - the colour’s cool and unique - however the rest just doesn’t fly.

The date tabs look completely out of place. The recent posts looks like its been cut out with the eraser tool. The typography is dull and disengaging. Instead of dropshadows it seems the background’s been erased.

No depth. Bad Photoshop. Bad design. Good background image (was it stock?).

Beautiful work there.

Realmente bello !!!

es muy buen trabajo, realmente genial.

alguien podria ayudarme a instalarlo ?

Gracias !!!

Use the Pages widget? How? This theme is not widget-aware.

Beautiful theme! Thanks for sharing.

I love this theme. It was exactly what i had been looking for! @henry - stuff it. you are wrong. thank you very much. I took it and am using it already!

@Henry Hoffman - the top of the recent posts was cut out w/ the eraser tool :)

And yes, the background was erased at certain parts to bring more focus onto the content. I tried a drop shadow and outer glow from the notepad, but that rendered the design way too busy. So in the end, I masked off certain areas of the background.

This is seriously one of the most beautiful designs I have seen in a very long time. Amazing!!!!

Grasias!

Lovely. Thanks so much for sharing.

Looks fine, but is acting a little weird on the top…?

Oh my Lord! You’re such a sour grape!
If you can make it better yourself- and still want to give it up for free- DO SO!

Else: button your tounge!

I love it ! I love it ! I love it! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for one of my blog.

This theme is amazing, thank you.

çok oş bir tema umarım erhan abim bu temayı türkçeleştirir

@ Sandie Sørensen

If you feel that people with constructive criticism should ‘button their tongue’, then you are going to have rather dull and unchallenging future.

I’m sure Evan will take on-board helpful negative comments and use them to his advantage in the future, because that is how you progress in life.

Secondly, I was also just expressing my opinion, which I am free to do.

I like the design and the overall metaphor, but I have to replace the background. I don’t care how cliche, the whole wood, desktop background thing is, to me it just completes the metaphor. That being said, I’m having a nightmare of a time changing out the background. The theme relies on a solid color in the background and can’t be easily remixed to use a texture/pattern instead. I’m bummed, but not giving up just yet.

@Evan: Thanks for the theme, but thank you even more for the valuable lessons I’ve learned.

Hi,

I’m looking for a free wordpress theme designer to redesign the theme of my blog. Of course, you’ll could publish them here, in Smashing Magazine :)

Thank you!

Germán
Link [www.iccc.es]

wow It is very pretty. I like to its color

Very nice theme, I’d really like to use it, however I have 8 years of posts, some of which contain images. The theme doesn’t allow any images other than the thumnail field to appear. I’ve tried different workarounds and I can’t seem to get them to show (@ max-width to 425)? I’d really like to use the theme, any idea how I can tweak it for my images?

This is a very cool theme. I’m using it on my site!

I’ll have to change a few things around, but overall, this is by far one of the nicest looking free themes available.

Great theme :) I am going to use this on my Personal blog…….

Thanks a lot to Smashing Mag …

It’s beautiful. I love it.

But. And it’s a BIG but.

No sidebar widget capabilities?
Limited picture sizes in the posts?

It’s a beautiful theme, but pretty much unusable for 99% of folks out there that want to use it!

No sidebar widget capabilities?

nope.
i hope it can include that as well.

it’s great, thanks evans

Evan’s own site has the coolest nav bar I’ve seen in a long time. I spent an hour one evening deconstructing it to see how it worked, and if I could replicate it. I believe his site was featured in an earlier Smashing Mag column.

Hey Need Theme Provided Viia vevin.com his 1st adsense ready wordpress theme i need the download link of that.will u provide me that

nice theme. Must visit this site more often

very good !

I love this theme and have chosen it for my personal blog. I do miss the widget-ability and will be investigating how to add… my dashboard says there is no sidebar defined on this theme, so I will investigate how to do that also (I’m “novice class” blogger. *grin*)

Since my blog is a family blog, it is photo-heavy. I have found no problems with either my full sized pics or my thumbnails. It may make a difference that I am using the Link [amiworks.co.in] plugin.

Great work on the theme. It looks GREAT!

Thank you Amanda for responding, I’ll have a look at BT too :)

Hello.
Wonderful theme. I’m going to use it. I was just wondering what’s the font we used for the handwritting? It’s because my blog doesn’t have an archives page so I wanna change it for another page. Can you tell me please? Thanks in advance

Whoops! I spoke to soon. It seems that pictures that are too wide for the main column (posts) disappear in my version of IE (I usually use Firefox). I am manually going in and reducing the size of those too-wide pics, but if anyone comes up with a fix, I’d love to know about it.

I would LOOOOOOOOOVE to use a theme as beautiful as this, but I can’t because it’s not coded to accommodate the built in gallery function of wordpress, i’ve only run across two or three themes that are coded for the gallery, and even they make the pictures small, i have my pictures about 800 px wide, and i usually need a fluid theme, and unfortunately i only have one fluid theme that doesn’t drop the sidebar to show my pics… i should be happy that i have found ONE such theme, but i would love to be able to use themes like yours

I just want to say 2 word about this theme: KEREN BANGET!! In Indonesian, it means REALLY REALLY REALLY COOL …
Good job!! I’ll use it for my blog … :)

hi i really love this theme a lot too… just like comments no. 100, I would love to have the font as well. Because i wanna edit bits and pieces here. Thanks!!

such a nice theme, and I have got it

it reminds me of webdesignerwall.com.

but maybe it just me

It is really BEAUTIFUL!
I love how it looks, very personal, it makes you see that you are really looking at the inner thinkings of the writer.
Love it.

Very Beautiful Theme! applied it to Link [www.cssmodel.com] Thanks!!!

woa woa, super excelent, very very nice, thank you so much.

I added the archives page by using the WP write new page, and then selected the page template for archives. It worked, but the font has no css style applied to it. I’m sure people will be able to sort that out.

I was wondering though…..

On the home page allof the post is shown, rather than an intro or excerpt. How can I set that you only see the whole post once you have clicked on it?
Thanks again :)

I am trying to set this up, but the Archives page is showing nothing!
Link [gryffn.com]

Also, is there any way to get an “Edit” option on each post? (no harm in asking)

Ingrid Balko

you have to create a page in WP called Archives and then at the bottom of the write new page, there is a drop down asking for a page template, use the archives template and it should work.

Thank you! That’s what it needed - saving as a template and it works!

Any chance of this being converted for Blogger? Love this design, it’s beautiful!

No worries.

wow…!!!

Nice theme.. thinking of using it in my blog

Hey thanks everyone for the kind words. This theme was a beast to get into HTML, so my apologies if it’s tough to customize. With so many design elements interacting with one another (and sticking w/ gif files to make the theme multiple browser compatible) when I’d get one piece of the theme working, another would break elsewhere. So the final design is pretty set in stone to get the visual effect.

Props to dandyman for the awesome variation!

Also, I keep getting asked about the font… unfortunately, that’s my own scanned handwriting, so no font exists. There are some good alternatives out there though that work awfully well. I’ll post alternatives here as I can find or remember them.

Parts of the background image was taken from an iStock illustration (which I purchased the extended digital usage rights too) mixed in with multiple hand drawn elements.

And thanks to Vitaly and Sven for allowing the theme to be free and available!

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I say it : ” I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu” :) Thanks …

I realize that there really are no original ideas in this world, but a couple of the elements here look an awful lot like my site. Link [chrisberryonthe.net]

Blogger version?

Can someone tell me how you would classify the background design? I’ve seen this style a lot recently, and would like to see more of it, but I’m not sure what to search for. What would you call that kind of design/art?

This theme is really beautiful! If I had just any reason to open a 2nd blog I`d use this one!

LOL! totallty rip of Webdesigners Wall… Lame.

This theme is really cool and i want to use it, thanks a lot man. you’re awesome.

I don´t get Part III of the Readme…
What is exactly this custom field and how do I activate it?
Please help me!

Beautiful theme btw!

I love this theme and have converted it for use on my Movable Type blog. It’s taken 3 days to get it all right and I still have some tidying up to do.

Link [mt4.juneeonline.com]

Thank you so much.

Oh, so great theme!
Look it very nice, I like it so much, thanks !!!

Out of all the themes that I have looked at here this one seems to have imagination and personality and there for the only one wroth downloading. You should be proud of the work you do. Please do more like this.

I loved this theme so much I converted it over to Tumblr for my wife’s site. I changed a couple of things on it so it would work a little better on Tumblr. You did a really great job with the theme! I hope to see more from you.

Here’s my post about it:
Link [www.andrewacomb.com]

Here’s my wife’s Tumblr site that is using the theme:
Link [jenniferacomb.tumblr.com]

very nice. please advise me can this be used offline on my own pc as I am not interested in using php.
.thanks

I have requested permission from Evan to distribute this theme as a plugin for Movable Type users and am requesting permission from Smashing Magazine to do so. I have made only slight modifications, which you can see on the test design: Link [mt4.juneeonline.com]

I couldn’t find any contact link other than this form to request permission to use to redistribute the theme, so I’m hoping you’ll contact me with permission.

Thanks again,
Toni

This really is a beautiful design. I’m using it for my blog and I wanted to say thank you!

Very nice, Thank’s!

I want this widgetized :(

Blogger version here :
Link [gosublogger.com]

erm kindergarten question here..

how am i suppose to install it and make it as my theme?
and i didnt purchase the custom CSS upgrade.

a lil help/tutorial here plss

Really nice layout, but how can i take this txt away from it

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

Nice theme.

Hello !

Just to say thank you for this theme, since last week I use it on my blog :

http://blog.shigaepouyen.net

Bye,

JC.

Just say thank u

Great, great, great theme. Edited the header and footer to fit my most recent project, Link [urbanbricks.com]. Thank you Evan Eckard!

Bardzo ładny temat, raczej na pewno go użyję.

While the post title is being hovered in IE7, thumbnail moves to left.

I want to add an ad on my “about” page, can you tell me how to do that? I don’t know which file I should edit.

Also, it’ll be nice if you separate the footer paragraph and “about” page. I want to put different content in my footer and “about”, but right now they are the same!

Really beautiful and eye-catching layout though. This is definitely love at first sight, I knew I want it the first time I saw it!

Great theme, thanks.
I need to change the color from background (#3f808a), and use one image, but still using the image in top (page-back.jpg), but dont know how to make. Can someone help, please. Is very important

so cool~! I love it~!

Hi, I reeeaaally like this theme, but I’ve got a problem… I have no clue how to set it up on my blog, just started my own yesterday. Did I miss any instructions??

hey nice one! im using this now! :D

Do you have the whole background picture of this theme? I mean a whole one,without the part of the content and sidebar picture upon it.I really like it ,if you have it, can you give it to me?

this is an awesome theme, thank you so much. I edited the bg to match my theme, Link [www.awkwardlions.com] all credits to you!

Got a new one for you all… Link [www.evaneckard.com]

The font used for this awesome theme It’s called “Jerry’s Handwriting Font”. You can find it here:
Link [www.dafont.com]

Oh, sorry for my previous comment, but I have been verifying the font used in the template and incledibly “it is really hand made“. Why do I know?? Ok! check the images in the template folder and compare the “E” used in all the images that contains it, and you will see that every “E” is different. So, now you know, type the letters with your own hand, scan it and insert it in the template PSD file.

Good Luck.

I saw this theme and try to see if it is a custom theme. Luckily you did put smashing icon on the footer and that is how I know where to find this theme.
Thanks a lot!

thank for your kindness
this theme makes me inspiration

nice one. really really like it. keep up the good work

HEy!
Great work, Congratulations, now you theme arrive to latin America.