WordPress Themes

Considerations

• Theme is maintained
• Responsive Layout for Mobile Support
• Retina Display Support (future)

Requirements for Client Who Wants Minimal

Client: Lois Lane
Website: Shopping Reviews

Client liked these sites,

Nice and simple - http://www.wendyslookbook.com/

http://www.extrapetite.com/search/label/Lookbook
http://www.wendyslookbook.com/

Requirement for Client Who Wants Photo Gallery

The purpose is to showcase art, photography or photos of family to share with others so it has the following additional requirements,

• Thumbnail Generation with automatic link to Original High Quality File
• Nice Gallery Layout

The actual Instragram Blog layout is very good and meets all the criteria except for,

• Should have titles grouping photos (by date or event)
• The automatic dynamic scrolling, I'm not a big fan of personally. On the fence if it adds usability or confuses users. However, just noticed in other profiles you can change to a load more button.
• Zoom view does not seem high quality (but this might be on purpose)

Shortlist,

Evolutiion - responsive, simple, up to date, packaged with other well done themes - http://elegantthemes.com/preview/Evolution/

• Don't like ow the images link, there are two icons one for expand and another for link (however we may be able to customize this).

BigBang - meets all criteria and the other ones done by this company look very good - http://demo.brankic.net/?theme=BigBangWP

• Don't like how the images link, there are two icons one for expand and another for link.

Theme Stores

http://themeforest.net/ - Very large collection, well organized.

http://press75.com/ - Another one, I might like Social Life near the bottom.

http://theme.wordpress.com/ - Wordpress.com's own website.

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/ - WordPress also has GPL themes with paid support.

Reviewing

Nice Black and White - http://themeforest.net/item/haze-beautiful-wordpress-theme/2485338?ref=deliciousthemes&ref=deliciousthemes&clickthrough_id=88286930&redirect_back=true

Look and Feel = Great, limited to light or dark
Layout = Clean
Gallery = Yes, multiple
Menu = Drop Down 
Cost = $40
Mobile Support = ? 

Device friendly, simple but shows up a lot in searches - http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/evolution/

Reading

Theme Reviews with Ranking System - http://www.themegrade.com/elegantthemes-rating/

Theme Reviews - http://www.ourtuts.com/best-wordpress-themes-june-2012/

Another good review - http://www.ourtuts.com/35-incredible-wordpress-themes-of-september-2012/