Though the use of smileys and emoticons have exploded recent years, it is actually not a new and hip invention. The first smiley face is dated back to 1963 where freelance artist Harvey Ball designed a yellow button with two black dots for eyes and an upturning curve for mouth. Several decades later, it has become a household name that is broadly used and understood by people of all ages.

Smileys and emoticons caught on during the MSN chat era where especially teenagers worldwide found the illustrations great for expressing or highlighting a feeling through images. Do to the popularity the market for creating new variations of the classic smileys and emoticons boomed and the smiley trend spread throughout the Internet. Where the smileys and emoticons used to be restricted to chats online all of a sudden they found their way into e-mails, text messages and designs.

Today there is a great amount of different designs available online some based on themes, others animated and some are static. – And each day new design ideas are drawn and uploaded into this mass. Coming up with a unique design that are spot on the emotion yet with a fun twist might seem hard at first however, by looking at some of the great designs already created by others you might come up with a unique design of your own. In some cases, using the designs already available is preferable – especially if you are working on a project for a client where the smiley or emoticon is just an element of the assignment and not the foundation of the project.

For this article, I have found quite a few examples of truly amazing and creative smileys and emoticons for designers to use in their work. The quality is high and the selection is diverse making it a great tool to browse through and find the icon you need. I hope you will find this resource helpful. Enjoy!

Iconset: Vista Style Emoticons Icons by Icons-Land – MORE INFO

VF Emoticons – MORE INFO

Iconset: Purple Monsters Icons by Deleket  – MORE INFO

Chibi Xion Emoticons – MORE INFO

28 Gummy Emoticons Pack – MORE INFO

Jelliemotes First Set – MORE INFO

Onion Club Emoticons – MORE INFO

Very Emotional Emoticons – MORE INFO

The Blacy – MORE INFO

Yolks – MORE INFO

Face Avatars – MORE INFO

Blueticons – Win – MORE INFO

16 Non Rasterized Emoticons Pack – MORE INFO

Woofie Adium Theme – MORE INFO

Keriyo Emoticons – MORE INFO

Matte Motes Emoticon – MORE INFO

Emoji – MORE INFO

Dont Leave Me Alone Plz – MORE INFO

Emoticons – MORE INFO

Emoticons: SHREK – MORE INFO

AJ Emoticons SPOILERS – MORE INFO

Friendly Fire Emoticons- MORE INFO

2S Emotions V1 – MORE INFO

Smiley Face – MORE INFO

Mask Emoticons – MORE INFO

Shiny Smiley Icons – MORE INFO

Emix  1 Emoticons Pack – MORE INFO

Cutest Panda Emoticons – MORE INFO

Pidgin ‘Old’ Tango Smilies – MORE INFO

Emotion Icon Pack – MORE INFO

Rainbow Icons – MORE INFO

Icon Texto Emoticons – MORE INFO

Giant Green Vector Emote Pack – MORE INFO

Micro ServBot Emoticons – MORE INFO

Halloween Pumpkin Emoticons Icons Pack – MORE INFO

Tango Emotes – Devil Extension – MORE INFO

Creepy Emoticons – MORE INFO

POPO Emotions Full Version – MORE INFO

Free AI Vector Smiley Pack – MORE INFO

Grassy Icon Design – MORE INFO

Free Windows 7 Emoticons – MORE INFO

36 Square Emoticons Pack – MORE INFO

Water Drop Emoticons – MORE INFO

Halloween Avatars- MORE INFO

Say – MORE INFO

Packs Emoticons A Gogo – MORE INFO

Vector Smiley Pack – MORE INFO

Free Goblin Emoticon Set – MORE INFO

Yolks 2 – MORE INFO

Emoticons – MORE INFO

Emoticons Sheet 2 – MORE INFO

DRLM Emoticons Pack V1 – MORE INFO

Most designers working with Photoshop have a large number of different brushes in their toolbox. Nevertheless from time to time even the best Photoshop brush hoarder will come short on brushes. Especially high quality brushes takes time to find and collect. There are different ways to achieve a personal touch to a design. Besides hand-drawn brushes you can also use handwritten fonts as they also help emphasize the personal look and lightens the expression in a design.

As hand-drawn design is hard to pinpoint I have ended up with quite a large collection of different brushes, which all fits the need of adding hand-drawn elements to a design. If you find this collection useful, I would appreciate if you would share it with your followers and friends in the social medias.

90 Hand drawn arrow and symbol Photoshop brushes – MORE INFO

Set of 90 hand drawn arrow and symbol Photoshop brushes. These come handy when you want to add call to action arrows or a little creative touch to your designs.

BrushSet 47 – HandmadeDoodles2 – MORE INFO

For Photoshop 7 and above. Image pack included, in case you have a previous PS version and these brushes don’t work for you or if you use a different software.

Brush Set 45 – HandmadeDoodles – MORE INFO

For Photoshop 7 and above. Image pack included, in case you have a previous PS version and these brushes don’t work for you or if you use a different software.

PS Brushes: Hand drawn feather – MORE INFO

Brushes can be used on  Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop CS, Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop CS3

Mountain and Tree brushes – MORE INFO

Of each brush there are 4 versions. Mountains: Outlined,  Outlined & Lined, Outlined, Lined & Shaded, Outlined, Lined, Shaded & Patterned, Trees: Outlined, Outlined with border between trunk and leaves, Outlined with border & Lined, Outlined with border, Lined & Patterned

Gurlys Borders  – MORE INFO

6 Borders for ps5.0 and up hand drawn and made in to brushes for your use

Love brushes – MORE INFO

72 brushes for Photoshop.

Hand-Drawn Abstract Sketches: Photoshop Brush Pack – MORE INFO

This free brush set contains 20 hand-drawn-style abstract sketches as well as PNG files for each brush. They are perfect for accenting your design projects with a touch of sketch-style elements. The brushes are between 400-2,000px wide.

Flora Sketches: Photoshop Brush Pack – MORE INFO

This free brush set contains 10 hand-drawn-style, nature-inspired sketches as well as PNG files for each brush. They are perfect for accenting your design projects with a touch of sketch-style flowery elements. The brushes are between 400-1,600px wide.

78 Hand-made Photoshop Brushes – MORE INFO

78 high quality hand-made brushes (resolution up to 2500px) for Adobe Photoshop. Pack is compatible with Photoshop 7 & newer versions. It is a collection for modern, artistic designs with various painted scrawls, grungy style & other artistic graphic projects.

.15 drawn flower brushes – MORE INFO

Hand drawn tree – MORE INFO

A tree drew in ArtRage…may be useful or not…

And Its Flowers – Brushes – MORE INFO

Urban Scrawl Photoshop Brushes – MORE INFO

29 brushes made in photoshop CS

Random Da Vinci Sketches – MORE INFO

Random Da Vinci sketches. 13 brushes. PS7+.

hand drawn swirl brush – MORE INFO

This is 2 set of brush. It’s hand drawn swirl brush

swirlSetO1 – MORE INFO

The abstract swirls are hand-drawn and traced in Photoshop, while the heart is pure Photoshop.

Beach Sketches Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of beach themed elements. These were all drawn by hand! They are high resolution, with the average size being about 1900 pixels.

Brush Set 42 – SwirlyScribbles – MORE INFO

For Photoshop 7 and above. Image pack included

Twizzles HiRes – PS Brushes – MORE INFO

-A set of 16 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes (300ppi) -Created in Photoshop CS2 –. png Image files for non photoshop users are included.

brushes 02 :: whirls – MORE INFO

Made for photoshop 7.0

Hand Drawn Dango Brushes – MORE INFO

Hand drawn Dango Daikazoku! 18 high resolution brushes [2500px] in 1 .abr file.

Hand-Drawn Runes Brush Pack – MORE INFO

Used the runes that ~Elabeth had drawn and made them into a photoshop brush pack. They are hand-drawn so they look rough – that is how they are supposed to look!

Handmade Halos 2 brush set – MORE INFO

This is a PhotoShop 8 brush set with 8 large-scale brushes. It should work with Gimp, Corel, etc. All halos are hand-drawn with ink.

Handmade Halos brush set – MORE INFO

This is a PhotoShop 8 brush set, with 8 brushes.

Makeup + Face Sketches Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of bottles and tubes of various types of makeup. Also includes various facial elements (eyes, nose, lips), and makeup to go on them.

Hand Drawn Patterns 3 – MORE INFO

Third Photoshop Brush set, High resolution. Made it in cs3.

Floral ornament brushes – MORE INFO

These are 10 hand-drawn floral brushes for PS 0.7 and higher

Brush Set 48 – Plant Things – MORE INFO

For Photoshop 7 and above. Image pack included, in case you have a previous PS version and these brushes don’t work for you or if you use a different software.

flower doodle brushes – MORE INFO

This is a sample set that includes 4 brushes for you to download and use freely.

Doodled Trees – MORE INFO

This is a set of cool hand drawn trees. PeeHa.com used Adobe Illustrator CS4 to color the thumbnail. Colored the preview image using BrushPortfolio.com’s water color stroke brushes.

Flower Sketches Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various flower sketches. Most are around 1700 pixels high or wide, so they’re very high resolution.

Scale Brush Pack 1 – MORE INFO

Work well when used to make small highlights, or as a base for other hand drawn scales in the area. The first three brushes emphasize the middle scale, to try and show a bit of curvature underneath the scales.

School Dayz Sketches Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of school themed items. These were all drawn by hand! They are high resolution, with the average size being about 1800 pixels.

Cute Faces – MORE INFO

This Photoshop brush set contains 101 emotional faces that can be used to add drama to pictures of food or anything you like.

Hand Drawn Hearts 2 – MORE INFO

A set of 51 hearts hand drawn.

Photoshop Brushes- Hearts – MORE INFO

23 or 24 heart brushes. All drawn by hand with an ink pen and the help of stencils.

Scribbled Heart Brushes – PS – MORE INFO

Made with Photoshop CS3. Obviously, Photoshop Only.

Tribal Heart Brushes – MORE INFO

Two Tone Hearts – MORE INFO

Map Symbols – MORE INFO

There are MANY MANY brushes in this set, (more than 30) including many mountains, rivers, city markers, a compass, and the symbols for marsh, prairie, forests, hills, farmland and so forth.

photoshop brushes – MORE INFO

There’s 87 of them. obviously, not all of them are shown in the preview image.

Travel Sketches Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of travel themed elements. These were all drawn by hand! They are high resolution, with the average size being about 2100 pixels.

PS – Curly Hair Brushes – MORE INFO

High resolution, around 1300 to 1700 px

Sketchy Arrow Brushes – MORE INFO

28 sketchy arrow brushes. Made with Photoshop CS2

arrow doodle brushes – MORE INFO

Set includes 32 arrow doodle brushes. They were created in Photoshop version 7.0

12 Arrow Brushes – PS7 and CS3 – MORE INFO

A brush pack of 12 hand drawn arrows (made specifically for PS7). This may work in later versions.

Free Photoshop Brushes: Doodles Part 1 – MORE INFO

This set contains 40 ! brushes created in Photoshop 7.0.

SFW brushes v1 – MORE INFO

These were originally made for the Stick Figure War 6 mosaic, but can be used for other stuff as well. The 349 brushes are divided into 10 thematic brush files and allow for a lot of different interaction.

Hand drawn flower brushes – MORE INFO

The size varies around 300px. They can be used in wallpapers and in other bigger art works as well as in icons.

Hand Drawn Rose Brushes – MORE INFO

MISC ITEMS photoshop brushes – MORE INFO

Spiderweb Brushes – MORE INFO

5 separate brushes/stamps.

Stick Men Brushes – MORE INFO

Six brushes, work on PS7 and above

Photoshop Pencil Brush – MORE INFO

This brush for PS is handy for doing more visually interesting sketches that can add a nice layer of texture for you to paint on top of, as well as just making nicer looking digital drawings. Get some grit in those lines!

Sketchbook Scribble Brushes – MORE INFO

A new set of brushes.. this time with an elephant. Added a few hearts in for good measure, as its valentines day. 22 brushes made in photoshop CS

stencil word brushes – MORE INFO

Set includes 20 stencil word brushes. They were created in Photoshop version 7.0

star brushes – MORE INFO

Set includes 35 star doodle brushes. They were created in Photoshop version 7.0

Stars Brushes  – MORE INFO

There are more than enough star brushes on here but these work in PS7 and above

Sweet Shop Sweet Brushes – MORE INFO

Hand drawn (minus one) brushes to use for patterns, or whatever you want.

Skys Random Brush pack – MORE INFO

These brushes where made with photoshop CS3

Hand Drawn Hearts s2 by ling – MORE INFO

Hand drawn hearts Photoshop brushes

Wyndsong Tat Designs – MORE INFO

PhotoShop 6 brushes……various hand drawn designs with a tattoo theme.

The idea phase may be a time consuming process, but once you have the idea worked out, it takes technical skills, experience and even more time to create your own unique design. As the time going into creating a client specific design is often not in tune with the amount of money the client expects to spend, you might want to have a look at some of the great free iPhone and iPad GUI element templates other designers have made available as free download.

Just as you can find inspiration on designing icons for iOS and iPad you can also find a bunch of awesome free design element templates available for iPad and iPhone. Not only will these GUI element templates help you speed up the design process, you are also quite sure that the designs work. In addition, you have an early prototype to present for your client instead of “doodles on a paper” which will cut down the time spend on planning dramatically. If you also need inspiration on iOS user interface designs and tutorials you might want to have a look at this article.

For this article, I have found more than 30 absolutely cool free iPhone and iPad GUI element templates you can use in your design. Please let me know in a comment what you think of these types of templates – do you use them yourself? Enjoy!

iPhone PSD Vector Kit – MORE INFO

iPhone GUI PSD – MORE INFO

iPhone GUI Elements – MORE INFO

Apple iPhone 4S .PSD – MORE INFO

MobileMe Full GUI Beta10 – MORE INFO

Surface iPhone UI Kit – MORE INFO

Matte iPhone UI v1.1 – MORE INFO

Glyphish – Icons for mobile apps – MORE INFO

Icon Sweets – MORE INFO

iPhone 3G-3GS PSD – MORE INFO

iPhone GUI as Rich Symbols for Fireworks – MORE INFO

FreshBooks iPhone Application GUI – MORE INFO

MobileMe Full iPhone GUI – MORE INFO

Touchscreen Hand Gestures v2 – MORE INFO

Full Set of Stencils for Sketching iPhone, iPad & Android – MORE INFO

Sexy Vector Cell Phone – MORE INFO

ipad vector GUI elements: tabs buttons menus icons – MORE INFO

iPad GUI Kit in PSD Format is Here! – MORE INFO

iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle – MORE INFO

iPad GUI PSD (Retina Display) – MORE INFO

iPhone UI Vector Elements – MORE INFO

Fresh iPhone UI Kit – MORE INFO

Free iphone toolbar icons – MORE INFO

Icons: Free iPhone Toolbar Icons – MORE INFO

Lion Ui Kit Preview – MORE INFO

Ultimate iPhone Stencil – MORE INFO

Download a Stencil Kit – MORE INFO

Mac OS X Interface 2 – MORE INFO

iPhone 3G Stencil – MORE INFO

iPad and iPhone Design – MORE INFO

Apple iPad: Fully editable PSD – MORE INFO

The paintbrush (B) in Photoshop is one of the most powerful tools and if you think it most useful for Photoshop beginners, you are wrong. Seasoned designers with a great arsenal of various brushes and experience using them can do serious magic in a few minutes. Time for you to fill up your designer toolbox with some cool sunburst brushes and get started using the rising sun effect in your designs. Play with them and I am sure you will get some creative results really fast.

Sun Bursts – MORE INFO

10 sunburst custom shapes. some are twirled, most simple but fun and cute.

Rising Sun Brushes – MORE INFO

This pack contains 28 beautiful rising sun brushes for Photoshop.

Brushes – Simple Retro Sun – MORE INFO

This pack contains 5 simple retro brush set for Photoshop.

Free 2 Brush Set Star And Sun – MORE INFO

A set of 2 lovely high resolution brushes; the nautical star and sunburst both in 2500px for Photoshop.

RisingSun Brushes – MORE INFO

This pack contains 18 lovely brushes for Photoshop. Simply dummy method, but awesome effect.

Funky Sunburst – MORE INFO

Get funked up with these brand new Funky SUNBURST pack in Illustrator. This pack contains fresh 11 brushes.

Twirl Brush Set 1 – MORE INFO

A first set of beautiful twirl brushes made from Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Sun Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of 9 unique sun brushes made in Photoshop CS3.

Rising Sun Brushes – MORE INFO

This set contains rising brushes with a size of 1280×1024 pixels. This is very cool for those vector backgrounds or any style of background.

Rising Sun Photoshop Brush Pack – MORE INFO

This brushes were often referred to as the “Rising Sun” effect. The larger the brush directly below is 2500 x 2500 perfect for your future designs.

Sunburst Image Pack – MORE INFO

A beautiful sunburst image pack perfect for your future designs.

28 Rising Sun Brush – MORE INFO

Photoshop Light Brushes No 1 – MORE INFO

A great set of Photoshop light brushes for free. This set contains 30 brushes perfect for your future designs.

Vector Line Brushes 2 – MORE INFO

The 2nd set of vector line brushes now with 15 new brushes, even fading brushes. These set of beautiful brushes was made with Photoshop CS2 with sizes  of 200×200 and 1280×1024.

Rising Sun Brushes – MORE INFO

This set contains 9 brushes for Photoshop 7 and above.

Toon Sun N Clouds – MORE INFO

This set contains 4 clouds and a sun brush pack perfect for your future designs.

Brushes: Sunray – MORE INFO

A set of 9 sunray/sunburst brushes made in Photoshop CS3 with sizes from 600-1200px in width.

20 Curled Sun Stripes – MORE INFO

This set contains 20 beautiful curled sun stripes brushes for Photoshop 7.0.

Brush Pack – Rays Of Light – MORE INFO

A set of cool 9 big brushes made in Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2. This was made to make your life more easier.

Vander90 – MORE INFO

A beautiful brush set for Photoshop perfect for your future projects and designs.

10 High Resolution Sunburst Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of 10 high resolution sunburst brushes in a variety of shapes and sizes.  Each brush is 2000px which should give you plenty of options within your designs.

Sunburst Brush – MORE INFO

A Photoshop brush for making sunbursts.

Sun Moon Brushes – MORE INFO

This set contains 8 beautiful brushes of sun and moon perfect for your future projects and designs.

Sun Vector Brush – MORE INFO

A set of beautiful sun vector brush made in Photoshop CS2.

Sunburst Brush – MORE INFO

Rays – MORE INFO

This set contains 13 cool ray brushes for Photoshop CS3 most of them has 2500px perfect for your future projects and designs.

Sunbursts – MORE INFO

This brush set contains 23 different sizes and variations of sunbursts. They include solid bursts as well as ones that fades out in the end. This can be used for your personal, commercial or non commercial designs in the future.

20 Ray Blades – MORE INFO

A set of 20 Ray Blade brushes. They are in corner pieces in each direction and you can put them all together to create a rising sun!

Ngees Sunburst Brush Set – MORE INFO

Rising Sun Brushes (No Son Mios) – MORE INFO

Sun Lighting Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of high resolution sun lighting brushes perfect for your projects and designs.

Brush FX – Rising Sun Set 1 – MORE INFO

A first set of the rising sun brush pack for Photoshop.

Vector Line Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of 16 vector line brushes made with Photoshop CS2 with sizes of 1280×1024  + 1280x 2048 px.

Abstract Brushes: Sun Bursts – MORE INFO

The third in our series of abstract art Photoshop brushes is composed of shapes that resemble sun bursts. These brushes are useful if you want to add something that resembles the sun in a different way such as in designing summer party postcards or invitation cards. This set of abstract art Photoshop brushes was created in Photoshop CS2. The resolution of each Photoshop brush range from 200o pixels to 2500 pixels.

Gradient Ray Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of beautiful gradient ray brushes made in Photoshop CS-CS5. This pack contains 5 brushes with sizes of 2500px perfect for your future projects and designs.

4 Sunset – MORE INFO

This pack contains 5 high quality brushes composed of 4 sun brushes and one with a lot of tripe’s.

Vector Beams Brush – MORE INFO

This pack contains 2 beautiful big vector beam brushes both in 1600-1200px use to make special effect.

Burst Brushes 2 – MORE INFO

Here’s a set of 10 rendered burst brushes that are 2500 pixels in size! They will work in Photoshop 7 or newer as well as Gimp.

Sun – MORE INFO

This is a set of  50 lovely sun brushes created using Photoshop CS4 perfect for your design needs.

Rays Brushes – MORE INFO

This set contains high resolution brushes made in Photoshop  CS5. This pack can be useful for your future designs and projects.

Resources: Sunray Brushes – MORE INFO

This beautiful brush set is free for commercial and non commercial use.

Sunbursts Brushes 2.0 – MORE INFO

A set of solid sunburst with a feathered edge perfect for your future designs.

Memmus Brush Pack Sun Ray – MORE INFO

A cool orange and black sunburst brush pack perfect for your future projects and designs.

Sun Brushes – MORE INFO

A cool set of sun brushes that you can use for your designs.

Sunburst Brushes – MORE INFO

A unique set of sunburst brushes made in Photoshop CS2. This pack contains 24 lovely brushes that you can use in your future designs.

Curled Sun Stripes Brushes – MORE INFO

A great compilation of 20 curled sun stripes brushes for Photoshop 7.0.

Assorted City Brushes – MORE INFO

A cool unique sun brush with a dead tree. The city outlook is cool too. This brush pack is really worth checking out.

Sun Stripes Brushes – MORE INFO

A set of 8 beautiful  Sun Stripes brushes for Photoshop7.0!

Because this kind of themes minimize, if not eliminate widget, sidebar and banner areas altogether, you will notice that they have a minimalist layout that cleanly and attractively promote your work in full glory and splendor. Thus, they a strong theme to advertise your business and strengthen your online presence.

Here, in this article, we are featuring a large number of these themes to simplify your search for good full screen photography WordPress templates. We are inviting you to visit their source pages to read their full features and capabilities. Either way, this article is a great resource for any fullscreen WordPress theme selection for any photographer, designer or any creative for that matter. Check them out and help us share this article to your friends. Enjoy!

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

Responsive Fullscreen Theme for WordPress MORE INFO / DEMO

RSW ( Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress ) is a powerful theme for photographers and creative artists and comes with Light and Dark with theme options supporting multicolor customization of theme elements using color pickers. Creative artists can easily display their products using unlimited portfolio and post formats supporting Aside, Quote, Audio, Video, Link, Image and Gallery. The fonts can be changed using 400+ Google Web fonts choices in theme options.

Source – Responsive Photography WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Source is a responsive theme perfect for photographers. It is fully compatible with mobile devices and it contains many options that will make it easy to customize to fit your needs.

AutoFocus – Photography WP Theme with Geotagging – MORE INFO / DEMO

AutoFocus is a responsive photography WordPress theme with unique features, ideal for professional photographers, photo agencies and travel photography enthusiasts.

Flowfolio Ajax Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Flowfolio is a definitely fantastic and unique responsible and fullscreen theme designed for photography presentation, you could use it for your portfolios, eMagazine or any other purpose if you have many beautiful pictures to share with others.

Modern Metro – Responsive WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Dark and tasty Metro style theme with a fullscreen layout. The theme slides sideways as users explore the content. A really cool and unique theme.

Kaleido Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO

Kaleido is a responsive fullscreen portfolio studio theme for creative professionals and agencies.

Gleam WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique experience that is sure to grab your visitor’s attention. This allows for setting up a custom fullscreen image gallery for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom stunning appearance for each section of your website. The theme also comes with a full-screen portfolio section, giving you a new way to display your work.

FIAT LUX – Image & Video Background WP MORE INFO / DEMO

FIAT Lux is a fantastic and professional looking theme with music playing in the background adding to the experience of viewing images full screen. You can play full screen video or display images and utilize the full potential of the elegant and minimal design. It’s a highly customizable theme and you can choose between unlimited color schemes and 11 page templates to build your website. There is many different ways to showcase your work using picture galleries, grids or masonry galleries. This theme is packed with features to accommodate every photographer, portfolio or gallery website.

Fairytale Full Ajax Portfolio WP with Video Audio – MORE INFO / DEMO

Fairytale is full screen responsive ajax portfolio and blog theme with background video andaudio manager support. It has creative and unique style.

BigFormat – Responsive Fullscreen WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

BigFormat is a fullscreen responsive portfolio theme for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike, built to showcase your work at a large scale.

Pulsar – Fully Responsive Parallax WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

If you are searching something different and out of the line, please check out Pulsar – Fully Responsive Parallax WordPress Theme.

SmartScreen fullscreen responsive WordPress theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

SmartScreen is a fullscreen responsive wordpress theme which offers CMS functionality to your website.

Immersion – Responsive Fullscreen WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Immersion is the wordpress theme you need: elegant, simple, feature rich. All the latest HTML5 , CSS3, jQuery, wordpress are present. It’s developed on the css skeleton boilerplate so it resizes beautifully on smaller screens like tablets and iphones, plus it comes with a layout manager that allows you to add columns with ease. Then comes the post formats (images, vimeo, youtube, html5 video and audio, gallery, quotes), the 6 custom widgets, tons of shortcodes (with shortcode generator), unlimited fullscreen slideshows, portfolios, custom sidebars and footers.

Ekho – Unique Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

EKHO IS A UNIQUE, AWESOME, CREATIVE, FULLSCREEN TEMPLATE.

Fashion9 – Responsive Photography WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Fashion9 is a responsive theme perfect for photographers .It is fully compatible with mobile devices and it contains many options that will make it easy to customize and fit your needs. Fashion9 includes 52 built-in shortcodes, 19 button shorcodes and very flexible admin theme options.

Slash WP MORE INFO / DEMO

Slash WP is a new Premium WP Theme with a unique modern design – perfect for showcasing your work. Works great for portfolio, photo-gallery or blog. It’s very powerful with native support for WP 3.2 post formats and it’s also made to look good on iPhone and iPad or other mobile devices. It comes with 3 homepage templates allowing a full-width slideshow, static homepage or a full-width video homepage. You can create your own personal appearance in a few very easy steps. It features powerful sortable portfolio pages allowing you to show both photos and videos. An awesome photo gallery with either a classical or 2-layer layout where you can upload hundreds of photos in a few steps. Featuring 3 post formats, 8 custom widgets and a jPlayer this surely is one of most versatile themes for photographers!

Travel Fullscreen/Responsive WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Travel is a definitely fantastic and unique responsible and fullscreen WordPress theme designed for photography presentation, you could use it for your portfolios, travel logs or any other purpose if you have many beautiful pictures to share with others. In Fullscreen mode, the user could view all the photographies from one post to the next, it support Manually and automatically switches, sharing, maps(optional), etc.

DK For Photography Creative Portfolio MORE INFO / DEMO

DK is a Premium Photography Theme with a very unique and aesthetically looking full screen slideshow for Photo Gallery. It features 4 homepage styles, 10 page templates and 6 gallery page templates. You can easily administrate galleries, and uploading multiple images has never been more simple. A very nice feature is that you can password protect single galleries if you want to showcase your work for customers or protect your privacy. Portfolio content supports videos, images and external links and is on par with other portfolio featured themes. You have 7 custom widget areas to play with making it a breeze to customize your site the way you like it. An excellent integration with social media sites makes it perfect for sharing your work. Indeed a unique and complete photo theme.

Chocolate WP MORE INFO / DEMO

Chocolate is a versatile full-screen WP theme that’s refined and elegant with it’s combination of light gradients and shadows. It’s made to make you have a strong blogging experience and it’s powered by Woo Tumblog (for Tumblr like posts) and Express App for simple posting from your iOS driven devices like iPhone, Ipad or iPod touch. You even get 30$ worth of highslide JS for free! Main features are an outstanding fullwidth showcase-style slider for your home page, unique 2-level gallery, masonry-style fluent layout, custom widgets and much more. The included background builder and headers font selector lets you customize every aspect of the this great theme.

PhotoEclipse – Ajax Powered Portfolio WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

PhotoEclipse an AJAX powered Fullscreen-Background theme, will enable you to built an impressive portfolio page without much effort, in no time. To avoid full page reloads wich is the main problem with themes that use a fullscreen background slideshow, PhotoEclipse uses advanced Ajax to load its pages while background slider, sound etc. keep running. At the same time it doesn’t loose any functionality in terms of browser history and url’s. Our team worked very hard to bring you this unique theme and we hope you will enjoy it!

Sideways MORE INFO / DEMO

Sideways is a portfolio theme that offers both horizontal and grid layouts. It incorporates eye catching full screen background images that scale to fit all resolutions and window sizes as well as strong and elegant typography and design.

Soho MORE INFO / DEMO

The Soho theme is great for the creative individuals or companies that want to display their work in an attractive way. The theme comes with a flash video background in the front page and rotating background images in the interior pages. You can easily replace the video or the images with your own. You can also disable the video from the theme panel in case you decide to have an images only website. Soho has featured images enabled in both posts and pages, offering an attractive way to promote all your content.

Digon Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress MORE INFO / DEMO

Digon is a highly customizable responsive fullscreen studio theme which which features fullwidth and 2 column postformat posts. Fullscreen, portfolio and pages can be password protected. Fullscreen mainpage features service boxes which are hover enabled to display it’s representing image.

PicturePerfect – Photography Fullscreen WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Picture Perfect theme is a clean, feature rich theme for photo bloggers, photographers and designers. It can be used to showcase your work in an entirely different manner which can surely impress people to your blog.

Crius Fullscreen Website Template MORE INFO / DEMO

Crius is the Responsive Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. Advanced Gallery admin, Kenburns Slideshow etc.

Stage – Full Screen Slider WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Stage is Fullscreen Image Background Slider WordPress theme suitable for photographers and designers, powerful yet simple to set up and administer.

John Smith – AJAX Portfolio WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

John Smith is a premium one page WP theme and it is great for portfolio and personal websites.

Photolio – Photography / Portfolio WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

PHOTOlio is a powerful and modern Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives.

SuperSlide MORE INFO / DEMO

SuperSlide features a full screen homepage slideshow with a design that scales down responsively for smaller screens across multiple devices and screen sizes. SuperSlide also includes 2 background color variants, 5 Fonts choices, 6 link color options, 15 slideshow overlay options and more.

Boxed – Responsive Fullscreen Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Boxed is an elegant responsive portfolio/photo WordPress theme that was created so you can show off your work beautifully on the web. The theme has a unique left-sided navigation while keeping the site centered in the browser, an optional (you can have a normal static image instead) full-screen background image slider which can be set to show different images on the homepage, portfolio pages, blog pages, regular pages and even on a per post/page basis and overall a very clean and modern design that looks great no matter your browser size.

Right Now WP Full Video, Image with Audio MORE INFO / DEMO

Right Now is an awesome and elegant theme perfect for creative artist, designers and photographers. It features an enhanced HTML5 and CSS3 standard with an Ajax load function. You can draw the screen and easily navigate the screen. It’s optimized for iPhone, iPad and android and supports youtube, vimeo, flv, mp4 and mov. Furthermore there are animated buttons with sfx, deeplink support and it’s WordPress 3.3+ compatible.

FullScene – WP Fullscreen Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

FullScene is a professional, multi-layout, ultra flexible and customizable portfolio WP theme with fullscreen showcase features and loaded with options for designers, photographers and design agencies.

Decor – fullscreen WordPress theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Decor is multipurpose wordpress theme designed to showcase your projects, posts, images and videos from a new perspective. The theme comes packed with a lot of features and plugins so you won’t be disappointed: 2 skins, 6 custom fonts,fullscreen slideshows, gallery manager, 7 post formats, booklets integration are some of them. The horizontal layout will give you the possibility to present your projects or blog posts in an unusual way.

This Way WP Fullscreen Video/Image Theme with Audio MORE INFO / DEMO

This Way Word Press Theme is designed with HTML5 & CSS3. It features full Screen Image & Full Screen Video Background with Audio support. It also has an awesome JQuery animated effect, Twitter feeds and social media links. It is easy customize blog and portfolio with filter.

Rhea For Photography Creative Portfolio MORE INFO / DEMO

Rhea is the Premium Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors, 4 homepage styles, 10 page templates, 7 gallery page templates, 7 custom widgets and Image Uploader are only a few of the many great features this theme has to offer. Check out the demo for all features.

Pacifico – Fullscreen wp theme with motion effect MORE INFO / DEMO

Pleased to present you Pacifico – fullscreen background wordpress theme which can not be ignored! Enjoy the beautiful pictures in motion with the incomparable Motion Slider. Breathtaking spectacle!

PhotoPharm: Premium Photography and Blog Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

PhotoPharm is ideal for photographers and/or design studios. It utilizes a full screen slideshow feature for maximum impact. You can also easily upload 100s of images to create a gallery page in seconds.

Photolux – Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Photolux is a powerful and elegant Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to showcase their work. Photolux theme is powered by the advanced Pexeto Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers. The theme comes with three base skin choices: Dark, Light and Transparent, as well as numerous of backend options for easy customization and building your skin.

Simpolio – Portfolio & Blog WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Simpolio is a multi-faceted photography theme with a clean and aesthetically look. It has WP multisite support, unlimited portfolios and galleries support with single image support for each page. You can play videos for background of each page and a great feature is the possibility to upload your photos from your phone to flickr and they will automatically be updated to your site – cool! Full background slideshows or single images with 7 amazing effects, 8 page templates, 6 custom widgets and many more things. A feature packed theme with great support!

Architectos – Blog & Portfolio WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Architectos is perfect for architecture or design orientated blogs or for creative people/agencies who’s tired of regular thumbnails grids layouts. Features full screen background slideshow, home sliders, masonry layout and video support. As a FREE Bonus you’ll get the award winning Visual Composer plugin integrated into the theme, which lets you to create complex layouts with simple drag-n-drop interface – $25 value.

Duotive Fortune – WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

The new Duotive Frontpage Manager allows you to set up your home page the way you need it. Create multiple front pages that can be easily interchanged with a few clicks. Save settings for different types and store them in your database. Using an intuitive graphical user interface rearranging the front page modules is a piece of cake! Populate your front page with dynamic content using the portfolio and blog modules. Duotive Fortune comes with a vast number of styles and shortcodes that can be used to organize and give importance to your information in the right order. Make use of the multiple columns combinations available to get most out of your content and connect to you audience. Tables, lists, quotes, many buttons with and without icons, mp3 and video player are just a few of the possibilities that the theme tries to offer.

HD Photographer Premium WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

HD Photographer is a Word Press theme that makes a visual impact, and will make your style and content stand out. Most features and options are built directly into the Edit page, for great ease of use. And offers lots of possibilities to present your business, brand or portfolio.

Fullscreen Photography WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

This Fullscreen Photography WordPress Theme implies a high-quality template developed for the most eye-catching images presentation. Its exclusive design grants your website with a stunning look and will captivate the visitor’s attention from the first sight. The theme is HTML and CSS coded and provides the background gallery scripts for all versions (Word Press, PHP and HTML). One of its most distinctive features implies the background manager due to which your photos will fit any screen kind without Flash involvement.

Self Titled – responsive & unique WordPress theme – MORE INFO – DEMO

Self Titled is responsive WordPress photography theme with unique custom-written slider. Works great for both portrait and landscape photography.

Klix WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Klix is a fabulous nice and simple fullscreen wordpress theme with unlimited possibilities – great for portfolio or photography sites. It features 50+ theme settings via easy to use options panel, 120+ shortcodes, support for video backgrounds and self hosted videos. It’s available in two versions either black or white.

Foxy Theme MORE INFO

Foxy is a unique WordPress theme that’s perfect for fashion sites, businesses, or restaurants who want to impact their visitors with big, bold images. Immediately the full-size background images catch your attention and pull you into the site. The backgrounds are easy to customize and can be a slideshow (with 7 transition effects), a specific image, or a random image with every page load.

EcoPhoto MORE INFO

ecoPhoto is a ground breaking Word-Press theme tailor built for photographers! ecoPhoto lets you turn your WordPress into a stunning photo portfolio. It uses your high resolution photos to create a one of a kind, browser-wide photo slideshow automatically. Now you can spend your time being photo creative while ecoPhoto does all the work for you!

Delight Full Screen WordPress Portfolio Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

This is a powerful full screen WordPress portfolio theme with many features and customizations possible. It’s shipped with many jQuery effect like cycle, tabs, accordions, drop down menu, tooltip, color box, auto alignment and more. It has unlimited skins and possibilities, many different page templates, google web fonts, drag and drop system, slideshows and a lot of shortcodes to choose from. And with the extended administration panel you have full control of all aspects of your theme. The author has implemented support for iPhone and iPad.

Village MORE INFO / DEMO

Village is an awesome fullscreen wordpress theme with a clean, simple and appealing look. It has 6 full screen sliders, 6 portfolio types including audio and unlimited slideshows, portfolios, walls, galleries and galleria sliders. You can upload hundreds of photos in very few easy steps making it a breeze to update your portfolio! It’s compatible with iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices making the transition to mobile technology easy.

ANAN MORE INFO / DEMO

ANAN is a premium portfolio, personal, photography website Templates built with latest Word Press features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.

Contrast MORE INFO / DEMO

Contrast, a premium WP theme which is suitable for photo enthusiasts, graphic and web designers, corporates with a kickass features. If you are searching something different and out of the line check it out.

Pluto Full screen Cafe and Restaurant MORE INFO / DEMO

Pluto is a full featured word press theme for a Café and restaurant site. It’s built with the latest WP features and has custom post type, 3 skins (transparent, light or dark), full screen image gallery with 7 slideshow effects, colors and an extensive admin panel with loads of settings. it’s fully ajax driven and uses jQuery Nivoslider for homepage slider.

Invictus MORE INFO / DEMO

Looking for a powerful Premium Word-Press Theme for your photo gallery or portfolio website? Invictus might be a good choice whether you are a Photographer, Digital Artist, Designer or even a private person, who want to present your images in a unique way.

PictureThis – Portfolio WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

PictureThis is a very impressive full screen theme with an original and minimalistic design. As with all the other themes in this fullcreen wordpress theme showcase it sports a full screen image slideshow, unlimited colors, advanced portfolio options, 3 custom widgets, unlimited sidebars, 30+ shortcodes and much more. A very aesthetic and good looking theme with a nice feel to it. Perfect for photography, portfolio and creative artists.

Atlas MORE INFO / DEMO

Atlas is just like “Core Minimalist” a great Premium Photo, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest Word press features and it has lot’s of feature like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, shortcodes etc.

James The Next Generation WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

James is a fresh and extravagant portfolio theme that speaks for itself and will definitely appeal to your audience. It has spectacular features in full screen mode to showcase your portfolio or blog the way it’s meant. This theme contains everything you need to surprise and impress your clients. It also features an easy solution to sell your work online and offers integration options with the free ecommerce plugin eShop. It has very powerful and strong WP integration – just gorgeous!

Crea WP MORE INFO / DEMO

Crea WP theme is a gorgeous looking theme that is more than just looks. It’s built to use the full potential of HTML5 to create the most fantastic transition effects between pages, awesome backgrounds and 2 unique sliders with fade and carousel mode. So you can create as many different showcase pages as you like. It features smart tools to manage and customize the theme to your liking and has 3 custom content and taxonomy types (photo albums, portfolio and slides) to provide you with the best options to take full control of the content on your site. And with the unique and powerful background builder you can adjust and tweak virtually any setting you like.

Photoshot – photo blog portfolio MORE INFO / DEMO

Photoshot is simply amazing and does stand out by the design, layout and functionality packed into the theme – very original! You can add images to a favorite box and view them later in a beautiful full screen slideshow. It has 3 home page variations – slideshow, photoblog and static page´, light or dark skin and a unique menu where all items are dynamically sized to display at the same width making it look much more appealing. it’s packed with shortcodes and has an extensive options panel to tune every aspect of the theme.

Broadside – Premium WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Broadside offers you an easy to customize and fully featured Word press theme that will show off your work in an elegant and organized way. It’s very flexible and uses full screen background image, has unlimited menu and logo background colors and video support in a portfolio lightbox and video page template. A very cool Fullscreen WordPress Theme.

As you know, a good start is often half done. In web design, it is tempting to start out pixel perfect design as early as possible and ship the PSD for being sliced and converted into HTML. However, best practice is to keep the level of detail in the design to an absolute minimum until you are clear on all the features and page elements. Once a design is drawn in Photoshop, it takes a lot of effort to make large turnarounds. Starting out here or moving in too early simply introduce a risk that you have to turn down creativity and new ideas.

The best and most common way to work flexible with the web design in the early phases is to draw simple wireframe sketches. With a wireframing tool you typically have all the page elements you need to sketch website, web application and mobile app designs. In addition, most of the online tools have cool collaboration features making it possible to work together remotely on work that otherwise require team members to be in the same room.

If you are a bit more old school and feel the creative energy flow best when using a pen, I recommend that you check out some printable wire frame templates. There are plenty to choose from and some have grids and frames to support you and keep your work within the required end state.

In this article, I have collected more than 35 cool wireframing tools and templates you can use toyou’re your web design projected started the right way.

Online Wireframing Applications

Moqups – MORE INFO

Moqups is a nifty HTML5 App used to create wireframes, mockups or UI concepts, prototypes depending on how you like to call them.

Wireframe – MORE INFO

A super simple way to wireframe or to start drawing.

Mockflow – MORE INFO

Design, collaborate user interface concepts for your software and websites. Not just Wireframing. MockFlow provides a collection of collaborative web services for creative designers and usability engineers.

Pidoco – MORE INFO

Pidoco is a web-based prototyping software for rapidly creating clickable wireframes and UI prototypes for web, mobile and enterprise applications. It’s easy to use with smart sharing and collaboration features, a convenient usability testing module and much more.

Cacoo – MORE INFO

Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site map, flowchart, mind map, wire frame, UML diagram and network diagram.

Creately – MORE INFO

Creately is a web-based diagramming tool for creating fast Web Mockups, Software Prototypes, Wireframes, Mindmaps, Software diagrams and more

Gliffy – MORE INFO

Professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings and more.

Justproto – MORE INFO

Justproto helps everyone who creates web sites, Android & iPhone apps, email creatives and everything else that makes today’s interactive world so cool.Justproto developed a huge library of built-in icons, images and elements  as well as a file manager that allows you to build your own library.

Balsamiq – MORE INFO

Balsamiq is a small group of passionate individuals who believe work should be fun and that life’s too short for bad software.

Mocknow – MORE INFO

Desktop Wireframing Applications

Hotgloo – MORE INFO

HotGloo combines all the functionality from a classical desktop software with the comfort and benefits of a web app. From low- to high-fidelity, from wireframes to prototypes – with HotGloo you can finally achieve great concepts in a fast, simple and beautiful way.

Axure – MORE INFO

Axure RP is the standard in interactive wireframe software and gives you the power to quickly and easily deliver much more than typical mockup tools.

Just In Mind – MORE INFO

Justinmind is the best platform to define web and mobile apps with rich interactive wireframes.

Power Mockup – MORE INFO

PowerMockup provides templates and tools for building wireframes right in PowerPoint.

Pencil Project – MORE INFO

The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Pencil Project – MORE INFO

Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms.

Fore UI – MORE INFO

ForeUI is an easy-to-use UI prototyping tool, designed to create mockup / wireframe / prototypes for any application or website you have in mind.

Balsamiq – MORE INFO

Balsamiq is a small group of passionate individuals who believe work should be fun and that life’s too short for bad software.

Lovely Charts – MORE INFO

Lovely Charts is a diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, business processes, organization charts, wireframes and many more

Wireframe Sketcher – MORE INFO

WireframeSketcher is a wireframing tool that helps designers, developers and product managers quickly create wireframes,mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications.

Lumzy – MORE INFO

Lumzy is a quick mockup creation and prototyping tool for software designers and developers.

Protoshare – MORE INFO

ProtoShare is an easy-to-use, collaborative prototyping tool that helps teams visualize requirements with website wireframes and interactive prototypes while working together in real-time.

Iplotz – MORE INFO

iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications.

SimpleDiagrams2 – MORE INFO

SimpleDiagrams2 is a small desktop application that helps you express your ideas quickly and simply. There’s just enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process.

Print Templates For Wireframes

Rain Creative Lab – MORE INFO

Rain Creative Lab goal is to create a wireframe tool that would enable designers to have that perspective. Providing you an actual viewing resolution of your potential user. Looking your site on what the user sees.

Wireframe Template – MORE INFO

Graph Paper – MORE INFO

This is a wireframe grid divided into 24 columns with gutters between each column. The grid is especially useful to designers who are working within a CSS framework such as Blueprint, which also divides its grid into 24 units, so setting up common divisions is easy.

Dragnet Website Wireframes Kit vo.91 – MORE INFO

Dragnet website wireframes kit v0.91 is a common library for Adobe Fireworks and contains over 25 objects that are useful for rapid prototyping of websites. The kit contains common web design elements such as scrollbars, buttons, menus, alerts etc. Most of them supports the 9-slice scaling feature that is build into Fireworks for a better resizing of the objects.

Pad Sketch Sheets – MORE INFO

Sneakpeekit Pad© is a pixel-perfect iPad mockup for web designers and developer who need quickly draft their projects. Sneakpeekit Pad© provides two versions of the same iPad mockup, with and without grids. Just print them and start sketching!

High Level Ipad App Wireframing with a Pencil – MORE INFO

This is a simple iPad template that you can print and use perfect for your app workflow and UI design. The template is simple yet effective.

Mobile Sketch Sheets – MORE INFO

Sneakpeekit Mobile© provides a template with no grid iPhone mockups for quick sketching and another one with grids iPhone mockups for detailed sketching.

Windows Phone 7 ux Sketch Templates – MORE INFO

Browser Sketch Sheets – MORE INFO

This sketch sheet has been created for designers who are at the very start of a project and don’t want to waste too much paper. Four mini-browser into a singlesheet, without grids. Just for quick drafts.

When building a new website it is certainly possible to start from scratch. However, while giving you complete flexibility it may also be the most costly and time consuming. The trend right now in web design is to rely on open source platforms like WordPress and kickstart web design projects by using a WordPress theme. One of the most important things make sure, besides finding the right look and feel, is to get an idea of what features you need long term. Some themes comes with a lot of flexibility and allows you to build advanced pages without diving into the code level. In most cases this type of theme is recommended for business websites, as your needs develop as your business grows or change.

Now with thousands of themes already available and many new released daily how do you find the right theme?

I believe Elegant Themes have a unique proposition. They have some of the best premium themes on the market and give us access to use all of them for half the price of most premium themes. Nimble, one of their recent themes, really stand out with a colorful and bold look and feel. The theme is of course fully responsive and give visitors accessing your website via mobile devices a great experience. The default color palette in the design is orange but you have the option to choose from great color palettes such as Blue, Green, Red or Gray.

The homepage design is pretty cool as each section have separate colors. This is a design approach often seen in single page WordPress themes (check my previous post for inspiration), and in Nimble it helps building a content heavy front page without making it hard to digest. OK time to have a closer look at the theme. I am going to show you some of the most important features to look out for. In addition, please take a minute to drop a comment and share the article with your friends on social media if you like it!

First lets have a look at the Front page design. Notice the dynamic full width slider that perfectly fits the header and the way sections are seperated with different colors.

Nimble Front page design.

Here you see the way sections are perfectly seperated using different background colors as often seen in one page website designs.

Nimble Front page colored sections

Nimble has several built in pages for starters to pick on. A well constructed about page, blog page and several page templates are readily available from the theme.You should go visit the theme demo as all the tempaltes are included as examples.

Nimble demos of page templates.

Here’s a sample of Nimble’s contact form. It looks plain but has the necessary fields and a captcha text included to protect your website from spammers and bots.

In addition, the number of portfolio page templates are pretty comprehensive when it comes to the possible options for the design. The designers have included 5 Portfolio styles. This would greatly be an advantage for freelancers, photographers of for anyone who wants to showcase their work.

Another great feature of this theme is the native support for shortcodes. The shortcodes are within Nimble’s core files, so no additional plugins for them to be working is needed. You can choose from a variety of shortcodes including content boxes, buttons and other essential web elements.

In addition, the page builder plugin from Elegant Themes wil give you extreme flexibility and make it easy to create even complex pages using the drag and drop UI. You can then fully customize a page and add many different page elements without coding.

I personally recommend checking out this theme. It may have its limitation due to the simplicity imposed by the theme but overall this is a premium that you should not miss. You can check out a live demo of the theme here.

In this article, you will find some of the best WordPress music themes worth considering for a musically inclined website. As you will see, these themes all have different textures and layout. You will find grungy and dark templates for hard metal fanatics, some gradient textured and some with lighter colors. Some of these music and band themes for WordPress are free while others may be considered some of the best premium options in the music category. Another type of themes that may be useful for setting up a music or band site is photography themes, or even for showcasing concert recordings I think video website templates will do a great job. Enjoy!

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

The Indie Fest Theme - MORE INFO

This visual band theme was designed for indie rockers, folk artists, grassroots pop stars, and outdoor music festivals. It’s cheerful, ominous, moody, epic, laid back, summery — whatever you need it to be.

MusicConcert – WordPress music theme - MORE INFO | DEMO

MusicConcert is an elegant free WordPress business theme. Theme options at admin panel. Supports the post thumbnails and custom menus. Suitable for any niche especially for business or portfolio web sites.

Dark N Gritty 2.0 - MORE INFO

Foxhound’s Dark n’ Gritty is built for bands looking for something to be as gritty as their tunes. Whether you’re the next Gallows, August Burns Red, or erm…Metallica—this theme’s got what you need. It comes in 4 different colours (Turquoise, Blue, Red, Green), the ability to upload your own promo pic into the header, and link to your other social media hubs. Now includes a slider, updated social media icons functionality, GigPress stying, and many other improvements!

Muse: Music Band Responsive WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Muse is the badass WordPress theme for all who love music, such as music bands, musicians, DJs, producers, labels or organizers of events and festivals. Theme has amazing modern and fresh design that will never get tired of you and your fans. Design you can freely adjust according to your wishes and design needs. This very strong theme that offers perfect organization of all necessary data such as Events, Albums, Galleries and Videos.

Musico – For Musicians by Musicians - MORE INFO / DEMO

Musico is a fully customizable theme specifically tailored to the needs of musicians. It allows you to manage all your albums and display them in an awesome full screen and sidebar audio player. Musico supports buy links so users can go to buy your music with one click. Upcoming events/performances management is built right in so your fans will know where and when you are on stage.

Soundboard – a Premium Music WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Soundboard is a powerful music WordPress theme with special features for bands and solo artists. With Soundboard you can display your tour dates, discography, videos and images – it has pretty much everything you need for a band website.

K – boom – Events Music Responsive WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

K-BOOM is one of the powerful Music & Events WordPress Theme, it is meant to serve for Music Projects, Events, Portfolio or just for Blogging. It is a theme with ultra responsive layout adapting perfectly and allowing you to visit it from any devices you want. K-BOOM is a metro inspired, with a unique design predominantly dark color, it is a new trend well structured aiming to breath elegance, powerful & style.

Rock Palace – a Responsive Music WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Rock Palace is a responsive music, portfolio WordPress Theme that can be used to create a versatile WordPress-powered website with many layout options and unlimited color variations. Rock Palace has a convenient Administration panel which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

Eventful an Events WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO

Eventful is a Premium WordPress Theme developed to create events-oriented websites. Taking advantage of the powerful custom-post-type feature in WordPress (v 3.0  and above), we created a complex platform that can handle events, locations and artists with a bundle of features and options.

Musica – Responsive WordPress Woocommerce Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Musica is a responsive e-commerce WordPress Theme that utilizes the powerful Woo Commerce plugins to create a versatile WordPress-powered shop with many layout options and unlimited color variations. Musica has a convenient Administration panel which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

Acoustic – Premium Music WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Acoustic is a fully responsive WordPress theme for DJs, solo artists, bands, collectives, club owners, music producers, events producers and anyone in the music industry.

RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme - MORE INFO  / DEMO

RockWell is a powerful theme with unique features. It’s easy to use, easy to customize and most importantly – it allows you to unleash your creativity. Fun, loud and versatile = that’s RockWell. Doesn’t matter if you are a photographer, business, blogger or a designer – this theme will suit all types.

Music WordPress Template – For Musicians / Artists - MORE INFO / DEMO

Music WordPress Template is a template geared at musicians needing a blog and an easy to use CMS .

MusicStar - MORE INFO / DEMO

MusicStar is an elegant free WordPress business theme. Theme options at admin panel. Supports the post thumbnails and custom menus. Suitable for any niche especially for business or portfolio web sites.

PENDULUM - MORE INFO / DEMO

Pendulum – it is modern template which was prepared with the thought about people loving the music: DJs, producers, musicians, musical clubs as well as for everyone which are fascinated by a music. It is possible also to use the template for construction of the modern portfolio.

The Grammy Theme - MORE INFO

Foxhound’s Grammy Theme is for the band that wants their website as professional as they are. It comes with 8 background colours which completely change the vibe of the theme (wood, concrete, amp mesh, underwater, velvet, ghost, crosshatch turquoise, crosshatch red). We’ve also upgraded our social media functions to include over 12 different selectable social media hubs.

Backstage - MORE INFO / DEMO (blocked)

Backstage is a powerful niche theme design for musicians and artists showcasing their media, upcoming shows and music using hugely flexible custom widgets and audio players. This beautifully crafted layout was designed by Elliot Jay Stocks and boasts 7 alternate styles.

Music – Musicians theme & Facebook app - MORE INFO / DEMO

Music is a intelligent theme with unique features for the music industry. It’s easy to use, easy to customize and most importantly – it ads functionality not to be found in any other WordPress theme.

Nocturnal – Premier Audio WP Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Nocturnal is an audio/music focused theme that is geared towards nightclubs and/or bands. The featured content is built to support posters and flyers.

Amped Theme – Music WordPress Theme - MORE INFO

You’re busy touring, writing, and signing autographs on everything put in front of you. You shouldn’t have to worry about the nuts and bolts of your website. Amped was built to spotlight your latest video, showcase your music and the show dates you need to promote… all at your fingertips and built on the rock-solid Genesis Framework for WordPress.

MediaScene Music Premium WordPress Theme - MORE INFO | DEMO

MediaScene is a perfect music theme. The theme is provided with many option of customization and is very simple to use.

WordPress Milky Music/Business/Portfolio Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

A super versatile and easy to use theme for your blog/portfolio/business website. Just effective options, no complication added!

Strings Music and Art Magazine WordPress - MORE INFO / DEMO

Strings is a powerful wordpress magazine style, provided with many options. You can put a unique background in each page, blog post, portfolio item, albums, gallery you create. With more than 70 customization options you can improve your look and be unique on the web!

Blender WordPress Portfolio Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Blender is a WordPress Portfolio Theme for both creative professionals and businesses. Literally limitless options. Comes with several Sliders you can use for the Home Page, also Vimeo or Youtube Video, perfect for a Trailer or Demo Reel. Blender is perfect for both beginners with little or no coding experience and also developers. No matter what kind of website your creating Blender will showcase your business in the most creative, professional manner.

Magzimus – Blog & Magazine theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Magzimus is a powerful and flexible theme that focuses on providing functionality for blogs and informative sites. Easy to use The theme is built with ease of use in mind. All of the included features have been tested and include very simple interfaces so you don’t need to edit any kind of code at all.

Musaic – Music Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Musaic is a fun and clean template geared towards music/band portals or sites. However, the layout can be easily utilized in all types of sites.

Dilapidated – Blogging Grunge WordPress Theme - MORE INFO  /  DEMO (brocken)

This is a 7-in-1 grunge style WordPress theme primarily designed for personal blogs and general content websites. It is ideal for a metal/rock music website or really for anyone who is looking for that grunge look.

Grungexperience – Premium WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Grunge experience is an awesome WordPress theme that features 4 Different Sliders, Unlimited Sidebars, Flicker gallery widget and a lot more.

Magnifica – Blog, News & Magazine Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Magnifica is an elegant, powerful and flexible theme that focuses on providing functionality for blogs, magazine and news sites. The theme’s main characteristic is it’s ability to be layout and color customizable. Every color for every background, text, and area on the site can be modified from the included options panel with just a couple clicks. It is ideal to be used on music oriented blogs.

Media Store – Review/Downloads WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO (brocken)

Media Store is a reviews and downloads theme that is ideal for people who want to review items and also allow users to download files from each of these reviews, similar to how iTunes work.

Music Pro – Music Oriented WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Music Pro is a music oriented WordPress theme, perfect for a band, a label, or a webzine. It is fully customizable, easy to use and well documented. It can be used for any other purpose as well.

Music Loud - MORE INFO / DEMO (Brocken)

Music Loud is free WordPress professional musical entertainment theme perfect for music blogs.

MusicStore - MORE INFO / DEMO

MusicStore is elegant design free premium WordPress theme. Suitable for any niche especially for shopping, fashion and entertainment web sites. Options page at admin panel.

Rockstar – Theme for Music Bands - MORE INFO / DEMO

Rockstar is Premium WordPress Theme, that will work either for music blog page or as your music portfolio page. If you are a musician, or you want to write a blog about the music, Rockstar is the theme just for you! Rockstar supports, one blog style, 2 gallery styles (Default Gallery and Fancybox Gallery), Pop-up banner (you will be able to add video, screenshot, text or html code in it), latest twitter news block and mp3 Music Player.

Stylico – WordPress Dj Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Stylico includes everything that a Dj/Producer needs. You mange all your Gigs, Releases and Slides (Image Slider) with Custom Post Types. No need to learn the ropes of a new admin interface.

Unlike multiplayer games for PCs finding people to play with on an iPhone is easy. Most people carry around their iPhone all day and have it close most hours of the day no matter if they are at the office or in bed. Many game vendors have also figured out that integrating Facebook and other social networks makes multiplier games spread with epidemic effects. This means it is not just the traditional gamer-geeks that team up online to compete. Multiplayer gaming is now something nearly everyone have tried or even spend time on every day.

With an almost endless supply of multiplayer games available in the AppStore it is easy to find one that fits your needs. Luckily must of these are sold for low prices so it is not costly to get started. There are also several great and highly addictive multiplayer games for iPad you might want to look into.

For this article, I have found some of the most popular iPhone multiplayer games available in the AppStore. Please leave me a comment below telling me which iPhone multiplayer game you play the most and if I misted out any great ones. Enjoy!

Candy Crush Saga – MORE INFO

Switch and match your way through more than 100 levels in this delicious and addictive puzzle adventure.

Sonic Dash – MORE INFO

Play as Sonic the Hedgehog as you dash, jump and spin your way across stunning 3D environments. Swipe your way over and under challenging obstacles in this fast and frenzied endless running game for iPad, iPad mini, iPhone & iPod touch.

Minecraft – Pocket Edition – MORE INFO

Minecraft – Pocket Edition is a Universal App! Play on any iPhone and iPad. It’s constantly evolving thanks to our free updates.
Minecraft is about placing blocks to build things and going on adventures!

Real Racing 3 – MORE INFO

Real Racing 3 sets a new standard for mobile racing games – it really must be experienced to be believed.

Jurassic Park™ Builder – MORE INFO

Here’s your chance to build your own Jurassic Park from the ground up, on land and in the sea! As a Park owner, nurture and grow various dinosaur species through the discovery of amber filled with dinosaur DNA. With help from your friends, turn the DNA into eggs, place them in your land or aquatic park and grow them until they reach adult size. To evolve, your dinosaurs have to be fed plants or meat depending on their respective diets. As a Park manager, you’ll need to make sure your park is constantly fueled with enough goods to feed all the dinosaurs by managing the flow of imports at the port. Finally, build a road for your visitors so they can go around and explore your creation.

Order & Chaos Duels – MORE INFO

Rediscover the Order & Chaos universe in this FREE collectible trading card game (TCG) that lets you battle with evil forces in many adventures or against real players for leaderboard supremacy.

MetalStorm: Online – MORE INFO

Dominate the skies and master the world’s most advanced combat aircraft as you experience the best looking, most action packed jet fighting game for iOS

Hay Day – MORE INFO

Hay Day is a totally new farming experience with smooth gestural controls lovingly handcrafted for your iPad or iPhone.

Spy vs Spy – MORE INFO

SPY vs SPY is based on the original, multi-million unit selling, break out hit on the Commodore 64; Apple // series; and Atari 400/800 computers by First Star Software, Inc. It features online and local multiplayer matches, 16 new embassies (plus the original 8), and a pixel perfect retro mode as well as a modern mode, both with the famous black and white spies from MAD Magazine.

Clash of Clans – MORE INFO

Clash of Clans is an addictive mixture of strategic planning and competitive fast-paced combats. Raise an army of Barbarians, War Wizards, Dragons and other mighty fighters. Join a clan of players and rise through the ranks, or create your own Clan to contest ownership of the Realm. Driving back the goblins is just the first step – your quest isn’t over until your clan reigns supreme over all others!

Wild Blood – MORE INFO

Gameloft has harnessed the power of the revolutionary Unreal Engine to bring unimaginable battles in real-time, full-3D graphics. Live the unforgettable journey of Sir Lancelot as you never have before!

STREET FIGHTER IV – MORE INFO

Street Fighter 4 delivers the first true fighting game on iPhone. This uncompromising fighter features all the visceral thrills, fantastic graphics and brilliant gameplay that are hallmarks of the series.

Archetype – MORE INFO

Archetype delivers a high quality console-style FPS experience on iPhone or iPod touch. No gimmicks, just pure iPwnage.

Reckless Racing 2 – MORE INFO

Strap down and prepare for the ride of your life… Reckless Racing is back with more! Including a selection of 20 highly detailed cars, ranging from small dirt buggies to fast supercars, and 28 routes in a variety of flavors make this a racer for all tastes – both dirt and tarmac.

Slicer HD – Neon Bubble Shape Slasher Game for Kids – MORE INFO

Slicer HD is a fun slicer game where you use your finger to chop the shape to smaller pieces. One you remove enough of the shape, you beat the level!

Super Stickman Golf – MORE INFO

Super Stickman Golf is no ordinary game.. it’s actually an award winning physics puzzler! Warning: Once you pick up this game, you may not be able to put it down. You will definitely never play “golf” the same again..

Dark Legends – MORE INFO

Dark Legends is a FREE vampire horror adventure and 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). In this bloody addition to Spacetime Studios’ Legends games, Vampires have been hunted to the brink of extinction by human supremacists that have called on evil supernatural creatures for help. You are the last line of defense and will undertake missions for the Vampire Nation to dominate or utterly destroy your enemies.

Gun Bros – MORE INFO

The Freakishly Rugged Advanced Genetics Galactic Enforcement Division (AKA F.R.A.G.G.E.D) specializes in the development and deployment of superhuman special agents. Headed since its formation by the brilliant soldier-turned-scientist Mother Gun, its current roster consists of only two active field operatives, code-named Percy and Francis Gun. Their lifelong mission: to protect the cosmos from the Tyrannical Oppressors of Life known as T.O.O.L.

Zombieville USA 2 – MORE INFO

Brought to you by the creators of Battleheart, OMG Pirates!, and the original Zombieville USA – this sequel is jam packed with content and features. Take command of your favorite character, customize them with a spectrum of weapons and skills, and do battle with the living dead – either alone, or with your friends!

Asphalt 7: Heat – MORE INFO

Burn up the street with the fastest and most  visually stunning edition of the Asphalt series.

Assassin’s Creed Rearmed – MORE INFO

Rearm your blade: Assassin’s Creed innovative multiplayer is now mobile! Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Fuel your gaming needs with this innovative Assassin’s Creed experience…

World at Arms – Wage war for your nation! – MORE INFO

LOCK AND LOAD! The United States of America is under attack from an evil alliance of highly trained forces known as the KRA. As the leader of the free world, YOU have to stand and fight. Build your military base, train your army, and battle against or ally with players from all over the world online in order to defeat the enemy for good!

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation – MORE INFO

The best, most realistic smartphone FPS series returns with even higher intensity and an apocalyptic battle for the freedom of the United States, for one or more players.

Deadlock: Online – MORE INFO

Join in on the action and play against thousands of other players in online matches. Compete in daily and weekly tournaments to win unlock points. Over 30 different weapons, armor, and attachments – including different pistols, rifles, machine guns, grenades, scopes,and flashbangs!

Pocket God – MORE INFO

Pocket God is an episodic microgame for you to explore, show your friends and have fun with. We have been growing the game with the help of player suggestions! What sort of godly powers would you like to see added?

Durak – MORE INFO

The object of the game is to play all of your cards before your opponents do. The last person holding cards is the Durak – the fool. Like all truly great card games, chance plays a role, but it takes skill and strategy to master the game.

GT Racing: Motor Academy Free+ – MORE INFO

4 new cars are now available in GT Racing: Motor Academy. Update your game and access the Audi RS5, Bentley GT Speed, Citroën Survolt and the McLaren MP4-12C.

Infinity Blade – MORE INFO

For untold ages, the God King has ruled with an iron fist – his power is incalculable; his followers, legion. Now you must journey to the Dark Citadel to battle his Titans, one by one, until you face the tyrant himself. As it has been for all in your bloodline, this is your birthright – to free your people from an endless legacy of darkness. The immortal can be vanquished – but only if heart, mind, and steel are one.

Stickman Ski Racer – MORE INFO

Take your skis and hammer down the most beautiful and most dangerous mountains in the world and experience the amazing feeling of Stickman Ski Racer. Perform insane jumps and stunts while rushing down the hills trying to avoid deadly avalanches, rusty weak bridges or profound abysses.

In this post, you will see more than 40 travel websites that are really beautiful and cool created. They range from tropical paradises to rustic locations and all else in between. You will see creative navigation, logos and headers, slideshows with luring images, magnificent fullscreen layouts, cool illustrations and more.  I am sure that you will be awed by these travel websites and you might even want to travel the world after reading this article.

I hope you find this post interesting whether you are a web designer looking for a theme, a travel business owner looking for ideas or a passionate explorer of the world. Let me know which website is your favorite. If I think I missed out on something, tell us through the comment section below. It would be great if you could share this post with your friends, as well.

Rica Surf – MORE INFO

Paradiso – MORE INFO

WheelLifeTravel - MORE INFO

Go Glamping – MORE INFO

Travel Zoo – MORE INFO

Club Manche Attractive – MORE INFO

LakeCrackenBack – MORE INFO

Lonely Planet – MORE INFO

Wanderlust and Lipstick – MORE INFO

GoHawaii.com – MORE INFO

Astoria Villa - MORE INFO

My Provence - MORE INFO

Stay.com – MORE INFO

Iguugo – MORE INFO

Triptuner – MORE INFO

Bahamas.com – MORE INFO

Into Brazil - MORE INFO

Viator – MORE INFO

Vagabond – MORE INFO

Air Bnb – MORE INFO

Staydu – MORE INFO

Visit Cascadia – MORE INFO

Visit Idaho - MORE INFO

Adventure Trekking – MORE INFO

CouchSurfing – MORE INFO

Yellowstone Park - MORE INFO

Adioso.com – MORE INFO

Summit Hotels and Resorts - MORE INFO

Monterey - MORE INFO

Live Africa – MORE INFO

Baja Vacations - MORE INFO

Travel Buzz - MORE INFO

Design Hotels - MORE INFO

Global Team Travel - MORE INFO

LindaLino - MORE INFO

Sayulita Beach - MORE INFO

CantoBelo - MORE INFO

Visit Snowy Mountains – MORE INFO

Indigenous Tours - MORE INFO

Visit Utah - MORE INFO

Roromorama – MORE INFO

Tent Cruising - MORE INFO