I was very intrigued when I stumbled onto Elegant Themes homepage and found an amazing gallery of over thirty themes. The newest, which is On the Go is a premium Wordpress theme that stands out as artistic, colorful, and beautiful. The theme looks hand drawn and almost like a website made out of the work of a graffiti artist, but in a very elegant way.
Content Display: Most of the content on the demo of On The Go looks like it is hand drawn. The content looks amazing, the content slider is absolutely one of a kind. The slider is so responsive and fast, it feels like you are in hyperdrive. The artistic styling of every detail of the content display from the navigation all the way to the footer is truly remarkable. Every section of the website features some sort of specific design element that creates a truly remarkable unique look to this theme. The detail is amazing.
Navigation: The navigation for On The Go rocks. The main navigation is located at the top of the browser and features hand drawn aspects around it, creating an enjoyable navigation bar around it. The rest of the navigation for the widgets is below the main content area (that only features a single post and the content slider on top) and is widget based along the bottom of the footer. White clouds on a dark background with hand drawn lines around each of the navigation boxes creates an awesome element of uniqueness.
Sidebar: The sidebar does not exist in a typical sense on this theme. However it is present. On the right hand side of the main content (below the content slider) is a three tab quick navigation box. Featuring an Ajax interface, there is a recent posts, popular posts, and random posts tab. Nice and colorful, this section features miniature thumbnails from the posts and has a very unique look to it (even from the rest of the theme). The mini sidebar approach works great here, something I usually do not like in a web design, I am surprisingly ok with the look of this one.
Overall: Overall, I am in love with this theme. Elegant Themes has an amazing portfolio of over 30 premium templates that cost only a yearly fee of $19.95 per year, you have access to some of the most unique and beautiful themes on the internet. You are able to download any of the themes as much as you want in that time, and can cancel before your second year without getting charged.
On The Go features compatibility for every major browser (including Opera and Netscape even), an optional blog style theme structure (instead of the single post), threaded comments, widget based sidebar, and an advertising plugin.
I completely recommend Elegant Themes as probably one of the best available theme resources on the net right now and a bargain of a price at less than $20 a year for unlimited access to all of their themes.
