I love WordPress themes. I use WordPress loads and it’s awesome how many there are out there to choose from 
I stick to free themes because lets face it, none of my websites are particularly serious, but a lot of serious bloggers and businesses pay for premium templates that do all kinds of fancy stuff – whether it’s to make a WordPress site look like a business site, a shop, a magazine etc, premium themes are meant to go the extra mile.
Talking to friends who’ve bought premium themes however, it’s not always plain sailing. Like any pre-made system there are limitations to any theme. Say you buy a theme which does everything EXCEPT one thing, which you then have to code in/hack yourself. Or say the standard of coding is okay but not perfect – there’s no objective grading method so although premium themes from places like Themeforest are meant to be good, what you get really depends on the ability of whoever coded them. You buy on trust.
My partner in crime Frog has a new speciality – template themes specifically built for online portfolios. Say you’re a web designer wanting to show off your work – what better way than to have a WordPress (or Joomla, or whatever) site and template it up? Okay, web designers may be able to design their own portfolios but turning them into templates is a different matter entirely. With a free or premium template you still get a good-looking site that lets you present your work – and your work is the important bit of your portfolio after all!
For other creatives like graphic designers, photographers, even script-writers or film-makers who want to upload videos, a portfolio theme is a really cool idea. So many people want to use a free CMS but can’t get their work to look pretty – well, a portfolio theme is designed to show off your work
FrogsThemes.com not only gives away free wordpress portfolio templates, there are premium options too, and in the coming weeks there’ll be tutorials on PSDs, plugin recommendations and everything you need to make an awesome portfolio in WordPress, Joomla and any other CMS you can think of. There’s also a Newsletter so you can get the latest tips and tricks in your inbox for some geeky designer reading.
To celebrate the launch, FrogsThemes is giving away Foliogrid, a WordPress theme for design portfolios that gives you a stupendously sexy blank canvas to display your work.
Hooray for free themes! Hooray for FrogsThemes!
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