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Lately, there is a growing trend in the WordPress theme design community to produce high-end, premium, magazine (or webzine) style work. This was to happen sooner or later, it was only a matter of time before users discovered the full potential of WordPress to power sites outside of their blogs and when that happened, the quest for better themes followed. The obvious progression for designers was towards themes …

SPress: Download Link | Test run

2 and 3 Column, Gray, White, Advanced, Fixed width, Widget ready, Options Page, Right sidebars, Bottom Sidebar, Professional Blog Template

SPRess is an advanced 2 and 3 column “widget” ready WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions. This professional theme has an options page to change the header image, background colors, fonts, font colors, and much more. The theme has one right sidebar and 3 bottom sidebars that are all widget ready. The theme is also styled to easily add Google Adsense and was supported by Duluth Real Estate + …

nine O: Download Link | Test run

Advanced, 3 Column, Blue, Red, Green, Pink, Orange, Black, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Options Page, Right sidebars, Adsense Ready, Professional Blog Template

nine O is an advanced 3 column “widget” ready WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions based partly on Greenway 3C.

This professional theme has an options page to change the header color, change the fonts, font color, upload sidebar image and much more. The theme has two right sidebars that are widget ready. The theme …

Evolution: Download Link | Test run

3 Column, Brown, Red, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Options Page, Right sidebars, Adsense Ready, Professional Blog Template

Evolution is 3 column advanced ”widget” ready Web 2.0 WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions based partly on design by TriStarWeb. This clean, professional theme has an option page to change the header color, change the fonts, font color and much more. The theme has both right sidebars and bottom sidebars that are widget ready. The theme is also Google Adsense styled and was supported by Web Design Company + Ecommerce Software. Please …

Melmac: Download Link | Test run

2 Column, Blue, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebars, Adsense Ready, Professional Blog Template

Melmac is a new advanced 2 column “widget” and “adsense” ready Web 2.0 WordPress theme with a professional look designed by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions based partly on design by Goroton. This clean, professional theme has an option page to change the background image to black, green or red, or change the fonts, font color and much more. The theme is also Google Adsense ready and was supported by Regulation AB + Dedicated Servers. …

Harvest Field 3C: Download Link | Test run

3 Column, Brown, Green, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Left sidebars, Adsense Ready, Professional Blog Template

Harvest Fields 3C is a new 3 column “widget” and “adsense” ready Web 2.0 WordPress theme with a professional look by designed in collaboration with MandarinMusing based on template by Styleshout. This clean, professional theme is Google Adsense ready and was supported by Locum Tenens + Hubcaps. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, …

Discovery 3C: Download Link | Test run

Left sidebar, Widget ready, Adsense Ready, Fixed width, Gray, White, Black, 3 columns, Wildlife/ Animals/ Nature/ Science/ Discovery/ Planet/ Personal Blog

A new 3-column “widget” and “adsense” ready WordPress theme by headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing based on design by Free CSS Templates. As the name suggests, this theme is ideal for science/ animals/ wildlife/ nature sites, both for professional and personal blogs. You can remove the header image for a neat Web 2.0 look. This new theme was created with support from SAS 70 + Baseball Cards…

Greenway LCR: Download Link | Test run

Left sidebar, Right sidebar, Widget ready, Fixed width, Green, 3 columns, Personal/Business Blog Template

This is a highly reconfigured 3 column “Widget” ready LCR (left-center-right format) WordPress theme with a professional look by MandarinMusing and myself. The theme is a derivation of Greenway by David Herreman. This design is Google adsense ready best suited for news portals, blogs and business sites. The theme was created with support from Web Hosting + Children’s Clothing. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized …

I took the backseat for much of this debate that has been raging for a few weeks now, but it’s time for my response. At Headsetoptions, we are two designers with over 70 themes to our humble credit, some original, some modified and most ported from free CSS templates designed by our friends, and most of our themes created with the aid of sponsors. Why am I saying this, and why now? Well, today, there was a huge cry about “Sponsored Themes” on a popular download site and hoards of users and designers decided to jump on the “kill the designers” bandwagon …