Great looking and free WordPress themes are really hard to find.  Sometimes you have to search for days, weeks or years to find the one that is right for you.  With that said, I am here to make your Monday morning just that much easier – here is EvoLve.

EvoLve is a great looking premium WordPress theme that includes a ton of advanced options to help you customize things to suit your own design needs. Here is only a handful of the great options and settings you can find in this flawless WordPress theme:

It features a modern design with up to 14 color variants, fully customizable layout, post excerpts with thumbnails, post boxes, author gravatar support, up to 10 subscribe/social customizable buttons, custom logo, header widgets, recent posts slideshow, footer widgets, custom footer, customizable font styles, custom CSS, ads spaces. The EvoLve theme also comes with custom Menus support and other cool features. Translated in Spanish, German, Swedish, Dutch, French, Russian, Turkish. Tested with WP 3.1 and major browsers – Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome.

Want to give it a shot? You can go preview or download it directly from WordPress.org.

As some of you may or may not have noticed, the theme I have been using across my network or projects is from WooThemes.  Now, while I might have told you a few years back that a premium WordPress theme was a waste of money and time (because you could always just do it yourself) I have had a change or heart.  My investment in purchasing a premium theme has been really fantastic.

The great thing about WooThemes is that they come with a very in-depth framework backend that allows you to tweak many of the ways the themes both look and feel to the users.  You can edit colors, styles, the layout and more.  I have been really impressed.  I have also been able to get rid of a few plugins because of the built in features that WooThemes delivers. 

For example, I no longer have to use the All-in-One SEO plugin for WordPress because my theme has SEO capabilities built into it. 

Now, I know for some of you the price might turn you off from wanting to go jump on the bandwaggon.  $70 is a lot of money.  However, when you consider you can use the theme for the rest of your life and on concurrent domains, the price is not all that bad.  You also gain access to all the updates for that theme for free too.

Go check out the selection of themes they provide, and see if you can find one or two that you like.  They have a few free themes too that you might want to play with to see how you like the way they manage the theme backend too.  Go give them a visit at woothemes.com.

Want to develop a website that is more about the comments than it is about the stories?  With WordPress and the P2 theme you can do that.  This innovative theme for WordPress gives you inline comments on the homepage, a posting form right on the main index, inline editing of posts and more.

What is Unique About This WordPress Theme?

If you want to start up a blog that is based around conversations rather than articles, P2 is definitely the tool you need to try out.  It brings the real time communication you might see on a Twitter or Facebook and brings it to your self-hosted WordPress installation.  Once you are logged in, you should see the posting box at the top of the page you have P2 installed on.  Simple write your post and open it up to the conversation.  Any registered users can then comment and share their thoughts on your post’s topic too.

Here is a quick video tour of P2:

Want to download P2 and play with it yourself?  Just head over to p2theme.com to get started.  I think this is a really interesting and unique way to look at your standard WordPress powered website and can not wait to see how many users find a creative topic to base around this unique use of WordPress.

Are you looking to a great bundle of web design and development treasures, for a fraction of the price? Then you need to go check out BundleHunt.  Right now they are offering everything from web hosting plans, premium WordPress themes, classy icons and more for a heavily discounted price.

BundleHunt is fantastic, because it does all of these things:

• Helps to Promote Great Design Tools, Software and Services
• Gives People BIG Discounts on Great Resources

I have yet to figure out how BundleHunt is making very much, but I am sure they have a business plan wrapped in there somewhere.  Currently you have 6 days left to get:

• Billings
• Flux
• 6 months of Site5 web hosting
• The Smashing Mag E-Book
• 1 Year Membership to SUBERNOVA
• Icon Dock (Icon Set)
• Designious (Vector Image Pack)
• 2 WordPress Themes from WP Bakery
• 100 HQ Photos from Photocase
• 100 Premium Files from Vandelay Premier
• 3 WordPress Themes from Mojo Themes
• Dry Icons
• 25% Off the Next Bundle

That is $1,400 worth of great and wonderful web design and development tools.  You only have to pay $49 for it all.

BundleHunt is a resource well worth bookmarking, and checking out.  You get tons a great things, for a really low discounted price.

Mystique

This is the best free WordPress theme I have seen in a while.  It really does a great job at creating top commercial template features in a theme that is free for everybody to use.  You can learn more about it, and download it at its official website.

AllTuts

This theme, put out by Site5 looks great and gives off that vibe of a really professional theme.  The entire theme is very polished looking and doesn’t hold back when it comes to features.  You can grab it (and a few more great WordPress themes) over at Site5′s free WordPress themes website.

LightWord

I really love the simple themes out there too, so LightWord has to go on my list.  This theme comes with two or three column support, it is AdSense ready, and just looks really nice.  If you are looking for a sleek, yet simple WordPress theme, you could not go wrong with LightWord.  You can pick it up on its official website.

Arras Theme

Magazine themes for WordPress are growing in popularity these days, and if you need a free magazine-like theme to get started with, Arras theme is the one to pick.  Simply put, it has tons of features, alternative styles, includes a slideshow feature and really the list goes on and on.  You can pick it up on ArrasTheme.com.

Thematic

Now you might say this theme is a little simple, right?  Well that is the best thing about it.  The Thematic theme for WordPress is simply a framework to use to design your own great looking WordPress powered blog.  You can pick it up at  Themeshaper.com.

There you have it.  These are some of the best WordPress themes I’ve run into that simply do not suck.  Have another theme in mind that should have made it on the list?  Want to tell me which one is your favorite?  Drop your feedback, thoughts and suggestions into the comments.

So, with that said – I thought I would share with you the top seven pro wrestling themes that do tell you everything you need to know about a guy.

Hulk Hogan

If you don’t know all the words, there is something wrong with you…

Shawn Michaels

If you haven’t been caught singing this song in the shower when you thought nobody could hear you, there is something wrong with you…

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase

If you haven’t tried to do that laugh at least once, there is something wrong with you…

The Undertaker

A stage setting theme that fits in perfectly with all the darkness and spookyness that surounds the Undertaker. 

Mr. Perfect

Maybe it is just me, but this theme for me just fits in perfectly with the Mr Perfect, better than you and everybody else, character. 

Demolition

Another famous Rick Derringer wrestling theme, and I don’t care what you say Demolition was awesome and not a cheap Legion of Doom knock-off.

Triple H

Well, the song does tell you everything you need to know. 

There you have it, my top seven pro wrestling theme songs that really "tell the story".  Did I overlook one you thought should make it onto the list?  Be sure to leave a comment and let us know.

Need a handy guide to WordPress?  Try out some of these great links!

• 9 WordPress Alternatives
• Using WordPress for Static Web Sites
• WordPress Plugins for Regular Folks
• 10 Tools to Turn Firefox into WordPress’s Little Helper
• A Better WordPress Admin Layout?
• How to Get Rid of WordPress Comment Spam
• 37 WordPress Theme Databases and Blogs
• 20 Best Multimedia Plugins for WordPress
• Sticky Post Help in WordPress
• WordPress Plugins for Regular Folks

Let me know which ones are your favorites, and what type of WordPress lists, tutorials or more you would like to see in the future!

Looking for a wiki script for your next great web site project? 

As somebody who’s built one from the ground up – I can tell you picking the right script for the job, is not an easy task to do.  With a surprising amount of flexibility and power, BoltWire might be one of the easiest to use wikis out there. 

It takes the cake when it comes to mixing the strengths of various script categories together.  Is it a CMS? Is it a wiki?  It is a little ‘bit of both.

The install process is simple.  All you do is download, unzip, upload and install.  It runs on just about any server with PHP4 (although PHP5 is recommended) and has a simple upgrade process too. The entire download is less than 100k, so should just take a couple of seconds to get started.

What about the Features?

Here are some of the best features about BoltWire:

• Easy to install and upgrade
• Run multiple sites off one installation
• Built in member and group management
• Easy to use wiki markup system
• Powerful search engine capabilities
• In-browser editing of skins & CSS
• Standards compliant
• UTF-8 and multi-lingual support
• One click installation of plugins

If you are new to the script, or you get it installed and start to wonder, “What’s Next?!” I would suggest checking out the documentation.  They also have a nice selection of tutorials to help you out too.

Customization?  Yes, you can customize BoltWire in many different ways.  It comes with both plugin and skin support so you are able to make it do the job you want it to do, and get it looking the way you need it to look. 

All in all, I would highly suggest checking BoltWire out, if you have a web site project that needs just a little ‘bit of wiki and a little bit of a content management system rolled into one. 

DokuWiki – Aimed at creating documentation of any kind, DokuWiki is a standards compliant wiki with more than a few nice features. It has anti-spam controls, all the basic editing features, supports over 30 languages and has built in page caching for quicker page rendering.  It also features a number of plugins and themes to try too.

BoltWire – A small and easy to use alternative wiki script, Boltwire is still able to deliver with surprising flexibility.  The neat thing here is that it has database-like storage and retrieval of form input values. But no database!  You can also restore a deleted page at any time, and customize ever site action from within the browser.

WikyBlog – So it is a blog and a wiki?  Well I wouldn’t say it is both as much as it tries to fuse the best of both worlds.  WikyBlog brings in the user friendly publishing characteristics of blogs, delivered with the easy to use wiki syntax.  Designed with speed in mind, it is a groupware application that is a nice alternative to the more traditional wiki scripts out there.

WikkaWiki – I promise this wiki script has nothing to do with voodoo or magic.  The WikkaWiki is a script that was forked from WakkaWiki.  With speed, extendibility and security in mind, this wiki script deserves your attention.  They are also working on better ways to integrate WikkaWiki into other content management systems like WordPress, SMF, phpBB and more.

PmWiki – Taking a different approach to content management, Pm wiki looks and acts like a normal web site.  The only difference is that each page inside of the site has an “edit” link to make modification of the page easier.  You can limit the editing to just one person, a team of people or the entire world.  This script would be for people who want a web page, with some wiki-like features.

Which wiki script is your favorite?  Is MediaWiki still the hands down winner to you?  Would love to hear more about your own experiences with any of these top alternatives to MediaWiki.

The eno Vista Port visual style for Windows Vista keeps things simple, but doesn’t look awful when doing so. The only thing I miss in comparison with Vista’s default theme is the search box is missing in the start menu.   

As a word of warning, switching your Vista visual styles is a ‘bit more tedious of a task than it was in XP.  If you are looking for a good guide to hold your hand durring the process, check out:  How to Patch Windows Vista to Enable Custom Themes (Visual Styles)