High Quality WordPress Themes Roundup

With thousands of free WordPress themes available, it can be difficult to find the right one for your blog.

Hopefully, this roundup of the best posts covering high quality free WordPress themes will help you make your decision.

- 20 Free 3 Column WordPress Themes

Is your blog too cluttered? Too much information for one sidebar? Then you should try one of these free 3 column WordPress themes.

- Top 15 Free Magazine Style WordPress Themes

After sorting through over 130 magazine style themes here are 15 that emerged as strong leaders in terms of style, usability and functionality - and all are available for free.

- 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects.

- 24 High Quality Free WordPress Themes

Collection of 24 high quality free WordPress themes.

- 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Wordpress Themes

Collection of free WordPress themes to consider before buying any of the premium themes.

- 15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes

15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project.

- 20 Free Corporate WordPress Themes

Here’s a round up of 20 of the best free corporate WordPress themes available.

- 18 Minimalist Design Wordpress Themes

Collection of the minimalist style Wordpress themes.

- 45+ Must See WordPress themes

Roundup of quality free and premium WordPress themes.

- 30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes

Over 30 fresh free high-quality professional WordPress themes.

- 30 Free Grid Style Wordpress Themes

A collection of magazine / grid type free wordpress themes.

- 45+ Free WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts

This collection is constituted only of Free Premium WordPress Themes, most of them have magazine or grid layouts.

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24 CSS Design Showcase Websites

Collection of the best and most useful CSS design showcase websites that everyone should bookmark.

01 - cssdrive.com

Categorized CSS gallery and examples.

02 - cssbeauty.com

A project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

03 - csselite.com

Website design gallery featuring innovative website design and web development resources.

04 - cssbased.com

CSS Based Web Design Gallery

05 - cssimport.com

CSS Import is one of the most respected CSS Design galleries on the web today and was one of the first on the scene.

06 - thebestdesigns.com

A gallery of the best CSS and Flash web designs.

07 - cssnature.org

CSS NATURE is a showcase of well designed eco green and organic CSS based website designs.

08 - unmatchedstyle.com

Unmatched Style is a constantly growing community dedicated to acknowledging those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites using Cascading Style Sheets and web standards.

09 - lightondark.com

A showcase of well designed and coded web sites with light text on a dark background.

10 - styleboost.com

Styleboost is a gallery for showcasing beautiful web sites.

11 - welovewp.com

We Love WP is the most updated gallery that showcases the design and development of websites and blogs using WordPress.

12 - cssmania.com

CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe.

13 - bestwebgallery.com

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS).

14 - cssseason.com

The Best CSS Based Web Design Showcase

15 - designshack.co.uk

Design Shack is a highly regarded web design gallery and portal, which has been showcasing inspirational CSS since 2003.

16 - stylecrunch.com

StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery.

17 - csscase.com

Gallery of best-designed web 2.0 websites.

18 - inspirationup.com

Inspirationup.com is a gallery of the best selections of websites from around the globe.

19 - stylevault.net

Stylevault.net is a design showcase where web designers can show off their talents and get inspiration.

20 - cssstars.com

CSS based design showcase portal.

21 - cssfreshblend.com

A fresh blend of beautiful web sites.

22 - css.wearethebuzz.com

CSS-Based website designs showcase gallery with a fast growing community.

23 - cssheaven.com

CSS Heaven is all about Fresh and innovative CSS / XHTML web designs submitted by web designers from around the world.

24 - designsnack.com

The design showcase that you control / CSS, XHTML and Flash Inspiration Gallery.

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Top 10 Free PHP CMS

Here are top 10 free PHP CMS collected from many sources (not sorted on rankings)

1. Drupal



download: http://drupal.org/project/Drupal+project
demo: http://demodrupal.com/
Drupal is fairly easy to use but if you need more drupal will provide you with many flexibility. Sometimes drupal is categorized as cms and also web framework. It has many add ons, theme systems using Smarty, PHPTal, or plain PHP, and supported by jquery framework for javascript and ajax capabilities.
Some of famous websites powered with drupal are Warner Bros. Records , Yahoo , Forbes , The Onion , and AOL .

2. WordPress

download:http://wordpress.org/download/
demo:http://demo.talkpress.de/trunk/
WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog. It is easy to install and huge number free plugins and themes are available in internet. You can't go wrong with wordpress for blogging but you can also use many plugins to customize it.

3. Joomla

download:http://www.joomla.org/download.html
demo:http://demo.joomla.org/
Joomla is successor of mambo cms. Easy to use and has many plugins and themes that you can get for free on its website http://joomla.org. The system includes many popular features such as blogs, polls, news flashes, web searching, language internationalization, pdf or printable version of pages, RSS feeds, and page caching. It has many communities.

4.XOOPS

download:http://www.xoops.org/modules/core/
demo:http://demo.opensourcecms.com/xoops/
XOOPS is a free content management system written in PHP. It's allowing you to customize, theme and update your website easily. A small installation can be used as a personal blogging or journal, but you can customize to store content in news, forums, downloads and more.

5.eZ Publish

download:http://ez.no/download/ez_publish
demo:http://ez.no/ezpublish/demo
ez Publish is freely available content management system. You can use it to create websites from personal homepages to multilingual corporate website. It supports multi user access, e-commerce, and online communities.

6.CMS Made Simple

download:http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads
demo:http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=452
Not too much talking about it, it is easy to install, configure and use :).

7.e107

download:http://e107.org/edownload.php
demo:http://demo.opensourcecms.com/e107/
It has simple easy to use theme system, integrated forums system and easy admin system. Has support for multi user and very suitable for community portal website.

8.Elgg

download:http://elgg.org/downloads.php
demo:http://test.elgg.org/
Elgg is open source cms specialized in social network websites. It is new but already win Infoworld Best of Open Source Software in 2008 for social network platform. It supports Profile, Dashboard, Blogging, Forums, Social Bookmarking and File Repository. Some social networking site powered with elgg are UnLtdWorld http://www.unltdworld.com/, Snippr http://www.snippr.de/, Rucku http://www.rucku.com/ and University of Brighton http://community.brighton.ac.uk/.

9.TYPOlight

download:http://www.typolight.org/download.html
demo:http://www.typolight.org/demo.html
As one of the best CMS it came from TYPO3, what different is that it is more easy to use and supports web 2.0. Has multi user capability, unique undo utilities, content type range from articles, news, flash content, form generator, calendar/events, newsletters to FAQ.

10.dotCMS

download:http://www.dotcms.org/download/
demo:http://www.dotcms.org/demo/
This cool cms is easy to use and easy to learn. It is reliable for personal website as to company website. Has feature such as blog, articles, news, articles, photo gallery and easy template.

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