This is the first newspaper styled theme that i designed, and everything went pretty smooth thanks to the great cooperation of the customer.

The customer requested the main color to be light blue, and to have a 2 columned theme which is also ad-optimized.

I fulfilled his requests, and used a sleek bright blue as a main color, with a light bolded gray background.

He also requested a box where a youtube video is shown, so i incorporated that also, along with a small icon.

The 2 main posts on top which have the american flag next to them are featured posts, he originally requested the featured post boxes to be black, but i talked him out of it because the black boxes would have messed up the color harmony in the theme.

The outcome looks better than i expected. Really. I wouldn’t have used grey as a background, but the customer insisted upon its usage. The usage of a white background would have raised the contrast of the elements, and the theme would have looked much better, but eh, he’s the customer.

For the body of the boxes i used a light blue/grey gradient, and didn’t close the bottom of the boxes fading the colors in the bottom of each box.

This theme is a good example on that 2 columned themes can compete in quality, and monetization with 3 columned themes ;).

Customer Name: WorldMan

Timeframe: 72 hours

Job overview: Creation of a custom web 2.0 newspaper style wordpress theme

Price: Private