Arthemia Theme Features:

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• Designer: Michael Jubel
• Columns: 2
• Menu Type: Drop-down
• Pre-Styled HTML Elements: Yes
• Plugins: Yes
• Trackbacks/Comments: Not Separated
• Author Comments: Styled
• Browser Compatibility: All Standard Browsers
• Widget Ready: Enabled
• Code: Clean
• W3C Valid: Not Valid

Theme Admin Options:

• Logo Options: Editable
• Page Alignment: Centered
• Advert Mgmt: AdSense, Banner Integration
• Display Attributes: None

Package Includes:

• Theme Type: WordPress
• Logo Source: PNG
• Documentation: Yes
• License Details: Free

Personal License:

• Price: Free
• 1 license to use on a single website
• The credit link in the footer must remain intact.
• Not Applicable

Developer Package:

• Price: Free
• Unlimited license to use on any website
• The credit link in the footer may be removed.
• Not Applicable

Preview and Download:

• Preview
• Release Page/Download

Extended Theme Description:

Arthemia is a free, premium inspired WordPress theme from Michael Jubel. Not only is it one of the most elegant, yet simple magazine themes, it contains everything that a WordPress blogger would want to have in a theme. He is currently using a modified version of the theme on his personal blog.

The main purpose of creating the theme was to make it not a complete “magazine” nor a “blog”, but a combination of both. The main page displays the headline and a featured post, with an image to go along with the post. A blue and black category bar is displayed in the middle of the page for categories and navigational purposes. Nearing the bottom of the page is an area for highlighting your most popular and recent posts.

Additional Features:

• Drop-down menu in header - black with blue hover color
• Automatic Image Resizing - A PHP script automatically resizes the thumbnail image, from Darren Hoyt. You can take advantage of the feature simply by uploading an image, and the thumbnail is added.
• Theme utilizes several plugins from Lester Chan to extend the functionality of the theme.
• Designed for WordPress 2.5, and you must make modifications if you wish to use it in versions down to 2.3. Theme has been tested in various browsers with no compatibility issues.
• Installing is extremely simple - using the basic process.
• Widget ready
• Negative: For users that don’t like customizing themes, you must know how to find category IDs and be able to input thumbnails in the Custom Fields. Other than those small areas, the theme has been built with little maintenance after the theme is initially set up.

Note: There is also a secondary, no headline and featured section, download available for using the theme as a typical weblog.

Update: On August 2, 2008, Version 2.0 of the theme was released, which provides updates to the front page, CSS problems, added automatic thumbnail feature for the post list, archive, and search page, as well as the comment style, and WP-PagNavi for pagination.

Finally, I want to say that this theme, while only a month old (at the current time), surely puts other premium (paid) in an area of stark competition. This theme (combination) offers more than many other themes all contained in a simple, elegant, and clean design.