Theme Review » Cold Stone
ColdStone WordPress Theme
ColdStone is a WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that is a great style for professionals that are looking to set up a blog, business site, or magazine style publication. With a ton of easy to use but powerful features, this is definitely a theme that you will enjoy.
Unique Features of Coldstone
There are many great unique features that are included with ColdStone that make it much more desirable than many others that are similar. Some of the more notable include:
- Three areas with widget capabilities make for a great bit of extra content for your visitors and the implementation has never been better.
- Three unique layouts give you the ability to fully customize the design to your liking which will help your site avoid looking like others.
- An integrated featured articles display is absolutely great if you want to make sure your readers are getting the most up to date information from an easy to access location.
- An advertising management feature will make placing ads a lot easier than with other themes. This is perfect if you plan on utilizing advertisement efforts for extra income.
Other Features
Many of the standard features that you will find with all the different Elegant Themes are also available with ColdStone. Some of the ones that I quite liked are listed below.
- Compatibility with all major browsers including Netscape. Safari, Opera IE7 + IE6 and Firefox.
- Smooth Tabless design and Valid XHTML + CSS
- Built-in gravatar support
- Wordpress 2.7 compatibility
- Threaded comments
- PSD files
- Theme Option Pages- This is incredibly useful and includes some pretty powerful customization options.
- Custom thumbnails
Why Use ColdStone?
ColdStone provides much of the functionality that comes with other similar themes, however it also includes some customization features that you will not find anywhere else. While most other themes can do much of the things that it does, it just seems to be a lot easier to do them with ColdStone.
No matter how much experience you have, it is extremely easy to take your ideas and bring them, to life. This is what makes it a great option if you are not very technically inclined and want to still be able to make a professional looking site.
The fact that it is compatible with all major browsers is something that provides extra flexibility and ensures the quality of your site for all of your potential visitors. This is a definite plus and something that will make this theme even more desirable to you if your current theme does not provide this.
Although there is much competition when it comes to these types of themes, I have to recommend ColdStone as one of the best choices for professional and personal blog sites.
