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really nice theme ^^

I find it a bit big and heavy, no? Especially the typography.

Nice. What would be even nicer would be a Drupal theme. If then only could release a PSD for this theme :)

nice
congrats and thanks

Nice theme!
But you used a gif for the large preview?! *fear*

thanks for share

Really Nice Work i love it :)

(PL) dziękuję :) THX ;)

Wow, I love this theme!!

A suggestion: Can you give away some WordPress admin themes?

I find it hard to find some good admin themes that are a little less “WordPress-heavy”, so I would love to see that here =)

Nice theme thanks

@ Adam S. As a designer of 20+ years I don’t find the bold “sidebar” “janky” at all. It nicely separates out the completely irrelevant stuff on the far right from the main content. So, reading from left to right you get … big main content (important) stuff, sidebar (semi-important) nav stuff you need to “understand” the site, and then a narrow column of unimportant (i.e., it doesn’t need to be read to get through the site) stuff. I like it. Although it does strike me too as a bit, I don’t know, “heavy” for my own tastes.

Nice looking theme, but it’s flawed. First off, the search field isn’t obvious- yes it has a big “Go” next to it but there’s not enough colour distinction between the background colour and the input.
The page list doesn’t support sub-pages as children- it pushes the content over to the right ala This Screenshot. They need to be auto-hidden and shown with a hover over the parent page.
There also doesn’t seem to be any easy or obvious way to change the 2nd sidebar on the right- has to be manually edited for 5 different files which is not good even for a free theme. Wouldn’t it be easier with a 2nd sidebar option? Also where’s the option to change the Twitter account? All that would need is a variable and a command in a Theme options page.
Some nice design elements but as a whole, bleh.

Very good theme, I like it !

the giant ribbon-kind-o-stuff on the sidebar is just not a good idea…

That enormous sidebar makes the whole layout imbalanced. No focus on the content at all. This is not good enough for SM, sorry.

I really like the theme… but all the hard coding is awful… It’s not like you don’t know the PHP functions to call home page, rss feed and stuff, you just don’t use them in some of the most obvious places. Anyway, I’m going to get back to trying to widgetize the right sidebar and make an image for the top of the main sidebar…

A very beautiful and creative theme. Might use it in the near future

I love it!

Wow, Great theme !
But with a little customizations ! =)

This is incredible!

impreZZive one !!! :)
luv it !!

truly the one i was searching for. Grazie Smashing Mag!

hello
I’m from Argentina, I read your blog quite often
I read your blog quite often
It’s the first time I leave you a comment. Congratulations for your blog, it’s a great piece of work.

there is no mentioning about Wordpress even though you say it is a Wordpress theme..

big bold letters looks very un-attractive here. at least the paragraph text size could be reduced.

What If I have a 7 to 10 links and i want to accommodate in the top menu. seems like flexibility is not taken care of.

This “theme” is a copy of http://www.from-the-couch.com Thats not cool at all!!

@Talya.
Yes. I found that the theme is very similar.
I don’t mind with inspiration, you can steal it from anywhere. But, dude. This is imitating. There’s nothing new here. I’m feel sorry for Smashing.

@Talya This theme is looking awesome! and I don’t see anything similar to the link that you’ve submitted! Infact this is better than ‘from the couch’.

Keep up Smashing!!

Being the creator of From the Couch I see no need to criticize Gopal Raju. The only similarity bet

“imprezz”, really nice theme. thank you !

“But this is just a plain copy. Look at the layout man…”

I saw them and I do not think they are “equal” … This is your opinion. Not an absolute truth.
That is your vision of the facts! :-)

This is a nice theme but one thing does bother me. There is no way to view older or previous posts. Am I missing that?

In good faith, i feel this is a copy.
At least he should had gone for a different color scheme,the graphics,the layouts etc.

I think the issue lie with just having listed in smashing magazine.May be motive is to get noticed or diverting traffic to ones blog.

I feel that smashing magazine should at least be somewhat rigid in legal/poilicy terms so that this type of acts won’t repeat again.

This is insane!!!!
Copy Stuff…Please remove the post

Hey Right ! This is pure copy stuff…..
http://www.from-the-couch.com

I don’t what know why these people is still keeping this….

I mentioned a few of the imperfections of this theme on the author’s website and the theme author DELETED THE COMMENT……awesome.
A few things I noticed about the theme after using it:
1. Does not display properly in IE7 (titles overlap content)
2 Right column is not widgetized.
3. Left column widgets do not display correctly. Most of them have font same color as sidebar, therefore invisible. Also, some standard widgets (ex. post calendar) will not align.
4. There is no way to navigate to “Next Page” or “Older Posts” from the blog page. Pretty standard feature in theme development.
5. It is also a little bit shady that the author added there own RSS feed to the feed button IMO (you can change it of course but I think we can all see the intentions).

The design and it’s originality are debatable. I myself think that no idea is original. This theme deviates far enough from the “From the Couch” site to call it original. It is aesthetically a nice design with many faults in its development.

Hi

I converted this template for Joomla 1.5.
You can download it here: http://deltatech-v2.de/downloads/191-joomla-15-template-imprezz

Testet only in Firefox3 und IE7

Anyone figured out how to change out the twitter info? I’ve found the twitter code on the image.php file and I’ve changed the info, but still not appearing as changed.

Mia- The twitter code is also in the archive.php, comments.php, index.php (I think), search.php, and single.php. Also check page.php. I think that is a little sneaky on the developers end. It is in almost every file except sidebar.php- Go Figure! In those files you will also find the RSS button code that you will also have to change from the developers RSS feed to yours.

the imprezz is simply Impressive lightweight WP theme. its easy to customize and the UI is gr8. I love the theme. Hats up to the Designing & Development Team/individual.

Just checked the link to the on the couch site – personally i think can thing this theme is a better look overall. As an artist i think it is important that people can build on and improve on other peoples ideas.

BEING ABSOLUTELY NEW CANNOT GIVE COMMENTS

The version of this theme I’m using is converted for blogger. The date part that is displayed in the upper right corner of the post is not workign corrrectly. It shows up as “undefined.” How to I fix this, or elminate it if it isn’t fixable?

Looks good ‘on the outside’ but as soon as you try to use it you will realize how amateurish it is. I think this must have started as a nice PSD design, but somewhere in the process of creating CSS and making it a WP theme, it just got messed up big time.

I don’t expect a free theme to be perfect right out of the box, but this would require way too much work for what is merely a decent theme.

Good effort though, it is eye-catching.

Many thanks!

really nice theme

Very good theme, but It not work in IE 7.

I love this theme!! I wished it was only 2 columns though, removing the one furthest to the right and making the main column wider. Would that be doable??

Thank u very much for this theme! I adapted it for my blog (about music) :

Wow, I love this theme!! awesome! ^_^ Thanks

http://code.google.com/p/imprezz/

I’ve cleaned it up and widgetized the right sidebar. Feel free to file bugs/issues. Thanks.

#103
I’m using Joe’s modified version- with a few modifications of my own- and LOVE it.
Thanks, Joe.