As budgets get tighter and people look for ways to save money online, there is nothing like a free WordPress theme to help us do just that.

Just in case you don’t know, WordPress is an open source website content management system. It was first released in May 2003.

It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 million websites in the US and 202 million websites worldwide.

In 2007 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS Award.

With all that being said the idea is to find a theme that looks close to what you are wanting the website layout to look like and then hire a web designer to modify and customize that theme.

Here are a couple themes from Smashing Magazine that I thought were really cool.

Below are a list of some of the themes I like, however to find more themes and get more information on these themes check out the link above.

Zinepress Theme

SimpleCart(js)

Paper Wall

Cool Retro

Gallery WordPress Theme

Folio Elements Theme

Destyle Theme

Cool Retro

Calmdream WordPress Theme

Berita

AppCloud Theme

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