6 More Examples of Unique Thesis Theme Sites

20 Great Examples of Customizing Thesis and 20 Mini Site Reviews is one of the most popular articles at Thesis Theme HQ. So, here’s another 6 bold and beautiful Thesis Theme sites that have broken free from the default theme.

1. Feature Box & Fat Footer & Self Promotion

Good Financial Cents – This site has it all. Great design, great self promotion, great content, great navigation and it’s about something that is usually quite boring in appearance – financial planning. This site doesn’t give you any time to snooze. It is vibrant, interesting and jam packed with hundreds of articles.

10 things this Thesis Theme site does so well

1 – Consistent colors - gold, burgundy, grey and black and white.

2 - Great logo incorporating the site colors (or rather the site is based on the logo colors).

3 - two nav menus - the major below the header and the minor nav menu above the header.

4 – Provides a personal connection with the author/blog owner by having links to an About page, media page, lots of videos and images that really put a face to the guy who you are going to have to trust with your money after all.

5 – Uses the feature box on the home page to feature an article.

6 – Uses images everywhere to break up the content. A thumbnail of his face to the left of every headline of each post and again in the post footer. Good sized images in posts with correct source attributions. Related posts plugin with thumbnails of those articles.  And, most importantly, thumbnails of the post images to the left of headlines in the teasers on the home page.

7 – The fat footer is a meal in itself. The footer could be its own webpage or website even.

8 – Intelligent use of the sidebar. There’s nothing in the sidebar that isn’t useful. Prominent subscribe box, a taste of articles, links to other relevant pages, Facebook fan club widget that doesn’t look out of place (a hard thing to achieve), even the ads look tasteful. Importantly, Jeff hasn’t cluttered his sidebar up with his many categories, choosing instead to have a drop down selector box for categories and listing them in full in the top of his fat footer instead.

9 – Profile box at the end of posts with image, links and bookmarking and subscribe buttons.

10 – Tasteful inclusion of Google AdSense. Great choice of colours and positioning at top and bottom of posts, below the headline and before the profile box.

2. Pretty & Practical

Sarah Klass – This site definitely has a woman’s touch.

Great use of the multimedia box to use 6 smaller boxes to promote other sections within the site.

Lots of brown and pink and plenty of personalised touches, like the signature block and other badges.

3. Colorful & Cute

Kids Stuff World – definitely kid friendly. Despite this site’s bright colors and strong use of images – it manages to incorporate ads and content beautifully. This design is perfect for children’s products. If this is your niche, then you need to check this site out.

* *Site Update * *

Kids Stuff now has an awesome new drop down menu with different colors for different categories and pages. All of this is achieved with a little bit of CSS coding in the custom style sheet in Thesis.

In the screenshot below I captured (with several screenshots put together) what each drop down menu looks like when you hover over the link.

• For example, the top nav menu below (above the header) is what it looks like without hovering over it.
• The nav menu below has orange words and background color when you hover over the “KIDS” category, pink for “STUFF”, etc.

The coding is pretty simple – but a little tricky at first for a newbie – well done Stacy! To make the “KIDS” tab have orange text on the default background (grey) and make the “KIDS” tab change to an orange background with white text when just hovered over, you use the following CSS:

.custom .menu .tab-1 a {
	background: #EFEFEF;
	color: #e469a8;
}

.custom .menu .tab-1 a:hover {
	background: #e469a8;
	color: white;
}

4. Header, Navigation Menu & Post Footer

Kikolani – Fantastic bold, bright and beautiful background. Unique header with descriptive double-layered navigation menu.The post footer is a great example of adding affiliate links and deep links to other parts of your site.

5. Simple Customizations Big Impact

JCD Fitness – this site hasn’t done too much to the default Thesis Theme as it comes out of the box but the few changes it has made make this site look professional, sophisticated and sexy. Add a unique dark background and an image of a well-built half naked man, two sidebars, simple but integrated color scheme and sharp images in posts and BAM you have a rocking Thesis mod.

6. Bold, Rude & Effective

Life Without Pants – Both the content and the design of this site is to the point. Great unique header, free eBook offer and home of The Amazing Five Minute Blog Review. Check out the unique sidebar header backgrounds – a bit like Pearsonified.com

• Matt really should wear pants because he really gets around…Guest Blog Grand Tour
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