Theme Information:

• Description: A 920px, fixed-width, 2-column, widget-ready theme. Its focus is for fun news blogs and sites. Features a custom home page, sidebars, and templates.
• Requirement(s): Wordpress 2.1+
• Download Theme ([download#17#hits]) | Live Demo

Free header image:

The first 20 people that request it, will get a free header image customized by me. Nothing complicated, just something that looks like the header on the live demo.

Features:

• Newspaper- / Magazine-style layout with a customized front page.
• Feature article listed on front page with a thumbnail.
• Specific styles for each type of page (category, archive, etc.).
• Customized sidebars for different pages of the site.
• Integrated WordPress 2.3 tag support.
• Placeholder divs for ads. Great sidebar sizes for Google AdSense ads.
• Three different sidebars that are all widget-ready.
• DomTab for the for the front page to allows users to quickly access information.
• Photoshop .psd files included for customizing your own images.

Need To Know:

• You should at least glance at the readme.txt file because it explains in detail how to use the features of this theme.
• See how to use optional excerpts to make a cleaner blog when using this theme.
• Learn how to upload images.
• Read up on using custom fields.
• Get the latest version of WordPress to make use of tags.

Thoughts:

I started working on this theme immediately after I finished Newspaperize. I had a lot of issues with that theme that I tried to correct with this theme. Some problems were fixed easily. But, I also created a few other problems.

This is simply the journey of theme designing, I suppose.

For the most part, I’m satisfied with how this turned out. I’m not as satisfied as I was with Newspaperize, but I did reach a little outside the box as far as design and color schemes go with Magtastic. I wanted to brighten things up a little, add some color, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.

This theme’s a little “out there” for me, but I had fun with it. I’m sure there are millions of tiny bugs crawling around in it, so feel free to report them all.

Also, I will customize a header image for the first twenty people that ask for it here in the comments (I mean that I will just change the text in the image to your site name and add your site description if you want it).