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Welcome to the second edition of Thursday Themesday here at Gilroy Review!

After starting out my blog dedicated to reviewing every work by (or related to) my favorite author, F. Paul Wilson, I knew I needed to find just the right theme to showcase those posts.  Unfortunately, I spent so much time trying to find the theme, that the blog has been very slow to get off the ground.  However, I knew my quest was over when I found Scruffy by South African web designer Cobus Bester.

Scruffy WordPress Theme-

Cobus describes Scruffy simply as “A WordPress theme with a unique “grunge” design“, but it is oh, so much more than that!

Here are some of the features that come with this gorgeous theme-

• Grid based design and layout, built on the popular 960.gs css framework
• Extensive stylesheet with declarations for all areas of the theme
• Easy to customise/expand
  • Original Photoshop files (PSDs) available for download!
• Widgetized sidebar with styling for all default WordPress widgets
• Custom paragraph styles-
  • download
  • info
  • update
  • warning
• Pull quotes
• Table styling
• Page templates included
• Fully supports WordPress’s gallery feature
• 100% Valid XHTML and CSS

So, if th elook of the theme wasn’t enough to sell you, all of those features certainly should!  There’s not really that much more to say about Scruffy.  I did a fair amount of customization for my site, but because the theme is built well and the PSDs are available for download it was relaly easy to do.

My favorite part of this WordPress theme is the way the widget boxes are stylized so it’s not just a series of lists and/or ads hanging out in the sidebar, but appears as what it is: actual content.  I also really love the scrawled “notes” on the theme like the “latest post” and “comments” with the arrow pointing to the relevant part of the theme.

Scruffy is as close to perfect as a theme can be and Cobus is to be praised for all of the hard work he’s done on it.  He has a several other WordPress Themes available as well at his website, so even if you don’t like the look of Scruffy, check out his other themes.

Tags: Cobus Bester, Fresh01, layout, review, Scruffy, series, theme, Thursday Themesday, WordPress, WordPress themes

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