In case you're new to Performancing, we release a new, high-quality WordPress theme for free each month. For our March 2008 theme we are pleased to be releasing One In A Million, designed by my friend TDH.

One of my favorite things about this WordPress theme is the way it separates individual blog posts on the index pages. If there's one gripe I have about most publishing sites on the Internet (including this one;-) it's that posts often bleed into each other. Often, the only element used to split up posts is a bold headline. With One In A Million, each post is boxed off from the rest.

As a 3 column design with the content in the middle column, One In A Million has plenty of above the fold advertising real estate, while maintaining a sufficiently wide content area.

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Misinformation is a bitch - it usually happens when people who are pushing their own views either bend the truth or (more likely) omit certain facts when presenting their ideas.

Case in point - the whole brouhaha around sponsored themes. Of course, many sponsored themes are being distributed with the sole purpose of building backlinks / making money out of selling sponsored or hidden links. However, brushing all sponsored themes with the same tag and calling them evil is lazy at best and wrongful discrimination at worst.

Case in point - a question asked today by a Performancing member.

On the September 07 Theme Sponsorship post, Performancing member Wilson Chua asks:

Hi guys,

I am a bit concerned, as i use a lot of sponsored themes, but Matt Cutts, in his whitehat-SEO-tips-for-bloggers.ppt, in slide 25 mentions:

"Dont use sponsored theme- can lose all your trust in different search engines"

I hope there is an error here somewhere.....

This has nothing to do directly with Performancing.com's sponsored themes, and yet people sometimes doubt us because whenever 'white-hat' SEOs talk about sponsored themes, they forget to (or neglect to) mention that it's not sponsored themes that are bad, but the 'source' that can be bad.

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Smack in the face of WordPress' no-sponsorship policy, Performancing today announces the launch of its free, high quality, ultra-sleek Dark Laptop Theme.

Designed by Sean at GeekWithLaptop and produced by RideLust Cars, we encourage you to pour over Dark Laptop and absorb all the great design elements it includes. From about 5 different unordered list styles, to class based image alignment, and sleek metrosexual curves, this design has it all.

Dark Laptop is a great WordPress theme for bloggers who want a polished, professionally designed theme with uber-cool blog elements. Personally, I think it would look great as a journal on city life (The Manhattan Blog?), for a lover of books, for a software engineer or even an insomniac like so many of my friends;-)

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