While hunting down some groovy looking WordPress themes I came across Milo’s site and was pleasantly surprised. Milo is a graphic designer based in Munich, Germany and she has created some 100 that are available for download on her site.
Milo is a master at flash and many of her themes look rather groovy. They are certainly less conventional than most of the free WordPress themes we see on the market and would suit an artist perfectly. While her themes are all available for show, none of the demo links actually seem to work. From what I have seen, there is no other way to demo the themes than to see them on the sample page.
I kept going round and round until eventually I just gave up. Below is a screen shot of the sample page where all the themes are listed. If you click on it, it will lead you to the same page.
Milo focuses heavily on magazine style themes, which make them perfect for a zesty theme that looks artistic, stylish and clean. She is obviously a very talented lady.
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Thank you for the write up, you might use themeswitcher built into each theme to access all themes.
I am certainly interested in flash wordpress themes. It will be perfect for blogs like music, entertainment, gaming niche. Only one point of concern, the loading time. If you could put some focus on how long it takes to load than normal themes with little graphics, that would help.
These are some really fly themes… It is cool that they are for free. I just currently used the point blank theme.. I have been looking for an artistic magazine style theme. thanks.
Toki
@ Milo: you are welcome. I saw the reference to the theme switcher but to be honest when I clicked on the top right all it did was change from white to black. I must have clearly missed something somewhere.
@ LiC: From what I have seen, the sites are loading fast. But I only saw Milo’s home page (kind of like a portfolio) and on there she has flash galore and it loads fast no problem.
As for the WP themes I’m not sure since I couldn’t get the demo’s to load. Duh….
@ Toki: yeah, they are cool alright. Thank you for stopping by.
Monika, Sorry for misunderstanding. I was not talking about Milo’s website. I was thinking if we use flash template for our wordpress blogs, won’t it cause some loading time issues. I mean flash file might take time to load for first time visitors practically, isn’t it?
@ LiC: Ah, got you now. I’m not sure about that to be honest since I’m not a designer. I guess it could slow loading depending on what else is on the site.
I know that certain java load very slow.
I have observed this behavior of flash files on website loading slower in past. I can’t really dare to use flash enabled themes, somehow. But yes, I liked Milo’s themes. If she could explain how to avoid loading issues, I would not mind to use these themes and promote too.
How tp avoid loading inssues in general and with flash:
- less graphics
- if graphics then lighweight: max 20kb
- if flash then no graphics
- flash as header or background changer
- flash header file max 30kb
- flash background changer file max 50kb
- less posts on frontpage
- less gadgets within sidebars
(strip useless third party services in sidebars)
Hope that helps
I like her themes but like her website itself, a lot of them don’t seem to work. I tried to make the one you pictured work and it doesn’t. It just does not work. The code in many of the themes also does not use any line breaks so it’s very hard to find what you are looking for too. They are beautiful themes but many of them are just impractical if you want to mess around and customize them at all. But the newest ones — I can’t even make them function. Let’s hope she keeps working on them because they are really exceptional-looking. They are just too complicated in many cases, not user-friendly at all.
Just visit my support forum to get help and tips =).