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In a sudden attack of inspiration, I built a new theme for WordPress last night. It is inspired by another of my own themes, 1024px, and the general layout is basically the same: 2 columns with the widget-enabled sidebar, a fixed width made for 1024px screen width (or higher) and a very simple but very functional structure.

Returning visitors may also remember the "Anvish" theme test some time ago. Anvish evolved into a customized and branded commercial theme for a client, so it was taken off the release plan. But this new theme has a similar layout, and even though most of the theme code is re-written from scratch I have used a few pieces of the original Anvish stylesheet. And I have spent some extra energy on making it accessible (WCAG AAA-rating) and SEO-friendly, and it seems to work pretty well.

Along with the WordPress theme, I will also release an XHTML/CSS template based on the same design in case someone wants to port it to some other content management system. Since this all happened so fast I have not had any chance of asking for ports before the template release like I did with andreas00. However, if anyone would want to port the design to any CMS and can do it quickly, send me an e-mail or post a comment and let me know which system you want to port it to. I will send copies of the template out to everyone who wants it, but only to one person per CMS to avoid duplicate ports. And I will of course add a link to your port inside the template so that it is easy for people to find.