The Artiste theme by Orman Clark of Premium Pixels is a flexible and easy-to-use WordPress theme for artists, designers, photographers, and other creative types. Like all of his themes, this first word that came to mind as I was first considering this theme was “clean.” Orman is the master of themes that have the capacity for a lot of content, yet maintain a certain level of clean minimalism. These themes are also very straightforward to tweak and make all your own (I’ll get into that in a future post).
My Freelance Jam co-host, Brian Casel, and I purchased this theme to house the 2012 version of our podcast website (visit the site to check it out in action). With a few simple edits we were able to turn this theme into the perfect container for our ever-growing library of podcast episodes. Since launching last week, we’ve gotten a ton of positive feedback about the design and layout. This theme really makes it easy to browse our episodes and the single show pages display each episode video at the top with well-organized content below. Even the comment threads are well-designed.
