I’ve been waiting for the latest WordPress theme, TwentySixteen, to download. It (or rather the matching update 4.4) downloaded this morning. I instantly started playing with it. The result … well, you can see for yourself. I like it!
The look is clean. The theme scales beautifully for different-sized mobile devices, and it’s easy to navigate.
However, as I admire the new look of my site, I’m reminded how much design influences what we do. This theme is clearly created to showcase images. Expect more pics in my posts as a result!
8 responses to “New Look Website”
This is what I’m looking for too. I much prefer clean to busy. It gives you a chance to shine without competition. 😉
Maria, there are so many themes out there. Choosing does my mind in. But you have a graphic designer brain, and you could do the whole choosing among so many options for functionality and appeal easily.
But I do like how clear this theme is – and it resizes brilliantly for different mobile devices.
Also (and I don’t know how many other themes provide this) it now links an avatar to the website’s identifier on apps, so you can pop in your author pic.
It does have a really nice clean look, Jenny, but it’s your choice of colors and your image header that really makes it work! Very nice 🙂
Is this a free theme or one of the premium ones? I was asking cause I saw your newsletter signup. I have a free theme and not sure I can use plugins etc.
Congrats again on such a feel-good look for your site 🙂
Adan, it’s a free theme. It’s like the base theme provided by WordPress, so plug ins should work with it. I use MailChimp for my newsletter and the widget for it transferred automatically and hassle-free when I updated to 2016.
Thanks for the kind words on my choice of colour. I was a bit wary — not a big fan of pink — but it’s a happy colour onscreen and not hard on the eyes.
Good to know. Maybe mine will work well as I update into 2016 also.
Oh, and like you say, I think the pink works really well too 🙂
Thanks, Adan! Fingers crossed for when you update – I swear, there are gremlins in tech 😉
I love the new look, Jenny. The clean look is good 🙂
Thanks, Shelley 🙂