Virginia Is For Families

Who is behind all this?

Sadish Balasubramanian is the one who created the themes and this website for selling them.
He is an Indian guy, currently living in the USA along with his wife and daughter. He has created many popular themes like MistyLook, TerraFirma, SpotLight etc.

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In my last post I alluded to the fact that I spent much time on Sunday wistfully exploring the blogs of various designers looking for a new template. And it’s always a problem because I enjoy these large photos. Perhaps I am mostly alone in this because I have never read a post by anyone complaining about it. There are photoblog templates after all and probably at least two or three designed for Wordpress.

So when I saw this new effort by Sadish I thought there is no way a three column template will be able to accommodate large photos. And there was no way I would have even tried it out except that the price was so unbelievably affordable. Nineteen dollars for a custom template! And it is so much nicer than anything I have used before this. Here are some of the things I love about it:

You can put your favorite posts in the sidebar. I only saw this in one other template that cost about 75 dollars.

You can put up your own photos in the header. It’s very easy and you can change the font color in a second.

All of the photos in the posts have these little frames around them that make them look so much better. And none of the photos tries to bust out and obscure the stuff in the sidebars. Some of the 800 pixel across ones look like the have been squeezed into place but they don’t look too bad and I can fix them at my leisure. Or I am thinking of just leaving them like this. Because when you click on the post titles the photos expand and one sidebar goes away. Pretty cool.

You can hide some or all of the Navigation links and highlight your comments.

You can put a little introductory text top/right where it will be seen right away.

The dashbar is up top along with some other functions so you don’t have to go hunting for the Meta widget.

There is a 404 page and a contact page template.

Did I mention all of this was only 19 dollars? This is a fantastic buy and finding it has been one of the happiest things that has happened to me since I started blogging five months ago. Sadish is a talented and relaxed guy who is doing some great work.