Textures make a website feel tangible.

They give content a relationship to the physical world, a sense of place and a reality that people can relate to.

Unfortunately, simulating physical textures isn’t as simple as shooting a photo or running a few Photoshop filters.

One has to blend random noise and recognizable patterns, striving for similarities rather than pure repetition. (more…)

It seems like every time you go looking for a new WordPress theme, you find countless roundups of the same old themes.

And while many of those themes are featured for good reason, they’re also used on countless blogs around the web. We’ve all seen them a hundred times.

But WordPress themes are being released on nearly a daily basis. Not all of them are great, but plenty of them are.

Below are more than 60 of those great themes, none older than October of 2009 and many from as recent as this month. (more…)