Nice from Thailand — You’d still have to have widgets that display content. I don’t know of any widgets that do this. So, you would still have to dive into a theme’s functions.php file to create those widgets.

I want fluid layout and widgetized header and footer but I can’t find the theme like that anywhere so I created my own theme (already use on my blog but it’s not finished yet )

minimalistic magazine layout imho: concentrate on typography, less color, less images, more negative space. It will be clutter no matter what

Thanks
Ron

StormRider — I understand the implications of the minimalist-magazine theme, but from my experience, no matter how minimalistic I make it, users tend to clutter it even more.

Thomas — I still think you might be missing the point of the joke, which I didn’t fully explain. Fully-widgetized templates would actually make the theme harder to customize. You’d have to master CSS and know enough PHP to write custom widgets to handle all the normal functions of the theme.

For example, how would you get posts to display? You’d need a widget for that. How would you get comments to display? You’d need a widget for that as well.

I can create this theme though. It would only take me a few minutes and a few lines of code. If you’re interested, I’ll show you how to do it in the support forums.

I would love to see this, because I voted for this option, even though you included it for fun. I think it’s a great idea and it gives more control to the theme users that don’t have the css and php skills you have.

I guess what people mean when they choose a Magazine/News style and minimalistic, is that they don’t want a theme that is too cluttered or busy – one with plenty of white space and a clean layout – my opinion only.

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Regards
Thinkjayant