This month we present you with an illustrated wallpaper design, “Cool Cat”. Check out a preview below:

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Today we present you with a vintage inspired, motivational wallpaper design. Everyone’s got their bad days but remember, when life’s got you down, you  are a Superstar!

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This month’s design is a collection of actual newspaper headlines collected from U.S. and world newspapers. Each headline represents an event that took place in 2009.

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We’re big fans of tradition, especially this time of year. For over a century, the American Lung Association has been a part of the American Christmas tradition by releasing an annual Christmas Seal. These look like stamps, but they’re used to seal your holiday correspondence (and they cost a bit less). Proceeds from the sale of these seals goes to fund research to fight lung-related diseases.

In the spirit of this great tradition, we’ve released a Christmas Seal of our own. It won’t seal your holiday cards (unless you get very creative) but it should make your desktop a bit more festive. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at 3 Roads Media.

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Preview of this month's free desktop wallpaper

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This month’s wallpaper is inspired by a passage from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The passage is my favorite in the poem, so I thought it would be fitting if we commemorated that with a seasonal design.

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In fact, we enjoyed the process of creating this theme so much that we plan on doing it again. From time to time, we’ll post a free WordPress theme on our blog for you to download and enjoy. Check back soon or subscribe to the feed so you don’t miss out.

Features

This theme is essentially a re-purposed and enhanced version of our old blog theme. It won’t make you coffee, but it will make your blog look good.

• Widget ready
• Supports threaded comments
• sIFR enhanced (minimal configuration)
• Random, rotating banner images
• One-click social bookmarking
• Segregated search results (pages styled differently than posts)
• Localization support (interested translators please leave a comment below)
• Support for WordPress’ Custom Header API

Testing and validation

• Tested W3C valid (XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS 3)
• Tested in Firefox 3, Safari 4, Internet Explorer 7 & 8, and Chrome
• Tested at resolutions from 1024 x 768 to 1680 x 1050

Requirements

• WordPress 2.7 or higher

Download or try the demo

Grab the zip file below (658 kb) or try out the fully functional demo first.

I’ve included documentation in the zip file that explains how to install and customize the theme; however, feel free to post a comment if you get stuck (or if you find a bug).

Alternate versions

sIFR support also requires some extra work, and we like to keep things simple. If you just aren’t interested in using sIFR on your blog, you can grab the latest version without sIFR support.

Download version 2.3 (no sIFR) (509 kb)

As of 2.2, we decided to drop support for Internet Explorer 6. To keep our theme accessible to users of IE6, we’ve kept the older 2.1 version available. This version has been fully tested in that browser and works fine.

Download version 2.1 beta (1.74 MB)

Legal

The Elegante WordPress theme is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. In plain terms, this means you are free to download, modify, and use the theme for commercial or personal purposes, provided that you keep the footer link, which reads “Elegante website theme by 3 Roads”, intact and unchanged.

Change Log

2.3 (23 December 2009)

• Added localization support
• Completely widgetized the sidebar
• Added support for WordPress custom header API
• Added support for SEO custom fields
• Changed to a GPL compatible license

2.2 (30 October 2009)

• Added support for child and grandchild pages
• Added support for sIFR dropdown menus (when child pages are present)
• Added new styles for HTML embedded in comments
• Added new styles for HTML tables
• Enabled comments for pages
• Improved image styling (large images no longer break layout)
• Comments and trackbacks now display separately
• Dropped support for IE6

2.1 Beta (1 October 2009)

• Added sIFR support for special characters
• Actually included the sIFR Flash files this time…
• Updated documentation on how to configure sIFR

2.0 Beta (16 September 2009)

• Initial public release