New Theme: Balloons
July 24, 2012
Today we have a unique addition to the WordPress.com themes collection – Balloons is a charming theme by Chris Magiera.
Let your imagination soar – or, perhaps more accurately, float – amongst these playfully parallaxed balloons. The simple one-column design makes this theme perfect for a microblog, if short-and-sweet suits your tastes. The childlike style also lends itself well to showing off those photos of your adorable kids (Grandma will thank you).
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Looks OK! I still like Oxygen best, but this one’s nice if you want something laid-back and simple. 🙂
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Lovely theme, I will try it on my blog ASAP. ^^
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This is a really cute theme! I don’t think it will suit my blog, but I will keep it in mind for future use. 🙂
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That is such an adorable theme! I would’ve loved to use it, but the one column thing is a deal-breaker for me. 😦
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…now you have me considering a microblog — sounds adorable! 🙂
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Aww… this looks so cute.
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Love the quirkiness
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What a cute theme!
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I love the fonts in this theme! Is there any way I can get balloons off the screen? Everything’s falling into place with the look. The only snag is the floating balloons. 😦
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There’s no way to do this in the theme itself, but you can use the Custom Design upgrade to hide the balloons with CSS. Read more about Custom Design here.
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Thanks! 🙂
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So wonderful.
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Beautiful theme!
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Balloons theme is so cute it just may ‘cheer up’ the Devil.
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What an interesting theme. I’m going to have fun playing with it in my test blog.
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One column is something that I do not prefer but with this new theme, I’ll make an exemption. I so love the fonts used in this blog. So, I am using it now. I guess the balloons suits perfectly for my blog, celebrating simple and special moments of life. Thanks WordPress! You never failed to impress me.
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It is nice.
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Another one for the girls…
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That’s such a cute theme! I really like it.
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I liked it, but it isn’t surprising.
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I just activated on my blog! It’s so cute, I love it! 😀
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Nice themes. 😉
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Cute!
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Balloons always bring excitement! Very Nice!
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Super layout for a casual blog – great design.
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I just activated this theme and I am in LOVE with it! Thank you!
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You are amazing! Thank you so much!
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Super nice! Amazing! I’m using it on my blog now. 🙂
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This is my new favourite theme 🙂
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What a great idea and the suggestion for the little ones to post is perfect, thanks.
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Balloons on my bday, thanks… 🙂 Though I’m growing up now… haha
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Happy birthday! 🙂
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It’s cute. 😀
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Celebrate your life!
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Simple… 😀
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The grey color for the background is great. I’m still scrolling the blog up and down to see the balloons move on the blog up and down. It’s a very unique idea. Nice work on this theme.
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Too many “cutesy” themes lately. Are designers affected by the recession and the hot summer?
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We have a ton of non-cutesy themes in the showcase! And we’re always adding more themes of all styles and varieties. 🙂
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Good theme! 🙂
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Lovely!
Blessings!
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Amazing.
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I just activated this theme. Thank you so much. Have a good day ~
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Great theme!!!
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I’ve decided to use this theme, I love it, but I’d really love it if my widgets could go on the side and the writing was a little big bigger!!!!!
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We’re so glad you like it! I think your blog looks great as-is, but you could reposition the footer sidebars and change the font size with Custom CSS and the Custom Design upgrade.
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Thank you, glad you think it looks good, I change my mind a lot, so give me a few days and I’ll get used to it 🙂
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The theme is awesome but any chance of getting two widget bars to the left and right?
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Thanks, we’re glad you like it! Right and left sidebars aren’t part of the theme’s design, but you could reposition the footer sidebars with a Custom Design upgrade and CSS!
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Simply nice looking theme, it’s easier for the reader to focus on the posting because it only has a one-column design. Great work!
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Love this theme and activated it to my blog. I do wish there was a balloon beside each post that had the post date…that would be adorable.
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Cute! I’m pretty happy with my current theme, but this is nice and simple.
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Oooooo…….pretty! Why must there be so many amazing themes to make my theme decisions hard??? Why???
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What a cute theme! Totally love it and am activating it now 🙂
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I came back onto WordPress on the perfect day. These balloons are perfect for my message website. What perfect timing. Can the color of the balloons be changed? Oh, I just gotta go get busy on it. Thank you, thank you. I love it’s simplicity, yet, beauty. Marvelous!
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We’re so glad you like it! 😀 The balloons themselves can’t be changed, but this theme is compatible with Custom Colors so you can change link and background colors to suit your tastes.
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Nice.
Wait, it’s for free, right?
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Yes indeed! Balloons is a free theme. 🙂
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So cute 🙂
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It’s adorable!!
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I LOVE IT!!
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The Clarences love & support Balloons!
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Amazing theme.
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Hey, do any of you know how to change a theme?
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Sure do! Go to your Dashboard and select Appearance -> Themes, then click the Activate link under the theme of your choice.
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I used this theme for my wedding blog! It worked perfectly with a few tweaks of the CSS. 🙂 I love the balloons!
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By far my favorite theme so far! Thank you so much! (And so happy it’s free!)
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Cute. Yes, grandma will like this. 😉
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Cute!
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Now, that is a beautiful theme. Congratulations Chris! A truly well-deserved inclusion.
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Lovely. 🙂
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Nice! Well done!
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Very nice, where is the color?
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Do you do themes for wedding pages too? 🙂
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Check out our wedding theme, Forever, and stay tuned for more! 🙂
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More themes like this, please! Love the “sketch” like quality of the headings. If this allowed for another column for widgets it would be perfect.
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Very nicely done theme. I wonder if there is a theme for a tech blog where code snippets can be posted?
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You can always post code using the
tag regardless of the theme you're using! If you're looking for a "tech"-y design, you might have some luck poking around the Theme Showcase -- a search for "tech" pulls up quite a few. 🙂LikeLike
More one-column themes please! There can’t be enough!!
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Hey, it’s nice… can you make the balloons as a static background?
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I like this a lot. It’s perfect for the online book I am planning to write, nice and simple!
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Cute theme. 🙂
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Beautiful theme.
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This is really cute 😀
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I like the theme a lot, as every little balloon can symbolize an idea or whim I have… that is lovely as a start-off point for my new blog, too. 🙂
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I love it! It’s really cute and clean. One thing I like most is the font style.
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Lovely theme.
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Very nice theme!
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