Thesis has been pretty much alone in the heavyweight section for premium WordPress themes. Now a new contender enters the market, Headway Premium WordPress Theme, a theme that looks very interesting.

Headway is perfect for the average blogger (or webmaster) and developers. All users of Headway can appreciate the ease of the drag and drop layout editor and the vast amount of options. Besides having superb design options, developers will be able to style everything with their own CSS and custom hooks.

I like what I have seen of Headway and consider buying it for my sites and blogs. So far I have used either free themes or created my own, now it’s time to get something more professional that works across them all.

Update August 27
I bought a developers license of Headway Premium WordPress Theme, primarily for Key Coaching but I will use Headway on my other WordPress-sites as well.

Update May 2011
I have decided to skip Headway and go for a modified standard theme (currently Twenty Ten) instead.

At Twitter I got a message about The frugal WordPress Theme, “The Cleanest WordPress Theme Around”. It looks great and is free, a very interesting combination.

In What Is The frugal WordPress Theme? Eric Hamm writes that:

When I designed the frugal WordPress theme I was determined to make it as clean and simple as possible. From the look of its pages to the back-end code, I wanted to create the most minimalist WordPress theme that still maintained the truly important, up-to-date features available.

I didn’t want to sacrifice solid features for simplicity sake, but I also wanted to ensure that the user of the frugal theme was getting the lightest, cleanest WordPress theme to frame their precious content.

I have downloaded the theme, it is available in two versions, and will take a closer look at it.

Update April 27, 2009.
I use a slightly modified version of the frugal theme at Key Coaching.

Update August 27 2009.
I have bought the Headway Premium WordPress Theme and that will be used on my blogs and sites.

There are many themes available for WordPress, free as well as for a price. Here are some links to get you started, the options are (almost) limitless.

Here are some free themes:
• The Theme Directory at WordPress.org
• 20 Great Free WordPress 2.7 Themes
• 140+ Brilliant Free WordPress Themes Around

And these themes have a price:
• ThemeForest WordPress
• Performancing WordPress Themes
• WordPress Themes — Pearsonified
• Thesis Theme for WordPress and Thesis Theme (demo)
• StudioPress

Feel free to suggest more sites in the comments.