Nothing can be as refreshing to the eyes as a vibrant-colored blog using the Soleil theme from Avi Alkalay. This was based off a theme of the same name that Carrie Petri made for other blogging platforms like Movable Type and Typepad. Despite the sunny color scheme reminiscent of summer and candy, the colors are easy to the eyes.

Colorful and clean, the Soleil layout comes with its widgetized sidebar set to the right. The icons and design were created with much care to lend an intuitive interface for commenting, feeds, and trackbacks. The nice thing about it is its clean layout; all entries and comments are clearly separated by white space and the color scheme extends to the text and hyperlinks. It can adjust to fit any screen resolution, and even better, it’s guaranteed to work on Firefox 2, IE 6, and Konqueror. Avi has also set a few predefined style classes in the stylesheet! And if you feel like tweaking the images to make it more your own, the vector files are included in the zip.

To use, download it from Avi Alkalay’s post here. Like with every other themes, unzip to a folder bearing the same name in the themes folder and then select it on the Presentation tab. After customizing the widgets set the way you want it, load it to see the vivid new layout for your blog!

Another great thing about the layout is it ability to localize to the language set for a visitor’s browser. You can do it by following the step-by-step instruction dealing with the code of the language to edit it for the items like your blog’s description, category names, and even your post titles to a small degree. So use Soleil today, and remember the brighter days to ward off the chilly season.

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