Like Ice Breaker, it was designed by The Hive Designs (one of our designers), as you can probably tell by reading the text on the image above. I coded the theme with the four different color scheme stylesheets that can be easily switched through the built-in theme options page.

Other features include a widget-ready sidebar and 404 page and also integration with the WP-PageNavi (for pagination) and WP125 (for 125×125 ad management) plugins. A full list of features can be seen on the Blogwave theme page.

So check out the live demo (it should be blue by default). I submit it to the WordPress.org theme directory which should hopefully be approved soon, but until then you can download it here. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Hope you like the theme. Have any feedback, comments, or questions? Let me know in the comments below!

• To allow users to input their email address and subscribe to our FeedBurner feed
• To promote our Twitter account with the little Twitter bird icon link
• To not have an unresolved page, or worse, an ugly ad-plastered domain parking page

We decided that all you people out there with unused domains might be interested in a domain parking theme like this, so we created a generic version of the theme for free download called Ice Breaker.

Click here for a live demo of the Ice Breaker theme

Instructions

Follow the steps below to have your WordPress-powered domain parking page online in no time.

• Get the theme – Download the theme here, and install it.
• Choose a color scheme – Pick either blue (default), red, green, or gray via the theme options page accessible through Appearance → Themes.
• Sign up to FeedBurner – My tutorial has some good instructions on how to burn your feed with FeedBurner. Make sure to activate email subscriptions as well.
• Arrange the widgets – Only text widgets, the custom subscription box widget, and the custom social icons widget are available. All others have been disabled.
• Edit the logo – Open up the logo.psd file in Photoshop and select the layer of the corresponding color you chose above. Edit the text and save as a transparent PNG.

There are more in-depth tutorials located on the Ice Breaker theme page.

Conclusion

The idea behind this theme is very inspired by Ian Stewart’s LaunchPad theme, which is another free “domain parking” theme. I’d like to thank him for paving the way for what I believe is the first theme of its kind.

We hope this theme will provide an attractive and usable parking page to use as an alternative to tired “under construction” pages and default parking pages served by your domain registrar.

Maybe while you’re in the planning stages of your blog, you could consider us for our custom theme design services.

Please let us know what you think of this theme in the comments, we’d love to hear your feedback! If you have any ideas for new color schemes, features, or suggestions, do let us know.

So what does this mean exactly? Well, you can check out our services to figure out the type of unique blog design you’re looking for and order on our contact page when you’re ready.

So what took so long? Well, since we’re new, we didn’t really have anything much to put in our portfolio. To remedy this, we contacted a few well-known bloggers privately with a special offer to see if they would be interested in a pre-launch custom theme.

Kyle Eslick, owner of a number of blogs, quickly jumped on our offer wanting a redesign of his BlogTuts blog. You can check out the theme we developed for him here. We think it turned out pretty nice.

If you’ve been using an old stale WordPress theme for a while, and think it’s time for a change, don’t sit on the fence, contact us today!

Follow us @Custom_Theme to check out the latest custom themes we’ve developed for clients and other WordPress-related news.

Yes, there’s an underscore between the words “Custom Theme” in our Twitter account. Feel free to bother us with questions by replying to us, we’ll try to get back to you soon.

Custom Theme is a project launched by me, Leland Fiegel. You probably know me from my other site at Theme Lab or possibly my guest posts on other popular blogs in the web development community.

I’ve been toying with the idea of creating custom WordPress theme development service for a while now. I can code WordPress themes all day long, unfortunately my Photoshop skills aren’t the greatest, so I partnered with a designer, Peter Mark.

Together we can provide top notch designs and fully functional themes for your WordPress sites. Take a look at the different kinds of themes we make on our services page, and be sure to contact us if you have any questions.