I try to keep a collection of solid looking, well featured premium themes bookmarked incase family or friends ever needs one. This seems like a nice addition to the collection.

Great tips from the Envato team on what to look for when buying or creating a premium WordPress theme. This screencast details the process that each reviewer takes at Envato when reviewing new submissions. Everything from unique/proper design, coding quality, validation, psd, documentation and licensing.

"Sight is a powerful WordPress 3.0.1-ready theme which will work best for magazines and blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style and has two views: the standard blog view and a grid view. A big image slider on the top gives you extra ability to show the most important content. The theme was designed by WP Shower exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects."

"inspiration is what we often need before starting our own theme or interface design project."

Here's some great wordpress themes for inspiration...

"In this article, we are gonna show you a inclusive collection of 29 free but extremely tremendous portfolio wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an interesting, easy to update, fast loading and professional looking portfolio than you must use these Portfolio themes of wordpress."

"Acosmin5, as you might remember it, is a simple wordpress theme with nice lines and typography, which can be used on a personal or any type of blog. Some of the theme’s features are: Five color schemes, Simple control panel, jQuery Tabs system, Multiple advertising spots, Lightweight"

"This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity. The theme is released under GPL."

"A clean dark theme, built with customization in mind. Seo friendly and semantically built using the Carrington Framework."

aero inspired transparent themes (free ones on the right)

"A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Chromifox is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome browser and its open source roots, Chromium."

"ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online."

"The design comes in Aqua-Marine Blue’s as well as white and subtle use of gray. This is a two column magazine style layout for wordpress. Quite unique with a dynamic main banner that includes your latest 4 featured posts. The design is in black and muted grays in a 2 column interface, which has been fully tested and is xHTML compliant."

"These themes are taken from Gnome look and you can see their screenshot and find the downland link next to it."

"designed to speed up the process of designing and coding a Wordpress theme by minimizing your time, and balancing your patience, on Wordpress’ back-end code that is repeated within every theme.

This post is not about finding the best framework, it is about finding the right framework that works for you."