Categories are given left-hand menu treatment in this theme from ThemeSpinner.

The HP does a nice job of featuring stories in three separate ways – through the flash slideshow, through three more featured articles and five more articles in list form below.

Recent articles, comments and most recent (unclear how recent articles and most recent differ) and ad slots are given right and left-hand column treatment. Comes with advertising integrated.

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Solid, if somewhat basic premium themes out from the Wordpress Designers group.

Clean design with some nice features like the multiple featured story, color blocking on mouseover and auto image resizing. Hard to get a feel for what the category pages are like since there aren’t too many posts in the demo, but overall a nice theme.

As far as I can tell, the Ashes Pro version has two top navs (page and category-based) instead of just one, as well as more advertising integrated (additional 468×60).

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