Designer: Web2feel
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Pristilo is a free theme available for download at Themegrade.com. It is compatible with the latest Wordpress version 2.9 and has been designed by Jinsona and the copyright is held by Web2feel. It is mainly a premium wordpress theme that is best suitable for magazines.
The Pristilo theme has been designed in mainly two colors: black and white. It comes with a fixed width and 2 columns and is widget ready. The Pristilo theme also supports a host of other features like AdSense, Gravatar, Twitter, jQuery Integration, Options page and Rounded Corner. Other features are place for banner ads, sliding featured post and a featured video section.
The Pristilo theme is one of the more attractive themes. The interface is easy to use. It is also easy to install and little programming knowledge is necessary to install and use it. Tinkering with the Pristilo theme is not advisable, as users have reported a few errors after they tried to tinker with it. The Pristilo theme has enough space for advertisements so sponsors do get their due.
At Themegrade.com, themes are tested on the basis of their search engine optimization and a general test. These tests are designed to weight the benefits and the drawbacks of any particular theme.
Pristilo scores a total of 12 points out of a possible 19 in the general test that gets it a percentage score of 68%. The Pristilo theme is W3C CSS compliant. It is compatible with popular internet browsers, the IE7, Chrome and Firefox. The Pristilo theme comes with support by the designer. It supports important post area functions like Floating Content, Auto Adjustment and Nested or Threaded Comments. It does not support sidebar auto adjustment or sidebar link hierarchy. The Pristilo theme scores very good marks in the Special Features category. It supports a Twitter Feed, a Drop down Menu and is magazine style. The designer gets high marks because of the high level of coding skill involved.
The SEO test gives Pristilo a good score of 72%, as it gets 5 points out of a possible 7. The Pristilo theme is search engine friendly because of its W3C CSS compliance. It supports Home Page Heading and Post and Page Title Tag SEO. It also supports Content Code Position. All of this makes it easier for the various Search Engines to rank the Pristilo theme.
The overall average theme score the Pristilo theme obtains is a very good 68%. This overall theme percentage score also obtains a Themegrade.com bronze medal for the Pristilo theme.
Theme Score
General : 64%SEO : 72%
Overall : 68%
Category
| no. | General Test Item | Point | Pass | Fail |
| 1 | W3C Compliant - XHTML | 2 |  | |
| 2 | W3C Compliant - CSS | 2 |  | |
| 3 | Browser Compatibility - IE7 | 1 | | |
| 4 | Browser Compatibility - Firefox | 2 | | |
| 5 | Browser Compatibility - Chrome | 1 | | |
| 6 | Support from Designer | 2 | | |
| 7 | Post area - Proper Image Alignment | 1 | | |
| 8 | Post area - Floating Content | 1 | | |
| 9 | Post area - Auto Adjustment | 1 | | |
| 10 | Post area - Nested/Threaded Comments | 1 | | |
| 11 | Sidebar - Auto Adjustment | 1 | | |
| 12 | Sidebar - Link Hierarchy | 1 | | |
| 13 | Special Effect: Magazine Style, Twitter Feed, Drop Down Menu | 3 | | |
| Total | 19 pts | 12 pts | ||
| Theme Score | 64% | |||
| no. | SEO Test Item | Point | Pass | Fail |
| 1 | W3C Compliant - XHTML | 1 | | |
| 2 | W3C Compliant - CSS | 1 | | |
| 3 | Home page Heading SEO | 1 | | |
| 4 | Post & Page Heading SEO | 1 | | |
| 5 | Post & Page Title Tag (Title as seen in SERPs) | 1 | | |
| 6 | Content Code Position | 2 | | |
| Total | 7 pts | 5 pts | ||
| Theme Score | 72% | |||
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Tested on: Wordpress ver 2.9.1Preview on: Wordpress ver 3.0.1 (Strict Test)
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