Designer: Toptut
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Tutorialicious is theme available fore free download at Themegrade.com. It has been designed by Toptut and is a Wordpress theme which runs on the latest 2.9 wordpress version. This is an advanced community wordpress theme with good features and great styling, and a good package overall. The theme is a good choice for bloggers, podcasters and web content publishers. The theme can be used for magazines or newsletters.
On the basis of the general test and the Search Engine Optimization test, the Tutorialicious theme is a good theme. The best feature about Tutorialicious theme is the fact that it is based on the FeedBurner management application. FeedBurner is a custom provider of RSS feeds. FeedBurner also provides management tools to various web based publishers. Other commendable features that come with the Tutorialicious theme are the featured image section, content section, administration panel and the advertisement management option. The Tutorialicious theme is based on 2 columns, it is colored a nice looking blue, and comes with fixed width. It also has a right sidebar and is widget ready. The theme captures the eye at first glance.
The Tutorialicious theme is compatible with IE7, Firefox and Chrome browsers. It supports all the important Post area functions like Proper Image Alignment, Floating Content, Auto Adjustment of content and Nested/Threaded Comments. The Tutorialicious theme supports a magazine style, a grid style and a photo gallery. Sadly, support from the designer is not included. Also, the major drawback of this theme is that it is not W3C compliant at all. Search Engines are bound to have a harder time with ranking a page using this theme. Despite this major flaw, the Tutorialicious theme still manages to score a decent 64%, amassing 12 points out of the possible 19.
In the SEO test, the Tutorialicious theme scores 4 out of a possible 7, which is 58%. It supports Home Page Heading SEO, Post and Page Title Tag and Content Code Position. As explained earlier, the lack of W3C is the major flaw as it does not support CSS or XHTML languages.
The Tutorialicious theme scores 64% in the general test category and a 58% in the SEO test category. This makes for an average score of 62%. 62% qualifies the Tutorialicious theme for a bronze medal ranking.
The Tutorialicious theme is a good theme with nice customization options. The simple style and looks go in its favor.
Theme Score
General : 64%SEO : 58%
Overall : 62%
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, Grid Style, Photo Gallery | 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 | 4 pts | ||
| Theme Score | 58% | |||
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Tested on: Wordpress ver 2.9.1Preview on: Wordpress ver 3.0.1 (Strict Test)
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It’s a great theme, but just not sure how to stop the auto thumbs on the index page, as it does not re-size them…it just crunches them instead, creating a slow page load.