We build sites using WordPress for our clients, its quick and easy and gives great results fast but for you DIY fans heres something often too quickly overlooked: Premium themes.

There are thousands of free wordpress themes out there but for a small amount of money – less than a hundred quid or so, you can get more exclusive, sophisticated and evolved WordPress themes. They tend to be be more specifically focussed on purpose – like for selling an iphone app or an ebook, or a magazine site for instance, and look more polished.

We’re compiling a list of our favourites, and this is the first;  Templatic, they have a fantastic collection of themes for different uses and they are not expensive.