General Design
The container style can be seen when you zoom your screen in like this.
The container style when you zoom it in
That design ensures the balance and proportion of each element, making this free blog theme so tidy and clean.
The combination of straight lines, sharp borders, and curved borders deserves my thumb up. These slim lines make Moderne classic and cool while the curved borders increase the softness and charm.
Straight lines in the design
Curved borders
Other Elements
Using warm and light grey and coral pink, Modern has a little sense of "vintage" and become graceful and so sweet. Following this style, this free blog theme uses Tahoma, the rounded family font that matches the charming style quite well. Besides, Oswald family font when standing next to straight lines looks really harmonious.
The header and title are arranged reasonably. It's simple and neat, without any distraction, helps users easily focus on important information.
The slider is the most remarkable area. It showcases four posts in verticle frames in default so you can make use of it to attract readers. The titles and buttons on each post are well-organized and so clean that they don't take the spotlight of the featured images.
Review the 4-column slider
In addition to the slider, you are able to put any widget above it. There will be a "plate" to put any widgets on as follows:
Review the header widget
That's an interesting decoration, but I don't think it looks nice with all kinds of widgets so sometimes that may be quite unnecessary.
On the archive page, posts and widgets are put on boxes with shadow effects, thus giving a shady and interesting 3D look. Moreover, this list style is the only layout for posts but that's beautiful and prominent already, so I don't think you need to change it. You can change the position or hide the sidebar instead to match your style.
Review the single post page
Similarly, the sidebar on single post page can be hidden. I prefer this style as your post and featured image become larger and more attractive. And besides the default style, the title and meta can be set under the featured image and in the center like that:
Review the title under featured images
I think that's a wiser arrangement for better visual display.
Responsive
Now that the design is created to looks good in any viewports and device, your website is still beautiful anywhere. Notably, the number of posts on the slider decreases to two instead of four to fit with smaller viewports.
Responsive design
