We’ve just uploaded Grassland. This is really a straightforward blogger’s theme. It’s not overloaded with features, though it obviously does the usual Spectacu.la stuff like widget support, clean CSS and XHTML, and all with a nice line in style.

We’ll be using this theme as the basis for a number of other blogger themes, most of which will be released as member exclusives first, before being exposed to the bigger world of GPL.

We’re setting out to make a wide range of themes - we’ve noticed a lot of rival theme designers produce heavily commercialised themes, designed with advertising in mind. We tend to concentrate on building themes for businesses, clubs and non-commercial individuals. So Blend, for example, allows you to create a brochure style site while at the same time running a blog, all within WordPress. Anvil and Grassland, however, are all about blogging. They’re customisable and flexible but most tend to keep things as they are, or just change the logos used.

There won’t be any new themes for at least a couple of weeks while we prepare for the release of our magazine theme. Watch this space!