- The "Fade Anything
Technique" is an awesome JavaScript library to fade elements of a page.
This has been recently used with much success to show users new or changed
items on a page without causing more screen clutter.
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bundled as a WordPress plug-in.- Weblogs.us- WordPress
Theme Browser – has a nice theme over there, take a look at "sculpt".