Just when you taught WooThemes has done enough, they bust out with a beauty like Ambience. Ambience is an elegant and creative premium theme. It resembles a Mac or iPod commercial. It’s fine smoke and reflections background is done in great taste. The use of transparencies for navigation and containers elaborates it’s uniqueness in identity. The blend of violets, dark blues and fuschia sticks this theme out from the crowd. This is definitely a prime choice for personal blog websites and such.

Features I liked:

The Lifestream Bar – a custom sidebar which integrates the “lifestream” plugin. Its a constant stream of live feeds from your favorite website. Ambience strategically placed the Lifestream bar on the right side – replacing the traditional sidebars. Of course, there is also an option not to include it – which can be controlled from the admin panel. The sidebar is also widgetized – for your widgeting needs.

Twitter Bar – A gorgeous box hovering the main content is your latest tweet. The box is semi-transparent with beautiful fonts that is sure to strike your message across to your readers. What’s good about Twitter updates is its constant updating ability also known as micro-blogging. This adds functionality as well as fresh updates to your site – Ambience understands this purpose.

CSS picker – Ambience comes in different flavors. The background and font elements can be controlled from the admin panel by simply activating a different stylesheet:

Additional features include full gravatar support, excellent spacing with the use of grids, banner management and of course widgets.

Since Ambience is part of the Woothemes collection, it is sure to include good documentation as well as top support. You can own Ambience for $70 single site and $150 for developers license. Woothemes also has an excellent themes club where you get all of their themes for a set recurring price.