Microsoft released 10 new SharePoint themes available now as a free download, check them out here.

Unfortunately, these are Visual Studio 2008 samples that will need to be turned into solutions before they can be deployed.  This will require Visual Studio 2008, a minimum of SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, and the VS 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.2.  Well this is great if you’re a developer, or are comfortable with .NET programming…but how about us administrators?

Fortunately for us humble system admins, Daniel Brown has packaged these into a wsp file to simplify the deployment, get the installbits using the link below:

http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=256

Just follow the instructions in the readme, he has included scripts to call the appropriate STSADM functions for the installation and deployment.

Thanks Daniel!