WordPress Wednesday - Pick Your Theme
The WordPress software is a great tool. Unfortunately, there is more to having a great blog than just running a great tool. If your just starting your own blog then your next step after installing WordPress should be to pick a them that that best suits you and your blog. If you are a seasoned blogger and have always questioned your blog theme, now is the time to change it.
For the new blogger.
You’ve installed WordPress now you want to dress it up. Picking your WordPress theme is more important than what many bloggers think. If your blog is to be a professional site with authoritative information, you should pick a theme that reflects that professional view  :neutral: . If your gunna run a humorous site, pick a fun theme  :grin: . The professional theme should be “clean”. It should have basic colors, but not too many; and professional (semi-boring) fonts.
For the experienced blogger.
You’ve been running your blog for quite a while now, but your starting to question your blog theme. What was a new and current a couple years ago may be dated (out-dated) now. Keeping the same look is good, to a point. Sometimes it is time to switch. No matter your blogging software, chances are that you have a plethora of themes to choose from.
For all bloggers.
Just because you have picked a theme, you’re still not tied to it. Take my blog for example. The header didn’t come with the text “BlissLogs”. An hour with the original theme’s header and photoshop and viola, I have a customized header. Many themes also come with a .css file that contains all your standard formating. In this file, you can change the blogs font, the color of hypertext links, etc.
The moral to this story is to pick your blog theme carefully and make it you.
Posted on August 1, 2007
By Jason Spence
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great post, I don’t wordpress for my main blog but I use it for a couple others
Jamaipanese:
What do you use for your main blog
Nucleus
http://www.nucleuscms.org/