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A blogs theme or template can make or break your site

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If you are serious about blogging you likely know that having a well put together, organized and attractive theme for your site is important.

Believe it or not, there are many people out there that judge a site initially on how it looks and if they see a blogging theme that’s a general default theme or one that’s been used on 1000’s of other sites without any kind of customization they’ll often move on to read another blog. The content on the site could be the best they could find, but they’ll leave the site simply because they don’t like the look of it. Silly really, but it’s true.

It’s a good idea to find a theme that compliments your blog and to customize it with a header that further defines your sites topic. You can pay to have a designer create a custom made theme for your site, but it’s easy enough to go into the CSS stylesheet or CSS files of a theme and change link or background colors to give the theme a more personalized look and feel.

I have a number of WordPress blogs and after spending several months looking at themes I finally changed the themes on a few of my blogs in May. I’m still keeping my eye out for themes that suit my other blogs as a few of them need a new look and or better functionality. This site could certainly use a new look.

If you are like me and you’ve been thinking of changing your sites theme it might help to know which themes are considered some of the best. I went searching for people that had already written reviews on what they consider to be the top WordPress Themes.

Top WordPress Themes:

Options WordPress Theme

Options WordPress Theme by Justin Tadlock I’m not even sure where to begin when I type “features” because it would be a daunting task to type them all out. Here’s some things you can play around with, but there’s so much more you can do …

I love this theme. I’m trying it out on one of the sites I’m developing and it’s fantastic. Options is a great name for it because there are a ton of different ways you can set this blog theme up to customize it’s look.

Top 8 WordPress Theme Download Sites (according to me)

These are my top sites I pick for finding quality WordPress themes. I love to look at themes for Worpress. Not just any themes for me though, I am hung-up on 3 column themes and I guess I always have… [[ This is a content summary only …

Comment on 10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Best of 2008 …

10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Mashable Sean P. Aune showcases ten WordPress themes that go beyond standard 2- and 3-column formats with design elements like large banners, Flickr integration, 4-column layouts, Ajax, …

The Top 10 Premium Specialty Themes for WordPress

WordPress has been a popular blogging platform for several years, but the market for premium themes has really just developed within the past year or two. Premium themes ideally will separate themselves from free themes by achieving a …

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 – Vote on Round 6!

Here are the top 5 themes for this week’s voting polls:. Sign of the Nature by Roger. Bloggy Grass by Damien Allen. Blue Moon by Alexandr. Fresh Editorial by Maruf Rahman. Photo Frame by Brian. Round 6 Series 3 Best WordPress Theme is. …

WordPress Themes Converted To Blogger Templates

Yardloo – If you ever fancy Magazine Style WordPress Themes, then you should visit Yardloo. This site reviewed the Top 10 Best WordPress Themes converted to Blogger Templates. Some of the WordPress themes ready for download include …

I’ll write a post about the best blogger themes and where to find them in the near future.




Blog Flux

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If you write a blog or any kind of website for that matter, I can’t stress how important it is to not only create good content for your site, but to promote your site by listing it in as many search engine listings, and directories as you can. The more listings you have the more visitors you’ll eventually get. This of course is of particular importance if you are trying to monetize your site. Visitors mean money – eventually.

One of the sites that I would recommend that you list your sites on is Blogflux. This site isn’t only a directory in which you should list your blog, it has a number of other features that you can put to good use on your site as well.

On the Blogflux site you’ll find:

  • A Button Maker – makes 80×15 or 88×13 buttons with a few clicks.
  • LinkLog – Track what links are being clicked on by your users, how often they are clicked, and what pages they are clicked from.
  • MapStats – The best way to keep track of your visitors. Not only does it provide the normal statistics found with other stat counter sites, it meshes up with Google Maps to show where your visitors are coming from.
  • PageRank Checker – Google’s PageRank is a way of ranking how important a site is. Check and show off your PR to your site’s visitors.
  • Pinger – Pinging other sites one by one can be a chore. Just enter two fields and hit submit to automatically ping a dozen sites.
  • Polls – Instantly create AJAX-driven polls that also let you map vote results to Google Maps.
  • Quick RSS Links – Reduce the clutter on your blog. Use blogflux’ link to provide users with quick links to various feed subscribers or email subscription option.
  • Scramble – Protect your email from spamming spiders. Javascript protection to foil them all.
  • Subscription Service – Keeping track of all your favorite blogs can be a hassle and time consuming. Get a daily email that lets you know which of your subscribed blogs have updated posts.
  • Suggest – Finding blogs that you want to read is not easy – too much noise out there! Blog Flux Suggest makes finding interesting blogs an easy and quick experience. Best of all – no spam
  • Themes – Find and download themes for all of the popular blog software packages.

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