WordPress Themes - Getting the Best Values
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Webpage Templates are
increasingly popular in several types of websites. The hottest area of the web,
weblogging, gets thousands of new writers, visitors, and designers everyday.
Many of these bloggers have joined with one of the dominant forces in
weblogging – WordPress.
Why WordPress? It’s simple
to use, yet has a good range of features, and it’s fully supported not only by
wordpress.org but by a large segment of the blogging community as well.
Blogging is concerned with
many points-of-view; some bloggers make very personal expressions, other
bloggers are commercially motivated, while others have a technical or
philosophical viewpoint to share. As blogging has increased, it is natural to
see that the demand for more unique blog appearances has grown. And, because
most bloggers have little if any experience in website design, the demand for
variety in an affordable theme has skyrocketed. Many bloggers are content to
add text to a standard skin that is shared by the majority of new bloggers and
the less esthetically bent bloggers. But after a time even these bloggers
usually look to make their blog a more attractive experience for visitors.
I have studied what has
been made available in WordPress Templates – both free and for sale. After a
lot of looking I decided to present the highlights of my findings – Free vs
Sold WordPress Themes.
In the category of Free
WordPress Themes my favorite list has 960 WordPress
Templates and is
found at Emily Robbins' Blog. Emily has done a great job here. Her website has
been around for a while so all of the 960 available themes are still being
downloaded.
While I was searching for
Free WordPress themes I found two other websites that offer some variety.
WordPress itself offers 444 different blog templates at no charge at themes.wordpress.net. Good designs with an array of
colors and features are available. “Green Earth” is my favorite, but they’ve
had 352,130 downloads of their 638 various themes to date.
Another excellent website
is AlexKing.org . This site published 135 free, new WordPress themes some time
ago in a competition and they have proven to be very popular with numerous
downloads for the blogging crowd. Prize winners are named in several
categories, and all 135 blog
templates may be
downloaded there. My favorite in the competition is titled "Chocolate
Candy".
As for finding a unique, or
more exclusive, WP theme you will have to hire a designer or buy a template for
a one time download (or at least for a limited number of downloads). For
commercial blogging, or for anyone who wants a distinctive look, an exclusive
skin may be the best solution. New designers or experienced designers with
budget or schedule constraints can get one of these templates and be
operational in a hurry. Three WordPress template sellers that have validated
templates at a good price are www.TemplateMonster.com , www.HyperTemplates.com
and www.Perfectory.com.
Weblogging will continue to
grow, and many of today’s bloggers will eventually move up to websites for
ecommerce, or marketing of their own local, small business.
Arthur Browning Web
Templates Blog
About the Author
Arthur Browning began his career
teaching technical writing in a small Midwestern university for 15 years. He
later edited and published a national professional journal for some ten
years. He is now an investor. His interests include art collecting, web
marketing, writing.
Arthur
Browning Web
Templates Blog
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