One of the best features that WordPress offers is custom themes: premium and free. These are templates for your site that allow you to implement a functional, coherent design to your pages and posts. Like anything user-made, however, the templates are not all created equal. When you decide to start a WordPress blog, you’ll be faced with a choice of themes fairly quickly, and you’ll have a lot of options at your disposal. Choosing a WordPress theme that is poorly constructed or intended … [Read more...]
Perfect WordPress Theme Design Part 1: Backgrounds, Style, Number of Columns
I have an extensive background in how site design affects ecommerce sales and usability, so I have some very specific ideas about what makes the perfect WordPress design. Using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) allows a blog to incorporate the best features of any Web site. These ideas include … [Read more...]
The Perfect WordPress Theme
Creating an exceptional online presence requires an enormous amount of specialized knowledge. A blog is only as usable and useful as the template it is built upon. I have been doing research, thinking about, and reading up on better blog design. While some bloggers do learn to make WordPress themes do you really want to invest that much time in something you only really have to do once? I've visited hundreds of blogs in the past few days making notes on what I like about each one - and … [Read more...]