Designing your blog
October 23rd, 2007 | Published in Design | 1 Comment
Default wordpress theme is eye candy and you may be loving it but you need to personalize your blog’s look. Even if the last design you made with your computer was painting a house and a tree with paintbrush at the age of six, don’t panic! Wordpress has a huge source of free themes in the internet. If you make a few Google searches you can find many free themes for your blog. (I will make a list of good free themes later) First let’s get an opinion about basic structure of wordpress themes.
The classic wordpress theme consists of a header; 2 columns (main index page and sidebar) and a footer. Before searching for themes make clear what you want. Do you like a blog with 3 columns or 2 columns, do you want the sidebar on the right or left. If you don’t want to get lost inside themes design your blog layout on paper and choose from themes which fits your blog best.
Personalize your theme: If you found the theme matching for your layout design but the images are about the life of cows. Still don’t panic! You can personalize your theme independent of the original design. When you download the theme you can see the images folder under your theme files. In the images folder you can find the images you can edit to change the themes background, header image and etc.. I have liked a theme about real estate and changed the image files to match my subject. See the difference =>
Before the Changes
After the Changes
Don’t forget to change the background color on all images . When you finish the changes upload the theme folder to themes directory under wordpress content and select the theme from admin panel. (Important: You have to implement the adsense code again after adding a new theme)
December 4th, 2007 at 11:06 pm (#)
Hello, nice site