Blogging 201, Day 1: Understanding Your Theme

“Your theme is the foundation of your blog’s layout. To start, let’s make sure we understand what our themes can do.

Today’s takeaways: Where to find our theme’s details, what all those features and functions do, and how to find theme-spiration.”

Action time! After finding your theme’s details, try one new feature you never realized your theme had — a template, a specialized theme option, a post format. You can remove it if it doesn’t float your boat, but give it a try!

“Don’t procrastinate. If you want to blog, then blog.” Fritz Chery

Blogging 201, Day 1: Understanding Your Theme

* Finding your theme’s details
* Understanding theme features
* Finding theme inspiration

“Keep it simple stupid” is a great guideline to follow for any occasion. How many times have you stumbled into a blog where there are lots of thing-a-magics and doo-das and you scroll, scroll, scroll and there is never an end in sight…

So for myself, especially taking lots of photographs, I love the black and white theme, which brings out the best especially for colour pictures. I also like a structured theme, where, at least on the main page, there is a clear intro in one frame and the title with links -frame will follow through out the pages. In addition, the widgets frame runs smoothly on one side of the page.

Today, I dared to venture with my blog and tried of for size the “Cubic” and the “Intergalactic” themes, as they both looked great in the demo. I have also tried out several themes on my blog before and ran with them until I found the current one. At the end of the experiment, I returned back to the “old faithful” theme of “The Visual Theme”.

Keep calm and keep on blogging!