Best WordPress Themes for Bloggers

This is a guest Blog Post, written by Tyler. He is a writer for SatelliteInternet.com

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Great WordPress Themes for Bloggers

WordPress is that wonderful, hosted web package that has brought design to so many who don’t want to take the time to learn HTML. Beside the fact that WordPress is free, the site owner can easily post blogs, create interactive panels to communicate with visitors, and design a site that looks like a staff of coders created it.
Well, it fact, a staff of creators did. Through a feature called, “themes,” a WordPress website can take on the look and feel of one of hundreds of templates. Some themes look like a slick electronic business brochure, some can help promote and sell a product, and others just tell family and friends what is happening in the owner’s world.
Another helpful feature of WordPress themes is the ability to preview a theme before activating it. After working for hours to get the site just right, creating it over again just because another theme is desired would be discouraging. Using preview, the content of the current site is reformatted within the previewed theme.
Here are just a few themes and what they offer:BlogoLife – Published by Wplook, Blogolife features include Widgets, Menus, Custom Backgrounds and Custom Headers.

• Widgets are components that help to customize the website. Some widgets include calendars, recent posts, archives, and the ability to interact with other applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Mail Chimp.
• Menus - Custom menus allow the creation of drop down selections. A particular site may have Home, Contact Us, Directions or other items particular to the organization of the site. The menus feature gives organization to the site allowing the visitor to quickly choose what portion of the web site they wish to see.
• Custom Backgrounds – The backgrounds feature allows the web site owner to fill a certain color or perhaps a graphic such as a picture or logo.
• Custom Headers – The custom headers feature is one of the more dynamic options. Using logo graphics and custom colors, the designer can integrate pictures or banners that are particular to the website. One of the more effective features is the Random Header that will allow the visitor to see a different product or graphic every time they change pages.

Duster – A creation of Automattic, the Duster theme is a very organized theme with a great deal of white space. While it supports many of the customizing features listed above, Duster offers a useful search feature as well as a “sticky post.” If the website administrator/owner wants a particular post to be the first one seen anytime the site is visited, the sticky note option makes that happen.Fresh Ink Magazine – Fresh Ink Magazine, by Adazing Web Design, gives the web site the look of a published magazine hot off the press. With many of the features already listed, Fresh Ink lends an inviting look to bring readers back time and time again.IFeature – IFeature by CyberChimps is designed to resemble Apple applications with drag and drop capability as well as slider picture and graphics displays. With front page icons connecting to Facebook, Twitter, Google + and RSS feeds, this theme will connect the website with the entire social media strategy.

Selecting a new theme is easy within WordPress. As a prominent option on the WordPress dashboard, selecting “Manage Themes” will provide the option to activate the themes installed.
To install more themes, clicking on “Install themes” will enable the user to search for the type of themes they are interested in. The search can be filtered by color, the number of columns, width, features, and even by holiday or seasonal.

As a website developer, WordPress becomes a very low cost solution to creating an attractive website. Once created, ease of maintenance will allow the developer to train the owner and then pass off day-to-day administration keeping the cost of an ongoing website very manageable.

Tyler is a writer for SatelliteInternet.com