Why Unique Blog Design is Good
Design is very important factor for overall improvement of any blog. Using free themes found on the internet is not functional and helpful for your blog development. Free templates can include malicious and not optimized coding and of course anyone on the internet can have same template as your!
Think about it, if your blog doesn’t stand out from the others in your niche, how will your readers and visitors remember you? Of course, in most cases, you will be “just ordinary” blogger.
The blog template and design is almost much important like unique articles on your blog. Your readers might remember you and may visit your blog more for sure.
Why Unique Design is Better than Free
- Professional Design – Professional feel and look.
- Coding – Professional and clean coded design.
- Uniqueness – Nobody else on the internet doesn’t have it.
- Support – Customer support which can help you to solve problems with your design.
- Easy to use – Professional templates are usually very easy to customize and use.
- Branding – Build up your brand and let your visitors to remember your site.
Converting Free to Unique Design
Yes, you can easily convert your free downloaded design for all your needs. Of course, this technique can requires some knowledge. If you know basics in HTML and CSS, you can easily transform free theme design to whatever you want – without spending a cent.
All you need is to know where to find file you want to edit. A lot of CMS and others allows you to easily edit and customize design of your blog, forum or a website.
Converting free template and theme may requires you to contact theme author and / or leave copyright links in your blog footer. Best way is to contact theme author and ask him can you convert his theme. In most cases, you can find any informations you want from theme author – of course related to theme you want to edit and convert for your blog.
Purchasing Professional Theme or Unique Design
Most bloggers purchase professional themes for Content Management System they use, like Wordpress. These themes can be purchased usually by anyone, but all these themes has excellent customization and editing potential. Giving you opportunity to customize them easily than other free themes.
Popular and professional bloggers usually orders unique blog designs. These designs are much more expensive than any other – but may give you much more effects and you can choose exactly what do you want! And yes, you don’t need to know any code basics – all you need is to know what do you need and professional designers will create one for you, of course for money!
I’d say this all depends on your money resources. For the blogger looking for something at least stylish but has limited resources they could go with a premium wordpress theme. Not only do you get the benefits of a unique looking blog via simply customizing, you can also use the theme to your advantage. Sometimes putting a simple affiliate link in the “theme by” footer link, for the respective theme designer can be a great source of revenue for a site without having to resort to clunking up your pages with unsightly advertisements. If you’ve done a good job of customizing the theme or kept it default and managed content well on it, then alot of visitors who might want to start there own blog will see that they can have a unique, stylish blog by simply going through a premium wordpress theme design site.
I almost wanted to revert our blog to wordpress for the sake of using a great theme and joining their affiliate program to put the credits at the bottom of our blog….but i just couldn’t do it because joomla offers too much control for my purposes compared to wordpress.