Wordpress themes - find
April 16th, 2008WordPress themes are like skins - they give every installation its look and set of features.
Themes can be developed exclusively for you, purchased or downloaded for free.
Exclusive themes
It’s a good option if you want to spend more than $500 on your website. A graphic designer will make the theme exclusively for you and probably install and configure it as well. You get a unique look consistent with your branding, if any.
The best way to find a designer is to look through free themes, find the one you like and approach the designer directly.
Purchasing a theme
Usually themes go for up to $100 and it is a good idea to ask the author to install and configure it for you for another $50 or so dollars because the their theme may be broken. It will take time for you to realize it is broken. Themes can be purchased from TemplateMonster or many other websites. Most of the themes we’ve come across had some sort of problems and it wasn’t always easy to fix them.
Free themes
We like the idea of free themes. Good places to find them are:
Do not expect them to be perfect. Many of them have minor faults just as the paid ones do. Fixing a theme does need some special skills and knowledge. The best place to start is to email the theme author. We can probably help too.
Themes are not unique
Free and most of paid themes are not unique. It means that someone, somewhere is using the same or very similar theme as you. Does it matter?
We tend to think that it doesn’t. The chance that you customer comes across that other website is very little, given that there are more than 100,000,000 websites and growing. We would be more concerned if the theme was a rip-off from some popular website as it would make you look like a copycat.
Usually you can see how many people downloaded the theme in theme details.
