Jul 26 2009
Where To Find Free Wordpress Themes For Your Business Blog
One of the great benefits of setting up a blog for your business is that you can save thousands of dollars on web development costs, especially when it comes to areas like web design and customizing the layout of your site. Depending on the blogging platform you choose, for example, you can end up with a great website or blog theme that specifically matches your business identity at absolutely no cost.
In our step-by-step video training tutorials on how to set up a blog for your business, for example, we first show you how to set up a business blog quickly using a default and customized professional WordPress theme that we supply for you (the same theme used in this blog), then we show you how to customize your theme, including changing the look and feel of your site with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Below is an excerpt of one of our “quick start” training videos that shows you just how powerful, flexible and easy setting up a business blog using WordPress can be, and how much control you have over the look and feel of your site:
In the above video, you can see just how simple it is to change the entire look of your site using a free WordPress theme. Also, as mentioned in the video, there are thousands of WordPress themes available for download on the web at no cost.
There are literally thousands of FREE professional WordPress themes you can download for your business or company blog to match the style, look and feel of your business online!
It used to be that if you wanted a professional looking site you had to pay big dollars to get a professional designer to do it. With blogs, all you need to do now is do a quick WordPress installation, upload a great looking theme to your site, and, with a couple of mouse clicks your site can look like it cost thousands of dollars to design. Finding free themes is the fastest way to give your blog a professional makeover.
Where To Find FREE Wordpress Themes
Here are some web sites that offer hundreds, even thousands of free Wordpress themes that you can download, customize and use to enhance the look and feel of your company blog (to find more just type “Free WordPress Themes” into Google):
The Wordpress.org Theme Directory offers over 900 free themes in a diverse range of styles and designs. This site features search functions (this allows you to search for themes by number of columns – e.g. 2 or 3 columns, color – e.g. blue, etc …), and sections that allow you to browse featured, popular, new and recently updated themes.
Wordpress Themes from WPThemesFree.com
There are over 3,000 Wordpress themes to choose from at wpthemesfree.com. The themes are beautifully and professionally designed and many themes come in a variety of colors, so you can match the theme to the look and style of your business.
Despite the very large number of themes you can browse, this site is extremely well organized and allows you to search themes by categories, labels, properties, most viewed, most downloaded, most targeted, most tested, top rated, etc. There is also a “view by related themes” feature, as well as a random picker.
FreeWordpressThemes.com offers a large selection of free Wordpress templates which are handpicked using criteria such as usability, aesthetics, helpfulness of the author and XHTML validation.
This site prides itself in celebrating good design and provides a useful and valuable free resource and service for the WordPress blogging community.
Performancing Wordpress Themes
Performancing WordPress Themes are free, ultra-high quality WordPress themes for your blog.
On their “about us” page, they state that before designing each theme, they ask themselves how they can create a useful and unique WordPress theme that stands out from the crowd.
They are also committed to providing highly customizable, top-notch blog designs that will help take you to the next level as a professional blogger. Their themes are not only free, they also come with free support too.
Chris Pearson’s Pearsonified.com Themes
Chris Pearson creates highly sought after Wordpress themes for professional bloggers (like Thesis Theme – a killer theme that has received many accolades from the professional blogging community). Although most of his themes and designs are not free, he does offer several free Wordpress themes through his blog.
Woo Themes creates stunning eye-catching themes. Although most of their themes are not free, you can get quality free themes made by professional WordPress theme designers when you purchase a theme with their buy-one-get-one-free offers. They also offer a membership option that allows you to access all of their theme collection.
This brings me to another important point when it comes to saving money on web development costs …
When looking for a great theme for your business blog, we suggest you start by looking through the free themes in the sites listed above. If you find something you like that is pretty much ready to go, great! Download it and use it as is.
If you find something close to what you are looking for but not quite there yet, then just get a professional web designer to make a few tweaks to the code or stylesheet until the theme matches exactly what you are looking for, upload it to your site and voila!
And if worse comes to worse and you have to purchase a professional theme or get a WordPress theme designer to create one for you, it will still be a whole lot cheaper than what many web developers and web designers will charge you.
No matter how you look at it, the power, flexibility and ability to customize WordPress blog themes to suit your needs is very hard to beat, which is why we recommend you consider using a blog for your business, whether it be used as your main website, or as a separate company blog.
Useful Tips:
While you can certainly choose any theme you prefer, there are some things we recommend you keep in mind when choosing a theme for your business blog. The first is that it is preferable to have a white background. Although there are successful sites out there that have a dark background, studies have shown that people can read darker colors on white better than they can when the colors are reversed (i.e. white on a dark background). Always prioritize your audience when making design decisions.
You also need to carefully consider how many sidebars you’re going to choose for your blog. This is important as some sidebars will allow for better positioning of elements than others (e.g. ads, content with images, etc …). Test different layouts and decide what works best for the way you plan to present your information.
Finally, you might be wondering why people would give away professional blog themes for free in the first place. Generally, the main reason is because they often include a link back to their website in the footer of the theme. This is mutually beneficial, as they get relevant links back to their site from people who install their blogging themes and you get a great blog template design for free with a link that is often hardly noticeable!
For step-by-step video training tutorials on how to set up a professional blog for your business in 48 hours or less and start growing your business online fast, please visit our website here: www.SelfPublishWeb.com.
*** Update: *** Our business blog video tutorial package now includes a collection of over 50 professional WordPress blog themes for business use created by top WordPress theme designers. To see all of the themes included in the package, go here: 50+ WordPress Themes
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