Are you tired of searching and downloading for WordPress theme that does not suit your taste or fit your blog that you start thinking of hiring a designer to do it for you? Well, hold your thought first. Let’s do something fun –let’s do theme make-over. Find any wordpress theme, edit it, add banner, add widget and see what you can come out with. Trust me, it’s going to be fun. Check out my blog. I used IndoMagz Theme for this blog. The original theme can be located here. Go on check out the demo. See the difference?
Let us do something simple first. Let’s take a simple wordpress theme – Meadowland for example. You can download it HERE. Upload it to your server and activate it. Start your Photoshop or any graphic software that you are comfortable with. Edit the header.jpg and bg.gif files and upload it to your wp-content/theme/meadowland/images/ folder. I have created an example for you. Click here to see how it looks. See – the background and header has changed.
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When I’m searching for new Wordress themes, I always look for themes that are simple yet elegant. I hate themes with too many colours, fancy fonts and too many graphics that slow down my blog. That’s why I l always start my search by keying-in “Simple WordPress Theme” as the keyword will filter all those unwanted themes before selecting the one that I should use. I think one of the reasons why I prefer simple wordpress theme is because as a blog owner I always hope that my visitors will read my blog after all the hard work preparing the article. I believe it will be easier for them to read if the blog load up quickly and fonts are easy to read. Choosing the right colour combination will also be a big factor encouraging visitors to read the articles and for me white background with black fonts is a MUST for every blog.
Recently I downloaded MeadowLand Theme created by WpCosmos for my BM blog. Click Here to see it. It’s a simple wordpress theme with smooth colour combination – Love it. I changed the header as I don’t like the flowers heading. You can change it too by replacing header.jpg file in the images folder. MeadowLand is a two column fixed width theme with right hand sidebar that was enabled for widgets. It uses Verdana (my favourite font) as the default font. With only few colour used for this theme it certainly looks not only simple but elegant as well. You can modify the .css file to suit your preference.
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