learn wordpress now – how to blog!

Quite often when people start a WordPress blog they know exacly what they want it to look like.

Maybe they’ve seen someone else’s blog and think that that’s the sort of blog design they want. Yet when they come to find a free WordPress theme, they can’t find anything that really fits the bill. Or, when they’ve downloaded and installed a theme they think they like it doesn’t really behave the way they want.

This can be very frustrating and time-consuming (trust me – I’ve been there!)

Now, this isn’t a problem if you are a gifted designer AND you know the quirks of WordPress inside out AND you have good color sense AND you know how to code php and css and html – you can simply sit down and create your own theme.

But what about the rest of us?

Let me tell you how I designed the theme for this blog.This is a design that I created myself and it’s unique – no other blog in the blogosphere looks quite like this one. It took me a couple of hours of playing around to get it how I wanted but I didn’t have to do any coding or testing or tweaking. All I had to do was click and drag some shapes and colors.

I used Artisteer which is a design package that lets you design your own blog themes. It has numerous options for page layouts, color combinations, fonts, backgrounds, graphic effects – and it has a nice library of photos you can use as header images. Or you can upload and use your own images, if you want.

Artisteer is serious fun. You can design as many blog themes as you like and you can change your mind and edit the ones you’ve already designed. It’s easy and satisfying to create your own themes and you don’t have to know anything technical at all to design something that is exactly what you want.

All Artisteer themes generate correct, validated HTML and CSS that conform to web standards. Oh, and it also designs basic web pages and Joomla and Drupal (whatever they are …)

Check out Artisteer now – and get creative!

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