The main problem for new bloggers is finding the right theme for their weblogs. Identity, as with real life, is important on the net and everyone craves to create a blog that reflects their personality. While using a pre-designed theme from Wordpress is easy enough, putting in your own headers and images may be difficult for the techie-challenged.

I came across this site, called WP-theme generator.

It lets bloggers and site makers put in the exact colors and images they want for their blogs. Everything is menu-ized;

• No codes to put in, no guessing color tags.
• You can insert images on backgrounds, on your header and on the sidebar.
• You can choose to show or unshow your blog title. Unshow, if your header/background image already contains your title.
• You can choose the size of the sidebar, the number of sidebars (1 or 2)
• It’s widget-ready, so arranging and rearranging your sidebar elements is hassle-free.
• You can choose to make the sidebar and the post body
• A pretty preview element let’s you undo mistakes effortlessly, and color scheming is a breeze
• When you’re done, all the elements of your theme are packed in a handy zip file that you can save in your computer and upload to your blog.

My only major concern with using this theme generator is the lay out. The elements of the page look completely disconnected from each other. It’s as if the header, sidebar and post body have a zone of their own. This might be ok to some people, but for people like me who want continuity among the blog elements, and need a compact-look for their blogs, this is a major turn off.

I tried resizing my header to “fit” the overall widths of the sidebar and the post body, and it was fine for a while (because I used a black background that masked the size flaws), but it still did not seem right.

Nonetheless, this is excellent for creating themes for friendster blogs and myspace. The templates (header.php etc.) are all individual elements that you can choose to upload to an existing design.

Have Fun!!!

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