Choosing a Theme
Now that you have your niche, name and logo; now it's time to focus on your theme. This is one the most difficult tasks when building your website blog.
Choosing a theme that the right idea for your niche and blog post. If you have set a WordPress blog most likely you will start off with the default theme.
It's important to choose a theme that going to look professional to your readers. The layout should be easy for your visitors to navigate around when gathering the information you provide for them.
When you first create a website with wealthy affiliate. You are given free a theme through WordPress.
You can preview the free themes by using your dashboard and click on appearance, then click on theme from there you can select the one you want to use.
The problem with free themes, they tend to have less option that you might be wanting use on your website. Plus other members inside wealthy affiliate might be using the same theme.
If you are well advanced then it's better to look for paid themes instead. For beginner's using the free theme works just fine.
For starter choose a theme that suitable with niche you're going to create.
Example: if your niche is Food then you might want to pick a theme that has images or image sliders to showcase your work.
Choosing a theme that has crisp images linking to each post you upload.
- The Voux
- The Soledad
- The Neptune
If your niche is selling clothing you might want to looking for themes that you can display an image that you can include prices WordPress has some pretty good themes for that niche.
- Woopress
- Atelier
- eCommerce by Themeshop
- Scalia
Just to name off a few of these some free WordPress themes that you can start using.
The most important is to make sure whatever theme you choose that is a responsive theme, which mean that the theme is compatible with all devices such as laptop, and mobile. Make it look good and load quickly.
In the meantime, during your search take a look at some blog you enjoy visiting, Admire the layout, what don’t you like about it? What do you like about? Ask yourself these questions. This will help you get ideas about your website.